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DICTIONARY ^ O F T H E
ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
IN WHICH
THE WORDS ARE DEDUCED FROM THEIR ORIGINALS,
AND ILLUSTRATED lU THEIR DIFFERINT SIGNIFICATIONS BY EXAMPLES FROM THE BEST WRITERS,'
TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED,
A HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE,

AND
An ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
By SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D.
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IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II.
THE SIXTH EDITION.
Cum tabulis animum cenforis fumet honefti

Audebit qujecunque parum fplendoris habebunt,
Et fine pondere erunt, et bonore indigna ferentur.
Verba movere loco ; qiiamvis invita recedant,
Et vcrfentur adhuc intra penetralia Vefta: :
Obfcurata diu populo bonus cruet, atque
Proferet in lucem fpeciofa vocabula rcrum,
Quae prifcis memorata Catonibus atque Cethegis
Nunc Ctus informis prmiit et deferta vetuftas. HoR,
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DICTIONARY OF THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
LAB LAB LAB
LA ^
liqoid confonant,
ferves always the
in Englilh.
was afpirated, a
which pre-
fame found
In the Saxon it
Jjlap, loaf;
Lambent, ai^'.
gliding; flipping.
[labens,hzt\n.']
La'bs Ah. ai/J. [labialis, Lit'in.] Uttered

by the lips.
Sliding;
Di3.
Do'ft thou love watchings, abftinence, and
Lalorioui virtues all ? learn them from Cate>.
Labc'riously. ad'v, [from

With labour with toil. ;
toil,
Addifont
laborious.l
Jjlspbij, la^y. The Hebrews have afligned which letters are

which guttural.
The folly of him, who pumps very laboricujly in
the end of a monofyllable which dental, and
At it is al- labial,
a fliip, yet neglefts to flop the leak. Decay of Piety,
Natural
Bacori'i Hificry,
ways doubled; as, jhcdl, ftill, full; I chufe laboricujly to bear
Some particular affedlion ftf found in its paOage
except after a diphthong; as, fail, feel, to the lips, will feem to make fame compolition in
A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air. Pope.
'veal, cool. In a word of more fyllables, any vowel which is labial. Labo'riousness, n.f. [from laborious.}
it is written fingle ; ^s, cbanntl, canal, Holder^ I Elements of Speech. 1. Toilfomenefs ; difficulty.
tendril. It is fometimes put before e, La'biated. «^'. yabium. Lit.] Formed The parallel holds in the gainleflTnefs, as well as
and founded feebly after as, bible, the of the work ; thofe wretched crea-
laboriouftiefs
it ; with lips. .
tures, buried in earth and darknefs, were never
title. Lji'biodental. adj. [labium and denta- the richer for all the ore they digged ; no more ii
La. {corrupted by an effeminate
interjell. lis.] Formed or pronounced by the co- the infatiate mifer. Decay of Piety.
pronunciation from /a; unlefs it be the operation of the lips and teeth. 2. Diligence; afEduity.
French /a.] See; look; behold. The dental confonants are very eafy and firft
La you ! if you fpt ak ill of the devil, the labiodmtali, f, v, alfo the linguadentals,
;
t b,
LA'BOUR. n.f [labeur, French; labor,
How he takes it at heart. Skak. Tivdfth Night. d b. Udder. Latin.]

La'bdakum. ti.f. A refin, of a flrong Labo'rant. n.f. [Ajîsraa/, Latin.] A 1. The
aft of doing what requires a pain-
not unpleafant fmell, and nn aromatick, chemift. Not in ufe. ful exertion of flrength, or wearifome
but not agreeable tafte. This juice I can fliew you a fort of fixt fulphur, made by perfeverance ; pains ; toil ; travail ;
exudates from a low fpreading fhrub in an induftrious laborant. Boyle. work.
Jâ'boratory. ]f I find her honeft, I lofe not my labour ; if
Crete. Hill. n.f. [/«W«/«/V?, French.]
(he be otherwife,
it is labour well bsftoweJ. Shake/.
To La'bepy. v. a. [laSefacie, Latin.] To A chemift's work-room.
I fent to know your faith, left the tempter have
weaken ; to impair. J)i^. It would contribute to the hiftory of colours, if
tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
chemifts would in their laboratory take a heedful
La'bel. fi.f. [laie/lum, Latin.] 1 Tkef. iii. 5.
notice,, and give us a faithful account, of the
1. A fmall flip or fcrip of writing.
colours obferved in the llcam of bodies, either fub-
2. Work to be done.
When wak'd, I found
limed or diftllled. Boyle.
Being a labour of fo great difficulty, the exail
This /tfi?/ on my bofora ; whofe containing
The flames of love will perform thofe miracles
performance thereof we may rather wifli than l-jok
!• fo from fer.fe in hardnefs, that 1 can for. Hooker,
th*y of the furnace boaft of, would they employ
Make no colledion of it. Shakifp. CymhiUtie.
themfelves In this labcratcy. Decay of Piety.
If yoM had been the wife of Hercules,
2. Any thing appendant to a larger writing. Six of his labours you'd have done, and fav'd
On the label of lead, the heads of St. Peter and
LABO'RIOUS. adj. [laborieux, French; Your hulband fo much fweat. Siakef. Coriolanus.
St. Paul aie impitflul from the papal feal. laboriofus, Latin.] 3. Exercife; motion with fome degree of
Aytiffii Parergon. 1. Diligent in work ; aHiduous. violence.
%. [In law.] A narrow flip of paper or That which makes the clergy gturious, is to be Moderate labour of the body conduces to the
parchment affixed to a deed or writing, knowing in their prafeflions, unfpotted in their prcfervation of health, and curing many initial
hold the appending feai. lives,a£llve and lab'jrvjui in their charges, bold difeafes ; but the toil of the mind deftroys health,
in order to
and refolutc in oppofing feduccrs, and daring to and generates maladies. Harvey.
So any paper, annexed by way of
alfo
look vice in the^fjce; and, lallly, to be gentle, Childbirth travail.
4. ;
addition or explication to any will or courteous, and companionate to all. Soutb. Sith of women's labours thou haft charge,
tenement, is called a label or codicil. A fpacious cave within its farmoft part. Anil generation goodly doeft enlarge,
Harris. Was hew'd and falhion'd by labor'Kui art. Incline thy will to aft'edt our wifliful vow. Spir.Jer,
Godjoin'd my heart toRomeo'a; thou ourhands; Through the hill's hollow fides. Drydcn. Not knowing 'twas my labour, I comphiin
And ere thij hand, by thee to Romeo feal'd, To his laiorioKS youth confum'd in war, Of fudden(hootings, and of grinding pain;
Shall be the label to another deed, And Uning age, adorn'd and crown'd with peace. My throws come thicker, and my cries encieas'd,
Or my true heart with treacherous revolt Prior. Which with her hand the confcious nuj U fiipprefsd.
T urn to another, this iball llay tbcm bvth, Stakt/p. 2. Recjuiring labour J tircfome ; not eafy. Drydtrj,
Vol. H. B Not
LAB LAC LAC
Mac OM waaua •{ two kuadre^ Xtd in >j^>-. LA'souKElt. «./ [Ubourtur, French.] O ! cut Biy laa, left, my beart.cracking, it
GrJitK'. Break 100.
I. One who it erajtioêd in coaxl« and Sbahfftart,
Ha heart ii 'n Ct>atlaa«l 'th»rf It eventiiTiiU Doll na'a* was call'd to cut her lace.
toilfome work.
with the •£li|rtnor., *n4 U ia ;>»;- :iU it be it- Or tlirovv cold «vatcr in her face. Sivifi.
Strmmi. If a Atu run moft and gentle-
to nsblemeii
li»«i«d. .<.'».'*'»
m'n, and that tiie hulbandmen be but as their 4. Ornaments of fine thread carioufly
ft L\'bov%. v. a. [/aiira.Ltiia.] woven.
vr9>k-folks and lî^rrr:, you {nay have a g09d
I. To toil ; to aA with pai»ri]l cifuit. davjilry, but never go«d ftable fj*t. Btcc». Our EngliHi dapiet are Mch
given to the wear-
Wbcn AjU I cofTK to ch' IJ|> «f thjt Ija* l|i!l
Tiic fun but fem'd the hh'rirot the year, ing of coltly lacet\ and, if (hey be brought from
— V*u dj cUatk >? 'c nuw ^Ltik h i>v waaAiy. —. k_ «J
t>A Wixini moDn ffapply'd her wat'iy ftore,'
._; I. ..J ••-.. ,1 I .
Itiny, they are iat^ceat eftecrfi. Bucov.
To f^-cU thole tides, which from the line did bear 5. Textures of thread, with gold or filver.
For yoac hl(hncf>' good I ever Uhnr'tl, Their brimful Belgian fhore. He
velliis to the Vryd. wears a ftufl', whofe thread is coarfc and
Mor* tiaa mint own. Siaitff, He*. Vlli. L,tlaarert and idle pcrfons, children and iliip. round,
Who l( with liini ^ lingi, old meaa«lyo|^nj niin, mull have divers But trimm'd with curious lace. H,rberi.
'^NoB* but the fool, vrt.a Ariakri to oat -jell
Hi* heArt-ftr*iclc injuries. Sbahffi, JC* J*rjr.
diets. Arhutbial. 6. Sugar. A cant word, now out of uie.
Not bahny flcep to hh'rir$ faint' with pain. If haply he the fed purfues.
Let BMic work be liid upon the men, thit they No; (ho'.v'rs to laiks, or fun-Oiine to the bee. That read and comment upon news
uy i:«tmr dienin. Exo.!. v. 9.
Are half fo charming, as thy fight to me. Pcfe. He takes up. their myftcrious £ice.
H<llk1|l tou^'tf yitt* thMieniai^ of tier baar- "^« hence tf^ poor aix eloth'd, the isnngry fed. He drinks his coffoc without tact.
v(»leBc4 Wd praccAifn, tlj|tVi> '<"'l laitfri fq( jn Pritr.
Health to himfelf, and to bis infants bread,
afldtam f reJkcMt it. ^'xa
- lie Odyfaf.- m 1 he hk'rtr bearst Tcpt.
To Lacb. <v. a. [from tl)e noun.]
Epafhru filu[:U> alwiyt Utmrir^ ter-
jrou, I. To fallen with a ftring run through
The
prince cannot fay to the merchant, I have
nadjr ft>r you in priycis, thjtt yc nxy tiwd pcrfe^. eilet holes.
na need of thee ; nor the merchant to the labourer,
C.t. iv. II. I caufed a fomentation to be made, and put
I have no need of thL-c. S'wift*
a. To do work ; to take pains
. 2 fJisAjmko Uk««. iîMi. Ia Any au^laf.-. on a laced fock, by which the v.eak parts were
The matlct »f the ceremonies hid wrought, Tor 'ftrengthencd.
ment. W~ij'emaii,
the isoft p.irt, onl) upon light-hetJcd, wnlc men, At this, for new replies he did not ftay.
Sir, I a.-n a true laicurer ; I earn that I eat
wholie fitii'itiion W4t not to be/.>û' ti tor. Clartn. But lac'd his crefted helm, and ftrode away. Dryd.
get that wear owe no man hate envy no man's
A
Uimr-M man tlut it given to drunlcennel'i,
happinefs.
I ; ;
Thefe glitt'ring fpoils, now made the viiiof's gain.
Shakeffiarc.
Hull not be rich. EccluJ. x\t. i. He to his body fuits ; hut fujts In vain :
That in the night they nkiy be a guard to us,
The Hone |M>ovrf up the flfac hill,
Meffapus' helm he finds among the reft.
M'lcking the lai'rtr't toll, returning
ud hkcur on the day. Nth. iv. 22.
Is !<!»«•
ftill.
And /<7ivi on, and wears the waving creft. Drjd,
Al a lua had a right to all he could unfUy his Cratmille.
Like Mrj. Primly's great belly j (he may liMXl
labour upon, fa h« had no teapcatioo to for U^t LKHOvXiOMt. [from /<r^(?«r.] eiff. Made down belore, but it burniihes on Iwr hips. C-.tiîie,
• aMR than he could malce ufe of. Ltikt. with great labour and diligence. Not When Jenny's ftays are newly he'd, V
|. To move with difficglty. in ule. Fair Alma plays about her waift. '_ Piitr.
The fione that UUyri up the hiU, Forget z. To adorn with gold or filver êxtiu'cs
Mocking the Ut>°rer'( toil, returning ilill, Your hbnrfcnt and dainty trims, wherein fewed on.
li love. Granil'c. You made great love angry. Shairf. Cymierne. It is but a night-gown in refpeft'oT yourt
4. To
be difeafed with. [Mario taborare, He hath, my lord, by labcurfcmc petition. cloth of gold and aoats, and Ue'd with filver.
Laiinl] Not in ufe. Wrung from me my flow leave. Shalef. Hamlet.
Shakrjfearc.
The) ûnd with ttoife. La'»ra. *. /. [Spanilh.] A lip. Not 3. To embellilh with variegations.
Of which one uaat our camp doth oqly Ubw ufed. Haumer. Look, love, what envious ftreaks
B. Jcrfin. Word of denial in thy latras here Do lace the fevering cloudi in yonder Eaft
j
I w*i called to another, who in childbed /•licureii Word of denial, froth and fcum thou lied. Skak. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
of an ulcer in her left hip. Wijcman. La'byrinth. »./. [labyrinthus, Latin.] Stands tiptoe on the mifty mountains tops. Sbakcfp.
5. To be in diftreft ; to be prefled. A maze ; a place forffled with inex- Then clap four llices of pilalier onr,
To this internal lake the fury Aics,
tricable windings.
That, Aw'rfwith bitsof ruftie, makesa front. Ptfr,
Here hidea her hated head, and frees the Uh'r'm^
Suffolk, ftay; 4. To beat ; whether from the form which
/kies. DryJin.
,
ThoB may'ft not wander in that labyr'mth L'EJirangt ufes, or by corruption oi lajh.
Tiumpeu and dnuni Iball fright her ftom the ;
Go you, aad find me out a man that has na
There minouuts, and ugly treafons lurk. Stak-fp.
throne.
Words, whicit would tear cuiiofity at all, or I'll Ucc your toat for ye.
At foifnding cymbih 4id the lat'rhg moon.
The tender Jaiyrimb of a maid's fou ear. Daiuie, L'Efirar.^f.
Dryden't jûrengTuhe.
TTiij enrcife will call down the tiivour of Heaven
My clamours tear Laced Mutton. An oldword
for a whore.
The ear's foft Uiyrhtt, and Sandys, cleft the air. Ay, Sir, J, a loH mutton, give your letter to
npon you, to remove tlwreaffliîooi you now Aticur
The earl of Efi'ex had proceeded with not her a lac'd muttott, and ihe gave me nothing for my
under from you. IVakt't Prefara^hafiir Daiih. ^
his accuftomed warinefs and fkillj but run into labour.

#. To be in ckild-bartb to be in travail. ; labyrmti/, from whence be could not difentangle
Shakrfpeerc.
There 00 the earth.

lay a tog unlighted
La'cejuan. «./. [lace zai man. '\ Onewho
himfelf. C/arexd.n.
When (he was labti/ring in throws of birth ; My foul is on her journey do not now
deals in lace.
;
For til' unborn chief the fatal Hfteis came, Divert, or lead her back, to I met with a nonjuror, engaged with a lacr.
lol'e heifelf
And rais'd it up, and^s d it on the flame. I' th' maze and winding
man, whether th; late French king was moft like
-lalyrinthi 0' th' world.
Dryicni Ovid. Auguflus Cxfar, or Nero. Miifini Spcaaicr. '
DenhajK,
Here, tike fome furious prophet, Pindar rode.
Lac. »._/!
La'cerable. a^. [iiotalacerate.l Such
And feem'd to lahmr with th' infpiriiig God. Si^c.
as may be torn.
iLiu is ufiially diillnguilhcd by
a the name of
To La'bour. -v. a. gum, but improperly, becauf; it is inflammable, Since the lungs are obliged to a perpetual com-
1. To work at; to move with difficulty and not foliible in water, have three fortsof We merce with the air, they muft neceil'arily lie open
;
to form with labour; to profecute with it, which are all tlie projudt of the
fame tree. to great damages, becaufe oi their thin and lace,
I. Thtftick/jr. i. The feed Ate. rable comnofure. Uarvey.
effort. 3. The Ihcll
To
ufe brev'ty, ar.d avoid much labnring of the
iac. Authors leave us uncertain wljrther this drug roLA'CliRATE. v. a. [lacero, Latin.]
work, ii to be granted to him that will make an
belongs to the animal or the vegetable kingdom. To tear; to rend; to feparate by vio-
//;//. '
abridgment. 2 Mac. lence.
Had you rcqulr'd my helpful hand,
LACE. n.f. [/afrt, French ; lajueiu, Lat.] And my fons lacerate and rip up, viper-like,
Th' and art you might command,
artificer 1. A firing ; a cord. the womb tbit brought tliem forth.
To lahoar arms for Troy. Drydcni ^nciA. There the fond tly entangled, ftruggled long, llowcl'i EngljiJ's Tears.
An eager defire to know fomcthing concerning Himlelf to free thereout but all in vain ; Theheat breaks through the water, fo as to
him haa occafioned mankind to labour the point, For rtriving moic, the more in lacit ftrong laccraw and lift up great bubbles too heavy for the
under tbcfc difadvintaies, and turn on all hands to Himfcif he tied, and wrapt his winges twain air to buoy up, and caufeth boiling.
fee if there were any thing left which might In limy fnares, the fubtil loops among. Drrham't Phyfi o-Tbesli>gJ»
have Sferfer.
the teail appearance of information. 2. A fnare ; a gin. Here lacerated friendfhip claims a tear.
P'fei Ejjaj m Honur. The king had fnarcj been in love's ftrong /ace. Inanity tf Human Wijbes.
2. To beat ; to belabour. Fdlrjax, Lacera'tion. ».y. [from lacerafe.] 'I'he
Tike, ftepheid, take a plant of ftubborn oak, 3. A plaited ftring, with which woiuen adl of tearing or rending ; the breach
AAd Uictr him with jniajr a fturdy fttakt. Vrjd.
fallen their clothes. made by tearing.
LAC LAC LAD
The efiiflo are, cxnn&on of the gmt vefTcls, La'ckey. »./. [lajuar't, Fr.] Au attend- in people ef lax conftitutions, whereas their (phlnc-
co'mpreflion oi the leflcr, and iaceratit/ns upon fmall
ing fervant ; a foot-boy.
ters will ihut againlt them in fuch as have ftrong
ciufcs. Arbutbnct.
They would (hamc to make me
fibres. ArhuibiM,
La'cerative. fl<^'. [from lacerate.] Tear- Wait clfe at door; a fellow counfdior, Lacte'ous. adj. [lafleui, Latin.]
ing; having the power to tear. "Mong boys, and grooms, an-l /a keys 1. Milky.
Some depend upon the intempcrament of the .Shi<kcfi..-are's Hen.XUl. ,
Though we leave out the laliieus circle, yet art
part ulcerated, others upon the cont[nual aSux of Though his youthful b'ood be fir'd with wine, there mote by four tha.i Philo mentions.
hamours.
lactrat'i'vi tiar*:jty orTCotijumpttom, He's cautious to avoid the coach and fix, BrmvrCs Vulgar Errcurt*
La'chrymal. adj. [latirjmal, French.] And on the lackeys will no quarrel fix. 2. Lafteal ; conveying chyle.
Generating tears. Drydcn^s ywvCTJal. The
lungs are fnitable for refplration, and the
Lacqu-ys were never fo faucy and pragmatical a= laf/ecus veffels for the reception of the chyle.
It is of an exquifite fenfe, tl:at upon any touch,
they are now-a-d.iys. AdJifins SpeBater. Bintley.
the tears might be fqueezeJ from the lacbiymal
glands, to walh and clean it.
To La'ckey. f. a. [from the noun.] To Lacte'scence. n.f. \la3efco, Latin.]
Chiym's Fti'-fifbiral Prindplu. attend fervilely. I know not whether Tendf ncy to milk, or milky colour.
La'chrymary. adj. [laci/yma, Latin.] Milton has ufed this word very properly. This laEicUcnce d;e^ commonly enfue, when
Containing tears. This common body, wine, being impregnated with gums, or other ve-
How m.i.Ty drcffes are there for each particular

Like to a vagabond flag upon the ilrcam, getable concretions, that abound with fulphureous
Jeity ? what a variety of ihape; in the ancient urns, Goes to and back, lacqueying the varying tide, corpafcles, fair water «
fuddenly poured upon the
I'o rot itfelf with motion. folucion. Boyle on Colours*.
lamps, Aad lactrymtiry vcdtLhi Add'ijcr.
Lachry.ma'tion. n. f. [from Iac/>ry>aa,
Sbakefpeare^s Antcjiy and Cleopatra. Lacte'scent. adj. [laile/cens, Latin.]
So dear to heav'n is faintly chaftity. Producing milk, or
Latin.] The adl of weeping, or thed- a white jtiice.
That when a foal is found fincerely fo,
Amongft the pot-heibs are fome latlcfcenl plants,
ding tears. A thouland liveried angels lackey her,
as lettuce and endive, which contain a wholefome
La'chry.« ATORY. ti. /. [lachrimatotre, Driving far ofiêach thing of fin and guilt. Millon.
juice. Arhuthnot.
French.] A veflel in which tears are Te La'ckey. "To aft as a fooc-boy
a;, n. ; Lacti'ferous./i<^'. [lacaoi/itro.] What
gathered to the honour of the dead. to pav fervile attendance.
conveys or brings milk.
Laci'niated. adj. [from lacinla, Lat.] Oft have I fervants fecn on horfes ride.
He makes the breads to be nothing but glandules,
The free and noble t.iijuey by their fide. Sandys. made up of an infinite number of little knots, each
Adorned with fringes and borders.
Our Italiaa tranflatoc of the yEneis is a foot whereof hath excretory veflel, or laSliferous duft*
To L.^CK. I-, a. [laecken, to leflen, poet; he laihys by the fide of Virgil, but never
its
Ray on tbe Creation.

Dutch.] To want ; to nfed ; to be mounts behind him. Dryden.
Lad. n.f. [leobe, Saxon, which com-
without. La'cklinen. adj. \lack3.'a^linen.'\ Want-
E»ery good and holy defire, though it lack the
monly fignilies people, but fometimes,
ing fhirts.
'ibrm, hath notwithlânding in itfelf the fubtlance, fays Mr. Lye, a toy.]
You poor, bafe, rafcally, cheating, lacklincn
and with him the force of prayer who re^rdetli mate; away, you mouldy rogue, sway. 1. A
boy ; a ftriplirjT, in familiar language.
the very moanings, groans, and fighs of the heatc. Sbakijpeare'i Henry IV. We were
Honker.
La'cklustre. adj. {lack and Two thought there was no more behind.
lads, that
luftre.}
A land wherein thou Ihalt eat bread without
Wanting brightnefs.
But fuch a day to-morrow as to-day,
fcarcenefs : thou flialt not iacJt any thing in it. And to be boy eternal. Shakejp. fVinter's Tale.
Deui. viii. 9.
And then he drew a dial from his poke. The poor lad who wants knowledge muft fet his
One day we hope thou bring back. flialt
And looking on it with lacUujire eye. invention on the rack, to fay fomcthing where he
Dear Eolingbroke, the jufticc that we/ai>. Damtl. Says very wifely. It is ten o'clock. Sbakefpeare. knows nothing. Locke.
Intreat they may; authority chey /ac*. Danitl. LACO'N'ICK. adj. [laconicus, Lat. laco- Too far from the ancient forms of teaching fe-
7e Lack. v. n, rtique, Fr.] Short, brief; from Lacones, veralgood grammarians have departed, to the great
V, To be in want. the Spartans, who ufed few words. detriment uf fuch ladt as have been removed to other
grow lacmick even beyond laconicifm fchools. fValls.
The lions do lath and fuffer huoger. Cow. Prayer. I for ;
2> To be wanting. fometimes return only yes, or no, to queiiionary

I 2. A boy ; a young man, in pafloral lan-
Peradventure there fliall tack 6ve of the fifty or petitionary epilUes o( half a yara long. guage.
righteous; wilt thou deftroyall the city for hck of Pope to Sivifr. For grief whereof the lad would after joy,
five? Genrfii, viii. iS. La'conisM. tt./. [laconi/me, Fr. laconi/mus, But pin'd away in anguilh, and fcif-wiU*d annoy.
There was nothing lacking to them David
: re- Lat.] A concife ftile : called hy Pope, Spen/er. -
covered ail. I Sam. xxn. 19. lacotiUifm. See LACONICK. The (hepherd lad,
Tha: which was lacking on your part, they have Whofe ofl-'spring on the throne of Judali fat
hi the language of the face is univerfal, fo it
fupplied. I Ccr. xvi. 17. So many ages. Miltcn^-
is very comprehcRjive : no laccmfm can reach it.
Lack. n.f. [from the verb.] It is the fhort-hand of the mind, and crowds a LA'DDER. n.f. [Jjlafene. Saxon.]
1. Want; need; failure. great deal in a little room. Collier cjf the AJpefl. 1 . A frame made with fteps placed between-
In the feripturc there neither wanteth any Laco'nicai.ly. adv. [from laconici.] two upright pieces.
thing, the lack whereof might deprive us of life. Whole comport rotten, and carried in time.
Briefly concifeiy.
;
is
Ho-jker. Alexander Nequam, a man of .great learning, And I'pread as it (hould be, thrift's ladder may climb.
Many that are not mad and defirous to enter into religion there, writ to the Tu£er,.
Have fare more latk of reafon.
Shakrfftart. Now ftreets grow throng'd, and bufy as by day.
abbot laccnically, Camden s Remaim.1
He waa not able to keep that place three days, Some run for buckets to the hallow'd quire
for lark of viduals.
La'ctary. adj. [/aâreus, L3.t.] Milky;
KnotUi. Some cut the pipes, and fome the engines play.
The trenchant blade, toledo truf>y. full of juice like milk. And fome more bold mount W</cM to the fire. DryiU
For want of fighting was grown rufty. From laBary or milky plants, which hnvc a Eafy in words thy ftile, in fenfe fublime;
And eat into itfelf, for lack white and laftcous juice difperfcd through every *Tis like the ladder in the patriarch's dream.
Of fomehody to hew and hack. part,' there arife flowers blue and yellow.
lluf.br at. Its footon earth, its height above the (kies. Prior.
Brciiuns Vulgar Errcurs.
2. Lack, whether noun or verb, is now faw aftage crefted ab6ut a foot and a half from
I
almoft obfolete. La'ctary. *./ [/<j<Jar/'aa», Lat.] Adairy the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabit-
houfe. ants, with two or three ladders to mount it.
La'ckbrain. »./, [/<wi and ^r«/».] On»
Lacta'tion. «./ [/a^?*, Lat.] Theaft Culli'ver^s Tranjeh.
that wants wit.
What or time of giving fuck. Z. Any
thing by which one climbs.
a lacktraln is thii ? Our plotgood a
is as
Then took /he help to her of a fervant near about
plot as ever was laid. ShakrJi,care't Henry IV. La'cteai.. flrijf. [from /af, Lat.] Milky;
her huiband, whom Ihe knew to be of a hady am-
La'cker. w.y; A kind of varnifli, which, conveying chyle of the colour of milk. bition and fuch a one, who wanting true futH-
;
fpread upon a white fubdance, exhibits As the fi)od palTes, the chyle, which is the ciency to raife him, would make a ladder of any
nutritive part, is fcparated from the excrementitious mifchief. Sidney.-
a gold colour.
by the laltral veins ; and from thence conveyed I muft climb her window.
To La'cker. v. a. [from the noi»n.] To into the blood. Locke. The ladder made of cords. Sbakcfpearei-
fmear over with lacker. La'cteal. n.f. . The veflel that conveys Northumberland, thou ladder, by the which
What (hoolc the Sage, and made the purple ft?rc ? chyle. N My coufin Bolinghroke afcends my throne, iilak^
Cato's long wig, flcyei'J j ami la.kcr'd ch»lt.
.,v>,,
The months of the laHeah may permit aliment, I.«wiiners is- young ambition's ladder.
Ptfe, arrimoiuotn or not CufiwientlT Ut'imired, to enter Whereto the climber upward turns his face. .">'. .
b 2 3. A gra-
LAD LAG L A I
3, A
cradoal nCe. fltould be any occafion of her danger and afflic- I am fome twelve or fourteen moonfhines
tion. King Ctarlei. Lag of a brother. Sbaktjpeare^s King Leaf,
Endow'd with all thefc accompli HiiDenti, we lurr
. liim in tbr full cirrer of rucccfs, mounting faft to- 2. An illullrions or eminent woman. 2. Sluggilh ; flow; tardy. It is out of
uarils the top of the ladJtr ecdciiaftical, which be foolilh fairy"* fon, what fury mad ufe, but retained in Scotland.
hath a fair probability to rcacli. Sliifr. Hath thee incens'd to hafte thy doleful fate>> He, poor man, by your tirft order died,
Laoe. »./. Wer« it not better I that lady had. And that a winged Mercury did bear ;
LaJe is the mouth of a river, and it denTcd Than that thou hadft repented it too late ? Sprxfcr. Some tardy cripple had the countermand.
from the Saxon laeei which fignifies a puiging or Before Homrt'i time this gieat lady was fcarce That came too lag to fee him buried.
difchirginj tlwre being a difcharge of the waters beard of. Raliigb, Shakefp,-are's Richard III.
;
into the (ci, or in.o fome greater river. May every lady an Evadne prove. We know
your thoughts of us, that laymen are
Cihfcr*i CanUfn. That (hall divert me from Afpafia's love. Hâller. Lag fouls, and rubbilh of remaining clay.
Should Aiun t}ie dangers of the war.
I Which Heav'n, grown weary of more perfect work.
TV Lade. v. a. ^rcltr. laJeJ ; and part,
With fcom the Trojans would reward my pains. Set upright with a little pu(f of breath,
pafllve, laded or laden, [from }}1ab£D, And their proud ladies with their fweeping trains. And bid us pafs for men. Diydtns Don Sebajiiati,
Saxon.] Ic is now commonly written Drydin. Laft ; long delayed.
3.
lead. We
find on medals the reprefehtations of ladin,
Pack to their eld play-fellows ; there I take
1. To load ; to freight ; to burthen. that luve given occafion to whole volumes on the
They may, cum priiilegio, wear away
And they ladcd their liTei with com, and de- account only of a face. Addifon on Ancient Medals.
The lag end of their lewdnefs, andbe laugh'd at.
parted thence. Genefis, xlii. 26. 3. A wordof complaifance ufed of women. Sbakefpeare,
The etperiment which flieweth the weights of Say, good Ca*far,
Lag. n./.
fcveral bodies in comparifon with water, is of ufe That I fome lady trifles have referv'd,
in laiUiig of fliips, and fliewing what burthen they Immoment toys, things of fuch dignity 1, The lowed clafs; the rump; the fag
will bear. Baccn. As we greet modem friends withal. end.
The velTels, heavy la Jen, put to fea Shah-ff..Ant. and Chop. The re(t of your foes, O gods, the fenators of
With profpjous winds ; a woman leads the way. 1 hope I may fpeak of women without oft'encc to Athens, together with the common lag of people,
Dryjai. the ladies* Guardian, what is amifs in them, make fuitable for deftruc-
Though the peripatetick dodrine does not fa- tion. Hbaiefpeaie,
4. Miftrefs, importing power and domi-
ttsfy, yet it is as eafy to account for the difficulties
nion ; as, ladj of the manor. 2. He that comes laft, or hangs behind.
he charges on it, as for thofe his own hypothefis is
Of all thefe bounds, ev'n from this line to this.
The laft, tlic lag of all the race. Dryden's y.rg.
la/ien with. Licit,
With Ihadowy forefts, and with champaigns rich'd. What makes my ram the lag of all the flock .>
2. [jjlaban, to draw, Saxon.] To heave With plenteous rivers, and wide-lkirted meads. Pope,
out ; to throw out. We make tliee lady. Shakefpeare'i King Lear, To Lag. <k. n.
He chides the fei that funders him from them, La'dy-bedstraw. w.y". [Gallium.] It 1 To loiterto move flowly.
;
Saying, Tie'll Ijdt it dry to have his way. Shakrfp, She with fear and fury wild ;
pafs'd,
is a plant of the ftellate kind. Miller.
They never let blood ; but fay, if the pot boils The nurfe went lagging after with the child. Dr^,
La'dv-bird. l^j. ^ .^^ The remnant of his days he fafely pa(t.
too faft, theie is no need o! lading out any of the f „ ^^j
water, but only of taking away tne fire; and fo La dv-cow. V vaginopennous.
•'
.
Nor found they lagg'd too Bow, nor flow'd too faft.
I
they allay all hcau of the blood by abftiuence, and
J .
La dy-fly. 3 o f Prior.
cooling herbs. Tmfle. Fly lady-bird, north, fouth, or eaft or weft. 2. To ftay behind ; not to come in.
If there be fp rings in the flate marl, there muft Fly where the man is found that I love bed. Gay. Behind her far away a dwarf did lag. Fairy ên.
be help to lade or pump it out. Mtrtimer. This lady-fy I take from off the grafs, I (hall not lag behind, nor err
La'ding. ». /. [from lade.] Weight; Whofe fpotted back might fcarlet red furpafs. Cay. The way, thou leading. Miltof.
burthen. La'dy-day. n.f. [lady and day.] The The knight himfelf did after ride,
So;ne we made prize, while others burnt and rent Leading Crowdcro by his tide.
day on which the annunciation of the
With their rich lading to the bottom went. Ifaller. And tow'd him, if he lagg'd behind.
blefled virgin is celebrated.
The ftorm grows higher and higher, and threatens Like boat againft the tide and wind. Hudilr'ets,
the utter lofs of the fliip : there is but one way to La'dy-like. <i<^'. [lady and liie,] Soft; If he iinds a fairy lag in light.
fave it, which is, by throwing its rich lading over- delicate ; elegant. He drives the wretch before, and lafhes into night.
board. Seulh Her tender conftitution did declare. Drydin'
It happened to be foul weather, fo that the ma Too lady-lite a long fatigue to bear. Drydeit, She hourly prefs'd for fomething new;
riners caft whole lading overboard to, fave
their Ideas came into her mind
tbemf<-l»es. VEftrange.
La'dy-mantle. n./. [Alchimilla.] A So faft his IcITons lagg'd behind. Snvifl,
Why (hould he fink where nothing feem'd to prefs ? plant. Miller.
La'gger. n.f. [from /fl_f.] A loiterer ;
His I.iding little, and his ballaft Icfs. S-wifi. La'dyship. «./. [fromAt<^.] The title
an idler; one that loiters behind.
LA'DLE. n. /. [Jjlaeble, . Saxon, from of a lady.
La'iCai.. adj, [laique, Fr. laicus, Latin;
Jjlaoan ; leaugh, Erfe.] Madam, he fends your ladyjhip this ring. Shak.
â© .] Belonging to the laity, or people,
1. A large fpoon ; a vefiel with a long If they be nothing but mere ftatefmen.
Your ladyjhip (hall obferve their gravity. as dillinft from the clergy.
handle, ufed in throwing out any liquid well as the
And their refcrvednefs, their many cautions. In all ages tile clerical will flatter as
from the veflel containing it. Fitting their perfons. Ben Jonjon's Catiline. laieol, Camden,
Some the molten ore with ladlti great. Spcn.
ftirr'd I the wronged pen to ]ileafc. Laid. Preterite participle of /ay.
When the mJtcrials of glafs have been kept long Make it my humble thanks cxprefs Money laid up for the relief of widows and
in fufinn, the miiture cafts up the fuperfluous fait, Unto your ladypip in tiiefc. Waller. fatherlefs children. 2 Mac, iii, 10.
which the workmen take off with ladleu Byle, 'Tis Galiu; let her ladyjhip but peep. A fcheme which was writ fome years lince, and
A ladU for our filvcr dilh Vryden^s jluv. laid by to be ready on a (it occafion. Swift,
Is wTjat what I wifli.
want,
I is
Prior. La'dy's-slipper. n.f. [Calceolus.] A Lain. Preterite participle of /)>*
2. The receptacles of a mill wheel, into plant. Miller. Mary fccth two angels in white, fitting, the one
which the water falling turns it. at the head, and the other at the feet, where the
La'dy's-smock. ft./. [Cardamine.] A
La'dle-ful. n.f. [ladle and full ] plant. Miller.
body of Jefus had lain, John, xx. IJ.
If a footman be going up with a di(h of fuup, let The parcels had lain by, before they were opened,
When dazies pied, and violets blue.
Boyle,
the cook with a ladlt-ful dribble his livery all the between four and five years.
And lady'i-Jmotkt all filver white.
way up ftalrs.
Lair. n.f. [lai,m French, fignifies a wild
Sw'ifi. Do paint the meadows much bcdight. Seakcfp.
LA'DY. n.f. [ijla^pbiT, Saxon.] See hereboy gathering lilies and lady-fm-jiks,
a fow, or a foreft : the derivation is eafy
1. A woman of high rank ; the title of /a/Zy and there a girl cropping culverkeys and cowflips, in either fenfe or from leger, Dutch.]
;
properly belongs to the wivesof knights, all to make gulands. lValis,ns Angler.
1 he couch of a boar, or wild beaft.
of all degrees above them, and to the LAG adj. [Iaenj5, Saxon, long; lagg, Out of the ground uprofe,
daughter5ofearls,and all of hlglirr ranks. Swedilh, the end.] As from his lair, the wild beaft, w'.icrc he woBS
I am much afraid, my lady, his mother, play'd I. Coming behind ; falling In foreft wild, in thicket, brake or den. Milion,
fliort.
faMe with a Imith. Sbakcl'prare. 1 could be well content
But range the foreft, by the fiiver (ide
I would thy hulband were dead ; I woulj mjke To entertain the lag end of ray life Of fome cool ftream, where nature (hall provide
thee my hdy.—l your lady, Sir John ? alas, 1 fljould With quiet hours. Benry IV. Grei n grafs and fatt'ning clover for your fare.
Sbakefpcare"!
be a pitiful lady, Shah/f. Merry ffîve: cffKindJor. The
flowed footed who come lag, fupply the
And molfy caverns for your noon-tide lair.
I am forry my ttlauoB to lb dcfervmg a Udy (how of a rearward. Cartiu's Survey.
Drydtn's firgil.
Laird.
LAM U. Av M KHIA
06r The loud laments arife
I Laird, [Jjlapopb, Saxon.]
n. f. The
Whether
authors wvite
in profe, or verfei 'tis all the fame; Of one diftrefs'd, and maftlfl's mingled cries. Drfd.
lord of a manor in the Scottilh dialedl. The profe is fuftian, and the numbers lame. Dryd. 2. Expreflion of forrow.
Shiivc but their title, and their money's poije,
3. Imperfeft ; unfatisfadlory. To add to your lamcr.ti.
A laird and twenty pence pronounc'd with noife, Wherewith you now bedew king Hepty's hearfc,
Shrubs are fo.med into fundry ihapes, by mould-
When conrtru d but fox a plain yeoman go. I muft inform you of a Jil'njal fighl.' Shahjfeart.
ing them within, and cutting them wit.Hout; but
And 3 good fober two pence, and well To. CUa-uelaid
they are buf iinK,jiiings, beiag teo fmall to keep La'mentable. adj. [lament aiili/, Laun ;
La'ity. » /. [â^>-] '/'',,'- '
B!i<;on.
figure, ,
lamentable, French ; from lament.]
The people, as dilUnguifhed from the Swift, wKo'oould neither fly nor hide,
1. To be laihented ; caufing forrow.
1.
clergy. Câme fneaking to the chariot fide j
The hitntjitahk change is from the beft ;
An humble clergy is a very good one, and an And olfer'd many a lame excule.
The worft returns to laughter. Shak-fpeare,
humble laity too, tince humility is a virtue that He never meant the Jeart abule.'- Swifi.
2. Mournful ; forrowful; cxprefling forrow*
equally adorns every ftation of life. Sunft. To L.^ME. 'v.a. [from the adje&ive.] '1 o
A lamentable tune is the fweeteft mufick to a
2. The ftate of a layman. mskelame; to cripple. ^ ' .
woful mind. '

'
' '
.Sidtiejt
The moie ufual caufe of this deprivation is a I never heard of fuch ao'othir'tncounter, which The viiftors to theirXieircIs bear the priaei.
mere lavy, or wint of holy orders. Ayliffi's Pjrtr. /jmcj report to follow it, and undoes delcription to
' And hear behind loud groans, and Ltmenlabie cries.
Lake. a./, [/ac, French ; /araj, Lat.] do it. Sliakijfedrc. Dryden.
The
fon and heir%
1. A large diffufion of inland water.
Affronted once a cock of noble kind,
3. Miferable, in a ludicrous or low fenfe;
He adds the tunning fprings and (landing laku. pitiful defpicable.
And bounding banks for winding rivers makes. And either /aw'.V hislegs, or ftruck hitn blind. Dyyd. ;
If you happen to let the child fall, and Ltr,i it, This bifliop, to make out the difparity between
Drydtn*
Swift. the heathens and them, flies to diis lamentable re-
never confefs.
2. Small plafh of water. fuge. Stillingfieet,
La'mellateo. adj. [lamella. Lit.} Co-
3. A middle colour, betwixt ultramarine vered with films or plates. La'mentabi-Y. adv. [(rom lamentable.]
and Vermillion, yet it is rather fweet than
The lamellaied antennae of fome infers are fur- 1. With expreffions or tokens of forrow ;
harfti. It is made of cochineal. Dryden. pr^ngly beautiful, when viewed through a micro- mournfully.
LAMB. «./. \lamb, Gothick and Saxon.] fcope. Dtrtam. - The matter in itfelf lamentable, lamentably cx-
1. The young of a ftieep. Lamely, [from lame."}
ad'v. prelTed by the old pjrince, greatly moved the two
I'm ysung but fomething princes to compaflion. Sidney.
;
1. Like a cripple ; without natural force
Von may deferve of him through me, and wifdom, 2. So
as to caufe forrow.
or adlivity.
To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb, Our fortune on the fea is out of breath, •
Thole mufdes become call»us,and, having yielded

T' appeafe an angry god. Shakeffea'-i i Macbitb. And (inks moft lam.ntably. Sbak. Ant. andCletf.
to the eitenfion, the patient makes (hift to go upon
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. it, though tamely. ffifcmans Surgery. 3. Pitifully; defpicably.
Had he thy knowledge would he (kip and play ? Ptfe. Complete 'Lamenta'tion. n.f. [lamentatio, Lat.]
2. Imperftftly; without a full or
2. Typically, the Saviour of the world. Expreflion of forrow ; audible grief.
exhibition of all the parts.
Thou Liimb of God that ukeft away the (ihs of
Look' not ev'ry lineament to fee Be't lawful that I invocate thy ghoft.
the world, hare mercy upon us. Ccmmm Prayer.
Some will be cafV in (hades, and feme will be To hear the lamentatioiit of poor Anne.
La'mbkin. «. /. {hom lamb. ^ A little
Shaktfpeare's Richard III.
So lamely drawn, you fcarcdy know 'tis (he. Dtyd.
lamb. Weakly; uflfteadlly poorly. His fons buried him, and all Ifrael made great
a itmbtin left, 3. ;
'Twixt them both they not lamentatitin for him. i Mac. ii. 10.
La'meness. »./, ^fiom lame.]
And when lambs fail'd, the old (heepslives they reft.
Huhberd's Tale. 1 The ftate of a cripple ; lofs or inability Lame'nter. n.f. [from lament.] He
Pan, thou god of (hcpherJs all,
who mourns or laments.
of limbs. Such a complaint good company muft pitf, whe-
Which of our tender /iJmiiim ukeft keep. SpexJ.PaJI. Let blihdnefs, lamenefs come are legs and eyes ;
ther they think the lamenter ill or not. SfcBatcr,
Clean as young Idmbirn, or the goofe's down. Of equal value to fo great a prize ? Dryden s Juv.
And like the goiHfinch in her Sunday gown. Cay. Lameneit kept me at home. Dighy to Pojx. La'mentine. ff. /. A fi(h called a fea-
La'mbative. aJJ. [from lambo, 10 lick.] 2. Imperfeftion ; weaknefs.
cow or manatee, which near twenty is
Taken by licking. If the ftory move, or the aflor help thtiimemfi feet long, thehead refembling that of a
In affeaions both'of lungs an* weazon, phyfi- of it with his performance, either of thefe are fuffi- cow, and two fliort feet, with which it
cians make ufe of fyrups, and lamhatm medicines. cient to effed a prcfent liking. Dry. Sfan. Fryar. creeps on the Ihallows and rocks to gee
Brnm. To LAME'HT. -v. n. [lamentcr, Latin; food ; but has no fins the flefh is corn- :
La'mbative. n.f. A medicine taken by lamenler, Fr.] To mourn ; to wail ; to manly eaten. Bailey.
licking with the tongue. grieve ; to exprefs forrow. LA'MINA. n.f. [Lat.] Thin plate; one
I (litch'd up the wound, and let him blood in the The night has been unruly where we lay;
arm, advifing a lamiati-ut^ to be taken as neccffity coat laid over another.
And chimneys were blown down: and, as they fay,
(hould require. H'ijimtw'i Surgery.
Lamemingi beard i'th' air, ftrange fcreams of death. La'minated. adj. [from lamina.] Plated:
Lambs-wool. [lamb indiuool.] Ale
tt./. Shakejpearc. ufed of fuch bodies whofe contexture dif-
mixed with the pulp of roafted apples. Ve (hall weep and lament, but the world (hall re- covers fuch a difpolition as that of plates
A cup of Ijmis-zuc!,! they diank to him there. joice. J'jbrt.
lying over one another.
Scrg of the King ami thi M.lUr. Jeiicniiah lamented for Jofiah, and all the finging-
From the appofition of different coloured gravel
«^' [/tfw^^nj, Lat.] Playing men and women fpake of Jofiah in their lamenta-
La'mbent. » Cirtn.
arifct, for the moft part, the laminated appearance
tions.
about gliding over without harm. of a (lone. Shatf.
; Far lefs I now lameiH fot one whole world
From young liilus heal
Of wicked fons deftroyed, than I rejoice
To Lam.m, -v. a. To beat foundiy with a
A lamliit flatie arofc, which gently fpiead
For one man found {0 pcrfedt and (o jurt. cudgel. Di3.
Around his brows, and on his temples fed. Dryd.
That God vouchfafcs to raife another world La'mmas. n.f. [This word is faid by
His brows thick fOt;s, inftead of glories, grace. From him. Miltim. Bailey, I know not on what authority, to
And lambent dulncfs played aroilnd his face. D'yd. _
To Lame'nt. 1;. a. To bewail; to mourn; be derived from a cuftom, by which the

Lamdoi'dal. n. J. ['a',!x?3t and j'i'^.] to bemoan ; to exprefs forrow for. tenants of the archbilhop of York ware
Having the form of the letter lamda or a. As you are weary of this weight.
down thfmgh obliged, at the time of mafs, on the firft
The courfe of the longitudinal finus
Reft you, while I lament king Henry's corfe.
the middle of it, makes
advifeablc to trepan at the
it Sbakejpeare. of Auguil, to bring a lamb to the altar.
lower part cf the os parietalc, or at le.ift upon the The pair of fages praife; In Scotland they are faid to wean lambs
tamdaidal [at\jxe. Sijr^s Xurg.ry. contemn'd the woful times. may be corrupted
One pity'd, one en this day. It elfe
LAiVIE. adj. [laam, lama, Saxon; lam, One laugh'd at one lamented crimes. Bryd.
follies,
from lattermath.] The firft of Augu!l.
Dutch.] :Lame'nt. n./. [/a»w«/affli, Ifiai. fjtom the In 1 578 was that famous lammas day, which
1. Crippled; difabled in the limbs. verb.] ... ... buried the reputation of Don John of Audria. Bae.
Who reproves the lame, muft go upriglit. Dtrtitl. Sorrow audibly exprefled ; lamentation ; Lamf. n.f. [/amjie, i'r. lampas,hi\..]
A greyhound, of a ini.ule colour, lame of one leg, grief uttered in complaints or cries. 1. A light made with oil and a wick.
belongs to a lady. Arbmhmt and Pfc. O
We, long ere our approaching, heard within thieviOi night.
2. Hobbling; notfmooth: alluding toihe Noife, other than the found of dance, or fong ! Why thou, but for fome felonious end.
fliould'ft
feet of a verfe. Torment, and loud lament, and furioustage. Millm. In thy dark lanthorn thus dofe up the ftars
6 Th«t
; : ;. :
LA NT U A. I^ LAN'
Thjt nahin'baog in hluma, ttt lx\V<i thcW .'amfi To Lancb. v. a. [from the noun.] 2. Earth ; di(Hn£t from water.
With tvttUftiag oil, (o (iT< ^ncitesfi' -
1. To pierce
to cut. By lend they found that huge and mighty coun.
;
To the m'Ikd ind lonel) tM«e''
With hi: prepared fwoid he charges home try- Ailxii.
loLtmptHsmctsltîcitpsin. ',
Yet, if tho« (o'ft by land, tho" grief pofTefs
and Uu lime flame hu mcltc4/u.>A ^ guiu.
My unpravidc4 body, lanc'd nfy arm. Staiefp,
,
Jtt,ytr-
In thiar cruel worOil^ thejr fcmce themfelves with My foul, ev'n then, my fears would be the left-.
2. Any kind of light, in poeiical language, knires. Glanvitle'i Scefft,
'
But, ah be wirn'd to /hun die wat ry way. Vryd,^
!
re«] or isecaphoncal. . > Th* liifcmll traftifter advanc'd, They turn their heads to fea, their fterns toland^
1 hy gentle rye4 Tend forth • qiîctc'niog l()irit. Sei«'d the due viflini, and with fury Lmc'J And greet with greedy joy th' Italian ilrand. jDrjirf.
'
And /amt vfl\(< within me> Rmvf.

teed the dyinj Her bick, and piercing through her inmoft heart. ,3. It is often ufed in compoiltion, «s op-
Cynthia, lair regent «r the night, Drew backward. DryJcn. pofed to fta.
O may thy diver Lmp from heaven's hi^h bow'r, 2. To open chlrurgically ; to cut in order The princes delighting their conceits with con-
DIrefk my footlieps in the midnight hour. Cay. firming their knowledge, feeing wiierein the fea-
to a cure. •
La'mpass. »./. {Iimfas, Fr.] A lump of

We
, ,
do /«K« .
difcipline dift'ered frjm the lifndr/ervice, tliey had.
.J
about the hignefs of a out, in ijbe
flefh,
Difcafes in our b^jes. Sbahffeare.
plealing entertainment. Sidney.'
roof of » borfe'j mouthy which rifes
\_ i, .
He
to-ni^hthath boarded » Idnd-eerrtck
Fell fonow's tooth doth 'lipvarninkle more ;
If it prove lawful priie; he's made for ever. Sbaim
above the teeth. F^rritr'sDiil. Than whjtn it bites, hut lanceti not the fore. Sbei.
With eleven thgofand landfldiert, and twenty-
Hi< liorfe poHeA with the glanders, troubled with That differs as far frofn ffxr ufual fcvcrities, a;
fix (hips of war, we within two months have w»i»
tJie lamfafi, infefied with the faOlions. Stiktjf. the lencirgs of a phyflcian so /[ogci (be wounds of
ore town. Bacun.
La'mpblack. n.f. \lam{t}inA black. It an advetfary." Decay s/Pinry.
'\ Neceflity makes men ingeni6us and hardy; and
Lance the fore.
is made by holding a torch under the if they have but hnJ-rcm
or fia-reom, they find
And cut the head; for till the core is fofind
bottom of a bafon, nnd as it is furred fupplies for their hunger. Htle'sOrig, cfMankind.
The fecret vice is fed. Drydin.
I writ not always in the proper terms of nav'ga*.
with a feather into fome
flriking it The fliepherd llands.
tlon, or lar.d-fervice. Drydcni M.r,eid.
Ihel), it with gum water.
and grinding And when the lam-'nrg knife lequireshls hands,
The French are to pay the fame duties at the dry
'
^PeaehaM ok Dra'wing,
• Vain help, with idle pray'rs, frt>m heav'n demands.
-' ports through which they pafs by Itrd-carriagc, as.
• '
- ' '
•
Drylai.
La'm.pino. adj. [xa.iMii\ai.n:.\ Shiaiug
.
we pay upon ino^rtation or exportitjorr hy fea.

La'ncely. adj. [from lance.] Suitable
fparkling. Not ufed. Addison' t Freeholder*
Happy Imej, on whtch with flarty light to a. lance. Not in ufe. The Pboniciaas earned on a land-trade to Syria
Thofc Jamfing eyes wU^cjga fînetimcs to look* He carried his Isnces; which were ftrong, to give and Melbpotaniia, and Hopt not fliort, without
^ a lancely blow. Sidney. pu/liing their trade to the Indies. Arbuth. on Ccini.
5/pi/Vr.
LAMPO'ON. »./ [^fl:7f>i derives it from 'LANCEPE'sADE.'w.y! [lancc fptxzMte Fr.] ,
The fpecies brought by hnd-carriage were mucli
The officer under the corporal not now better than thofe which came to Egypt by fea.
lampom, a drunken long. It imports, lit ;
Arbuitnrt..
ui drink, from the old Freoch/a/a^/r, and in ufe amoog us.
To th' rndfes of her arm he flies. 4. Ground ; furfaceof the pIace.,Unufual.
was repeated at the end of each couplet I
Beneath his ftcely cafquc he felt the blow,

Fraught both with caft and wcfterrt prize,
at caroufals. perfonal fa-
Trtii.'] A Whicli, when he had in vain cfTay'd,
AndroU'd, with limbs relax °d, along the land. Pope,-
tire; abufe ; cenfure written. ikot to re- Arm'U like a dapper lancepejadt ,5. An eAate real and immoveable.
form but to vex. With Spanifli pike, he broacfi'd a pore. OtcavetanJ To forfeit ail your goods, lands, and tenements,
Callles, and goods whatfoever, and to he
They fay my talent is fttire; if (b, it Is a fruit- La'ncet. n.f. {lancetle, Fr.] A fmall
ful age! they have fqwn the dragon's teeth them- Out of the king's protcftion. Sbakejp. HenrjVUl.
pointed chirurgical inftrument. He kept himfelf within the bounds of loyalty,
ielves, and
but jwft tbey Ihould re;ip each
it is
gave vent to it by an apertion with a lancet,
I and enjoyed certain lands and towns in the borders
other in Umpwun. , DryJtn.
and difcharged white matter. Hîfeman's Surgery. of Polonia.
M«ke bun a Jamfoer, Fefe. KufUts..
A vein, in an apparent blue runneth alotig the This man is freed from fervlle hands
7«Lampo'on. i>. a. [from the noun.] body, and if dexterouHy pricked with a lancet, Of hope to rife, or fear to fall
To abufe with perfonal fatire. emitteth a red drop. Brovin's Vulgar Errtun, Ixird of himfeif, though not of lands,
Lamfo'okeii. n.f, [from lampoM.'\ A Hippocrates faith, blo9d-letting fhould be dont And having nothing, yet hath all. Molten,
fcribbler of perfopal fatire. with broad laneeli or fwords, in order to make a
6. Nation ; people ; the inhabitants of
large orifice; the manner oi opening a vein then
'We are naturally difpleafed with an unknown cri- the land.
was by Slabbing or pertufion, as in horfes. Arbuth.
tick, as the ladies are wiUi a Unfiuiir, becaufe ue Thcfe anfwers in the filent night teceiv'd,
art bitten in the dark. Drydtn. TcLanch. tj.a. [lancer, ¥r. This word The king himfelf divulg'd, the /a»i/ believ'd. DryJ.
The fquibs are thofe who are called libellers, is too often written launch : it is only a
Umfomers, and pamphleteers.
7. Urine. f)jlonb, Saxon.] At
Taller.
La'mpret.
vocal corruption of /«»«.] To dart; Probably land-damn was a coarfe expreflion in
n.f. \_lamproje, Fr. lamfreye, to caft as a lance; to throw ; to lei fly. the cant drain, formerly in common ufe, but fines
Dutch.] See whofe arm can laneb the furer bolt, l.iid afide and forgotten, which meant the taking
Many 'fiSi much like the eel frequent both the fea And who's the better Jove. Dryd. and Lee's Oedip. away a man's life. For land or hni is an old word
tnd frelh rivers j as, the lamprel, lamprey, and lam- Me. only me, the hand of fortune bore, for urinf, and to ftop the common palTages an4
Feme. Wnlitn. Unbleft to tread that interdifted /bote fun«Elions of natare is to kill. hanmer.
La'mpron. n.f. , A kind of fea fi(h. When Jove tremendous in the fable deepp, "Vou are abufed, and by fome putter on.
Thefe rocks are frequented by lamproniy and Launeb'd his red lightning at our fcatter'd Qiips. That will be daran'd for'tj would I knew the
greater SHies, that devour the bodies of the drowned. villain,
Fope.
Braame on 1 would land-damn him. Sbakejp, Winter's Tale,
the OJyJjiy. Lancina'tion. n.f. [from /«»««», Lat.]
lÂNCE. n.f. [lojtcr, Fr. /ancea, Lat.] A Tearing; laceration. To Land. <v. a. [from the noun.] To fet
Jong fpear, which, in the heroick ages, To La'ncinate. v. a. [lancina, Latin,]
on (liore.
feems to have been generally thrown The legions, now in Gallia, fnoner landed
To tear ; to rend ; to lacerate.
I
In Briciin. Shak.-fpcare'i Cymbelins.

from the hand, as by the Indians at this LAND, n.f [I.inb, Gothick, Saxon, and He who rules the raging wind.
day. In later times the combatants fo all the Tcutonick dialects.] To thee, O facred (hip, be kind.
thrull them againll each other oa horfe A country; a region ; diftinft fro-m Thy committed pledge teltore,
J.
back. Spear ; javelin. ether countries. And land him far'ely on the /hore. Dryd, Uvace..
He carried his lancet, which were Arong, to ghe The nations of Scythia, mountain flood, like a
Another Typhis (hall new feas explore.
a lanctly blow. Sulnty. Another Argo/tfjri/ the chiefs uponth' Iberian (hore.
did overflow all Spain, and quite walluj away what-
Plate fin with gold. Dryden.-
foever reliqucs there were left of t)ie lai/d-brul
And tbe-ftrong Linir of jurticc hurtlefs breaks;
people. Spcnfer'i Stale of Ireland.
Tc Land. v. n. To come to (hore.
Aun it in rags, a pigmy's draw doth pierce it.
Thy .ambition, Let him lord.
tShaJcefjpeare. Thou fcartet fin, robb'd this b.;wJiillng litml An! folemnly fce him fet on to London. Sbakefp.
They Qsall hold the bow and the lance, Of n bie Buckint,ham. Stukejpejre's r/rBrJr VIII. Lard ye not, none of you, and provide to bo
Je-cmiabj I. 42. Wh:it.bad he done to nuke him Ay the land? goo? from this coaft within fixfccn days.
Heôr beholds his jiv'lin fall in vain. Bacon's Aftv Atlantis.
Shaktfpearc.
Nor other lance, nor other hope remain j The chief men of 1 land, with lucklcfs omens then adore
the land had great autliority :
He Dciphobus, demands
calls 3 fpear
though the. gcvctament was monarchical, it was Their godi. Dryden's /Eneid.
la vain, for no Oeiphobus w« thcie, Pcpe. not dcfpuUcfc^ Bfoiuu's AW.J en the Odyjjey. La'ndkd. adj. [from land.\ Having a
_^
fortune.
J . d
LAS E AN tl A ff
'
fertnae', not in money butin-laodj .ha.}F- \oTDorr«!tii« ftallfcrh3av,(iati0Ti')pfcse.lndtr'i-I>xV)i^((^.v».yf '
Alftde hs«k'. '
ing n real eftate. . j . .;

a,>y l.„ilU, there ih.ll b..«.,:,^^^tl^mMac«i
L Wc^ ACE.^. / \J,<^âgU FÎ,^ ^ Hn.
knight ii«Jctni(eea/j?'W!'i>«ire,^r<?<j.
»l liailfli
gfa, Latin.
ndlordi :;-'. .V
Men/ wnof^ living I'lVth" Âjrî-h-r !tt aapiiiire, /j.ii tft /Jl'ive Hi...]
are commr-nly counted j;i tliWthofe i

t ) if.-, ,.,
. *4iP' rat/ fleck, and ton- f. Haman fpeech.
whofc ijvings artriifperfrd. SacbA. ,_ ., Cianffa. .Wc may define fangtage, If we sonflder !l more
materially, be lettcis forming ai><i prcdaainf
to
C;o:r.\-c.Ls offices, who w-rr • »v lerelling Isncis ^s^,T'hf ^^'"er^f, aflinni : ;
words and fentetues ^ but if we cqnfider it-accord-

wiiii. t'xy had none, when they grew ;>r«A>.-f fell - , . Wb<W ojirarrid*!, at thfc Inn, iry <orapan!on fetch-
ed ouftli* jolly' ing to the defiû thereof, then bngiage is apt fi^ns
to ciji;:^ up magnj charta,*^ *T^ttipIc. /Br/tJ/«t<?i; \i^ knew him by his
for comniun'walion of thcoghti.
A houfeof commons muA confift, for the moft whi.lle. . ; . , Adiij^n. l Holder.
part, of ic:i:df!d men. Mdijon's Fridjclder. LA'NiDiU.vltx.iar./. \lmtdvniniark.] Any 2. The tongue of One nation as tJiftina
IfA'KDfALh. ti,/. Inland in<i fall] A thiwg fet up 'to prefffv^tbe boundaries from Others.
Tudden tranflaiion of property in land of .hn.^3.' " ••:•' : O'f good my lord, no Latii^j
I airinot (ti^h a tjuaritfihcc mv^cortiing',
by the death of a rich man.- < ftood,
A^ -rtot to fcnpw thtUnguage I liavc liv'd in. Shak.
La'ndflood. n.f. \_lanii ttTtAjhed.'] 'In- '
.MUlcn.
^'He'npfc ffein Rbme alone, but Greece,
undation. ^,Y^"l\e .^j i.'i tlie qhurch
, , ,
-J '
kia
'
tSk^JafoB, Btought the golden fleece j
;
Eictn Ctarafdcv.
Apptehenfions of the affeEtror. j of Kciit, and
Then
To him that language, though to none
icJ!:u->^^:^rî iii;ij^L:u IL) P. ich' his fight
all other places, looked like .ight J.
.Qf tb' othuty, as his trwii was known. Battam.
fat all before wis coiin'ipoh as. the lijht. Dryden. .
toll they knew not bow far. Jon.

Thoiigh'they are not felf-evident principles, yet 3. Stile; manrer of expre.Tion.
tA'ND-FOacES. n.f. yaiui 2.adfot-ce.] if they have bein- -mid* ou'ifromthem by a wary Though his language (liOuld ntt be refin'd
Warlike powers notnav^l; foldkrs.that and unquellionable deduftion, they may ferve as It miift not be obfcureand impudext. AofierltRfn,
. iisfve on land. <5»«rfl)(Mj-ir, tij Aewwh«'liwriirtbifdireia way of Othsri for /.wîMjf all their care eiprefe.
We behold in FncM tf «g*eateft truth, or it cpjite belidis it. - Locke.
And value books, as women, men, for drefs;
U»i-fhrcet that I
"
. .'
have everbcen lui»wniun4«i>1ut]F'C '

:«. La'ndscai'E. - Thoirrpraife is ftill-^the.ilile is txccllentj
n.-^f. lland/cf'iife.'D'iltCh.]
~ "The fenfc, they humbly, take upon Content. Pojie.
-; -Hi. »'.
-Aregittn ;• the profpe^l'of a coiintry.
LA'tnynofors.: La'ncua'ged. adj. [from the noun.] '
rf. /.llend and houter.] Lovely feem'd^ ' -
One who holds lands. . .

•
That Uwdfcpii and of pure, now purer air.
-Alwrig various languages.
Money, Meets his ajlpr^MCh. Milton.
He wand'ring long a wider circle made,
as nectHiry to trade,
be canlidrrej may .
.
as rn his hands that pays the labourer and UnJ- .The (an
fcarce uprifen, And many /<:'r^K*.fV nations has fui-vey'd. Po'e,
,
bsldcr ; and if this man want moncj, tbemanu- Snot parallel to tfi'earth^his dewy ray, L a'n G u A G E M A s T E R n'./. [language an .
Difcovering in wide landfcapi all the eaft

failuie Isnot made, aad fo the trade, ii loft. Lnte. mafier.] One whofe profeffion is to teach
La'ndjobber. «./ [Lnd Of paradile, and-Fjlmi't tap)^'pbIhsJ '^
Mihcn.
iatljolf.] One Straight
'
languages.
'..uh.eiwtlit new pleaiiires,
who buys and felU lands for other men. WhiWjth ,tind it mealuics,
..>
The third \s,ntotK.aflangvage-majlct,'x\io\% toin-
If yo'jr maftcr be a minifter of flate, let him be ftruft them in the ftjle proper for a mjnifter. &pe^.
Ruui;t la '.'..>-. ....v. iB.i w3 grey'j
athone to none bat land-joîm, or intiHitors o{ 'Where the LA'N.qiiET. *./. [/aiKf««//f, French.] Any
do Ilray.nibbli'BK lioeks
'TtTiUon.
'
new funds. Swift. We are like tmn cntertamed with the view of a thing cut in the form of a tongue.
La'ndgrave. n. f. \la-nd and gra've, a fpacious lar.djcape, where the eye pafliis o»er one LA'NGUID. adj. [languidus, Latin.],
count, German.] A German title of plcafing profpeci into another* AddiJ^n. 1. Faint; weak; feeble.
dominion. 2. A pidture, reprefenting an extent of Wh.itcver renders the motion of the blood lar\^
La^noing. \»- /• [from /W.] fpace, with the various objeds in it. gtnd, difpofet^ to an acid acrimony ; what accele-
La'ndinc-place. J The top of ftair.s. As good a poet as yoa are, you cannot make finer rates the motion of tJfe Wood, difpofeth to an al-
Let the ftairs to the upper rooms, be upoaia fair latidfcjpa than thofe about the king's houfe. Addif. kaline acrimony'. Arhuthnot.
open newal, and a fair Umiirg-plactM tlie top. Bac. Oft in her glafs the mufiHg Acpherd fpies No fpace can be afligncd fo vaft, but (till a larger
Thjc U'iJtng-ffacc the upptrnwft ftep of a
is
The wit'ry httdfcapt of the pendant woods. • may>e imagined na motion fo' fwift
; or langu'tJ,
^pajrof ilaits, viz. tie Aoot of the room you afcend And abfer.t trees, that tremble' in the flood«. Pope. but a greater velocity or flownefs may ftill be con-
«?"«• . MtM„. Lanb-tax. n.f. [land tni tax.] Tax ceived. Jiemley.
There is a ftair-cafe that ftrangers are genially laid upon land and houfes. 2. Dull ; heartlefs.
carried to fee, where the eafinefs of the afcenc, the
If mortgages were regiftered, land-taxes might I'll haftcn to my troopj.
difpofition of the lights, and the convenient Undh.a, rtacii the lender to pay his proportion. And fire their languid fouls with Cato's virtue.
.
Locke.
are admirably vrell contrived. AdÂJin cnjialy. LAbiB-WAiTER. n. /. [land and nuaittr.] Addifon.
What
the R'lmans called veAibulum was nopart LA'sotriDLY. adv. [from languid^
of the houfe, but the court and !andir.g-placf !lx- An of the cuftoms, who is to
officer
watch what goods are landed, Weakly; feebly. ;
•
twten it and the ftreet. Arbuthnîf on Cams.

',
Give a guinea
The menftruiim work'd as tangulJly irpon the
La'ndlady. a./. [AiWand iW)(.] to a knavilh lard-ivaiter,' tti he
coral as it did before. Boyle.
/hall connive at tlie iii<:-chant for cheating the
1. A woman who has tenants holding queen
of an hundred. Swi/i's Exaiirr.cr.
La'nguidness. n. f. [from la>iguid.]
from htr. Weaknefs; feeblenefs; want of ftrength.
La'.ncward. adv. £from land.] To-
2, The miftrefs of an inn.
wards the land. 'To La'ngltish. v. n. [/«»f«/r, French
, ;
If a foldier drinks hii pint, and offers payment
They, are invincible by reafon of the overpouring languco, Laijn.]
in Weod's half-pence, the Ijr.dladj may be under
mountains that back tlie one, and llender fortifica- I. ']'o grow feeble to pine away; to lofe
fome difficulty. Sttlfi.
;
tion of the other to lanJiveid. Sandy it Jamy.
La'ndless. adj.[from /and.] ftrength.
Without Lake. n.f. [/aw, Datch lana, Sa.xon.J
; Let her hnguijh
property without fortune.
;
Young Foitinbraa
I. A narrow way between hedges. A drop of blood a-day j and, being aged.
'
• All flying Die 01'
this folly. Staliejpeare's Cymhelme.
Hath in tie flcirts of Norway, here and there.
Shark 'd up a lift of landUfi reiblute.. Shak.lhmlct.
Throogh a ftraight lane, the enemy full hearted We
aid our fathers do langui/h of fuch difeafes.
Struck dm^Ti fome mortally.
A Ur.dltji knight hath made a landed fcjuire.
t know each /.me,
Shakcfp, Cymbelinc. z F.fdras,
What can we eXpecl, but that her languijhingi
.ind every alley green.
Ubi'kijfrari. Dingle or fliould end in death f
, biifliy dill, of thij wild wood. Decay of Piety.
La ndlocked. «7<^'. [/<^Watid^r/t.] Shut And every bolky burn. His forrows bore him off; and foftly l.iid
Milton,
in, or enclofed with land. Thrfcu^ a His
tlofe lane as I pnrfu'd my journey. lar.guiflj'd linjbs upon his homely bed. Diyd,
There are few natural rwti better tandlicJitd, and Otivay, t. To
be no longer vigorous in motion;
clofed on all fides, than this feems to have bwni. A paikrlicrfe Is driven conftantly in a narrow not to be vivid in appearance.
_ , * ylddljon en Italy t lane and dirty road. Licke. '
La kdloper.«./ [/aWand/c/fs.Dutch.] The troops with hate infpir'd.

2. A narrow ftreet ; an alley. Their d.irt: with clamour at a diftance drive.
A landman ; a term of reproach ufed 'J'here is no ftreer, not many lanes, where
there And only keep the languijh'd war alive. Viydin.
by feamen of thofe who pafs their lives does not live one that has relation to the church.
\. To link or pine under forrow, or any
on Ihore. Spratt't Sermons,
flow paflion.
La'ndi.ord. n.f. [land ind lord.] 3. A paflage between men Handing on What man who knows
1. One who owns lands or houfes,
each (ide. What woman is, yta, what (he cannot chufe
and The earl's fervants ftooJ ringed on both fides, But muft be, will his free
has tenants under him. hours langui/b out
and made the king tlant. Bacm'i Henry VII. For affut'd bondage ? Sbakefpure't Cymi,line,
S Ihc
; ; ; ; '
LAN LAN LAP

Tke Itnd diaU mown, to* ercry tlwit *»en- OM 1. Loofe not filled up ; not ftiiFened'cut
; Lanu'ciKOUS. adj. [lanugltio/iis, Latin.]
*th (^reia UnûijS). flf/'J, >v. 3. not not plump ; flrnder.
fat ; Downy ; covered with (oft hair.
i bare ben lalKuig with a Alitor here, The commons k'd the clergy's bags Lap. n. /. [lacppe, Saxon; Ger-
I ;
laffe,
A maa that Uatiti/bii in youi dirpleaCun. Ate /*"* and IcJ' -tirtions. Staiijf. man.]
Stthff. 0^t,l^. Name
not Wiuuiu^t, ^îlofc Ikin't Hack,
J w*a tboat Mttrn when I took the libeiiy to Lant, a! an unthrift's putfc. DMm. l'. The loofe part of a garment, which
cbufc for myfclf, and have ever fina: ItnguijhiJ We
let down irtto the' reetiver a gieat bladder
may be doubled at pieafure.
adcr the difpleafure of an inexorable fatha. '
^wdl tied at the neck, but very tank, a< not con- If a joint of meat falls on the ground, take it up
jUdiji.n'i Sftflttcr.
taining above a pintof air, but capable of contain- gcnOy, wipe it with the laf of your coat, and then
Vet Ixonora confider, that, at the very time in put it into the dilh. Hivift's Direili^ns ro a FK:man.
ing ten times as much. tin::.
which flw Jatguijeet for the lofs of her deteaftd Moift earth (TRxiuccC corn and grats,
.
bacboth 2. The part of the clothes that is fpread
lover, there arcpttfjin juft periihing in a (hip«iecjc.
Too rank and tc«.lu«uiiant in tbcir growth. horizontally over the knees as one fits
MJifcn's SpcSiat^r.
] Let not my land fo Urge a proniife boaft, ,
down, fo as any thing may lie in it.
4. To look with foftnefs or tendernefsi lift the lank rars in length qf llcni be loft. Drytttn.
It fceis each living plant with liquid fap/
What pouns you foft, and to be rea4, .
Ihinic | Now, now my beaided barveft gilds' thf pU|B.
'
Ând'tiUs with flow'rs fair Flora's painted lap.

With latgui/bmi regardj, and bending head f jjryj. TlÛs dreams thf wretch, and vainly dius dreams on. " '
Sftnfcr.
La'wci;ish. «./. [from the verb.] Soft Till his bnl purje declares hFs money gtine. Drfd. Upon a day, as love lay Xweetly Qiimb'r'mg
appearance. Meagre jinil lank w'ttH falling gron'n. AH in his inothcr's lap,
And the blue languifo of foft Allia's eye. Poft- And nijthing iefl'buf ikin and bone
A gentle 4(ee, with his loud trumpet murm'ring,
Then forth be walks, They jull keep life and foul together. Stv':ft.
About him flew by hap. Spcnjert
Beneath the trembling Uiigyl/b of her beam. 2. Milton feems to ufe this word for faint; I'll, make my haven in a lady's A?^, '^"
With foften'd foul. TLmjcn'i Sfrir.g. languid. ,,. .;, And 'witch fweet ladios with my words and looks.
La'ncuumingly. adv. [irom languifi- Hcj piteou3.o/hei|v(«es» rear'd her /oisjl head. Shakcfpctirc.
And gave her to his daughters to imbathe She bids you
'*g'']
In,ng4hir'dlavtts'ftreW'd with afpbodil. Miller. All on, the wanton rulhes lay you down,
1. Weakly; feebly; with feeble foftnefs.
Leave foch to tune their own dull rhiroes, and LA.'»;Kit/ss.„y»,y; {from /a»f,] Want of And- reft your gentle head upon her lap,
plumpnefs). And ihe >wtll fmg the fong that plca&tn you. Sbdt.
know ^ , ,
Our ftming
What's roundly fmooth or latipiijhingly flo*. Pop:. La'nner. n./. [/«««r, French; lannarlus, Can from widow pluck
the lap of Egypt's
2. Dully ; tedioufly. Latin.] A fpecies of hawk. Thene'er-luft-wearied Antony. Siakefpcarc,
Alas my Dorus, thou feed how long and and
!
LA'NStûENET. it.
f. [lance kntcht, Heav'n's almighty fire
langtijhiiigly the weeks are paft over fince our laft Melts tA\ the bofom of his love, and pours
talking. SiHnry.
Dutch.]
Himfcif into her lap in fruitful Oiow'rs. Crajlaivt
La'ncuishment. h. /. [languijamment, I. A coramon foot foldier. ;
-'MenfêxpSa that religion Ihould coft them n«

French ; from laiigui/b.'] A game at cards pains, and that happinefs Ihould drop into thi-ir
1. State of pining.
La'ntern. n. f. [laMertie, French; la- laps. Tslletfin,
By which lovers books invcnf,

that count UKfia, Latins it is by ipiftake often He ftr^ggles into breath, and cries for aid
The fpbere of Cupid forty years contains written lanibont.] A tranfparent cafe Th?n, helplefc, in his mother's lap isiaid.
Which have wafted in long iangriijhment. He he walks, and ilTuing into man.
creeps,
I
for a candle.
That fcem'd the longer for my greater pains. Grudges their life from whence his own began 1
God fliall be. my hope.
Retchlefs of laws, afi'efts to rule alone.
Sptffer. my my
My ftay, my. guide, laniborn to feet.
Anxious to reign, and reftlefs on the tlirane'. Dhd^
2. Softnefs of mien. Shakefftare.
Te Lai*.- a. [from the noun.]
a;, '•.'"'^
Humility it enpreffes, by the (looping or bend- Thou pur admiral ;
art thou beared the lanih'.m
ing of the head } wken, we hang it on
languijbtntnt, In the poop, but 'tis in tlje nofe of. thee; thou 1. To wfip or twift round any thing.' ' '
one fide. Dry den. art the knight of the burning lamp. , 1
'He hath along tail, which as he dcfcends from
-
Henry IV. atree, he laps round about the boughs, to keep
La'nguor. u f. \languor,\tii, langueur, Siâkiffia'rt'i
French.] A candle lafteth longer in a lanthvrn than at large. hlwfelf from falling. Greta's MufaLm.
Bactn. About the paper wftrfe two halves were paftited
I. Faintnefs ; weariforaenefs. with red and blue, and which was like thin
Amongft the excellent afls of that king, one ftif}'
Well hoped I, and fair beginnings had. p^fteboard, lapped feveral times'a (lender thread of
hath the pre-eminence, the eteftion andynftirution I
That he my captive languor jfaould redeem. Spenfer. very black lilk.
ofafociety, which we call Solomon's houlii; the Netottn.
For thefe, thefe tribunes, in the dull 1 write
my
nobleft foundation that ever was, and the Itmtthm 2. To involve in any thing,
-My heart's de^p languor, and foul's fad tears.
of this kingdom. Bacon's jiilanlk. As through the flow'ring fbrcft xajh /he fled.
Shakrjfeare.
O thievifli night, In her rude hairs fweet flowers thcmfelves did lap.
i. Liltleflnefs ; inattention. Why (hould'ft thou, but for fome felonious end. And flourifliing ftcih leaves andblolToms did enwrap.
Academical difputation gives vigour and brifk- In thy dark laniborn thus dofe up the ftars Spenjerw
nefs to the mind thus cxcrcifcd, and relieves the That nature hungin heav'n, and fiU'd their lamps Thethane of Cawder 'gan a difmal conRift,
languor of private fludy and meditation. With cvcrlafting oil ? Militn. '
'
Till that Bellona's brid^rooUl, lapl iii proof.
ffâiii'i ImfrtvimenI if the MinJ. dark "which turns Confronted him.
"Vice is like a f<i«rfi«-»i, its Shakefp, Mactetb.
3. Softnefs ; laxity. bright fide only to him that bears it, but looks When we both lay in the field.
To iflts of fragrance, lily-filver'd vales, black and difmal in another's hand. Frozen almoft to death, how he did lap me,
DiflTufing languor in the panting gales. Dunclad, Gov. of the Tongue. Ev'n in his garments, and did give bimfelf,
4.. [In phyfick.] Judge what a ridiculous thing it were, that the. AU thin and naked, to the numb cold night.
Langucr and laflitude fignifics a faintnefs, which coitfinocd (hadow of the earth (hould be broken by iittikcjpeare.
may arife from want or dcxay of fpirits, through fudden miraculous eruptions of light, to prevent the Ever agiinft eating caics.
indigeftion, or too much uercife; or from an art of the lantern-ntakrr.Marc's Divine Dialogues. Lap me in foft I.ydian airs. Milton,
additional weight of fluids, from a diminution of Our ideas fucceed one another in our minds, indulgent fortune does her care employ,
fecretion by the common difcharges. îhcy. not much unlike the images in the infide of a Ian- And fmiling, broods upon the naked boy ;
thorn, turned round by the heat of a candle. Her garment fpreads ; .ind laps him in the fold;,
La'ncuorous. adj. [/angaerrajr, French.]
Locke. And covers with her wings from nightly colds.
Tedious melancholy. Not in ufe.
;
Dear lady, how Oiall I declare tby cafe.

A lighthoufe ; a light hung out to guide Drydeitm
Here was the repofitoty of all the wife conten-
Whom late 1 left in languorwi conftraint Sptnjfr. ? . Ihips.
tions for power between the nobles and commons,
Caprca, v.here the Janthora fix'd on high
r»LA'NiAT£. V. a. (.'««/», Latin.] To Shines like a moon through the benighted Iky,
lapl up fafcly in the bofom of a Nero and a Cali-
tear in pieces to rend to lacerate. gula. Swift.

; ; While by it* beams the wary failor fleers.
La'nipice. »./. [lanifi<ium,'Lii.'\ Wool- AJdifon. To Lap. 11. n. To be fpread or turned
len manufafture. La'ntern ^<KUJ. A term ufed of a thin over any thing.
The moth brcedeth upon cloth and other lani- vifage, fuch as if a candle were burn- The upper wings are opacous at their hinder ;
ends, where they hp over, tranfparent, like the

/u{t, efpccially if ihey be laid up dankilh and wet. ing in the mouth might tranfmit the
£accn. wing of a fly. Grew.
light.
ItA'tiiottLOVi. ad/, [lantger, hit.'] Bear- To Lap. -v. n. [lappian, Saxon ; lappeit,
Being very lucky in a pair of long hnlhon-jatus,
ing wool. he wrung bis face into a hideous grimace.
Dutch.] To feed by quick reciproca-
LANK. adj. llandt, Dutch.] Mdif^n's Speflator, tions of the tongue.
The
: :
LAP LAP L A R
The dogs by the river Nilus' fide, being thirfty, ftones of chymifls in imitation being eafily detedl- 6. To fall from perfeftion, truth, or faith.
l.if hiHily 3s they run along the Acre. Digty. ed by an ordinary lapidifi. Ray. Once more I will renew
They had foups ferved up in broad diflies, and fo LA'PIS. n. /. [Latin.] A ftone. His lapjcd pow'rs, though
the fox fell to lapping himlelf, and bade his gueft
forfeit, and intfarall'd
La'pis Lazuli. By fin to foul exorbitant defi.es. Mdttm.
heartilywelcome. L'tfirange.
The tongue ferves not only for tailing, but for The lapis /axu/if or
azure ftone, is a copper ore, A fprout of that fig-tree which was to hide the
very compaft and hard, fo as to take a high polifh, nakcdnefs of lapfed Adam. Decay of Pierfl
mafticjtion and deglutition, in man, by licking j in
and i« worked into a great variety of toys. It is All publick forms fuppofe it tlie moft principal,
the dog and cat kind by lappirtg. Ray <m Creaikn.
found in detached lumps, of an elegant blue colour, univerfal, and daily requifite to the lap/ing ftate of
To Lap. 1/. a. To lic^ up. variegated with clouds of white, and veins of a human corruption. Decay of Piety.
For all the reft Ihining gold colour: Thefe were looked on i% lapfed perfons, and great
to it the painters are indebted
They'll takj fuggelHon, as a cat !api milk. Stak. feverities of penance were prefcribed them, as ap-
for their beautiful ultra-marine colour, which is only
Upon a bull a calcination of /apis lazuH, pears by tlie canons of Ancyra. StilUngfeet.
Hiil.
Two horrid lyons rampt, and feiz'd, and tugg'd
La'pwing.
bellowing ftill,
off,
La'pper. n f. [froni /a/.] »./. [lap and luing.] A cla-
Both iten and dogs came 1. One who wraps up. morous bird with long wings.
yet they tore the hide,
and lapt tlieir fill.
;
ChapKans Iliad.
They may be tappers of linen, and bailiffs of the Ah but I think him better tlian I fay.
!
La'pdog. manor. And yet would herein others eyes were worfe
[lap and dog.\
n. f. little A Hivift.
Far from her noft
dog, fondled by ladies in the lap. 2. One who laps or licks. tlie lapiuir.g cries away j
La'ppet. My heart prays for him, though my tongue d»

One of them made his court to the lap-dcg, to ff./. [diminutive of /a/.] The '"rfe. ^ Shakcfpeare.
improve his intcreft with the lady. CM,r. parts of a head-drefs that hang loofe. And how in fields the lapwing Tercus reigns.
Thefe, if the la-« did that exchange afford. How n.Uurally do you apply your hands to each The warbling nightingale in woods complains. Vryd.
Would fave their lap il:g fooner than their lord. other s lapptis, and ruffles, and mantuas > S'.vifu La'pwork. «./ [lap and luori.] Work
Drydtn. LAPSE. »./ [lap/us, Latin.]
in which one part is interchangeably
Lap-dcgs give themfelves the roufing fhake.
1. Flow; fall; glide; fmooth courfe. wrapped over the other.
And lleeplefs lovers juit at twelve awake. P-^pe.
Round faw
La'pful. »./. [lap znd/ulL] As mucli Hill, dale, and fhady woods, and fanny plains.
I
A bafket made of porcupine quills : the ground
isa pack-thread caul woven, into which, by the In-
as can be contaijied in the lap. And liquid lafje of murm'ring ftreams. MUton. dian women, are wrought, by a kind of lapw.rk,
One fjund a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild Notions of the mind are prcfeivcd in the memory, the quills of porcupines, not
fpiit, but of the young
gourds his lapful, and Uuti ihem into the pot of notwithflanding hpjc of time. Hale. ones intire mixed with white and black in cvea
;
pottage. 2 Kmgs. 2. Petty error; Imall miilake ; flight of- and indented waves. Crew's Miijdium.
Will four percent, increafe the number of lejid- fence ; little fault.
ers ? if it will not, then all the plenty of money
La'rboard. n./.
Thefe are petty errors and minor not con-
lapfes, The
left-hand liJe of a fhip, when yon ftani
thefe conjurers bellow upon us, is but like the gold
(jderably injurious unto truth. Bntvr.'s ful^. Fr. with your face to the head : oppofed to the jiar.
and filvcr which old women believe other conjmers The weaknefs of human underrtanding all will ^""rrf. Harris^
bellow by whole lapfuh on poor credulous girls. _
confefs i
yet the confidence of mod practically dif- Or when
UlyiTes on the larboard fhunn'd
/ ^
Licke. owns itj and it is ealier to pcrl'uade them of it Charybdis, and by the other whirlpool fteer'd.
L a'p I cIDE . ». / [lapicida, Lat.] A ftone- from others lapjh than their own. Giai.'^'i/ie.
MiUon.
'
cutter. Dia. This l<:iiptute may be ufefullj applied as a caution Tack to the larboard, and ftand off to fea.
to guard againft thole /apj'rs and failings, to which
La'pidaRY. «./ [lapUaire, ¥i.] One Veer rtarboard fea and land. Dryden^
our infirmities daily expole us. Rogers.
who deals in (tones or gems. It hath been my conftant bufinefs to examine
La'rceny. u./. [larcin, Fr. latrocinium,
As a cock was turning up a dunghill, he efpied a Latin.] Petty theft.
whether I could find the fmallcft lapjc in ftile or
diamond Well (fays he , this fparkling foollery
: Thofe laws would be very unjuft, that fhould
propriety through my whole collcftion, that I might
now to a lapidary would have been the making of fend chaftife murder and petty larceny with the fame
it abroad as the moft liniftied piece. Sûift.
him J but, as to any ufe of mine, a barley-corn had punifhment. SpcSat.r.
teen worth forty on't. J. Tranflation of right from one to another.
L'FJiiarge.
In a prefentation to a vacant church, a layman Larch, n. f. [/^â:, Latin.] tree. A
Of all the many forts of the gem kind reckoned Sonie botanical ciiticks tell us, the poets have
up by the lapidariti,
ought to prcfent within four months, and a clergy-
there are not above three or not rightly followed the traditions of antiquity, in
four that are original.
man within fix, otherwife a devolution, or /apfe of
IVoodmard'i Nal. HiJIiry. metamorpholing the fifters of I'hai^ton into poplars,
right, happens.
To La'pidate. -v. a. [/a/;V«, Latin.] To To Lapse, 'v.n. [from the noun.] .^y/iffe. who ought_ to have been turned into larch trees
}
ftone to kill by Honing. for that it kind of
; Dia. ' is this treewhich fheds a gum,
Lapida'tion. »./ [lapidalio, Lat. lapi-
^pZ^'^^ flowly to fall by degrees. ; and is commonly found on the banks of the Vo.
This difpofition to fhorten our words,
hy re-
dation, Fr.] A ftoning. trenching the vowels, nothing elfe but a tendency
is
Addijon on Italy*
LAprDEous.flfl^'. [/a//'dVju, Lat.] Stony; to !ap/e into the barbarity

of thofe northern nations
LARD. «./ [lardum, Latin; lard, Fr.]
of the nature of Hone. from whom we are defcended, and whofe languages 1. The greafe of fwine.
There might fall down into the Japidtcus matter, labour all under the fame deleft.
S-U'ift.
So may thy paftures witii th=ir flow'ry feafts.
before was concreted into a ftone, feme Imall
it z. To fail in any thing ; to flip ; to com- As fuddenly as lard, fat thy lean beafts.
Dunr.e.
toad, which might remain there imprifoned, till the mit a fault. 2. Bacon ; the flefli of fwine.
m.ilter about it were condcnfed.
Ray. J have ever verified my friends, By this tlie boiling ketilc had prepar'd,
Lapide'scence. »./. Of whom he's chief, with all the fize that verity And to the table fenc the finoaking lard;
[/a/iz/f/ffl, Latin.] On which with eager appetite they dine,
Stony concretion. Would without hpfmg fuffer. Shakefpcare.
To lapfe in fulnefs
A fav'ry bit, that ferv'd to relilh wine.
Drydeti.
Of lapis ceratites, or corou foflile, in fubter- The
Is forer than to lie for need and falfhood facrifice they fped
raneous cavities, there are many to be found in Ger- ;
Chopp'd of}' their nervous thighs, and nextprepar'd
;
Isworfe in kings than beggars. Sbakefpiarc'sCymi.
many, which are but the lapidejcmciei, and putrc- T' jnvolve the lean in cauls, and mend with
faftive mutations, of bard bodies. Brtmir..
3. To flip, as by inadvertency or miftake. hrd.
Homer, in of Vulcan and Ther/ites,
his charaflers Dryden,
LAPjDg'scENT, adj. [lapidefiens, Latin.] has /apfid into the burlelque charafter, and departed To Lard. 1;. a. [larder, French; from
Growing or turning to ftone. from that ferious air effential to an epick poem. the noun.]
Lapidifica'tion. n. /. {lapidificaticn, Addijon. I. To ft u ft" with bacon.
French.] The aft of forming llones. Let there be no wilful perverfion of another's
The larded thighs on loaded altars laid. Dryden.
Induration or lapidif.ati'jit of fubftances more foft
meaning ; no ludden feiiure of a laffed fyllable to No man /aids filt pork with orange peel.
Is another degree of condenlation. play upon it.
Bacon. IVatis. Or garnifhcs his lamb with fpitch-cockt eel.
To JChg.
Lapidificic. adj. [lafidijique, French.] 4.- lofe the proper time. z. To fatten.
Forming ftone:. Myfelf ftood out Now Falftaff fweats to death.
For which if I be hpfed in this place,
1 he atomsof the/,»;.yyfri,aswcllas falineprin- And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
1 (hall pay dear. Staiefpcan's Tmi/fib NigH. Siai.
tjple, being regular, do concur in proiucing regular Brave foldier, duth he lie
*»"«»• As an appeal may be deferred by the appellant's Lardirg the plain >
Grrw. Shakcjpeari' , Henry V.
laf/ing the terra of law, fo it may alfo be deferred
La'pi D 1ST. ». /. [from htpidti, Latin.] by a Fapfe of the term of a judge. 3. To mix with fomething elfe by way
Ay life.
A dealer in ftones or gems.
5. To fall by the negligence of one proof improvement.
Haidneft, wherein fome ftones exceed all other An eiift command.
prietor to another.
bodies, being exalted to that degree, that art in Larded with many feveral forts of reafoai.
If the archbifhop ftial! not fill it up within fix Stak.
vain endeavours to countertcJt it, ti>e ikiUtlous Let no alien interpofc
months enfuing, it hpjc: to the king.
Vet. II. Aynff^. To hrd with wit thy hung^ Epfom profe, Dryd.
^ He
. ; . ,
' :
L A R L A R LAS
amply. Hit Itriim bell might loud and wide be heard.
Ue Urdt with flouriflws his long haraogue, 2. Copioufly ; diffufely ;
thou. Vryjiti. Where the author treats more largely, It' will When caufc requir'd, but never out of time. Sfenji r.
'Ti» fine, Ciy'ft
the poeti think thit no- hinM and brief intimations.
The
peaking cornute, her huiband, dwelling in
Swearing by hearen ; explain the (hortet
a continual Urum of jealoufy, ccmcs to me in ths
duogi their pliy« are fo much lardiJ with it. ffain iin til Mind.
inftant of our encounter. SbaJcefpeare,
CoUitr't V'uvi •/ tbe Stage. Liberally bounteoufly.
3. ;
How far off lie thefc armies ?
La'rdeh. n. f. [/art/ifr, French; old How he lives and cats -•Within a mile and half.
from iarJ.] The room where meat is How largely gives ; how fpleiididly he treats. Dryd.
—Then (hall we hear their larum, and they 011 rt.
Thofe, who in warmer climes complain Sbakeffeare.
kept or falted. From Phttbus' rays they futfcr pain,
not borrowed of the larMr She is become formidable her neighbours, to all
This fimilitude is
Muft own, that pain is largely paid
as ihe puts every one to ftand upon his guard, and
houfe, but out of the fchool houle. jifchtm.
gci>'rous wines beneath the (hade.
By Sii'lft.
have a continual larum bell in his ears. li.ivel.
Flefli is ill kept in a room that is not cool j
will Itcep longer. 4. Abundantly ; without fparirg. Ad inllrument that makes a noife at a
whereas in a cool ami wet krjtr it z.
They their fill of love, and love's djfpott.
certain hour.
' Took Urg. ly; of their mutual guilt the fcal. Milan.
So have I feen in larjir dirlc. Of this nature was that larum, which, though
Of Tea! a lucid loin. Virfct. La'roeness. n.f. [from /arge.]
it were but three inches big, yet would both wake
Old afe, 1. Bignefs ; bulk. a man, and of itfelf light a candle for him at any
Morefe, perverfe in humour, diffident London excels any other city in the whole fct hour. fyilkiri.
The more he ftill aboonds, the lefs content i world, either In largenefi, or number of inhabitanu. I fee men as lufty and ftrong that eat but two
His larjcr ami his kitchen too cbfcrvcs, Sfrait. meals a day, as others, that have fct their ftoituchs,
And now, left he fliould want hereafter, ftarves. Nor muft Bumaftus his old honours lofe, like larvmt, to call on them for four or five.
K.,:g. In length and /arjtn./i like the dugs of cows. Dryd. Locke.
La'rdbker. n. /. [from larJrr.] One 2. Greatnefs; comprehenfion. The young /Eneas, all at once let down,
Thpie will be occafion for Urgenefs of mli^d and Stunn'd with his giddy larum half the town.
who has the charge of the larder. Dunci.td.
agreeablcnels of temper. Collier of FriendJInf.
LA'RDON. 11./. [French.] A bit of
3. Extenfion ; amplitude. Lary'ncotomv. ti. /. [\a'ju>ând Tt'^m;
bacon They which would file away moft from iktlarge- laryngotomie, French.] An operation
LARGE, adj. [large, French; largus,
mji of that ofter, do in moft ('paring terms acknow-
where the fore-part of the larynx is
Latin.] ledge little lefs. linker.
divided to aflill refpiration, during large
1. Big ; bulky. The ample propofition that hope nukes,
Charles IT. alked me. What could be the reafon, In all defigns bsgun on earth below, tumours upon the upper partJi; as in a
that in mountainous countries the m;n were cnra- Falls in the piomis'd Urgctiefs. Shaiefpiarc. quinfey. încy.
Knowing beft the largere/s of my own heart to- La'rynx. n.f. The upper
monW' larrir, and yet the cattls of all forts fmaller i \j.a-(yyi,.'\
* r«;>.v."i ward my people's good aud jufl contentment.
part of the trachea, which lies below
Great Theron, large of limbs, of giant height. Kirg Clar.'e:.
the root of the tongue, before the
Shall grief contraft the largenefi of that heart.
In which nor fear nor anger has a pa-.t ? ffitller. pharynx. încy.
Warwick, Leicefter, and Buckingham, bear a
Man as far tranfcends the beafts in Urgenrfe of There are thirteen mufcles for the motion of
hrge boned fliccp of the bell ihayc and deeped
M^rtinur. dcfire, as dignity of nature and employment. the five cartilages of the larynx, Dertam.
Itaple.
2. Wide; extenfive.
Glamiille's jipohgy. Lasci'vient. aJj. [lafiviens, Latin.]
If the largenefi of a man's heart carry him be- Frolickfome wantoning.
Their former Urge peopling was an effeft of the ;
dreiui Sur-vey. yondMprudcnce, we may reckon it illuftrious weak-

countries impoveriftiing.
L'EJIraitge.
Lasci'vious. ae/J. [/a/f/i/w, Latin.]
ncfs.
Let them dwell in the land, and trade therein ; I. Lewd ; luftful.
for it is large enough for them. Cen. xxxiv. a i 4. Widenefs.
In what habit will you go along ?
There he conquered a thoufand miles wide and Suppofing that the multitude and largenefi of
ought to continue as great' as now ; we can
—Not like a woman ; for I would prevent
Urge. Al'but's D./ rifthn of tbe IVtrld. rivers
The loofe encoiinters of Ufiivieus men. Sbakeff.
eafily prove, that the extent of the ocean could be
3. Liberal; abundant; plentifoi. He on Eve
no Icfs. Betitley.
Thou flialt drink of thy filter's cop deep and Began to caft Ufii-vioui eyes; flie him
large. Exikiel. La'rcess. ». /. [largefe, French.] A As wantonly repaid ; in lull they burn. Milim.
Vernal funs and (howers prefent; a gift ; a bounty. Notwithrtanding all their talk of reafon and
Diflfufe their warmed, targiji influence. Ihtmj.n. Our coffers jvith too great a court. philofophy, and thofe unanfwerable difficulties
4. Copious diffufive.
; And liberal Urgefi, are grown foraewhat light. which, over their cups, they pretend to have againft
Skippon gave a large teftimony under his hand, i'kakijftare. thriftianity ; perfuadc but the covetous man not
thjt they had carried tlitrofelvcs with great civility. He two thoufahd ducats^ for a bounty
afllgned j to deify his money, the Ufiivious man to throw
Clarendon. to and my fellows : for they give great U'gejjis
me off his lewd amours, and all their giant-l'kc objec-
1 might be very Urge upon the importance and: where they come. Bacon s Nt-zv jitUr.iis, tions againft chriftianity fliall profently vanirfi.
advantages of education, and fay a great many things A pardon to the captain, and a Urgefi S'.utk.
which have been faiJ before, leehm on tke Clafflcks. Among the foldiers, had appeas'd their fury. Denham. z. Wanton; foft ; loxarions.
5...^/ Large. Without rettraint j with- The paltry Urgefi too fcvcrcly watch'd. Grim vifag'd war hath fmooth'd his wrinkl'd
That no intruding guefts ufurp a fliarc. Dryden.
out confinement. front;
Irus'sconditionwiUnot admitof /ar^r^/i. Addif. And now, inftead of mounting barbed fteeds.
If you divide a cane into two, and one fpeak at
the one end, and yon lay your ear at the other, it
Largi'tion. «./. [/<jrf/>;"o, Lat.] The To fright the fouls of fearful adverfarics.
will carry the voice farther than in the air at Urge. aft of giving. Dill.\ He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber.
B.at'jn. LARK. n.f. [lapepce, Saxon ; Url,'Q\- To the Ufii'uious pleafing of a lute. Sbakeffeare,
Thus incorporeal fpirits to fmallaft forms
| ni(h ; /(j-^/mfi, Scoitiih.] A fmall find- Lasci'viousness. V f [itomlafii'viout,'\
Reduc'd their (Iiapes immenfe; and were at large, Wantonnefs; looferefs.
ing bird. ,,
'Though without number ftill, Miltv^.' .
The ri.albn pretended by Auguftas was the laf-
way ; was the /«)•;>, the herald ofl*he mom. Wa*.
It
''
The childfen Ire bred up in their fathers'
civioufiefi of his Elegies, and his Art of Love.
1.00k up a height, ths flirill-gorg'd/uri fo far
or fo plentifully provided for, that thejr are left at DrjtUii's Preface to Ovid,
Shakefp. iCi'^g Lear.
\
.'1 >' Qannot be Teen or heard.

large. ' .'•fratt.
Th' ejiample of the heav'nly lark, Lasci'vjouSLY. aa'u. [from lafci'viiius.'\
Your zeal becomes importunate
I've hitherto permitted it to rave
Thy fe!(ow poet, Cowley, mark, Cewley. Lewdly ; wantonly ; loofely.
Jylark how the lark and linnet fing
LASH. n.f. [The moft probable etymo-
And talk at larger but learn to keep it in, _
;
With rival note&

Left it fliould take toorc freedom than I'll jive it.
, . ..
logy bfehis, word feeros to be that of
They ftrajn their waibliog thftats.
To welcome in the fpting. Drydcn. Skinner, Uom fchiagen-, Dutch, to llrike;
6. yft Large. DifFafely ; in the full ex-
La'rker, ».yi [irosa lark.'] A catcher of 'whence_y8tf//' and lajb.]
tent.
larks. Dia. 1. A ftroice with any thing pliant and
Dlfcover more at Urge what caufe tliat was.
For i am ignorant, and cannot guefs. Stakejjjtare. La'rkspur. n.f. [delphinium. 1 A plant.; tongh.
From- hence are hcattl the groans of ghods, the
It does not belong to this place to have that point La'rvat£d.«^'. [/tfri'fl/w.Lai,] Malked
pîns ! -
debated at large, }fâ!ts.

Of founding la/hts, and of dragging chains. Dryd.
hhtidBLV. aJv. [from large.'\ La'rum. n.f. [(totn alarum Otalarm-I Roui'dby the la/h of Ids own fiubborn tail,
t^ Widely; oxtcnfively. I. Alarm; nolle noiiog danger. 0)ti iio»«ow wiU fvreigu fdCt tSili, Drydcn.
1. I'he
; ; .,
L A
t
S LAS L at:
2. The thong or point of the whip which She livei and breeds in air ; the largencfs .ind 'To Last. v. n. [Ife]-ran, Saxon.] To
lightnefs of her wings and tail fuftain her without endure; to continue; to perfevere.
gives the cut or blow. l^tadi. Mrcs AntUctt agoirft Atbeiftr.. All jnoi-c Jttjiing than beautiful. Sidney.
Hjr whip cf cricket's ban?, Ikt hjh of film,
Po not over-fatigue the fpiiits, lelt the mind Ije I thought it agreeable to my affeftion to your
Hor wjggaier a fmzll gr^y-coatf d g/iat. Siahf/t-
fcizcJ witli a lajjitudt, and thereby be tempted to grace,, to p;'c(ix youi: name before the cffays for t
I oblsrved tfait yoor whip wanted a la/b to it. Watti.

nauTeate, and grow tiicd. the Latin volume of them, being in the univerfal
Addijcn.
From Riouth and nofe fhe biriny torrent ran. . language, may InJ} as long as books hjl. Bacan.
X, A leafh, or firing in which an animal And bil: m-UJT.'ude lay all the man. Po/c'j Odyj. With feveral degrees of /a/.Vj-, ideas are im-
is he!d ; a fnare : out of ufe. z. [In phyfiilc] printed on the memory. hcckc,
TKe farmer they leave in tie âjh. Liffuude generally expreffe; that wearinefs which Thefe arc (landing m.-.rks of fafts delivered by
With lofleson every fide. 1'u£lrU Hufimdrj. piOceH* Yrom 'a' flifteinpered ftate, and not from thofe who were eyc-wiCneiTes to them, and which
^. A liroke of fatire; a farcafm. nercife, which wants no rem;dy but reft : it pro- were contrived wnth great w'tfdom to &_/? till time
The moral hjh at is a the vanity of arrogating caeds Iram an increafa of bulk, from a dlmintition (hould be no more. .• .2 jid,lij:n.
that to ourielvcs whicK lucêeds well. hÊjirarze' of proper evacuation, or from too great a-confump- Last. «./. [Isj-'c, Saxon.]
tion of the fluid- mKeifary to maintain tlie fpring of
ys Lash. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. The mould on which (hoes are formed.
the l^lids, aA in fevers ; or from a vitiated iecretion
To ftrike witft' any thing pliant; to Thecobleris nottogobcyondhis/17/f. UEflranê.
1. oi that juice, whereby tiie libres ate not fupplicd.
fcourge. ,
'
A cobler produced fevctgl new grins, having been
ufed to cut t^ces over his/^. Addtfcns Spefliitat-.
Let's «-hip th'efe (Vrajflers o'er the ag^rii (m La'sslorn. n. /. [la/s and /cr».J For- Should the big lafi extend the (hoc too wide,
htilh htnCe thcfe over-weenirg rags of France. Shak, Not ufed.
faken by his millrefs. Each (lone would wrench th' unwary (lep afide. Gay.
He chjrg'd the flimcs, and tbolc that difobey'd
He lafh'd tu duty wirti bis f*.-)rd of light. Drjdir-
Brown groves, 2. [Z,a/7, German.] A load ; a certain
'-. Whofe (Jiadow the JifmilTcd batcêlor loves. weight or meafure.
AiiUl'in;'. '-
'Von by fate,
Tcmpjl,
Being !rf:h-n. '
_ Shah-ff fare's
Cl :'t.-.
-J
'
'jr date. Oryd<.ji-
LAS'l'. n. f. 'patej-c, Saxon
La'stery. n./.' A red colour.
S; I". ','!-, uncfes h.ird, ; lae'fii,
The ba(hful blood her fnowy checks did fpread,
V.'-; /i ih, Dryden.
•<upU, and flefraaJ thi; ward. Dutch.] Tb'at her oecame as Jiiililh'd ivory.
Le '::'t\'.{. n his hiice, lie mrwints hU Mr,
1
1. Liteft; that which follows all the reft Which cunning craftfman's hand hath overlaid
courfcrs /a/Wn^ througla tba air. Garth.
'
His tier)'
in time.
.
With fair vermilion; o< pure laficry. Sfenjcr.
. ,
2. To move with a iuddcn fpring or jirk. "Wliyareyethcfo/JtobringlhcVingback? Sitmiicl. La'stagc. n.f. \IeJ}age,Yr. la/lag!e,Ii\iU
The cliib hung rctmd hi scars, and batter'd brows; O, may ibme fpark of your celcftial fire.
\)]xfz. Sax. a load.]
He falU i and lajbicg up hii heels, bis rider throws. The iaji, the meanîl, of your fons infpire Ftfe, !
Drjjf/t. 1. Curtom paid for freightage.

2. Hindmoft; whiclj follows in order of
3. To beat ;to ft'ike with a (harp found. place.
2. The baliaft of a Ihip.
The winds grow high, Morion purfucd at greater diftance Hill, La'sting. farliciptal adj. [(tom laj}.^
Impending tenipefts cliaiê the Iky
1. Continuing; durable.
L^:J! cime Admctus, thy unhappy Ion.
; PoJ>e.
Ihe lightning flics, the ihi:nder ro.irs,
Prkr. 3. Beyond which there is, no mofPr . . Every violence ofl'ered weakens and impairs, v.i
And big waves hjh the frighted iTiores.
with the fwor^. /jimos. renders the body durable and hj}:rg. Ray.
I will flay the laji of tlicm lei's
4. To Icourge with fatire.

Unhappy Have, and pupil to a bell, 2. Of -long continuince ; perpetual.
Could penfion'd BoUcau lnjh in honed ftraint
Unhappytothety?thckindreleafing knell. Cowl/j. WLite parents may have black children, as negroct
FUtt'rers and bigots even in iMW' rejgn. Popi.
The fwans, that on Cayller often try'd fometimes have A^îw^ white ones. Bryle cnColoun*
5. To tie any thing down to the fide or Their tuneful fongs, now fung their, toi[, aijd dy'd.
^
•
\ The grateful work is done,
mad of a ihip: properly to lace. Th» feeds of difcurd fow'd, the war begun :
f'o Lash. t/. h To ply the whip. O ! may fam'd Bruhfwick h~ the fo/?, , '
. .
Frauds, feus, and fury, have poffeft'd the (late.
They lajh aloud, tach other liey provoke.
The /.i/?, the happieft Britiih king, • v--''' And (ixd tlie cauCes of a lafihg hate. Drydru
And lend their littleibuls nt ev'ry liroke. Drjden. Whom thou (halt paint, or J (hall fing. Md^fcn^ A
(inew crack>^ feldom recover* its former
Crentlc or (harp, according to tliy choice.
But, while I take my left adieu, ftrehgth, and tlie memory of it leaves a lafiing cau-
Heave thou no figh, nor ihed a tear. . Prior. tion in the man, not to put part quickly again
To lau^h at follies, or to l.-ijh at vice. Dryden. .
tlie
JLet men out of their way Iffi on ever i(y fall,

Here, lafi of Britons, kt your names be read. [
to any robud employmeut. Loci^.
Pofc.
they are not at all the nearer their journey's end. La'stinoly, flfl'-v. [from /«/?/»j'.] Per-
South. Wit not alonE has (hbne op ages-paft.
But lights the prcfe'nt, and ihall w.«m.thc leji.
petoally ; durably.
Wheelt clalh widi wheeii, and bar the narrow
L.\'stî.^GNEss. «./ [fro in lajfiitg,] Dur-
ftreet
The Up'mi whip refounJs. Goy't Trivia. 4. Thelowell; the menn'pft. , iablecefs; continuance.
Antilochlis All more lafHng th*|»-hcAutiful,bfit that tJ)e<on.
La'sher. n. f. [from lafi.'\ One that
Talces the /aR prize, and takes with a jsfl. fide:-ation of the exceeding lujlingncjs made the c\c
it P^Ji.
' whips or laihes. believcit was cxcoeding beautiful. ^' Sidrtty.
5. Next beiore the prefent ; as, 'n/?\V'ei.k.
L.vsi. «./. [from lad\% formed laddefs, by Confider the /.ijlirgmfs of the' rrlot'ons exi:ited in
6. Ucmoft.
contradion lafs. Hiciet.] girl; a A Fools amhitiouny contend
the bottom of thc-eyc by lialit. IWiulon" > Oftkks
11) aid ; a young woman : ufed now only For wit and pow'r ; their tajl endc.ivours bend
La'stiy. adv. [from /a/?.]
of mean girls. T' outflilnc each other. Dryifin's Lucrciiiti. 1. In the lall: place.
I will juftify the quarrel fccohJIy, balance tlic
Nowwas the time for vig'rous lads to fliow 7. ./^/ Last. In conclufion ; at the end. j
forces; ;ai)d, lafily, propound variety of dcfighsfor

V/hjt love or honour could invite them to Gad, a troop (hall ovaccme him ; but lie fliall
choice, but not advifc the choice. Bacor.,
A goodly theatre, where rocks are round overcome at the luj). Gin. xitx. 79.
Willi reverend age, and XbnW /fffit crown'd. Thusweathcr-cncks, that for a while 2. In the conclufion ; atl.tft ; finally.'
Have tum'd about witJi ev'ry t>!a(l^ latch: 11?
f [letfe, Dutch; lacc'h,
A girl was worth forty of our widows ; and an Grown old, and deftltt-te of oil, Italian.] A
catch of a door moved by
honeft, downiight, plain-dealing lafi it was. Ruft to a pAint, a/Wfli at /"Jt. h-hid.
-
UEflrevgc. a firing, or a handle.
. . .
8. 97^<'Last; the end.

They
fortKtimes an hafty kifs The Itilch mov'd up. Gay's Pafioral-.
,
All politicians chev, on wifJom part.
- filial from unwary lajftt ; they with fcorn. Pope.
'
T'hen comes rofy heal th from her cottage of thatoli
And blunder on in |iufincfs to tht hft.
Where never phyfician had lifted the latch. Smart.
And heck reclin'd, refent. Pbilifs,
Last. adv. To Latch. <w. a. [from the nonn.}
La'ssitude, n./. [laj/ituilo, Latin ; lajji-
The time; before
laft thf' jtitnC iiext
tude,French.]
1,
1. To f;ifteh with n latch.
I. Wearinefs ; fatigue; the pain arififtg

the prefent.
How long now
.. ..
lince /^^'yotiflHf' an'd I
'
., ;,. 'Ho hid (Ircngth to reach his father's houfe.'! th<
Is't
:donr ur^ only latched ; and, when he had the latch
from hard labour. Wereinamalk? ''.' ' ''
Sbitt/ff'ilre.
'
in Ills lianJ, he turned about his head to fee his
Vijptude is remedied by bathing, or anointing When /<i/? l-dji'd, and, diur ! 1 dlo''
.purfti:r. Locke.
with oil and warm waKr j for all Iajfuud{ is a kind As often as from tliee 1 go,
[Lecbtr, French.] To fmear.
2.
of contufion and cornpreflicn of the parts ; and J can remember yet that I
But haft thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes
bathing and anointing give a relaxation or emoUi- Something did fay, and fomethiog did beftow.
Dt/nne.
With the love juice, as I did bid thee do .' Sbakt
tion. Bacon'i Natural Ilijltry.
Afliduity in cogitation is more than our embo-
La'tches. ti. /.
2. In concluiion. '
LatJx! or lalkets, in a (hip, arc fmall lines like

died fonJs can bear without faj/itudr or dlftcrrfr. flîiflwi'h bis idol, he commends, admires,
loops, fallencd by ftwijlg into the bonnets and
Ohwvilit'i Sciffii. Adores i and .'.ijl, the thing ador'd defires. Vryd.
C 2 drableri
,
L A. T L A T L A T
4r.iblertof • ni'ip, in order to Ucc the bonnets to The welt glimmers with fome ftreaks of day t The fee-farms refcrved upon charters granted vt
the kourfcs.or the drablcrs to the banncts, Uarri:. Now fpurs the hted traveller apace cities and towns corporate, and the blanch rents jni
La'tchet. n./. [lactt, French.] The To gain the timely inn. Sbateffearc'i Macbeth. lath filver anfwered by the Aerifl's. Bacon.
firing that fallens the (hoe. La'tely. ad'v. [from latt.\ Not long Lathe. »./. The tool of a turner, by
There cometh one mightier than I, the Utclci ago. which he turns about his matter fo as to
of whofe ihoes 1 am not worthy to unloofc. Paul found a certain Jew named Aquila, lately ihape it by the chizel.
Mark, i> 7. come from Italy, /lai, xviii. i. Tiiofe black circular lines we fee on turned velTelt
LATE. atff. [Ixr, Saxon ; /act, Dutch ; La'teness. n.f [from /«/*.] Time far of wood, are the cftefts of ignition, caufed by the
in the comparative /etttr or laUr, in advanced. prclTure of an edg^ ftick upon the ved'cl tmni-d
the fupcrlative Jate/ or Ja/f. Laterefi in life might bs improper to begin the nimbly in the bihe. Ray.
Laft is
abfoluce and definite, more than lateft.] wjrid with. Sviifi to Gay. roL.\'THER.v.n. [leS^n,. Sax.] To
1. Contrary to early ; flow; tardy; long La'tent. fl<j)'. [laieni.lAUn.] Hidden; form a foam.
concealed ; fecret. Chufe water pure.
delayed.
If WT look into its retired movements, and more Such as will latter cold with foap. BaynarJ.
My hiding on with full career.
diys fly
But my Uit fpring no bud nor blofl'om Aeweth. fecret latent fprlngi, we may there trace out a fteady To Lather, v. a. To cover with foam
hand producing good out of evil. ffccdward. of water and foap.
Milttn.
Juft was the vengeance, and to Ai<^ day«
Who drinks, alas ! but to forget ; nor fees. La'ther. «./. [from the verb.] A foanj
Shall long pofterity tefouod tlijr praifc. That melancholy (lith, fevere difcafc,
Mem'ry confus'd, and interrupted thought. or froth made commonly by beating
Death's harbingers, lie latent in the draught. Prior. foap with water.
2. Lad in any place, office, or character.
What were Wood's vifible cofts I know not, and
All the difference between the lari fervants, and
LA'T1N.<7<^'. [i<»//>a/.]Writtenorfpokeo
what were b'lilaicnt is variouflyconjcilured. Siuift. in the language of the old Romans.
thofe who ftiid in the t'amily, was, that thofc latter
were fi.icr gentlemen. yiti.iifon* i S^cSfMcr,
LA'TERAL. ac/J. [latera/, breach } late- Auguftut himfdf could not make a new Latim
The deceafed as, the works of the iaie
ralis, Latin.] word. Locke.
3. :
Mr. Pope. 1. Growing out on the fide; belonging L.^ TIN. »./. An exercife praftifed by
4. Far in the day or night.
to the fide. fchool-boys, who turn Engliih into
Why may they not fpread their lateral branches Latin.
Late. aJ'v.
till their di.'tance from the centre of gravity deprefs In learning farther his fyntaxis, he ffiall not ufe
1. After long delays ; after a long time. them ? Ray. the common order in fchools for making of Latins.
It K ufed often with too, when the pro- The fmalleft veflels, which carry the blood by Afiam,
per time is pall. Literal branches, feparate the next thinner fluid or
La'tinism. »./. [latini/me, French; la-
boy thy father gave thee life too foon. ferum, the diameters of which Varfra/ branches are
And
!
hath bei^t thee ef thy life too /ale. tibaktff. lefs than the diameters of the blood-vcffels.
tlni/mus, low Latin.] A Latin idiom ; a
Afccond Silvim after thefc appears, Arbuthnat on Alimenti.
moije of fpeech peculiar to the Latin.
Stivius /Eneas, for thy name he bears: 2. Placed, or afting on the Milton has made uie of frequent tranfpofitions,
fide.
For arms andjufticc equally renown'd, LaUnijms, antiquated words and phrafes, that he
Forth rufli the Levant, and the ponent winds
jiiight the better deviate from vulgar and ordinary
Who Aitt reftord in Alba IhjU be crown'd. Dryd. Eurus and Zephyr, with their lateral noifc.
erpreflions. Add'ijan.
He laughs at all the giddy turns of (late. Sirocco and Libecchio. Milton.
When mortals fcotch too ioon, and fear loo hit. Later a'lity. »./ La'tikist. n.f. [from Latin\ One
[from Az/^ra/.] The
Drydcn. Ikilled in Latin.
quality of havingdiftinft fides.
Tê la'.tr before any one comes to have thcfe Oldham was confideied as a good Latin'fi.
it is
We may reafonably coaclude a right and left
ideas, the Uftr alfo will it be before he comes to OUlam's Life.
laterality in tire ark, or naval edifice of Noah.
. maxims.
thofe Locke. Lati'nity. ». f. [lathite,French la-
I might have fpar'd bis life,
Brown. ;
La'terally. adv. [from lateral.] By Latin.]

tittilas, Purity of Latin ftilej
But now it is »M late. Philipi't DiJIrefi Aldher,
the fide fidewi/e. the Latin tongue.
2. In a later feafon. ;
The days are fet laterally againft the columns of If Shakefpeare was able to read Plautus with eafe,
To
malcc rofes, or other flowers, come late, is an
the golden number. Holder on Tm!$,- nothing in Lat'tn'ity could be hard tu htm. Dennis.
experiment of picafure ; for the ancients elleemed
much of the roia fcra. Bacjn's Natural ll'ifiory. La'teward. adv. [late and peapb. Sax.] ToLa'tinize. v. a. [latinifer, French;
,Tl»erc be feme flowers which come more early, Somewhat late. from Latin.] To ufe words or phrafes
and others which come more la:e, in the year. LATH. ». /. [latra, Saxon borrowed from the Latin.
; late, latte,
Bacon's Natural Hifiory, 1 am liable to be charged that I tttinixe too much.
Lately ; not long ago.
French.] A fmall long piece of wood
3. liiyden.
ufed to fupport the tiles of houfes. He
They arrived in that pleafant iOe, ufes coarfe and vulgar words, or terms and
Where fleeping late, Ihe left her other With dagger of lalb. Shakefpeare. phrafci that are latinized, fcholaflick, and hard to
knight.
Penny-royal and orpin they ufe in the country to
Spettjir. be undcrdood. H'aiti.
trim their houfes ; binding it with a lath or ftiek,
In teafon's abfcnce fancy wakes,
and fetting it againft a wall. Bacon s Nat. Hill,
hh'r\sH. adj. [Uom late.] Somewhat late.
Ill-mat;hing words and deeds long paK or late.
Laths are made of heart of oak, for outlide Latiro'strous. adj. [latus and rojlrum,
Milton.
The
goddefs with indulgent cares.
work, as tiling and plaiftcring ; and of fir for infjde Latin.] Broad-beaked.
plaiftering, and pantile lathing. In quadrupeds, in regard of the figure of their
And focia! joys, the late transform'd repairs. Pafe. Aljxon.
From frelh paflurcs, and the dewy field. The god who frights away, heads, the eyes are placed at fome diftancc in laii-
;
The lowing herds return, and round them throng With his lath fword, the tliicves and birds of prey. roflr-.us and flat-bilied birds, they arc more laterally
With leapt and bounds the late imprifoa'd young. DryJc. feated. Bnwn.
ToLat». -v. a. [latter, Fr. from the La'titakcy. n.f. [from latitans, Lat.]
4. Far in the day or night. noun.] To fit up with laths. Delitefcence ; the Hate of lying hid.
Was it fo lati, friend, ere you went to bed. A
fmill kiln conlills of an oaken frame, lathed In vipers (he has abridged their malignity by their
That you do lie fo latt f on every fide. Mortimer's Huftiandry. feceCion or lutiiancy. Bre^vn'i FiÎgar Erraurs.
•îr, we were carouSng till the fecond cock. The plaifterer's work is commonly done by the La'titaht. adj. [/(!/»/a».f, Latin.] De-
Sbakejpearc, yard fquare for lathing. Mortimer's Hujbar.dry. litefcent ; concealed ; lying hid.
'Late the nedurnal facrifice begun, ^ Lath, n /. [IjeS, Saxon. It is explained Snakes and liaards, latilajit many months in the
Nor ended till the next returning fun. Vrydcn. by Du Cange, 1 (hppofe from Spelman, year, containing a weak heat in a copious humiditj
^. Of latt ; lately; in times pad; near Partio CDmitatuj majar tres vel plures bun- do long fubfill without nutrition. Br^nvn.
the prefent. Latt in ,this phrafe Teems Force the fmall laiitani bubbles of air to difclofe
dredas continens : this is apparently con-
to be an adjeCtive. themfelves and break. Boyle.
trary to Spenfer, in the following ex- It muft be fome other fubllance laiitani in the
Who but felt of late f Milton.
Men have of late made ufe of a pendulum, as a
ample.] A part of a county. fluid matter, and really diftinguifliable from if.
more Iteaily rcfulatjr. Locke.

If M
that tything failed, then all that lath was Afore.
charged for that tything; and if the lath failed, Latita'tion.
La'ted. fl<^'. [from /a/*.] Belated; fur- n.f. [from latito, Lat.]
then all that hundred was demanded for them ; and
prifed by the n ght. if the hundred, then the (hire, who leouM not reft
The Hate of lying concealed.
1 am fo lateJ in the world, that I till they liad found that .undutiful fellow, which
La'titude. n.f. llalitude, French} l(t'
Hav« loft my way for ever. Stakejpeeri. was not amclnablc to law. Spender's Jritaxd. titudo, Latin.]
t. Breadkh;
. :
L A T L A U L A U
,. Breadth ; width; in bodies of unequal latlerwhen no comparifon is exprefled, 1. Praife-worthy ; commendable.
dimeniions the lliorter axis ; in equal but the reference is merely to time j as, I'm where to do harm
in this earthly world,
Is often laudahlebut to do good, fomctimc
bodies the line drawn from right to left. thofe are lit:er/ruitj. ;
Accounted dang'rous folly. Siiahjf'eare's Mjcreib.

Whether the exail quadrat, or the long fquare, be yo/et ufus
Affeflation endeavours to corrcfl natural defcfls,
the better, I find not well determined j though I
muft prefer the tatter, provided the lengtii do not
êm penes arbitrium ejl, (J mi, £3" norma and has always tlic laudable aim of picafing, thoug'.i
loquendi, it always millb it. L'jcke.
exceed the latitudi above one third part. Wotun, ]
Room fpace extent I. Happening after fomething elfe. 2. Healthy ; falubrinus.

2. ; ;
There z. Modern ; lately done or part. Good
blood, and a due projctflile motion or cir-
is of degrees in men's under--
a difference
Hath not navigation culation, arc ncccllary to convert the aliment into
/landings, to fogr^ a L^nru^ltj that one may affirm, difcovcred, in thofe tatter
whole nations bay of Soldania L'xke. laudable animal juices. yirbuthrot.
that there is a greater difference between fome men ages, at tiis I
and others, than between fomc men and beads. 3. Mentioned )aft of two. La'udableness. «. /. [from laudable '\
Lock,:. The difl'erence between reafon and nrvclation, and Praife-worthinefs.

3. The extent of the earth or heavens, in what fenfc the httir is fuperior. WMt%. La'udablv. adu. [from laudable.} In
reckoned from the equator to either La'tter LY. fli/T/. [from /r!//fr.] Of late; a manner deferving praife.
pole oppofed to longitude.
: in the lallpart of life : a low word lately Gbfolcte words may be laudably revived, when
We found curfeives in the latitude of tliirty de- hatched. either they are founding or lignificant. Drfdir.
grees two minutes fouth. Swift, Latterly Milton was fliort and thick. Riel-ardfin. La'udanum. n.f. [A cant word, from
4. A particular degree, reckoned from the LA'TTICE. ». / [lattts, French ; by laudo, Latin. A foporifick tinfture.
equator. Junius written lettice, and derived from To Lave. 'v. a. \^la-jo, Latin.]
Another effeS the Alps have on Geneva is, that lerr lepn, a hindring iron, or iron flop ; 1. To wafh to bathe. ;
the fun here rifes later and fets fooner than it does Unfafe, that wc muft la'ue our honours
by Skinner imagined to be derived from
to other places of the fame htitade, Add'iji,r..
lalte, Dutch, a lath, or to
Jn thcfe fo flatt'ring ftreams. Shakefpeare,
Uorcllrained acceptation
be corrupted
5. ; licentious or But as I rofe out of the laving ftream,
from nettice or netiuork : I have fome- Heav'n open'd her eternal doors, from whence
lax interpretation.
In fuch lat'viidti of fcnfe, many that love me timei derived it from let and eje ; lei eyes, The fpirit delcendej on me like a dove. Milton.
and the church well, may have
taken the covenant. that which lets the eye. It may be de- With roomy decks, her guns of mighty ftrcn;"h,
King CbarUi, duced from lalerculus.] A reticulated Whofe low-laid mouths each mounting billow lai'ct,.
Then, in cornea the benign latitude of the doc- Deep in her draught, and warlike in her lengthj
window ; a window made with fticks or She feems a fea-wafp Hying on the waves. Dryden.
trine of good-wUl, and cuts afunder all thofe hard,
irons eroding each other at fmall dif-
pincing cords. South.
tances.
2. ILe-ver, Fr.] To throw up; to laiie;
6. Freedom from fettled rules ; laxity. to draw out.
In human actions there are no degrees, and pre-
My good window of lattice, fare thee well ; thy Though were fet on hills.
hills
cafement 1 need not open, J look through thee.
dfe natural limits defcribed, but a latitude is in- And feas met Teas toguard tlice, I would through
.- Shelkcfpeare.
dulged. Taylor. I'd plough \i\> locks, deep as the Alps, in duft.
took this kind of verfe, which allows more la-
The mother of Sifera looked out at a window, And
i la'ue the Tyrrhene waters into clouds,
and cried through the lattefs. Jfdg. v. 2S.
titude than any other. Dryden, But 1 would reach thy head. Ben Jortfon.
Up into the watch-tower get. Some
7. Extent J difFulion. And fee all tliii^f s defpoil d of fallacies :
ftoiv tlieir oars, or ftop the leaky fides,
Albertus, bi(hop of Ratifton, for his great learn- Another bolder yet tlle yard bcllrides,
Thou flialt not peep through lattiea of eyes,
ing, and latitude of knowledge, firnamed Magnus, And folds the fails ; a fourth with labour laves
Nor hear through labyrinths of ears, nor learn
bcfides divinity, hath wiitun many trails in phi- '1 h" intruding feas, and waves ejefts on waves.
By circuit or collections to difccrn. Uortne.
lofophy. Brvion. Dryden.
The trembling leaves through which he play'd.
Mathematicks, in its latitude, a ufually divided Dappling the walk with Tight and fliade. To Lave. 'v. n. To wafh himfelf : to
Into pure and mixed. fyHkini. bathe.
Like lattice windows, give the fpy
I pretend not to treat of them in their full lati- Room but to peep with half an eye. Cleaveland. In her chafte current oft the goddefs laves.
tude j it fuffices to rtiew how the mind receives tiiem, And
from fecfation and
To La'ttice. [from the noun.] To
-u. a. with celeftial tears augments the waves. Pope.
reflection. Laeke.
decuflate, or crofs ; to mark with crofs To Lave'er. t/. n. To change the direc-
Latitudi na'rian. adj. [latituditiairi,
tion often in a courfe.
parts like a lattice.
French ; latitudhariui, low Latin.] Not How eafy 'tis when deftiny proves kind.
reftrained not confined;
Lava'tion. n. /. [lavatio, Lat.] The
; thinking or With full ipread fails to run before the wind :
afl of wafliing. But thofe that gainfl
afiing at large. ftiff gales laveerir.g go,
Such filthy fluff was by loofe lewd varlcts fung Muft be at oncercfolv and Dryden.
Latitudinanan love will be npenfive, and there- d, fliilful too.
before the chariot on the folemn day of her lavatiov.
fore I would be informed what is to be gotten by it.
C'Jlicr on Kindnefs.
Haknuill.
La'vekder. n.f. [lavindula, Lat.] A
La'vaTory. [from lavo, Latin.]
n. /.
plant.
Latitudin a'rian. rt./. One who de- one of the verticillate plants, whofe flower
parts from orthodoxy.
A walh ; fomething in which parts It is
one leaf, divided into two lips
confifts of the upper ;
difeafed are wafhed.

La'trant. ae(/. [latrani. Lat.] Barking. lip, ftanding upright, is roundifli, and, for the molt
Ltj'vatories, to wafli the temples, hands, wrifts,
Thy care be fitft the various gifts to trace. part, bifid ; but the under lip is cut into three feg-
andjuguljfs, do potently profligate, and keep off
The minds and genius of the Ijtrant race. Tulcell. menti, which arc almoft equal thcfc flowers are :
Umrj. Fr.] The

n./.lûTf-Hce ; lalrie,
LAUD.
the venom.
n.f. \laus, Latin.]

llarvey. dilpoled in whorles, anJ are coileftcd into a (lenda-
fpike upon the top of the flalks. Millir.
highertkindof worfhip: diftinguilhed by
1. Praifc ; honour paid ; celebration. The whole lavender plant has a highly aromatick
the papifts from (/a/Za, or inferior worlhip. fmcll and taftc, and is famous as a cephalick, ner-
Doubtiefs, Ogueft, great /(la^/ and praife were mine,
The praflice of the catholick church makes ge- Reply'd the fwain, for fpotlels faith divine : vous, and uterine medicine. Hill.
nuflexion!, proftration-s, fupplications, and other And then again he turneth to his play.
If, after focial rites, and gifts beftowd,
i&s of latriato the crofs. SiiUinffieet. I ftiin'd my hofpitable hearth with bloud. To fpoil the pleaCures of that paradifc
Pope. :
La'tten. ». /. [leiott, French; latoen, 2. That part of divine worfhip which con- The wholefomc fage, and lai-cnder ftiU grey.
Dutch; laitwH, VVellh.] Brafs; a mix- Rank fmclling rue, and cummin good for eyes.
fifts in praife.
tgre of copperand calaminaris ftone. Spevjer.
Wehave certain hymns and fervices, which we
To make Ump-bbck, uke a torch or link, and fay daily of laud and thanks to God for hi-, mar- La'ver. n. f. [lavoir, Fr. from lavt.] A
holdit under the bottom of a lalten bafon, and, vellous works. wafhing veffel.
as Bacon.
itgroweth black within, ftrike it with a leather into In the book nf Pfalms, the laudt make up a very Let u5 go find the body where it lien
fome flicll. PiaUam. great part of it. Gniernmir.t the ToTigu, Soak'd in his enemies blood, and from the ftreim
^f
LA' r TER. adj.[This is the compara- To Laud. t/. a. [laudo, Lat.] To praife ;
With lavers pure, and deanfing herbs, wa(h oft"
tive of late, though univerfally written 10 celebrate, The clodded gore. Milton's jigonifiet.
with //, contrary to analogy, and to our O thou almiglity and eternal Creator, having con- He gave her to his daughters, to imbathe
In neftar'd lasers ftcw'd with afophndil. Milton.
own praftice in the fuperlative latefl. fidercd the heavens the work of thy fingers, the
Young Arctus from forth hii bridal bow'r
When moon and the ftars whicli thou haft ordained, with
the thing of which the compari- Brought the full lavir act their hands to pour.
all the company of heaven, wc laud and magnify ,
fon is made is mentioned, we ufe later ; thy glorious name. Brntliy.
Pope's Odyff,
as, ibli /mil it later ti(>an tht reji To LAUGH,
but ; La'udable. adj. [laiidaiilii, Latin ] -v. ». [J3la|!an, Saxon;
lacbta.
! -. ; ; ;; ;
L A U L A U L A U
laeben, Grrman «nd Dutch ; laeb, Scot- La'oohter. «./. [from Liugh-'] Con- He had not iQed in th( charader of a fuppHiDt,
nfti.] vulAve merriment ; an inarticulate ex- if he had launched out into a long otation. Briotnc^
I have launched out of my fubjcft on this article.
I. To make that noife which rudden mer- preOion of fudden merriment. /Irbutbmit
riment exciies. To be worft.
You faw Diy nuAu The lowed, moft d^jcflcd thing of fortune,
To Launch, v. a,
winlc aoj lauî upon you.
ShahJâre, Stands dill In cfpcrance ; lives not in fear. 1. To pu(h to fea.
The lamentable change is from the belt. All art is ufed to fink epifcopacjr, and launfh
There's one did laugh in's flap, and une cried,
Muithcr The wôrft returns to lavghter. Shatefpeare. prelbytery, in England. Kint Charles,
They wak'd each other. The a£l of Ijughrer, wliich is a fwcet contrac- With days and cordage lal( he rigg'd tlie (hip.
Stjirfjiejrt.
At tion of the mufcles of the hice, and a pleafant agita- And roJl'd on leavers, launch' d her in the deep.
this fully fluff
tion cf the vocal oigaas, is not merely voluntary, or
' * Ptê.
The large Achilles, on his preftbed lolling,
J'rom hia deep chell Uiugti out a loud applaufi:. within the jurifdiftionof ouriblvcs. Bnnun.
totally 2. To dart from the hand. This perhaps,
'Wc (ind not that tiie laughter -\o\\!\^ dame for diftinflion fake, might better be
Laughing canfetfea continued rxpttinon of the Mourn d for Anchife>. Hâller.
written lanch or lanci.
brratli with ilie loud noife, which maketh the inter Pain or plufure, grief or laughiir. Prior,
The King of Heav'n, obfcure on high,
jeflion of lûgling, fliaking of the bread and fides, LA'VISH. [Of this word
have been
fl«>". I Bar'd his red arm, and launching from tiic Jky
running of the cjcs with wjtcr, if it be violent. His writhen bolt, not (h.\king empty fmoke,
able to fiiid no
etymology. fatisfaftory
Baôni Ntitural Ilijioty, Down to the deep abyfs the flaming fellow drook.
It may be plaufibly derived from to la-ve,
i. [In poetry.] To appear gay, favour- Dr\dtn,
to thrcv: out ; Es prcfundert o}es, is to be
able, pleafant, or fertile. EXtJND. n.f. \lande, Fr. Aj-ius, Welfti.]
Eotieat her not the worfe, in that I pray
lavjl} ]
Prodigal; walleful ; indifcreetly
Lawn; a plain extended between woods.
You ufe her well ; tiie world may Uugb again. 1. li-
Hanmtr.
And 1 may live to do you kindnefs, if beral.
l/nder this thick-grown brake we'll (hroud our-
You do it her. Sbekdjrare't Hnry VI. His jolly brother, oppcfite in fenfe,
felves,
Then laughs the childilh year with floiN-ieti •
Laughs at his thr'ift ; and Itv'ijh of.expence,
For through this laund anon the deer will come
crown d. Drytlcn, Quaffs, crams, and guttk-s," in his own defence.
And in this covert will we make our dand. Sbakefp.
The plenteousboard.high-heap'd with cateidivir.e. tiryden.
And o'er the foaming bawl the laughing wine. Ppi. The dame his been too lav'ijh of her feaft,
La'un DRESS, n.f [la'vandiere, French;
5. TohwGH at. To treat with contempt; him till he loaths.
.And fed Rotve's 'Jane Shore. Skinner imagines that lavandartffe may
to ridicule 2. Scattered in wa>ite ; profufe : as, the have been the old word.] womaa A
Prefently prepare thy grave ;
cell was laiiijh. whofe employment to wafh clothes.
is
Lie where the light foam of the fca may beat 3. Wild ; onrellralned. , The countefs of Richmond WJuld often fay,
Thy grave-ftone daily : make thine epitaph, Bellona's brldcgro;>m, lapt in proof,
On condition the princes of Chridendom would
That death in thee ut others lives may l.iugh. Cunfinnted him, cuibing his /awW.! match againd the Turks, (he would willingly at-
fpirit. Shakeff.
^haheffeare. tend them, and be their laundrejs, Qatndcr.
To La'vish. v. a., [from the adjedlive.]
'Twere better for you, not known in
if 'twere Take up tlnfe cloaths here quickly ; carry thcra
council ; you'll be laughed at. Sbakr/frare.
To fcatter with pûfion ; to wafte to the laundrejs in Datchet Mead. Shakefpeare.
Thedi(Toluteandabandoned,beforethey are aware to fquander. The laundrejs mud be fure to tear her fmocks In
of it, are betrayed to laugh at themfelvcs, and upon Shiuid we thus lead them to a field rf (laughter. the wadiing, and yet walh them but half. Swijtr
refleclion find, that they are merry at tlicir own ex- Might not til' impartial world with rcal'on Jay, Laundry, n.f. [as '\{ la'vanderie.']
pence, yidjjfon. We lav'ip'd at our deaths the blood of thoufands ?
1 . The room in whicb clothes are wafhed.
No wit to (latter left of all his ftore ) Addijon.
The of the family ought to be confulted,
afr.urs
No fool ta laugh at, which he valued more. Pope. La'visher. n.f. [from lavifi.] A pro- whether they concern the liable, dairy, the pantry,
TV Laugh. 1/. rt. To deride ; to fcorn. digal a profufe man.
: or laundry. Sxvifl.
Be bloody, bold, and refolute ; laugh to fcorn
La'vishly. ac/'v. [from lavijh.] Pro- The
2. aft or (late of wafliing.
The pow'r of man. Shakejpean's Machah.
Chalky water is too fretting, as appeareth in
fufely prodigally.
A wicked foul (hall make him to be laughed to
My
;
purp ifes have been midook

father's laundry cf cloaths, which wear out apace. Saccn,
fcorn of his enemies. Eecluj, vi. ^
And fomc about him have too UinpAy LAFOLTJ. An
Laugh. »./. [from the verb.] The con- n.f [lavolie. French.]
yVrefted his meaning ,iiid authority. Shakefpeare.
vulfion caufed by merriment ; an inarti- old dance, in which was much turning
Then laughs the childilh year with flowrets
culate expreflion of fuddcn merriment. crnvn'd. and much capering. Hanmtr.
Mc gentle Delia beckons from the plain, And perfumes the fields around.
l.ifijhiy Dridn. cannot fiog,
1
Then hid in (hades, eludes her eager fwain J'raife to a wit is like rain to a tender flower; Kor heel the high lavcli ; nor fwetten talk;
;
, But feigns a laugh, to fee me fearch aiound. if it be moderately bedowed, it cheers and revives Nor play at fubtle games. Shakefpeare.
And by that hugh the willing fair is found. Psfe. but if too lavj}.yyf overcharges and depietTes hjm. L.\' 11 tie ATE. adj. [/aureatut,Lat.1 Decked
La'uchable. adj. [from laugh.'\ Jjucli Pr.pe. or invelled with a laurel.
as may properly excite laughter. L*'viSHMENT. ) «./. [from lavijh.] Pro- Bid Amaranthus all his beauty (bed.
N«ture hath fram'd ilrangc fellows in her time :
La'vi.shness. 5 digality; profulion. And dadbdillico fill their cups witli tears.
Some that will evermore peep through their eye. Kirit got with guile, and then prefcrv'd with dread, To drew the laureale hcarfe where Lycid lies.
And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper
;
And after fpcut with pride and tai-ijkticjs. I'aiiy ^. Mi/tai.
And others of fuch vinegar afped.
Launch, Soft on her lap her laureate fon reclines. Pope,
•7i> -v. n. [It is derived by Skin-
That they'll not (how their lecth in way of fmile.
tier from Ian e, becaufe a fhip is pulhed Laurea'-i ION. n.f [from /aureate.^ It
Though Neftor fwear the jcft be laughaOle.
into water with great force.] denotes, in the Scottilh univerfities, the
Shahfpean:
Cafaubon confelTcs Terfius was not good at turn- 1. To force a veffel into the fea. aO. or ftate of having degrees conferred,
}ng things into apleafant ridicule ; or, in other words, I-.iunch out into the deep, and let down your nets as they have in Come of them a flow'^ry
that he was not a laughable writer. Drydtn. for a draught. L^ke, v. 4. crown, in imitation of laurel among the
La'ucher. n.f. [(torn laugh."] A man ,
So Ihort a day prevails ancienis.
fond of merriment. He foon equips the (hip, funplies the fa'I ,
I am a common Ltugher» Sbak:fpeare.

AnJ gives the word to launch. DiyJcn. LA'UREL. n.f. [laurusyLat. laurur, Fr.]
Some fobet tncn cannot be of the generalojiinion, For general hidory, Raleigh and Howcl are to be A tree,called alfo the cherry bay.
'
b.it the laughers are much the majority.

had. He who would lauiscb farther into the ocean, The hurus or laurel of the ancients is afHrmed
Pift.
may confult Whear. I.oike. by naturalifts to be what we call the bay tree. Amfvo.
LA'ocHiNCLY.fli/i/. [from/<jr/^-6/B^.] Jn
a merry way ; merrily.
2. To rove at large ; to expatiate ; to The lourcl, meed of mighty conquerors.
make excurfions. And poets fage. Fairy Sûeen,
La'ughincstock n ./. [/augb and /oci
] From hence The laurel or cherry-bay, by cutting away the
that gen'ral care and ftudy fpricgs.
A butt ; an objeft of ridicule. That launching and progrcdion of the mind. Davies. fide branches, will rife to a large tree. Mortimer.
The forlorn maiden, whom
your eyes have fccn Whoever purfues his own thoughts, will find them La'ureled. adj. [from iaitrel.] Crowned
The laughingfiick of fortune's muckcric. Sfenjrr. launch out beyond the uttent of body into the infi- or decorated with laurel ; laureate.
fray you, let us not be lau_gt>ing-Jluis to other nity of fpace. Luke. Hcar'd thou the news.' my friend ! th' expreft
«ifn"s humours. Stjirffeare. Spcnfcr has not contented hlmfclf with fubmiffivc is cume
Supine credulous frailty eipofcs a man to be both imitation he launches out into very-dowery paths,
:
With laurcli'd letters liam the camp to Rome.
a prr/ and laugbhg-fofk at once. VRJirange. whiih dill cund-aft him into one great road. Prior. Drjden.
Then
; ; ;
LAW LAW LAX

future ages with delight fliaU fee I may be allowed to tell your lerdfliip, the king of What awe did the flow folemn knell iitfpire
Then The
How Bacon's, Newton's, looks a^rce
Plato's, poets, what an extent of power you have, and how duties by the lazon-xoWi prelate pay'd.
laivfuliy you may exercife it. Dryden. And the laft words, that duft to duft convey'd !
Or in fair feries laurelt'd b.irds be fliown, TtckeH.

A Virgil there, and here an Addifon. Pofc. La'wfulncss. n.f. \Jtom laiuful.^ Le-
LAW. n.f. [laja, Saxon; lot, French; gality; allowance of law.
La'wsuit. n.f. [lain andyj.//.] A pro-
laugh, Erfe.] were an err^r to fpeak further, till I may fee fomc
It cefs in law ; a litigation.
Thegiving the pricft a right to the tithe would
1. Arule of adion. found foundation laid of the lawfulniji of the
produce latujuits and wrangles ; his attendance flrv
Bacor..
That which doth affign uq(p each thing the kind, aftion.
the courts of juftice would leave his people without
that which doth moderate the 'orcc and power, that La'wgiver. »./. [Zaiv and ^rwr.] Le-
a fpiritual guide. Sti'ifr.
which doth appoint the foim and mcafure of work- giflator ; one that makes laws.
ing jthe fantie we term a Uio. Hooker.
Salomon we cftccm of our na-
ac the iu-u'giver
La'wyer. n./. [from law.] Proftflbr of
Unhappy man to break the pious la-wi
!
tion. Bacon. law; advocate; pleader.
Of nature, pleading in hi: children's caufc. Dryjtti. Alaw may be very reafonable in itfelf, although It is like the breath of an unfee'd laiv^.'r, you
2. Adecree, edift, ftatute, orcuftom, pub- one does not know the reafon of the b'.vgi-vcrs. gave menothing for it. Shakefpeare'i Kirg Lear.
lickly eftabliftied as a rule of juilice. Sivift. Is the law evil, becaufc I'ome laiiyen in their
Ordain them lawi, part fuch as appertain office fwerve from it H'hilgifrc.
La'wcivinc. adj, [law and gi-v:ng.]
.*
I have entered into a work touching laws, in a

To civil juftice, part religious rites. Milloit.
Legiflative.
Our nation would not give h-zut to the lri(h, middle term, between the fpcculative and reverend
La-zvgii/mg heroes, fam'd for taming brutes.
therefore now the Iriih gave/jwi to them. Davies. difcourfes of phibfophers, and the writings of
And railing cities with their charming lutes. }ValUr.
latvyen. Bacon s Holy JVar.
3. A decree authoritatively annexing re- La'wless. [from /atti.]
adj. The nymphs with fcom beheld their foes.
.
wards or punifhments to certain aftions. 1. Unrellrained by any law ; not fubjefl When the defendant's council rofe
So many law: argue fo many fins. Milton. ;
to law. And, what no laivyer ever lack'd,

Lmvt politique among men prefuming man to be With impudence own'd all the faft*
Hotka. The of war, which among human
neccflity Sivift*
rebellious.
anions is the moft LivlejSi hath fome kind of affi- Lax. adj. [laxus, Latin.]
4. Judicial procefs. nity with the necelCty of law. Raleigh' i EJ/jjs.
when every cafe in laia is right. Sbaltjptarc. I. Loole ; not confined.
The laic/els tyrant, who denies Inhabit /(7X, ye pow'r.s of hcav'n AJiltcn,-
tie hath refilled latv. !
To know their God, or meflage to regard,

And therefore lata (hall fcom him further trial
Muion.
2 Difunited ; not ftrongly combined.
Mull be fcompcU'd.
Than tiie feverity of publick power. Shotrfftire. In mines, thofc parts of the earth which abound
Orpheus did not, as poets feign, tame favage bealh,
Tom a fellow famous for taking tlie
Touchy is
But men as 'atulefs, and as wild as they. K'jcommon.
with ftrata of ftonc, fuft'er much more than thole
htv of every body : thcie is not one in the town Not the gods, nor angry Jove, will bear
which confift of gravel, and the like laxer matter,
where he lives that he has not fued at a quartcr- Thy Li'zdeji wand'ring walks in open air. Dryden.
which more eafily give way. Woadtnard.
feflions. Mdtjon'i Sfeilalar.
Blind ai the Cyclops, and as blind as he. 3. Vague; not rigidly exaft.
5. A dillinft edift or rule. They own'd a latvLJi favage liberty. Dialogues were only lax and moral difcourfct.
One Ij'.ii is fplit into two. Battr on Lrarmrg. Like that our painted anccltors fo priz'd. Baker.
6. Conformity to law ; any thing lawful. Ere empire's arts their breafti had civiliz'd. Dryd. 4. Loofe in body, fo as to go frequently
In a rebellion. He, meteor- l.kc, flames h-u'lefs through the void, to ftool ; laxative medicines are fuch
When what's not meet, but what mud be, was l.i-ai, Deftnying others, by himfelf dcllroy'd. Fope.
as promote that difpofition. Sluincy.
Then wer? they chofen. Shak/fpurt's C;;;.-/j/r»s. 2. Contrary to law illegal. ;
J.
Slack ; not tenfe.
7. The rules or axioms of fcience: as, , Take not the quarrel from his poweiful arms.
By a branch of the auditory nerve that goes be-
the laivi of mechanicks. He needs no indiredt nor h^vltjs courfe tween the ear and the palate, they can hear them,
8. An eftablifhed and conftant mode or
To cut oft thofe that have offended him. felves, though their outward ear be ftopt by the lai^
Sbakcfftare.
procefs ; a fixed correfpondence of caufe membrane to all founds that come that way.
We cit« our faults, Holder's Elements cf Speech^
and eiFeft as, the /aiur of magnetifm.
:
That they may hold excus'd our laivUJi lives.
Natural agents have their tew. Hiokcr. Sbakejpeare.
Lax. ».y; A loofenefs a diarrhoea. ;
I dy'd, whilft in the womb he ftay'd. Thou the fird, lay down thy '.aivlefi claim ; Laxa'tion. n.yi [laxatio, Latin.]
Attending Nature's /jto. Shakefjieartt Cymielini. Thou of my blood who bear'ft the Julian name. 1. The aft of loofening or flackening..
9. TheMofaical inflitution : diftinguiihed Dryden. 2. The Hate of being loofenedorflackened.
from the go/pel. La'wlessly. adv. [from laivle/i.] In a La'xative. adj. [laxatif, French; laxo,
Law can difcover fin, but not remove. manner contrary to law. Latin.] Having to eal'e the power
Save by thefe ibadowy expiations. Milton. Fear not, he bears an honourable mind.
coftivenefs.
10. The books in which the Jewiih re- And will not ufe a woman laivleply. Sbakefpearc.
Omitting honey, which is of a laxative power
ligion is delivered ; dilUnguilhed from La'wmaker. tt. /. \_taiv and maker. \ Le- itfelf i the powder of loadflones doth rather conlH-
the prophets. giflator ; one who makes laws ; a law- pate and bind, than purge and loofen the belly.
1 1. A particular form or mode of trying giver. Brtnvn.
and judging as, la-w martial, laiv
:
Their judgment is, that the church of Chrift The oil inwax is emollient, laxat'rve, and ano-
ihould admit no Unvrr.akert but the evangelifts. dyne. Arhnlbnat on Aliments.
mercantile, the ecclefialUcal laiu where-
by we are governed.
Hooker. La'xative. n f. A medicine flightly.
Lawn. «./. [land, Danifh ; laivn, WelHi purgative ; a medicine that relaxes the
12. Jurifprudence ; the ftudy of law : as,
lande, French.] bowels without Simulation,
a doftor cf lauj. An
1. open fpace between woods. Nought profits him to fave abnndon'd life.
l^k'vjvxsh, adj. [^lanv and _/«//.] Agree- Betwixt them laims, or level downs, and flocks Nor vomits upward aid, nor downward laxative. .
able to law ; conformable to law ; al- Grazing the tender herb, were interpos'd. Milton. Dryden-.
lowed by law ; legitimate ; legal. His mountains were Ihadcd with young trees, La'xativeness. n. /. [from laxati've
chat gradually Ihot up into groves, woods, and ]
It not lawful for thee to have her.
is
Power of eafing coftivenefs.
Maith. xiv. 4. forcfts, intermixed with walks, and iaiini, and
gardens. Mdij'm. La'xity. n.f. [laxitas, Latin.]
Clofter's baftard fon was kinder to his father,
than my daughters got 'tween tlie la-wful fhtet. Stern beads in trains that by his tnmchcon iell, 1. Not comprcllion ; not clofe cohefiop.
Sbaktjpeare i Kwg Liar. Now grifly forms flioot o'er the latum of hell. I'ope. The former caufes could never beget whirlpools
Jutcrfpers'd in l.rwiis a]\d opening glades. in a chaos of fo great ila.\ily and tliinncfs. Bcntlcy.
La'wfully. adv. [from laiv/uL] Le-
Thin trees arife that fliun each other s ihaJcs. Pope. 2. Contrariety to rigorous precifion as,
gally ; agreeably to law. :
This bond is forfeit;

2. French.] Fine linen, remark-
[Z,;'«OB, laxity of exprefiion.
And Imfal/y by this the Jew may claim able for being ufed iu the ilceves of 3. Loofenefs ; not coftivenefs.
A pound of fle(h. Staiflfcarc'i Mrrcb. ofVimcc. bifhops. If fomctimes it caufe any laxity, it is in the fume
"Though it be not agairft fVriit juftice /or a m.-m Should'!* thou bleed. way with iron unprepared, which will diflurb fome
to do thofc things which he might otherwlf'; laiu- To (lop the wounds my laiun I'd tear,
finrii bodies, and work by purge and vomit. Bri/wn*
f^lly do, albeit his neighbour doth take occifion Walh them with tears, and wipe tlicm with my 4. Slatknefs ; contrariety to tenfion.
from thence to ccnccivc in hh mind a falfe be- hair. Pr'm. Laxity of a fibre, is that degree of coheliun in its
lief, yet Chriftian charity will, in many caies, From high life high charaflcrs arc drâwo, . parts wluch a fmali force can alter, in sl, to incr<afe
rcAraJii a nua. Swib- A faict in nape is tivicc a faint in hivn. Pope. its length beyond what is natural. %'»'.>'.
In
LAY LAY LAY
In cnnCJcntion ol" the I'jxiiy of t'lieir eyfl, tlity Men will be apt to call it pulling op the oM foun- Lay fiege againd it, and build a fort aâinll
ire fubjcA lo (clapl'c. Wi/dKUn'i Sur^rtj. dation i of knowledge ; ] pcrfuade myfelf, th>^the it, and callmount againlt it.
a Exek. iv. z.
wav have purfued hyt thofe foundations fuicr. Never more (hall my torn mind be heal'd,
5. Opennefi; not clofeners. 1
Hold a pifcc of paper dofe by tlie flame of a Lo.kt. Not talie the gentle comfoits of repofe !
candle, and by little and little remove it further off, 6. To pot ; to place. A dreadful band of gloomy cares furround me,
and there i> upon the paper fame part of that which Then he nlTered it to him then he put it
ngain ;
And hy (hong (iege to roy diftra£lcd foul.
1 fee in grows flill Icfi and Irfs

the candle, and it by again ; but, to my thii\king, he was very loth to Plitifs.
as I remove ; fo that if I would truH my fenfc^J lay his (ingers ojT it. Shnhjptan't Julius drjar. 20 To apply nearly.
ihoold believe it as very a body upon the paper as in Till us death hy She layeib her hands to the fpindle, and her
the candle, thongh infceblcd by the laxity of the To ripe and meilow, we
but (lubbom clay.
arc bands hold the di(bfF. Prov. xxxi. 19.
chlnnel in whicS it flows. Digly en Bxiiri. Donne. It is better to go to the houfe of mourning than
They hy hands on the fick, and recover. to go to the houfe of fcafting ; for that is the end •£
La'tness. »./. Laxity ; not ten lion ; not (hall
Mark. all men, and the living wtll lay it to his heart.
precifion ; not collivenf fs.
They, who do no more but
fo (late a queftion, Ecetef. vii. 2.
For the fiee paflage of the found into the ear, it
feparate and dlfentangle the parts of it, one from The
peacock hid it extremely to heart, that,
is requifite that tile tympanum be tenfe, and hard
another, and lay them, wlien fo difcntangled, in being Juno's darling bird, he had not the nightin-
ftretched ; etherwife the laxnifi of that membrane
their due order. Luke. gale's voice. L'Eftrange.
will certainly dead and damp the found. H'Jdtr.
We to thy name our annual rites will pay. He that really lays thefe two things to heart,
Lay. Preteiite of /)*. And on thy altars fjcrificcs hy. Pefe'i Slatius. the extreme necelTity that he is in, and the fniall
Oh would the quarrel hy upon our heads. Sbak.
!
7. To bory ; to inter. pofTibility of help, will never come coldly to a work

He was familiarly acquainted with him at fucli David fell of that concernment. Duffs.
on deep, and was laid unto his fathers,
timeashe/;jj'embafl'adr)r at Conftantinople. KkoIUi.
and faw corruption. ji£ls, xiii. 36. 21. To add to conjoin. ;
When Ahab had heard thofc words, he failed,
Wo unto them that lay field to (ield. Jfa. v. S.
and Ijy in fackcloth. i Kings, xxi. 17.
8. To nation or place privily.
1 try'd whatever in the Godhead hy. Drydcn. Lay thee an ambu(h for tiie city behind thee. 22. To put in a ftate ; implying fome-
He rode to rouze the prey. Jojh. viii. J. what of difclofure.
That (haded by the fern in harbour lay. The wicked have laid a fnare for me. Pfalms. If the finus lie diftant, hy it open (irft, and
And thence diilodged. Dryitn's Kmght's Tjh. Lay not wait, O wicked man, againit the !
cure that apcrtion before you divide that in ano.
dwelling of the righteous. Pro-v. xxiv. 1 5.
Leaving Rome, in my way to Sienna, I hy the tV:ftmati.
/irft night at a village in the territories of tlie ancient 9. To fpread on a furface. The wars have /jijwhole countries wafte. Add{j'm»
Veii. MJifir.. The colouring upon thofe maps (hould be/<r;ôn 23. To fcheme ; to contrive.
Hewcould he have the retirednef$ of tiie cloilier, fo thin, as not to obfcure or conceal any part of the Every breaft (he did with fpirit inflame,
to perform all thofe a£is o( devotion in, when the lines. IVeits. yet ftill freiTi projcfts ..jj.''i/t!ie gicy-cy'J dame.
iiurtlicn of the reformation hy upon his (boulders ? to. To paint to enamel.
; Chafman.
Fiartt-ii Atterbury. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fad- Homerlike his Jupiter, has his torors, (bak-
is
The prefljyterians argued. That if the Pretender ing colours i
and, if not fometimes refre(hed, vanilh ing Olympus ; Virgil, like the fame foyttr in his
ihould invade thofe parts where the numbers and and difappear. Locke. benevolence, counfelling with the gods, hying plans
cflates of the dilfcnters chiefly lay, they would fit To of quiet. for empires.
1 1. put into any ftate Poft.
ftill. Stoift. They bragged, that not but to
tliey doubt'jd
Don Diego and we have hid it fo, that before
the rope is well about thy neck, he will break in
9'» LAY. 1/. a. [lecjan, Saxon; leggtn, abufe, and hy aflcep, tlie queen and council of
and cut thee down.
England. Bacon. jirhuthnot*
Dutch.]
To This 12. To calm; to flill ; to quiet; to allay. 24. To charge as a payment.
I place to put ; to repofite.
. ;
Friends, loud tumults are not laid A tax hid upon land feems hard to the land-
word being correlative to lie, involves
With half the eafinefs that they are rais'd. B.JonJon. holder, becaufe it Is fo much money going out of
commonly immobility or txttnjion ; a Thus pafs'd the night fo foul, till morning fair his pocket. Lcchc%
punifliment laid, is a punishment that Came forth with pilgrim fteps in amice grey. 25. To impute ; to charge.
<annot be Jhaken off; in immobility is in- Who with her radiant (inger ftiird the roar Preoccupied with what
cluded weight. One houfe laid to Of thunder, chas'd the clouds, and laid the winds. you rather muft do, than what you (huuld do,
Milton. Made you againft the grain to voice him conful.
another, implies extenfion.
After a tempsfl, when the winds are laid. Lay the fault on us. Shakefftare,
He laid his rnke from him. ônuh-
The calm fea wonders at the wrecks it made. How bloody deed be anfwered ?
(hall this
They have hid their fwotds under their heads. It will be hid whofe providence
to us,
tValL-r.
Ez-cUeU Should have kept Ihort, leftrain'd, and out of haunt.
I fear'd I (hould have found
Soft on the flow'ry herb found me hid' Milton.
He
I
facriticlng laid
A tempeft in your foul, and came to lay it. Derkam. This mad young man. Shakeffearc's Hamlet.
At once the wind was laidy the whifp'ring found We
need not hy new matter to his charge. Sbak.
The eatrails oa the wood. Milton.
Was dumb, a rifing earthquake rock'd the ground. Men groan from out of the city, yet God hyetb
a. To place along. Drydcn. not folly to them. • ôA, xxiv. 12.
Seek not be judge, being not able to take
to
To prohibit a fpirit to walk. Let us be glad of this, and all our fears
13.
away iniquity, left at any time thou fear the perfon Lay on his providence.
The hulband foual no charm to lay the devil in ParadiJ'e Regain'eL
of the mighty, and hy a (tumbling- block in the way The writers of thofe times hy the difgraces and
a petticoat, but the rattling of a bladder with beans
of thy uprighcnefs. Ecclus. ruins of their country upon the numbers and ficrco-
in it. L'EJIrange.
A ftonc was hid on the mouth of the den. Daniel. nefs of thofe favage nations that invaded them.
To beat down corn 14. To fet on the table.
3. or grafs. Temple.
I hid meat unto them. Hof. xi. 4.
Another ill accident is laying of corn with great They hy want of invention to his charge : a
rains in harvcfl. Baton t Natural Uijlory. 15. Topropagate plants by fixing their capital crime. Drydtn'i jEueid.
.
Let no (heep there play, twigs in the ground. You reprcfented it to the queen as wholly in»
Kor fri(king kids the flowery meadows lay. May. The chief time of laying gilliflowi-rs is in July, nocent of thofe crimes which were laid unjudly to
4. To keep from rifing ; to fettle ; to ftill. when the flowers are gone. Mortiincr''s Hujhandiy. its charge. Dryden.
I'll ufe th* advantage of my power. 16. To wager to ftake.
; They lay the blame on the poor little ones. Locke.
And hy the Ainamcr's duA with (howers of blood. But fincc you will be mad, and lincc you may There was eagernefs on both fides ; but this is
Sufpedl my courage, if 1 (hould not h\ far from hying a plot upon Luther. Aittrtury,
Sbaki-fpear e. ;
It was a fandy foil, and the way had bct>n full The pawn I proffer (hall be full as good. Dryden. 26. 'I'o inipofe, as evil or punifhment.
of duft ; but an hour or two before a refrelhiiig \j. To repofite any thing. The wearieft and mo(t loathed life
fragrant (howcr of rain had laid the dull. Ray. The fparrow hath found an houfe, and the fwal- That age, ach, penury, imprifonment,
5. To fix deep; to difpofe regularly :
low a neft, for herfelf, where (he may hy her Caa lay on nature, is a paradife
either of thefe notions may be conceived young. Pjal. Ixxxiv. 3. To what wc fear of death. Shakeff. MtaJ. forMeaf.
181 To exclude eggs. Thou (hilt not be to him as an ufurcr, neither
from the following examples but re- ;
(halt thou lay upon him ufury.
After the egg lay^d, there is no further growth Exed. xx. 15.
gularity feems rather implied ; fo we The Lord (hall lay the fear of you, and the dread
or nouri(hment from the female. Baton's Nat. Hift.
fay, to lay bricks; to lay planks. Ahen miftakes a piece of chalk for an egg,
of you, upon all the land. Deul. xi. 25.
Schifmaticks, outlaws, or criminal pcrfons, are and fits upon it j (he is infcnfible of an increafe or I'hefe words were not fpoken to Adam : neither,
ot (it to hy the foundation of a new colony. diminution in the number of thofe (he lays. Addijon.
indeed, was there any grant in them made to
Bacon. Adam ; but a puni(hment laid upon Eve. Locke.
I lay the deep foundations of a wall, 19. To apply with violence; as, to lay
27. To enjoin as a duty, or a rule of
Aad £no<, nam'd from mcj the city call, Drjden. blows.
afUon.
1%
, ; ;
LAY LAY LAY

Jt feemed goodto/ajr upon you no greater burden. Then he hys by the publick care, gardens or torfi be to a common flock ; and hid
Aifi, XV. it;. Thinks of providing for an heir j iTi,and llored up, and then delivered out in pro-
"Whjlft you hiy on your friend the favour, acquit Learns how to get, and how ta fpare. Dtfiham* portion. JIacmt
him of the debt. Wycberky. The Tuftan king A veffel and provifidnt laid in larffe
A prince who never difobey^d, Laid by tl)c lance, and took him to the lling. Dryd. For man and beafl. Milton^
Not when the moic I'evere commands were laxd^ Where Daedilus his borrow'd wings hid ly. An equal ftock of wit and valour
Kor want, nor exiic with his duty weigh'd. Dryd. To that obfcure retreat I chufe to fly. Dryden. He had laid in, by birth a taylor. ifudihras,
You lee what obiigation the proteiiion of Chriiti- My zeal for you muft lay the father byr Thy fawthe happinefiof a private life, but they
anity toyi upon us to holinejji of life. 7:/hfJln, And plead my country'scaul'e againll my Ion. Dryd. thought they had not yet enough to make thcnn
Negle(Ss the rules each vOtial critick /ays, ' Fortune, conl'cious of your defliny, happv, they would have more, and laid in to niaka
For not to know foinc trifles is a praife* PoJ>t', E'en then took care to hy you foftly ly their folitude luxurious. Dryden*
28. To exhibit ; to offer. And wrapp'd your fate among her precious things, Readers, who are in the flower of their youth,
not the manner of the Romans to deliver
It is
Kept frefti to be unfolded with your kings. Dryden. fhould labour at thofe accomplifhments which may
any man to die, before that he which is accufed Difmifs your rage, and hy your weapons by. fet ofl' their perfons when their bloom is gone, and
have the accufers face to ftice, and have licence to Know I prote(ft them, and they (hall not die. Dryd. to hy in timely provifions for manhood and old
anfwer for himfcif conccrnio^ the crime UiJ againfl When their dlfplealure is onte declared, they ought age. Addijoti'i Guardian*
him. yiî, XXV. 16. not prelently to hy by the feveiity of their brows, 46. To Lay on. To apply with vio-
Till he /tfyi his indiflment in fome certain country, but reltore their children to their former grace with
lence.
fome difficulty. Locke.
we do not think ourfelves bound to aiifwer. A'tirb. We make no excufee for the obflinate
blows are :
29. To throw by violence. 37. To Lay doivn. To depofite as a the proper remedies but blows laid en in a way dif-
,
He bringeth down ihera that dwell on high j the pledge, equivalent, or fatisfaftion. ferent from the ordinary. Locke on Eduttitirn*
lofty city he Uyttb it Io%v, even to the ground. I hy donon my life for the fhcep. Jcbn, x. 1 5. 47. To Lay open. To (hew ; toexpofe.
IJa. xxvi. 5. for her, my lord, Teach me, dear creature, how to think and fpeak.
Bra\c Cxncus /.;(/ Ortygius on the plain, I dare my life hy dcwii, and will do't, Sir, Lay open to my eaithy grofs conceit,
TIm: vii\cr Caeneua was by Tumus (lain. Dryden, Pleafe you t' accept it, that the queen is fpotlefs Smotiier'd in errours, feeble, fhallow, weak.
He took the quiver, and the trufty bow 1 th' eyes of Heaven. Shaktjfeari. The folded meaning of your word's deceit. Sbakclp*
Achates us*d to bear \ the leaders firft 38. To Lay do'wn. To quit ; to refign. A fool hyetb open his folly. Pro^. xiii. 16.
He htd afjnj, and then the vulgar pierc'd. Dryd* The foidier being
once brought in for the fervice, 4?. Toh\Y 0-ver. Toincruft; to cover j
30. To place in compartfon. I will not have hini to hy do^vn his arms any more.
to decorate fupfrficially.
Lay down by thofc pleafures the fearful and dan- Spcnjerî Ireland.
Wo unto him that faith to the wood. Awake
gerous thunders and lightnings, and then there will Ambitious conquerors, in their mad career, to the dumb ftone, Arifc, it (hall teach : behold,
be found no compariibn. Ratcigh. Chcck'd by thy voice, hy donvn the fword and it is la:d ci-er wif*! gold and (ilver, and there is no
jl. To hAy apart. Torejeft; to put away. fpcar. BLukmiê^s Creatiofi. breath at all in the midit of it. Habb. il. 19.
Lay The ftory of the tragedy is purely frGion ; for I
afjrt all HUhinefs. ê<n"t i. 11.
take it up where the hiftory has hid it d;-!vn. Dryd. 49. To Lay out. To expend.
32. To Lat afidt. To pat away ; not to Fathers arc wont to lay up for their fons,
retain. 39. To Lay dorvn. 'I'o commit to repofe.
Thou for thy fon art bent to hy out all. Milidn.
hy me Awn in peace and fleep.
I will Pfal. xlviii. Tycho Brahc hid out, belides his time and in-
Let us lay ajije every weight, and the fin which
And they hy themfelves dmiti upon cloaths laid
duftry, much greater fums of money on'infti-umefits'
doth fo eafily befet us. Hch. xii. 1.
to pledge by every alur. Amo!, ii. 8.
Amaae us not witli that majediclc frown. than any man we ever heard of. Boyle*
But lay jjidt the grcatnefs of your crown. H'aliet
We lay as Jmvn, to fleep away our cares ; night
The blood and treafure that's hid out,
(huts up the fciifes. Chri'jille's Scefjii.
Rofcomm'rtjfirft, then Mul^âvc rofe, like light Is thrown away, and goes for nought. Hudibrai*
\
Some god condu^ me to the facred fhades,
The Stigyrite, and Horace, bid ajidi, If you can get a good tutor, y«u will never icpei;t
Or lift me h'gh to Hiemus' hilly crown. the charge ; but will always have the fatiifafKon
loform'd by them, v/e need no foreign guide.
Or in the plains of Tempe lay me dyivti. Dryden. to think it the'money, of all other, the belt hid
CranvUIt.
R<tentl on is the powerto rerive again in our minds 40. Ta Lay doKvn. To advance as a pro- cut. Locke-
thofe Ideas which, after imprinting, havediliippcarEd, pofition. venture, double gains purfue.
I, in this
or have been hid afidc out of figlit. Lodii. have laid dram, In fome meafure, the defcrip-
I And hid out all my (lock to purchafe you. Dryden,
When by juft vengeance guilty mortals periih. tion of the oldknown world. Abbot. My
father never at a time like this
The gods behoid their puniihmcnt with pleafuve, Kircher lays it </«<.» as a certain principle, that Would hy out his great foul in words, and wdrte
And Uj the upli fted thunder- bolt afide. Mdijut. there never was any people fo rude, which did not Such precious moments. Addifin's Cato,
33. Tc Lat aiuaj. To put from one ; not acknowMge and wordiip one fupreme deity. A
melancholy thing to fee the diforJers of a
S'tillingftet. houfhnld that is under the condutl of an angry
to Iceep.
I tmift hy dov>n this for your encouragement, ftatefwoman, who hys out all her thoughts iipoa
Queen Efthcr hid ifA'ay her glorious apparel, and
that we are no longer now under the heavy yoke of the publick, and is only attentive to find out milcar^
put on the garments of anguilh. Ejli-cr, xiv. 2.
a perfcft unfinning obedience. fydke. riages in the minirtry. Addifon't Freely.ldcr.
34. To Lav before. To
expoie to view; Plato hiyi it di^Ln .;; a principl'', that whatever is When a man fpcnds his whole life among the
to fliew ; to dii'pUy. permitted to befal a jufl man, whether poverty or (lars and planets, or hys out a twelve-month on thij
I cannot better fati^fy yoor piety, than by hying ficknefs, Otall, either in life or death, conduce to f^jots in the fun, however n^blc his fpeculations may
tff'^f you a profpetl oi your labours. fVaie, his good. Addijon. be, they are very apt to fall into burlefquc. Addifin.
_
That treaty hath been laid htfirt the commoro. From the maxims laid dov.^n many m3y conclude, Nature has hid out all her art in beautifying tha
Sruip. that there had iiccn ahufes. Swift. face J Ihc has touched it with vermilion, planted in
Their office it is to Ijy the bufiaefs of the nation
41. To La^ for. To attempt by a-mbufh, it a double row of ivory, and made it the feat of
Irfcrr him. .ildiji.rt. follies and blulhcs. Addifon.

or infidious practices.
35. To Lay fy. To ref<frve for Come fu- He embarked, beir.g hardly hid Jlt at fca by 50. -J h
AY out. To
difplay ; to difcovcr.
ture lime. Cortug-ogli, a famous pir.itt. KkJIcs.
Hewas dangerous, and takes occafion to lay cut'
Let every ore hy ly him in ftorc, a? God hath bigotry, and f'alfe confidence, iji all its colours.
42. -Tv LA.f forth. 'J'o difFafe ; to expa-
profpeêd him. i Or. xvj. ;. Aticrlury.
tiate.
36. To Lay by. To pot from oBe ; lo O the delight of gods and of men
bird ! and !
51. To Lay out. To diTpofe ; to plan,
difmifa. fo he hyi himlelf /or/i upon the gracrfulnefs of 1'hc garden is laid out into a grove for fruits, a
Let brave ^rits that have fh^d themfclves for vineyard, and an allotment for olives and herbs.
the raven. L Eftrangt.
_
command, either by fea or land, not be hid ly as To Note! on the Odyffey.

43. To h.^y forth. place when dead
perlons unnecefTary for the time. Biicn:,
in a decent pc/llnre. 52. To Lay out. With the recipiotal
.Sh«! went away, and hi.1 by her veil. Gentî.
Bnibalm me, pronoun, to put forth.
to exert ;
Did tiHry not lwe.tr to live and die
Vîth F.lTrr, and Kraight iaidh'im by ,' Iludiirat.
Then hy me fcrih ; although unqueen'd, yet like No felfiih man will be concerned to hy out him-
For that l.>;k, which docs your people awe.
A queen, and daughter to ^king, imer me. fclf for the good of his country. Hnnilr-dge,
When in your throne and robes you give 'em law. Shjkefficare.
53. To Lay to. To charge upon.
Lay Why here, and ((ivc a gentler fmilc. fTa/Ur. 44. TohkY hoU of. To
fefze ; to catch. When wc began, in courteous manner, to hy his
Darknrfs, whi«;h fiiiert nymphs difarms, Then ihall his father and his mother ity b Id on unkindnefs »;./£j him, he, feeing himf-lf confronted
Pef. n.i'. •:- •' •"
'.lira's cnarms him, and bring him out. Dcvt. xxi. 19. by fomany, like a refolure orator, went not to denial,
;
Mira Civ. i-y ly, Favourable leaffins of api'.lade and inclination, be but to judify his cruel falfliood. Sidney,
1 ate m. hcedfuUy hid hold of. Locke.
^ 1 the eye,
54. To Lay to. To apply with vigour.
Qiiit all that UJjf's art can take. 45. To h.w in. To ftore ; to treafnre. Let children be hired to lay to their bones,
And )et a thouland taptiv«a nkJaC Ifjlltr. Let clie maia part of the grouad employed to Fiom fallow as nccdeth, to gather up (tones, lije".
Vot. II,
: ;
LAY L A Y L A Z
Vtt IhovM now lay tc our handi to root them ap, He prov!de»elkow-room enough forhli confcience He reach'd the nymph with his hsrmenious lay,
utd cannot tell for what. to lay about, and have its full play in. South. Whom all his charms could not incline to ftay.
Oxford Reajm againji tht Cyi'enatit» 4. To Lav <ir. To Arike; to endeavour IValler.
jj. To Lay to. To harals; to attack. to flrike.

On Ceres let him
and Ceres praife
call,
The greit maAer having a careful eye over every Witli uncouth dances, and with counb^ lays, Dryd.
Fiercely the good man did at him ley.
part of the city, went himfelf unto the ftalion, which Ev'n gods incline their ravifli'd ears.
The blade oft groined under the blow. Spenfer,
%va( then hardly /W/e> by tlieBufi'aMunaptu. Kr-llcs, The fword And tune their own harmonious fpherei
of him that l.tye:b at him cannot
Whilft he this, and tliat, and each man's blow, To his immortal lays. Dennis.
Iiold. Job.
Not
Doth eye, defend, and
Backward* he bears.
fliift, being la':/l m fore
DaniiTt Chi! Hâr,
5. 7» Lay in for. To make overtures of Lay. [laicus, Latin ; Xa'©..]
adj,
*
clerical regarding or belonging to th«
;
oblique invitation.
56. To Lav logtthtr. To collefl ; to
have laid people as diilinfl from the clergy.
I in for t>iefe, by rebating the fatire,
bring into one view. where jullice would allow it, from carrying too fharp All this they had by law, and none repin'd.
If we by all thefe things tegcittr, and confider an edge. Dryden, The prcf'rcnce was but due to Levi's kind :
the parts, rife, and degrees of his fin, we Jh^ll And But when fome lay preferment fell by chance.
that it was not for nothing.
6. To Lay on. Toftrike; to beat without
The Gourmands made
Scuih. it their inheritance. Dryden.
Many people apprehend danger for want of taking intcrmiirion. Lay pcrfons, married or unmarried, being doAors
the tree meafuie of things, and laying matters rightly His heart laid en, as if it try'd of the may
civil law, be chancellors, officials, &c.
ti[c;h*r. VEJIrange. To force a paflagc through his fide. Huditras.
jlyliffe's Parirgon.
My readers will be very well picafcd, to fee fo
Anfwer, or anfwer not, *tis all the fame.
might well ftartle
It
many ufeful hints upon this fubjeft /j/W icgatir in He Itjs mc ct:, and makes me bear the blame. Dryd, Our lay unlearned faith. Rome,
So and concife a manner. AiliiiJon'iCuardian.
clear 7. To Lav on. 'I'o aft with vehemence: La'yer. n,/. [from lay.'\
One feries of confequences will not fcrx'e the turn, ufed of expences. 1. A.llratum, or row ; a bed ; one body
jfcat many difierent and oppofiie dedudions mult be My father has made her millrefs
fpread over another.
examined, and Uid together, hcfoic a man can come Of the feaft, and flie /<iyj it on. Sbakefpeare.
to make a right Judgment of the point in ijueftion. 8. To Lay out.
A layer of rich mould beneath, and about this
To take meafures. natural earth to nourifli the fibres. Evelyn.
Locke, made
I enquiry wherever I came, and laid
ftrift
I'he matter
57. To Lav under. To fubjedl to.
tcrreftrial difpofed into ftrata or
is
out for intelligence of all places, where the intrails of
layers, placed one upon another, in like manner aj
A Roman foul is bent on higher views. the earth were laid open. ffxdivard. any earthy fediment, fettling dawn from a flood in
To civilize ihc rude unpolifli'd world.
9. To Lay upon. To importune; to re- great quantity, will naturally be. JVoiJwtrd.
And lay it under the reftraint of laws. Addijon.
58. To Lay up. To confine to the bed
queft with earneflnefs and inceffantly. 2. A fprig of a plant.
Obfolete. Many trees may be propagated by layers i this 19
or chamber. All the people laid fo carneftly upm him to take to be performed by Hitting the branches a little way,
In the Call Indies, the general remedy of all fub- that war in hand, that they faid they would never and laying them under the mould about half a foot
jefl to the gout, is rubbing with hands till the mo- bear arms more aâinlt the Turks, if be omitted the ground ihould be firft made very light, and, after
tion riife a violent heat about the joint? ; where it
that occafion. Knolla, they are laid, they (houlJ have a little water given
was chiefly ufcd, no one was ever troubled much, them : if they do not comply well in the laying of
or laid by that difcafc.
Lay. n.f, [from the verb.]
tif Temple. them down, they muft be pegged down with a hook
59. To Lay
up. To
ftorej to treafure;
I. A row ; a flratum ; a layer ; one rank
or two ; and if they have taken fufficicnt root by
in a feries, reckoned upwards.
to repofite for future ufe. the next winter, they muft be cut off from the main
St. Paul did will them of the church of Corinth,
A viol fliould have a lay of wire-ftrings below, plants, and planted in the nurfery : fome twift the
as dofe to the belly as the lute, and then the ftrings
<Tery man to lay up fomcwhat by him upon the branch, or bare the rind ; and if it be out of th»
Sunday, till himfelf did come thither, to fend it to of guts mounted upon a bridge as in ordinary viols, reach of the ground, they fatten a tub or baflcet near
<he church of Jerufalem for relief of the poor there. that tlie upper ftrings ftrucken might make the the branch, which they till with good mould, and
lower refound. Bacon,
Hooker, lay the branch in it. Miller.
Thofe things which Upon this they lay a layer of ftone, and upon that Tranfplant alfo carnation feedlings, give your
at the firft are obfcure and
a lay of wood. Mortimer' i Hujbandry.
hard, when memory
hath laid them uf for-a.time, layers frefli earth, and fet tliem in the ihade for a
judgment afterwards growing explainetJi tliem. z. A wager. week. Evelyn.
Hooker, It is efteemed an even lay, whether any man lives A hen that lays eggs.
3.
That which ttmaineth over, lay up to be kept ten years longer I fuppole it is the fame, that one
:
The oldcft are always reckoned the beft fitters,
. ontil the morning. Exod, xvi. z^. of any ten might die within one year. Graunt. and the youngcft the beft layers, Mortimer.
The king mud preferve the revenues of his crown Lay. «./. [ley, leaj, Saxon; ley, Scot- La'yman. and »(««.]
»._/^ [/ny
without diminution, and lay up treafures in ftorc
againft a time of extremity.
tiOi.] Grafly ground ; meadow ground ; 1. One of the people diftind from the
Bacon.
The whole was tilled, and the barvcll laid up in unplowed, and kept for cattle: more clergy.
fereral. granaries. Temple,
frequently, and more properly, writ- Laymen will neither admonifli one another them*
I w'U It/ up your words for you till time &all ten lea. fclves, nor fuffer minifters to do it.
tavt. ^ Dryden, A on a flow'ry lay
tuft of daifies Goniernment of the Tongue.
This faculty of laying up, and retaining ideas, They faw. _ Dryden i Vlnoer and Leaf,
Since a truft muft be, flic thought it beft
fcveral other animals have to a great degree, as well The plowing of laya is the firft plowing up of
To put it out of laymen's pow'r at leaft,
as man. Locke, grafs ground for corn. Mortimer's Hujbandry, And for their folemn vows prcpar'd a prieft. Dryd,
What right, what true, what fit, we juftly Where can be the grievance, that an ecclefiaftical
Let this be my care
call.
Lay. n,f. [/<yr, French. It is faid ori- landlord ihould expe^ a third part value for his
all ; for this is all j
To lay this harveft up, and hoard with hade ginally to fignify /orroiu or complaint, l.uids, his title as ancient, and as legal, as that of
What every day will want, and moft, the laft. Fope, and then to have been transferred to a layman, who is feidom gu'Jty of giving fuch bene-
Vo Lay. 'V. n. poems written to exprcfs forrow. It is ficial bargains. Siviff.
I. Tobring eggs. derived by the French itomJeJfus, Latin, 2. An image ufed by painters in contriving
Hens will greedily eat the herb which will make a funer.il fong; but it is found like- attitudes.
them /aji the better. Monmcr'i Hujhandry. wife in theTeutonick dialed: ley, leoS,
You are to have a layman almoft as big as the
a. To contrive; to form a fcheme. life for every figure in particular, befides the natural
Saxon; /^yi, Danifli.] A fong ; a poem. figure before you. Dryden's Dufrejmy.
Which mov'd the king,
By It is fcarcely ufed but in poetry.
allthe aptcft means could be procur'd,
To the maiden's founding timbrels fung.
La'ystall. n.f. An heap of dung.
To lay to draw him in by any train. Scarce could he footing find in that foul way,
In well attuned notes, a joyous lay. Fairy iêen.
Daniel's Civil Wxir. For many corlcs, like a great lay-ftall
Soon he flumber'd, fearing not be harm'd.
3. To Lay tbaut. To flrike on all fides Of murdered men, which therein ftrewcd lay.
; The whiles w^th a loud lay, ihe thus him fwectly
to aft with great diligence and vigour. charm'd. Spenfer.
Spenjer'i Fairy êen.
At once he wards and ftrikes, he takes and pays, This is a moft majeftick vifion, and La'zar. n.f. [from Lazarus in ihe gof-
Kow forc'd to yield, now forcing to invade. Harmonious charming lays, pel.] One deformed and
Shakefpearc, naufeous with
Before, behind, and mat\Aal!uiih\mlays. Nor then
Spinfcr, the folcmn nightingale
And laid aUut in fight more bufily. filthy and pellilential difeafes.
Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her foft lays.
Than th' Amazonian dame Penthefile. They ever after in moft wretched cafe,
Hudibras, Milton,
In the Lite fucccfsful rebellion, how Like loathforae laasars, by the hedges lay.
ftudioufly If Jove's will
aid they laj altut ibtm, to tiH a Ilur upon Fairy Sûeen.
the Have link'd that amorous power to thy foft lay.
*^' i«ti. Now timely fing. Mdttn,
I'll be fworn, and fwom ujon't, Ihe never ihrowd-
cd any but laxars, ^hakfpeare.

'
I aua
: : ;
L A Z LEA LEA
I am weiry with drawing the deformities of fife, Wbofe laxy waters without motion lay. .
To Lead. v. a. [from the noun.] To fit
•nd laxart of the people, where every figure of im- Rofccmmin, with lead in any manner.
^feAion more refembles me. Dryden* The laxy glutton fafe at home will keep. He with his arm, heapplieth
fafliioneth the clay
Life he labours to refine Indulge his lloth, and batten with his fleep. Drydin.
himfelf to lead and he is diligent to make
it over ;
Daily, nor of his little ftock denies Like Eartcrn kings a laxy rtate they keep. clean the furnace. Ecclusy xxxviii. 30.
Fit alms to lazars, merciful and meek. Philips. And clofe confin'd in their own palace fleep. Pope. There is a traverfe placed in a loft, at the right:
La'zar-house. J nf. [laxaret, French; Or Uxy lakes unconfcious of a flood, hand of the chair, with a privy door, and a carved
Whofe dull brown Naiads ever lleep in mud. Parnel. window of glafs leaded with gold and blue, where
Lazare'tto. i laxzarelto, Italian;
What amazing ftupidity is it, for men to be ne- Bacon.
from lazar.] A hoafe for the reception gligent of falvation thcmfclves ! to fit down laz>y
the mother fitteth.
of the difeafed ; an hofpical. and unadlive. Rogers. To Lead. i». a. preter. lied; part, led,
A place 2. Slow tedious.
;
[Ia;ban, Saxon ; leiden, Dutch.]
Before his eyes appear'd, fad, noifome, dark, The ordinal^ method for recruiting their armies, I. To guide by the hand.
A laxar-tiufe it feemcd, where were laid was now too dull and lazy an expedient to refill this There is a cliff, whofe high !md bending hea4-
Nnmbers of all difeas'd. Afilicn.
torrent. Clarendon. Looks fearfully on the confined deep :
La'zarwort.b./. [La/erfitium.] A plant. Ld. is a contraflion of lord. Bring me but to the very brim of it.
La'zily. a/i/. [from /azy.] Idly; flug- Lea. n. /. [ley, Saxon, a fallow; leaj, And I'll repair the mifery thou doft bear,
gilhly heavily. With fomething rich about me : from that place

; Saxon, a pafture.] Ground inclofed, no leading need.
I fliall Shak.fpca^.
Watch him at play, when following his own in-
not open. Obfolete. Doth not each on the fabbath loofe his ox or
clinations ; and fee whether he be ftirring and
Greatly agaft with this pittious plca;^ his afs from the ftall, tai lead him away to water-
aaive, or whether he laxilj and lilllefly dreams
Lccke.
Him refted the good man on the Ua. Spenjer, ing ? Luke, xiii. 15.
away his time.
The eaftem nations view the rifing fires,
Ceres, moft bounteous lady, thy rich leas They thruft him out of the city, and ltd him
Of wheat, r)e, barley, fetches, oats and peas. unto the brow of the hill. Luke, iv. 29.
Whilft night (hades us, and laxily retires. Crtech.
La'ziness. «./. [from /flKy.] Idlenefs
Shakcfpeare.
z. To conduft to any place.
;
Her fallow Iras
Save to every man his wife and children, tlist
iluggiftinefs ; liitleiTDefs ; heavinefs in The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory they may lead them away and depart.
aflion ; tardinefs. Doth root upon. Shaketpeare. I Sam, XXX. ii.
That inftance of fraud and laximfs, the unjuft Dry up thy harrow'd veins, and plough torn leas, Then brought he me out of the way, and led
fteward, who pleaded that he could neither dig nor Whereof ingrateful man with liqu'riih draughts. me about the way without unto the utter gate.
beg, would quickly have been brought both to dig And morfels unAuous, greafes his pure mind. Ezek. xlvii. 2.
beg too, rather than ftarve. South. Sbakcjpeare.
and to He maketh me to lie down in green paftures ; he
My fortune you have refcued, not only from the Such court guife. Itadeih me befide the ftill waters. PJal. xxlii. 2.
power of others, but fcom my own modcfty and As Mercury did firll devife.
Drydcn. With the mincing Dryades,
3. To conduct as head or commander. .
laxinejt.
Would you Lad forth your army againll the ene-
La'zinc. aJj. [from lazy.^ Sluggilh; On the lawns, and on the Las, Milton.
The lowing herds wind flowly my, and feek him where he is to fight ? Spenjer.
o'er the lea. Cray.
idle. He turns head againft the lion's armed jaws
The hands and the feetmutinied againll the belly LEAD. «./. [la:b, Saxon.] And being no more in debt to years than thou.
they knew no reafon, why the one fliould be Icixing, J. Lead\% the heavieft metal except gold Leads antient lords, and rev'rend bifliops, on
and pampering itfelf with the fruit of the other's and quickftlver. Lead is the foftelt of To bloody battles. Shaktfpeare's Henry IV,
labour. L'EJIravgt. If thou wilt have
all the metals, and very duflile, though
1 he fot cried, Uiinam hac ijjit Uhrart, while he The leading of thy own revenges, take
lay lazing and lolling upon his couch. South. lefs (o than gold very little fub-
: it is One half of my commiflion, and fet down
La'zuli. n.y. jeft to rull, and the
fonorous of leaft As bcft thou art experienc'd. Shake/peart.
The ground of this ftone is blue, veined and fpot- all the metals except gold. The fpe- He led m? on to mighticft deeds.
ted with white, and a gliftering or metallick yel- cifick gravity of lead is to that of water
Above the nerve of mortal arm,
low: it appears to be compofed of, firll, a white Againft the uncircumcis'd, our enemies
as 11,322 to 1000. Lead, when kept in But now hath caft me ofl^. Milton's AgoniJlfU
fpany, or cryilalline matter ; fecondly, flakes of
fufion over a common lire, throws up Chrift took not upon him flefli and bluod, that
the golden or yellow Ulc ; thirdly, a fljining yellow
fubllance; this fumes off in the calcination of the all other bodies, except gold, that are he might conquer and rule nations, lead armies, or
mixed, all others being lighter, except polfefs places. South.
ftone, and cafts a fulphureous fmell ; fourtlily, a
bright fubftance, of great ufe among the
blue Mercury, which will not bear that de- He might mufter his family up, and lead them
painters, under the name of ultramarine ; and when out againft the Indians, to feck reparation upon any
gree of heat it afterwards vitrifies with
:
injury. Locke.
rich, is found, upon trial, to yield about one-fixth of
ffMhtiard. the bafer metals, and carries them off, To introduce by going firft.
copper, with a very little filvcr. 4.
[This word is derived by a in form of fcoria;, to the fides of the Which may go out before them, and which may
LA'ZY. aJj.
correfpondent, with great probability, veffel. The weakeft acids are the bed go in before them, and which may lead them out,
folvencs for lead : it diflblves very rea. and which may bring them in. Numb, xxvii. 17.
from a taife, French ; but it is howe- His guide, as faithful from that day.
dily in aqua fortis diluted with water,
ver Teutonick ; lijftr in Danifti, and As Hefperus that leads tlie fun his way. Fairfax.
hfigh in Dutch, have the fame mean-
as alfo in vinegar. The fmoke of lead 5. To guide ; to fhow the method of at-
ing and Spclman gives this account of works is a prodigious annoyance, and
; taiff'rng.
Dividebantur antiqui Sax- fubjefts both the workmen, and the Human teftimony is not fo proper to lead us into
the word :
Nithardus, in tres cattle that graze about them, to a mor. the knowledge of the effcnce of things, as to
ones, ut teftatur
acquaint us with the exiftence of things. tVatts.
ordines ; Edhilingos, Frilingos & tal difeafe. Hill.
Lazzoi ; hoc eft nobiles, ingenues _&

Thou art a foul in blifs, but I am bound 6. To draw ; to entice ; to allure.
Upon a wheel of fire ; that mine own tears Appoint him a meeting, give him a (hew of com-
ferviles : quam & nos diftinflionem diu Do fcald like molten lead. Stakefpeare. fort, and Lad him on with a fine baited delay.
retinuimus. Sed Ricardo autero fe- Of Itad, fome I can fliew you fo like ftcel, and Shakefpeare.
cundo pars fervorum maxima fe in li- fo unlike common lead ore, that the workmen call The lord Cottington, being a mifter of tcmger,
bertatem vindicavit ; fic ut hodie apud it fteel ore. Boyle. knew how to lead him into a miftake, and then
Lead is employed for the refining of gold and fil- drive him into cholcr, and- then expolc him.
Anglos rarior inveniatur fervus, qui ver by the cupel ; hereof is made common ccrufs Clarendcn.
mancipium dicitur. Reflat nihilominus with vinegar ; of ccrufs, ted lead ; of plumbum 7. To induce to prevail on by pleafing
;
antiqux appellationis commemoratio. uftum, the bcft yellow ocre ; of Lad, and half as motives. 1
Ignavos enim hodie la%ie dicimus.] much tin, fuldcr for lead. Greû. What I did, did in honour.
I
I. Jdle ; fluggifh ; unwilling to work. I. [In the plural.] Flat roof to walk on ; Led by th' impartial conduit of my foul. Sbokefp.
Our foldiers, like the night-owl's hxy flight, becaufe houfes are covered with lead. He was driven by the neceflities of the times, more
Or like a laxy thraflier with a flail. Stalls, bulks, windows, than ltd by his own difpofition, to -any rigour of
Fall gently down, as if they llruck their friends. Are fmotlier'd up, L-adi fiUd, and ridges hors'd aftiors. K. Charles.
Shahrfpinrc. With variable complexions ; all agreeing What I fay win have influence on thofcwhoCc
little
Wicked condemned men will ever live like rogues, In earneftnefs to fee him. Shakefpeare. ends lead them to wifli the continuance of the war.
aadooc fall to work, but be Uxj, aod-fpcad vl£)uals. I would have the tower two flories, and goodly leads Sivift.
Baun. upon the top, railed with lUtucs interpofcd. Baton. 8. Topafs; tofpend in any certain manner.
D a Tht
LEA LEA LEA
TIm A«ect woaun LaJi ^n ill lUt «|ith him. is, tbc deteftable Wiiartan was the UaJtr Her Itufy arms with fuch oteat were ^rb^
Skjk'/fMre. of the whios. Thjt hulls of birds, that wing the I'îd asr,
So (halt thou UaJ Perch'd in the bough*. Orytttn: s Flrunr ondLesf.
fifeli thy lift, and beft prepir'd endure
The undtrffandin^s of a fenatc are enflaved by
three or lour kaderi, fet to get or to keep employ-
So when loaae fwelt'ring travellers retire
Thy monol pafljê when it comcj. Milmi. To leafy (hades, near the eool funlefa votje
Him, ments. S'uuJ't.
Livlnii^ thy furvivingwifc
fair Of Pacaba, Siaijliaa Ibeam^ h:r tall
Sball breed in grove, to lesd a folitiL-y life. Dryden- LEÂDiKa. piirliciplal «Jj. Principal; A grilly hydts fiiddcnly (hoots forth. Ptili/>t.
Luther'i life w»i ltd up to the doflrincs he chi«f; capital. League, n f. [ligui,
Uge, Lai.] trench
(reached, and his death was the deJth of the righte- In organized bodies, which are propagated by (bed,
ous. Tranh A'.terluiy* the (Jiape is the leading quality, and mod charac- A confeiU-racy ; a co«binaiioJ» citlj«r of
Celibacy, as then praAifed in th« church of Rome, tciKlical part, that deicrmincs the fpccies. Lade. interell or ftiend&ip.
was commonly forced, taken up uruler i, bold yow, Miftakes arife from the influence of private per- You peers, continue this united league:
and ltd in all uncleanoeli. Frsnc'u Aiiirbiiry. fons, upon great aumbwsi (liled leading nutn and I every day expeit an embiiTjj^
li'bis difterapcr is nwft incident to fuch as lead a parties. S-aii/i.
From my Redeemer, to reUcem me bence.
fedeotary life. jirbuthmf on A'immti. Leadikc-strings. »./ [leatl iniftring.'\
And now in peace my foul (luJi pwl to heav'n.
Since I have made my friends at peace on earth.
fo Lead. v. h. Strings by which chiUren, when th»y
Stak.'ffiore.
1. To go firft, and fhow the way. learn to walk, are held from falling. We come to be informed by yonrfelves.
on foftly, according as the cattle that
I will Itad Sound may ferre fuch, ere tljey tofcafe ace grown, What the conditions of thalcague mult be. Sbake^.
gocth before me, and tl.c children, be able to endure. Like ttadirg-JIringi, till they can walk al^ne. pry,i. 'I'hou be in league with the ftones of the
(lialt
Gfn. xxxiii. Was he ever able to walk wjtliout tiadinr-JInngs, field ; and the hearts of the field (hall be at peate
2. To
conduft as a commander. or fwim without bladders, without being difcovercd with thee. Tr,i.
Cyrus was beaten ^nd llain under the leading of a by his hobbling and his finking ? Swift. Go break thy league with Baa(ha, that he may
woman, whofe wit and conduit made a great fi&urc. LE'ADMA>r. It,/, [/eat/ and man.] One depart from me. - z Chrm. xvi. 3.
Ttm/>le. who begins or leads a dance. It is a great error, and a narrownefc of mind,
to
3. ToIheiy the ây by going firft. Such a light and mettled dance think, that nations have nothing to do one with,
He
left his mother a countefs by patent, which Saw you never,_ another, except there be either an union in fove-
was a new liading example, grown before Ibmewhat And by lea.imcn for the nonce. rcignty, or a conjunition in pacSs ot leagues: there
rare. That turn round like grindlc ftones. arc other bands of fociety and implicit confedera-
Woiion. Sen Jogfin.
The way
of maturing of tobacco muft be from Le'adwort. a./ [leati And luort ; plum-
tions. Sticin-s HJy fTar.
the heat ojf tlie earth or fun ; we fee (bmc hading I, a private peifon, whom my country
of this in ii;ulk-melons fownupon ^hot-bed dunged
bago ] A flower.
As a league breaker gave up bound, prefumd
below. Smuk. LEAF. »./. leaves, plural. [Itap, Saxon ;
Single rebellion, and did hoftile ails. MVten,
The veiTels heavy-laden put to fea leaf, Dutch.] Oh Tyrians, with immortal hate
With profp'rous gales, a woman leiuit the way. Purfue this hated race and let there be
I. I he green deciduous parts of plants :
Drydtn, 'Twixt us and them no /Mî:rnor amity. Denial*.

and flowers.
Lead. »./. [from the verb.] Guidance; This is the rtate of man ; to-day he puts forth
ToLbagl-e. -v. n. To unite J to confe-
firft plate : a low defpicable vyord. The tender Ua'jti of hopes, to-mprrow bloiroms. derate.
Yorkfljire takes the Uad of the other counties. $hakejpeay£.
Where fraud and falfliood invade fociety, the
Herring, A man (hall feldom
of having cherries home
fail
band prefeufly biealts, and men are put to a loft
by his graft the fame year in which his incifion is where to league and to fallen their depcndances.
Le'aden. aiij. [leaben, Saxon.]
nude, if his graft have blolToni buds j whereas if Suitb.
1. Made of lead. ~
it were only liaf\yii%, it will not bear fruit till the League, nf.
This
[lieue, French.]
tiger-footed rage, when it (hall find
fccond feafon.
The harm of un/kann'd fwiftnefs, wiil, too late,
BosU. 1 .
-A league
; leuca, Latirr ; from ltd,
Thofe things which are removed to a diftant view,
Tjre Itadcn pounds to 's heels. Stahffexre. ought to make but one mafs ; as the liai-e% on the
Wellli Hone that was ufed to be ereft-
; a
O
murth'ro'js (lumber !
trees, and the billows in the (ea. Dridcr..
ed at the end of every league. Came/en.
lay'ft thou the leadtn mace upon my boy,
7. A part of a book, containing two pages. 2. A meafure of length, containing three
That plays thee muGck .»
Shakcff. y,.l,ui Cafar.
Happy vc l.avts, when as thofe lily h«nds niilfs.
A If-adtn bullet (hot from one of thcieguns again^
a (tone wall, the fpace of twenty- four paces fi^m it,
Shall handle you. Sfen/er. Ere the (hips could mwt by twice five lejgtei.
_
will be beaten into a thin plate.

P.erufe nx> Laves through ev'ry part, We wei e encount'red by a mighty rock. ., . - Sibii (pet
(peart.
tVilkint.
And think ihou feelt nay owner's- heart Ey'n Italy, though many
l^gue remote, a
2. Heavy; unwilling; raotionJefs. Scrawl'd o'er with triHcs. In dirtant eclioes anfwcr'd.
If thou do'ft find him tradable to us, Swift, MdU'.n.
Zncouragc him, and teli hin\ all.our.reajbnf 3. One fide of a double dbor. Le'agued. <i^. [/ram iJsafw,] Coafedci^
t
If he be kadtn, icy, cold, unwilling, The two l.vTes of the one li lor were folding. rated.
Be thou fo t»o. 1 Kings, And now thus Jeagu'd by an eternal bond,
Staktf[>Mrei Ridard III.
Heavy 4. Anything foliated, or thinly beaten. What (hailrstard the Britons b )1J doli^ns
3. ; duU. Philips. .'
I'll with troubled thoughts to ta!cc a nap

(Jrivc
;
Eleven ounces two pence.fterliijg ought to be of Leaguer. », /. [heleggeren, Dutch.]
fo !'ure fil\er, as is caJcJ leaf fUvcr, and then the
Left /lO^/rn (lumber poize m? dowji to-morrow, Siege ; inveftment of a town.
inciter inuit acid of other weight feventeen pence
^Vhen I (hould inount with wui^js of viiftujj-.
halfpenny farthing.
'
.
We will
bind and hojdwink liim fo, that he (hall
Camden. fuppofe no other but that he is carried into
Siiakrjftare.
Le ader. »./. [ffom /ffw'.] Leaf ô\u, that flies in the air as light as down, leaguer of the adverfaiies, whe:i w>.- bring him
tiie
is a^ truiy gold ai. that in an ingot. to

Digh^. own
1. One that teadi, or condufts. our tents. Shjkejfea.^
Ta Leaj. v. n, [from the noun.] To
2. Csp'îlX:< cofnniaader.^
^ bjtiog leaves; to bear leaves. LEAK, n f. [leek, kke, Dutch.] A breach
la ray tcnf
I'll draw the form ami mode) of our
Moa trees fall o3' the leaves at autamn ; and or hole which lets iti water.
battle, if not kept back by cyld, would There will he ahv.iys evils, which no art of man
i.lmjt each/Wf/- to his fcvcral charge, kaf about the
Mlli«e. Brnun. can cu.e brejciies and l:aks mort than man's
:
wit
And part in juil proportion our fmall (length. hath hands to itop.
Leafless. aJj, [from leaf.] Naked of Hotter.
leaves.
The water ruflics in, as it doth ufuillv in the
1 have givta bj^ fat a lutîrvii commander to leak otilh\f.
the people Bare honf fly, without fopf vther adornment, h'Uktm.
:/„,;^, iv.'^. Whether Ihe fprung a leak
being looked on as a leafefi tree, nobody will take
I cannot find.
hofc cfcaped by flight, not without a (harp jert
'1
himfcif to its fljelter.

Or whether (he was ovcrfiTC with wind,
again/l tlieir uaj^frt, aSrming tlu;, as they had Cmitrmnent of the Tîgt,e.
Or that fomc rock bet >.v her bottom rent,
f.inowcd them int i^the field, (bit was good
real^vn
Where doves in fiocks the Ujjhfs trees o'crlhade,
But down ai once with all her crew (he went. Dryd,
they (hould follow then) out. Ui-jicard.
And lonely woodcocks haunt the wat'ry glade. Pope.
When our Lycians fee LiAVY. adj. [from leaf.] Full of leaves. To Leak. 'v. k.
Our brave examples, tiity admiring lay, The frauds of men were ever fo. I. To let wzttr in or oajl.
Bei,ol<l our gallant Iradtrz. Dirjtam. Since funimer was firft leafy. f^baktfftare.
They will allow us ne'er a Jordan, and then
we
The brave ItaJir of the Lycian crew. Drydtr. What ciiance, good lady, hath bereft you'thus ? leak in yourchimney. Si.„i,l'p,are.
3. One wjip goes.^rft, — ^Dira datkntlii,and this leafy labyrinth. Miittn, Hii (Wt (hould be wi(hcd every day in coid wa-
N'ay, krapJrbur wîy, O'er bar/en mountains, o'er'the tlow'ry plain. ter ; and have his flioes fo thin, that they
liij^le gallaptj y-.ii were might
wont to be a follower,row yoii aie a'/ adtr. Siaktfp. The /-i»^ fu.eft, .ind the liquid main. Irak, and ht in water.
Locke.
4.. y.M at tike iJea4,o/apy party .or/atlioa :; Extends thy untoDUoul 4 an4 haundleft rtign. z. To drop through a breach, ot difcon^
Drjdtn. tinuiiy.
The
. . : :
L E A LEA' LEA
The water, vbkh wM
p«rlnpt by iegna leak ! Ani (tteh their pftcepts from thi c=yn!« fdi, T7« Leap. ti. a.
int) Uveal p»ns, may be en)i«iei out again. PrSrtfing the lean and {M(M i*6ltinen«e. Mill^. 1. To pafs over,- oi" ihto, by leaping.
fFiUini. Swe.ir that Adraltus, and the /t-^/:-look'd prophet, Every man not of a conftitutioii to le^rp a giilf
is*
GoMen ftars bang o'er their heads, Arc joint c*nfpirators. Dryden itnd Lee.
for the favihg of his coMntry. L'Ejlrange. .
And feem'd {o crowded, that thej 6aift up«n 'em, Lean caiple often fofler fbt wartt of fat, as fat
As one condemned to leap a" precipkc,
And dart at once their baleful inûcnce people may byobftruftion of thevc'lcls. Arbuthnot. Who fees before his eyes tlie depth below.
In Uaih^ lire. Drydeti emi Lte. No laughing graces wanton in my eyes ; Stops fliort. Drydai's Spanijh Frjar.
Lfc'AKAGE. a. /. [from ltak.'\ Allow- But haggard îef, /if^;r- looking fa low care,
She dares pnrfue, if they daie lead :
DweU oA my brow. R'^tceâ Jar.e Sbzre.
As their example Itiil prevails.
ance made for accicieafii Iota in liquid
mcafures.
2. Notundiuous; tWn ; hi:ngry. She tempts the (Ircam, or leapi the f ales.
Prior.
There are two chief kinds of terrertrial licjuors, 2. To comprefs, as ber.fts.
L'e'âkv. adj. [from liai."] tbofe tliat are fat and light, and thofc that are Icatt
Too fi'on they muft not fed the ftlng of love
I, Battered or pierced, fo as to let water and more earthy, like common water. Burnet. let him not leap the ilow. bryicn'i Gecrg.
ia or otic 3. Low; poor: iftoppoficion to great 01
I That we muft
Thou'rt
leave thee tj thy linking
fo kaky^
; for
rich.
That which coMbiA'd u9wa9 moft great, and let
Leap. n.f. [from
1. Bound; jump;
the iêrb.]
!t&. of leaping.
Thy deareft quit thee. Sbakcffcare.

not 2. Space palTed by leaping,
If you have not enjoy'J what youth could give, Af;e.- they h.ive carried their riders ftfc over all'
A, leaner action rend us. SBakefpeare.
Sut funk through you like a linhy fie\'e,
life leaps, and through all dangers, what comes of them
Accufe yourfelf, you Uv'd not while you might.
4. Jejune; not comprehenfive ; not em- L'Ejiranê.
in the end but to be broken-winded ?
DijHin. belliihed as, a kair difleriati<on.
:
3. Sudden tranlition.
Z. Loquacious ; not c'ore. Lean. «./. That part of fiefti whfch cott- Wickednefs comes on by degrees, as well as' vir-
Women have hardly met with
are (o leaky f that I filb of ^he mufcle without the fat. tue ; and fudden leap: irom one extreme to arjother
one that could not hold her breath longer than /he With razors keen we cut our palfage clean are unnatural. L'EJ!ra!:ge.
could keep a fccret. L'Efirjr:gt. Through rills of ftt, and deluge^ of /r;i«. Farûhar. The commons wrefteJ even the power of thufing a
TVLean. v. n. prefer, leaned or It ant.
Le'anly. fli/i;. [from /ran.] Meagrely; king intirely out of the hands at the nobles which ;
[jjlinan, Saxon; /«i^«,^ Dutch.] was fo great a /<r.^^, and cautcdfuch aconvulfion in the
without plumpnefs. ftate, that the conftitution cjuld not bear, i'wi/i.
I. To incline againrt ; to reft againft. Le'anness. n./. [from leein.]
T.esn thine aged back againrt mine arm, 4. An affault of an animal of prey.
1. Bxtenuarion of bod)^ ; want of flefh ; The cat made a leap at the moufe. L'Eftran^.
And in that cafe I'll tell thee my difcafe. Shakeff.
Security is cxprciled among the medals of Gor- meagrenefs. 5. Etnbrace of animals.
dianus, by a lady Uamrtg agarnft a pillar, a fceplcr in If thy Ittir.nefi loves fuch food. How fhe cheats her bellowing lover's eye ;
her hand, before an altar. Pischam en Drtfwwg. There are thofe, that, for thy fake, The rufhing leap, the doubtful progeny. Dryden,
The columns may be allmved fomcwhat above Do enoogh. Ben Jcnôn. 6. Hazard, or effeft of leaping.
their ordinary length, bccanfe they lean unto fo good The fymptoms cx'cefs of
of too great fluidity arc Methinks, it were an eafy leap
,
univcrfal fccrctions, as of perfpiration.fWeat, urine, pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon.
fuppoTtcra. ffht'cn. To
Upon his iv'ry fceptrc firft he leant. liquid dejcûres, leannej:, and wcaknefs. Arbuttnu. Siaf,,.ar.:
Then fliook his head, that (hook the firmament. 2. Want of matter; thinnefs ; poverty. you take a precipice for no leap of danger.
Dryden. The poor king Reignier, whnfe lavge llyle And woo your own deftruftion. Hhakffpeartm
Opprefi'd with anguiAi, panting and o'crfpent, Agrees not with tlic leanne/i of his purfe. Hhakifp. Behold that dreadful downfal of a rock,
His fainting limbs againil an oak he letint. Dryder,. Where yon old fifher views the waves from high !
To Leap. -v. n, [Jjleapan, Sa^ton ; loup,
If God be angry, allonr other dependencies will 'Tis the convenient leap I mean to try. Diyden.
us nothing every other fupport will fail un- Scottifli.]
n.f. [leap and frog. A p!ay
-profit ;
der us when we come to lean upon it, and'deccive 1 To jump ; to move upward or progref- Leap-frog. '\
us in the day when we want it moft. Rogers. fively without change of the feet. of children, in which they imitate iha
Then /earring o'er the rails he mofing ftood. Gjy. If I could win a lady at leap-frog, or by vault- ,
jurai:! of frogs.
'Mid the central depth of black'ning woods. ing into my faddle with my armour on, 1 ihouid If I could win alady illeap-frog, T fliould quick-
High ra*"d in foleom theatre a.'vund '
quickly leaf into x wife. SbakrJ/xari's lienry V. ly leap ihto a wife. Shakejptarc'! licny V.
hiam the huge elephant. Thcmjen. A man Icapefb better with Weights in his hands Leap-year.
i
n.f.
z. 7'o propend ; to tend towards. '
than witiiout ^ for that the weight, if it be pro- Leap-year or bifTextile is cve'.y fourth year, and
They delight rather to lian to their old cultoms, portionable; ftrengtheneth the finews by contra£iing from its leaping a daymore that year than'
fo called
though they be noore urjuii, and more inconvt- I
them. In leaping with weights, the arms arc firll I in'a rnmmon year: fo that the ccnmion ycir has'
.BitnC Spenfer. I
caft backwards and then forwards with fo rrmsh the 365''dMv;, bat the lenp-ycar 3S6 afi'd then Febru.
;
TrufV ia the Lord with all thine l.ea't ; ami Icjn greater ff>rc5 ; fur the hands go back\vard before
ary hath aij^lays, which in common' years Irath but
not unto thine own underllanding. Ptov, iii. 5. :
they take tbeh rifet Baton. z%. 'Yd find the leeef-year you have this rule :
A
d^re leammg to either fide, biaiiei tiie judg- In a narrow pit divid'? by 4 ; what's left ihall be
ment ftrangely. lyMis. I
He faw a lion, and leap'd down to it> Cfwlcy. For leap-year o-, for pad r, a, \. JJarris.
3. To be in a bending pcfture. I
Thrice from the ground ihis leap'dt was feen to T1i«'redfiW of the name of leap-yerr is, that a
She me out at her mirtrefs's chamber win-
/('.MI wield day of the week is mifled ; as, if on one year tho
\
dow, bids me a.th)ufand times good night. Utai.-fp. Her brandiik'd lance. Dryiali ^nt'id. firrt of March been Monday, it will on the next
Wearied with length of wayi.and worn with toil, 2. To rufh.wiih vehemence. year be on Tueldiy, but on leap-year it will letipto
She hid her down ; and leaning on her knees, God ciiangcd the fpirit of the king into mild- Wednefday.
Inmk'd the caufe af all hec mitcrm. VryJen* nefe, who in a icM' leaped from his throne, and That the fun confifteth of 565 days and almdft
'J'he g^ds came downward to bchild the wars^.
'
I
took hcE in bis arms, till the came 10 hcrfelf again. fixhojrs, wantangelevoi minucri; which fix hour*
Sharp'ning their fighUi aad karin^ from tlielr ftirs. Ejlber, XV. 8. omitted will, in proccfs of time.largdy deprave the
DrjffJen. After he went into the tent, and -found hermot, compute i
and this is the occafion of the bilfcxtile
'L.tMt.adj.. []}1xne, Saxon.] he leaped ouc to the people. Jud'tthj xiv. 7. or Icap-yiar. Brcnvn,
I. Not fat; meagre; (vao ting fW{h; bare-

He ruin upon ruin heaps. To LKARN. f . a. [leojinian, Saxon.]
And on me, like a furious giant, haps. H.tndyi.
boned. Stnut Uap'wg from his horfc, he lais'd me up. 1. To g-rtin the knowledge or
fkiil of.
You tempt the fury of my three attendants,
Rvwe. Iêarn a parable of the fig-tree. Matt. xxiv. 32.
Lean famina, quattsring fleet, and climbing fiie. He, in a (horter time than was thought pofilble,
kiaknj>.'atc.
3., To bound ; to fpring;
teamed both to fpcik and write the Arabian tongue.
r Rejoice yc in that day, and leap for joy.
i.rj«r3W.bon'd rafcals ! who would c cr fupôfi. Knolles.
They had fucb courage and auUaclty Si\tk<lê.:rL. Lukei vi.^2^.
! L<arn, wretches learn the motions of the tpind.
!
Z.i'ii«-lo«k.'d.prophett wiulier (earful change.

1 I am warm'd, my heart
And- the greas moral end'of humankind. Dryden*
Leapt at the trumpet's voice, and bums for glor/.
libttkrijitan. I Yon -may rely upon my tender car-.'.
w Mdijon.
I iu!l invent ai bitter fearching terms, I
To k«ep him far from perils of ambition
"With i uU as many figns of deadly hate, ^. To fly ; to dart. AUhc can'/f j)« of me, will be to weep A. PHIipsJ !
A3 lîif. tac'd'cnvy in hcrloathfomc cave. Sbnkefp, He partcil frowning from me, as if ruin'
2. To teach, [It is obfervable, that ii»
Seven other kine came up out of the river) ill- r /,«/'«/ from his eyes : fo looks the chifed lion
Upon the daring huntfmaa that has gall'd him ; triany of the Kuropean languages the
favouu'd and lean-icSkci. Cim xli. 3.
l.et a phyiician bcw%irc how he purgf aftir hard
I
Then makes him nothing, i^hakrjp. Henry V~\\\. fame word fignifies to Ti-arn and to teach j
frortj wcatba, wul In a Uan bud;^ witUoul \!ey\ri- ' OufoF his mouth go bumiiiij lamps, and fparki to gain' or impart knowledge.] This
tiua. 7>A£6n. o( fin hap uott j^. ûif xilt I'j.
fenfe is no\V obfoleie.
He
;
LEA LEA LEA

He would Itan i Lords of the world have but for life their leafe, Trading free fliall thrive again,
The fion ftoop to him in lowly wile, And that too, if the IclTor plcafe, muft ceafe. Nor leafmgs lewd affright the fwain; Caj^
A leflbn hard. Hferftr'i Fi'iry Slum. Dertbam. LtAiT. ttJJ. the fuperlativeof [lifr, A'///^.
taught ree languigc, uid my
You profit oii't have heard a man talk with contempt of bilhops
I
Saxon. This word fVallis would per-
Is, I knowbowtocurfe: the red plague rid you, leafes, as on a worfc foot than the reft of his eftate.
fuade us to write lejl, that it may be
For liarn'mvme your language. Shakrfp. timftfi. Swift.
A
thouland more milchances than this one, 2. Any tenure.
analogous to le/s ; but furely the profit
V
HaTc /arrn me how to brook this patiently* Shak. Our high-plac'd Macbeth is not worth the change.] Little be-,
Hall thou not Icarnd me how Shall live the leafe of nature. Sbakejpeart. yond others ; fmallell.
To make perfumes? Stahff. Cymbclint' Thou to give the world incteafe, I am
not worthy of the leaf of all the merciei
7« Learn, v. a. To cake pattern: Short'ned haft thy own life's leafe. Milicn. fhewed to thy fervant. Gen. xxxii. 10.
with ef. To Lease, -v. a. [from the noun.] To Aman can no more have a pofitive idea of the
Take my yoke upon you, and Ittm of me ; for greateft than he has of the leaji fpace. Locke.
let by leafe.
'1 am meek and lowly. Matth, xi. 29. Where the vicar leafes his glebe, the tenant muft Least, adv. In the loweli degree ; in a
In imitation of founds, that Man <hould be the pay the great tithes to the re£tor or impropriator, degree below others ; lefs than any other
is no part of Che matter ; for birds will karn
teacher and the fmall tithes to the vicar. Ayliffe. way.
sne g/" another. Bann't Natural Hifiory,
To Lease, v.n. [/</?», Dutch.] To glean ; He refolv'd to wave his fult.
L e' AK N E D .from Uam. ]
aJj. [
to gather what the harveft men leave. Or for a while play teafi in fight. Hnditroit
1. Verfed in fcience and literature. She in harveft usM to leafe Ev'n that avert ; I chufc it not;
\
It is indiffi^rcnt to the matter in hand, which wjy But harveft done, Co chare-work did afpire. But tafte it as the IcaU unhappy lot. Vryden.
the Uarncd Oiall determine of it. Loctt. Meat, drink, and two -pence, was her daily hire. No man more truly knows to place a right value
Some by old words to fame have made pretence :
Vryden. on your friendlhip, than lie who leafl defcrves it oa
Such labour'd nothings, in fo Itrange a ftyle,
Le'aser. n. f. [from /m_/J.] Gleaner; all other accounts than his due fenfc of it. Pope.
>^Jllaê th' unlcara'd, and make the Itanud fmile.
gatherer after the reaper. Jthtt,sT. 1^° "° more; not
'^y
The met with free approach,

leariud There was no office which a man from England At the Ls..\iT. > todemand or affirm
Although they came not in a coach. Siv'ift.
might not have ; and I looked upon all who were v^/ Leastwise. J more than is barely
born here as only in the condition of leajtrs and
The bed account is given of them by their own fuliicient ; at the lowed degree.
gleaners. iiivift.
authors but I tiuil more to the table of the Itamtd
: He who tempts, though in vain, at leap afperfe<
biihop of Bath. Arbutbnot on Co'wt. LEASH, a./ [lefe, French ; iet/e, Dutch ; The tempted with dilhonour. Milton.
2. Skilled ; (kilful ; knowing : with in. laccio, Italian.] He from my fide fubduAing, took perhaps
Though train'd in arms, and Icarn'd in martial 1. A leather thong, by which a falconer More than enough ; at leafl on her bellowed
arts.
holds his hawk, or a courfer leads his
Too much of ornament, in outward fliow
Thou chufell not to conquer men but hearts. Elaborate, of inw..rd lefs exa£l. Miltm.
greyhound. Hanmer. Upon the maft they faw a young man, at leap if
Crarfvllle.
Holding Corioli in the name of Rome, he were a man, who fat as on horfeback. Hidrey.
3. Skilled in fcholailick, as didincl from Even like a fawning greyhound in the leajh, Every eft'eil doth after a fort contain, <»f leajltvife
other knowledge. To let him
Hip at will. Sbaktffcare. refcmble, the caufe from which ic proceedeth.
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or, What I was, I am ; Hooker.
(0, his underdanding is but : little improved and More ftraining on, for plucking back ; not following Honour and fame at leaft the thund'rer ow'd,
thus men of much reading arc greatly /canted, but My leap unwillingly. Sbakifpeare's ffintir's Tale. And ill he pays the promife of a God. Pcpt.
may be little knowing. Locke. 2. A tierce ; three, The remedies, if any, are to be propofed from a
J*e'arnedly. fl/v. [ from learned. ] With I am
fworn brother to a lecrjb of drawers, and can conftant coui fe of the milkcn diet, continued at leaji
call them all by their Chriftian names. Stakeff.
knowledge ; with Ikill. a year. Temple.
The apoille fcemcd in his eyes but learnedly mad. Some thought when he did gabble Afiend may deceive a creature of more excel.
liahr. Th' ad heard three labourers of Babel, lency than himfelf, at leap by the tacit permtfiion
Much Or Cerberus himfelf pronounce of the omnifcient Being. Dryilen.
He fpoke, and learnedly, for life but all ;
A leajh of languages at once. Hudil/ras.
2. It has a fenfe implying doubt; to fay
Was either pitied in him, or forgotten. Thou art a living comedy ; they are a leaJh of dull
Shaktff.
Dennises Letters,
no more ; to fay the lead ; not to fay
devils.
Ev'ry coxcomb fwears as learnedly as they. Sivt/t.
ail that might be faid.
Le'arnikc. ». /. [from //ar».] 3. A band wherewith to tie any thing in
Whether fuch virtue fpcnt now fail'd
1. Literature; &ill in laaguages or fci- general. New angels to create, if they at leap
The ravilhed foul being fliewn fuch game, would
ence? ; generally fcholaftick knowledge. Are his created. Milton.
break thofe Icajhes that tie her to the body. Boyle.
iMr«in^ hath its infancy, when it is almoftchild- Let ufeful obfervations be at leafi fume part of
ifli ; then its youth, when luxuriant and juvenile ;
To Leash, t/. a. [from the noun.] To the fubjeft of your converfation. Ifattu
then its ftrcngth of years, when folid ; and, lartly, bind ; to hold in a Aring. Le'asy. adj. [This word feems formed
its old age, when dry and exhauft. Bacon. Then Ihould the warlike Harry, like himfelf,
from the fame root with loijtr, French,
To longue or pudding thou hall no pretence, Aflfume the port of Mars ; and, at bis heels,
or loa/e.'] Flimfy ; of weak texture.
Learning thy talent is, but mine is fcnie. Prior. Leajht in like hounds, Ihould famine, ("word, and fire.
As Mofes was learned in all the wifdom of the Crouch for employment. Sbaieffeare's Henry V. Not in ufe.
Egyptians, fo it is manifelt from this chapter, that Le'asinc. ft./, [kaj-e, Saxon.] Lies; He never leaveth, while the fenfe itfelf be left
St. Paul was a great maftei in all the learning of the

loofe and leafy. jifcbam's Schoolmaper.
falfehood.
Creeks. Bentlcy.
O ye fons of men, how long will ye have fuch
Lb'ather. »./. [leêp, Saxon; Icadr,
2, Skill in any thing good or bad. pleafure in vanity, and feck after Icujing T Erfe.]
An art of contradiilion by way of fcorn, a learn- Pfalmt, iv. 1. 1. Drelfed hides of animals.
ing wherewith we were long fithcnce forewarned, He
'mongft ladies would their fortunes read He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of
t)ut the miferable times whereunto we are fallen Out of their bands, and merry leafirgs tell. leather about his loins. z fî^s, i. 8.
fliould abound. Ihcker. Hubherd' stale. And if two boots keep out the weather.
Le'arner. tt./. [from/<rflr».] One who He hates foul leafngs and vile flattery, What need you have two hides of leather f Prior,
isyet in his rudiments ; one who is ac-

Two filthy blots in noble gentery. Hubberd^s Tale. 2. Skin : ironically.
falfe pilgrim which that leafing told.
That Returning found in limb and wind.
quiring fome new art or knowledge. Was indeed old Archimago. Fairy Siuecn. Except fome leather loft bcliind. Strife.
The late learners cannot fo well take the ply, I have ever verified my friends
except It be in fome minds that have not fuficrcd 3. Itis often ufed in com pofition for leathern.
With all the fize that verity The (hepherd's homely curds.
themfelvcs to fix. Bacon. Would without lapfing fufler : nay, fometimes.
Nor can a learner work fo cheap as a fkilful prac- His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle
Like to a bowl upon a fubcle ground
Craunt's Bills of Mortality. Is far beyond a prince's delicacies. Sbakefpeare.
tifed artift can. I've tumbled part the throw ; and in his praife
LEASE. »./. [laifer, French. Sfielman.] Have aJmoft ftampt tlie lenfing. Sbakefpeare, Le'athercoat. n./. [leather and ccat. ]
I, A contract:! by which, in conftderation of As folks, quoth'Richard, prone to leafing. An apple with a tough rind.
Say things at firft, becaiife tlicy're plcafing There is a dilh cJ leatbcraats for you. Sbaiefp.
fome payment, a temporary polTeflion is
Then prove what they have once ali'citcd.
;
granted of houfes or lands. Le'atherdresser. ». /. [leather and

Nor care to have their lie defertcd,:
Why, coufin, wer't thou regent of the world. Till their own dreams at length deceive them,
drcjj'er.'\ He who drefles leather ; he
It were » lliaine to let this land by Icajc, Stakrjj>. And ol't repeating they believe tlicm. .
frier. who manufa<£lure$ hides for ufe.
. ;
LEA LEA LEA

He removei! to Cumie and by the way w»! en- When they were departed from him, they left him great deal of judgment, by Tucci and Varius, ai
;
tcrtiincd Hi the houfe of one Tychius, i Icathcr- in great difeafes. zChron. xxiv. 25. '
it leems to contradift a part in the lixth Aincid.
Addifon on Italy.
drtjjir. Po{e. 4. To have remaining at rleath.
There be of thera that have left a name behind To Leave, t/. ».
Leather-mouthed. aJj. [leather and
ptoulh. ]
them. Ecclus, xliv. S. 1. To ceafe; to defift.
By a leaiber-mculbeJ fifli, I mean fuch as have 5. Notto deprive of. She is my elTence, and I leave to be,
their teeth in their throat ; is, the chub or chevcn. They ftlll have left me the providence of God, If I be not by her fair influence
fFalfm^t jlnghr, and all the promifes" of the gofpj, and my charity Fofter'd, illumin'd, chcrifh'd, kept alive. Sbaktfp.
to them too. Tayl.r. And iince this bufinefs fo far fur isdoiie.
Le'athery. adj. [from leather.'\ Re- Let us »ot leave till all our own be won. Slakcjp.
femblirg leather.
6. To fufter to remain.
If it be done without order, the mind compre-
He began at the cldell, and left at the youngeft.
Wormius calls this cnift a leathery (kin. Critv. Gencjis,
hendeth lefs tl)at which is fet down ; and befidcs,
Le'athern. ai(/, [from leather.'^ Made it leavetb a fufpicion, as if more might be faid than 2. To Leave off. To defift.
cf leather. is exprelTed. Baccrr. Grittus, hoping that they in the caftle would
I Uw
her hand ; Jhe has a leathfrn hand Thefe things muft be left uncertain to farther dif- not hold out, left -^ to batter or undermine it,
A frce-ftone colour "d hand 1 verily did think, : covcries in future ages. jihbot. wherewith he perceived he little prevailed. Knolies.
1 hather old gloves were on. Shakjjjêan-, Who thofe are, to whom by dcfcent
this right But when yau rind that vigorous heat abate.
1'hc wretched animal hcav'd forth fuch groans, belongs, he /.ni'cj out of the reach of any one to Leave cff, and for another furanions wait.
That their dilcharge did ftrctch his haihirn coat difcover from his wiltings. Lxke. Rofcommn.
AUnoft to burfting. Shaicjfeare's Asym like if.
7. Not to carry away. $. To Leave off. To flop.
In lilken or in A<i/tfrij purfe retaio They ciKamped agalnft them, and deftroyed the Wrongs do not leave cjf there where they begin.
A fplcnfid Shilling. Philips.
increjfe of the cjrth, aad left no fuflcnance for But rtiU beget new niifchiefs in tiieir courfc. Darnel.
Le'atherseller.*./ [leather an i/eller. ] Ifrael. Jui!gcs,\-\. 4. To Leave, t. a. [from le'vy ; lever,
He who deals in leather, and vends it. He the fruit of thy cattle ; which alfo
(ball eat
French,] To levy; to raile : a cor-
(hall not hat'c thee either corn, wine or oil.
Leave. ». /. [lepe, Saxon ; ffom lypan, Diut. xxviii. 4S.
rupt word, made, I believe, by Sfenfer,
to grant.] Vaftius gave 9riQ commandment, that they (hould for a rhime.
1. Grant of liberty; permiflion ; allow- leave behind them unnecelihiy baggage.' Knolles. An army ftron^ (he leav'd.
ance. 8. To rejedl ; not to chooi'e. To war on thofe wliicii hiin had of his realm be-
reav'd. Spenferî Fairy ^cen.
By your tttmi^ Irencus, notwithflinding all this In all the common incidents of life,
your careful forefight, methinks I lee an evil lurk I am fuperiour, I can take or leave. Steele. Le'aved. ad/, [from leaves, of leaf]
unefpied. Sffrfcr.
9. To fix as a token or remembrance. 1. Furnidied with foliage.
When him his deareft Una did behold,
This 1 lave with my reader, as an occafion for 2. Made with leaves or folds.
Difdaining life, defiring liime to dye. Speitfcr.
him how much he may bi beholden to
to conlidcr, I will loofc tlie loins of kings, to open before h!r«
I make bold to prefs upon you. experience. Licke. the two leaved gates. Ifa. xlv. i.
—You're welcome ; give us Iravc, inner. To bequeath
SliftHffpeare,
10. ; to give as inheritance. LE'AVEN. ».y. [levaitt, French ; lemare,
That peace thou leav'ji to thy imperial line. Latin.]
Th« days
That peace. Oh liappy (hade be ever thine. Dryd. !
make
Of Sylla's fway, when the free fword took Itave 1. Ferment mixed with any body to
Ben 11. To give up; to refign.
To acl all that it would. "Janjini Cctilmc. it light; particularly ufed of four dough
Thrice happy fnakc that in her flceve Thou not glean thy vineyard ; thou (halt
(halt
!
leave them for the poor and (Iranger. Lev. xix. 1 0. mixed in a mafs of bread.
May boldly creep ; we dare not give
Walter. If a wife mjn were lefr to himfelf, and his own It (hall mt Lev. vi. 17.
be baken with leaven.
Our
thoughts fo unconfin'd a kirve.
cfaoice, to wilh the greateft good to himfelf he All fermented meats and drinks are eafieft di-
No friend has leave to bear away the dead. Dryd. geftcd ; and thofe unfermentcd, by barm or leaven,
that we fought without his leave. could devifc ; the fum of all his wifhes would be
Offended
this. That there were juft fuch a being as God is. are hardly digcrted. Flyer,
He takes this time his fecret hate to Ihcw. DiyJen.
One thing more I crave leave to offer about fyl- ^'Utitfiin. 2. Any mixture which makes a general
iogifm, before 1 leave it. Lucie. 12. To permit without interpofition. change in the mafs: it generally means
I mull have leave to be grateful to any who ferves Whether Efau were a valTil, I leevt the reader fomething that depraves or corrupts that
tne, let him be never fo obnoxious to any party Locke.
-.
to judge. with which it is mixed.

nor did the tory party put me to the hardfhip of 13. To ceafe to do ; to defift from. Many of their propofitions favour very ftrongljr
aiking this leave. Pope.
Let us return, left my father leave caring for the of the old haven of innovations. f^'"g Charles,
2. Farewel ; adieu. la this fenfe itave a(rcs, and take thought for us. i Sam. ix. 5.
To Le'aven. v. [from the noun.]
h.
is permijjlein to depart. 14. To Leave off. defift from ; to To 1. To ferment by fomething mixed.
Take leave and part, for you mufl part forthwith. forbear. You muft tarry the Icavnirg. Statejpeare.
Sbi:tejpeart.
If, upon any occafien, you bid him leave pff Whofoever eatetlj leavened bread, that foul fliaU
Evils that take leave. the doing of any thing, you muft be fure to carry Exod. xii. 1 7.
be cut off.
On their departure, moft of all fhew evil. Siatrfp. the point. Locke. Breads we have of fevera! grains, with divers kinds
There is further compliment of /nix/r-taking be- In proportion ai old age canje on, he left cffiax.- of Icavenings, and fcafonings ; fo that fome do ex.
tween France and him. Sbeakejpurit King Lear. hunting. AJtlij^ns Spcilatir. ,
tremcly move appetites. Bacon,
Here my father comes
To
A double blefling double grace;
is a
;
15. To Leave off. forfake. 2. To taint; to imbue.
He began to leave cfftome of his old acijuaint- That cruel fomething unpo(roft.
Occafion fmiles upon a fecond leave. Staiefpeare. Prior*
ance, his roaring and bullying about the (Greets *.
Corrodes and leavens all tlie reft.
But, my dear nothings, take your leave,
Ho longer muft you mc deceive. Suciting.
he put on a fcriyus air. jirbuthti'A
Lb' AVER. n. f. [from lea<ve.] One who
Many ftars maybe vifiblclnour hcmifpherc, that 16. T» Leave out. To omit; to ne- deferts or forfakes.
are not fo at prcfcnt ; and many fhall take leave of glea. Let the world rank me in regifter
cur horizon, and appear unto fouthern habitations I am with curious bufinefs, that
fo fraught A maftcr-/i<7i;.r, and a fugitive. Shakefpeare,
I leave out ceremony. Sbakejp. Winter^t Tale.
Brcivn, Leaves. »./ 'I he plural of /fa/".
To Leave, v. a. pret. I left; I haie left, Vou may partake I have told 'em who you are.
:
Parts fit for the nourl(hment of man in plants
[Of the derivation of this word the ety-
^1 (hould be loth to be left out, and here too. are, feeds, roots, and fruits; for leaves they give
Ben jfimj n. Bacon's Natural Uijlory.
no fatisfaftory account.] no nourilhment at all.
znologifts give What it let down by order and divifion dnth
X. To quit; to forfake. demonftrate, tliat nothing is left out or omitted, Le'avings. n. / [from leave.] Rem-
A man (hall leave his fiitherandhls mother, and but ail is there. Bacon. Hant ; relicks ; offal ; refufe : it has no
e'.cave to his wife. Gen. ii. 24.. Bcfiicnd till utraoft end Angular.
If they love lees, and leave the lufty wine, Of allthy dues be done, and none left out. My father has this morning cjll'd together.
, Envy them not their palates with th» fwine. Ere nice morn on the Indian fteep To this poor hall, his little Roman fenate.
V Ben ybjifon. From her cabin'd loop-hole peep. Milton. The leaving: of Pharfalia. Mdifin's Cat*.
B Z. Todefert; to abandon. We a(k, if thofe fubvert Then who can think we'll quit the place,
V
H*
He that iiof an unthankfulmind,will /<'at>rhim Reafon's eftablilh'd maxims,
That we the world's exittcnce
who alTert
may conceive.
Or ftop and light at Cloe's head.
With fcraps and leavings to be fed ? Stvjft,
In danger that delivered him. £celui, xxix. 7.
H
1
Though we one atom out of matter leave ?

3. To depart from, without action : as.
Blackjnore.
LiAVY. adj. [from leaf] Full of leaves
I always thougjit thig faffagc left out wilh a covered with leaves kajj is more ufed. :
StrephoOf
'3
; ;
L E C LEE LEE
Snrphao, with lt»vj twigs of Uurel txttf iT* Le'cture.v. ». To reid in publick ; Moon by liis fide upder the lee while alght
4 xiruiid made on temples I'ur tu vta.
to iallru£l an audience by a formal ex- Inveds the fea. Millm.
For lie then ciiol'en v/u the dignity Batter'd by his lee they lay.
Of planation or difcourfe : as, Walli:> Zee-
vilUee lord that Whitfontide tj be*r, SiJnru The paffing winds through their tgtn canvafi plar.
Now, neir enough : jfoui /tny I'creciu throw tureJ on geometry.
DrjJeii.
down, Le'cturer. »._/". [from Uaure. ] Leech, [\xc, Saxon.]
n. ^.
And Oiow like thofe you An
T» Lech. v.
»re. Sbuietp<iir<- 1. iqilrM^tpr ; a teacher by way of 1. A phyfician ; a profeflbr of the art
a. [Uthtr, fr,] To' lick le^Mre. of healing: whence we ftill ufe ce-w-
over. Hanmer. 2. A preacher in a church hired by the Ucch.
Hiil tbott yet /r An/ the AthcDlan's e)c»
With the love juice ?
parifh to allift ihe reflor or vicar. A
leech, the which had great infight
StaUffiau. If any minifter rcfufcd to admit into his church In that difeafc of grieved confcience.
LE'CHER. /. [Derived by 'Ski>t«er
n. a hHurer recommended by them, and there was not And well could cure the fame ; his na.-ne was Pa>
from Ikxure, old French : Juxuria is ufed one orthodox or learned man recommended, he was ticnce. Sfenfer't Fairy â.*.
ID the middle ages in the fame ftafe.] prcfently required to attend upon the committee. Her words prevaii'd, and then the learned /«. A
A whore-mafler. Clarendon* His cunning hand 'gan wounds to lay.
to his
1 will row take the leafier ; he'i at my houfe Le'ctureship. «._/; [from/f<ff»«.] The And all things elfc the which his art did teach.
;
be cannot °fcape me. office of a ledlurer. Faiiy ^teiir
Sbakrffiiuc.
Vou, like a letchir, out of whorifli loina lie got a leEiurejk'if in town of lixty pounds a
Phyfick is their bane.
An pleas'd to breed out your inheritors. Skahjp. year, where he preached conftantly in perfon. Swift, The teamed letches in defpair depart.
The licher foon transforms hit miftrefs now And ftake their heads, defponding of their art.
; Led. part. pret. of ieaJ.
In lo's place appears a lovely tow. Vrydm. Then Drydm^
(hall they know that I am the Lord your'
The fleepy Uacha Ibuts bis little eyes. Wife leeches will not vain receipts obtrude :
God, which caufed them to be led into captivity
About his churning chaps the frothy bubbles rife. Deaf to complaints they wait upon the ill.
among the heathen. Ez,ei. xxxix. 28.
Urjdxn' Till fome fafe ciifis. DrjeUn,
The leaders of this people caufe them to err, and
She yields her <;harros 1 he hoary wrinkled leech has watch'd and toil'di
they that are ledofthcm arc deftroyed. Ifa.ix. 16.
To that fair /t/i-A<r, the ftronggodof arms. Ptt^c. Tried every hcalth-reftoring herb and gum,
As in vegetables and animals, fo In moft other
y» Lt'cHER. And wearied out his painful fKiU in vain. Rvwe.
•». n. ffroin the noun. J To bodies, not propagated by feed, it is the colour we
A (kilful lecKh,
whore. / mod fix on, and are moft led by. Lucie,
They fay, had wrought this blcfl'cd deed
Die for adultery ? N'o. The wrei* goes to't, and Ledge, n./. [leggea, Dutch, to lie.] This leach Arbuthnot was yclept. Gay's Pe^traU,
the fmail gilded fly does let. hsr in my fight. &hak. 1. A row; layer; ilratum. 2. A kind of fmail water ferpent, whicli
Cut eats all day, ir.i Uiibcrs all the night.
The laweft ledge or row (hould be n<crely of
faftens on animals, and fucks the blood:
S.Jcxf.n. (lone, clofely laid, without mortar : a general cau-
Le'cherous. is ufed to draw blood where the lancet
adj. [from licberJ] Lewd : tion for i^l parts in building contiguous to board.
it
luftful. fVbttcn^s Arcbittciurc* is lefs fafe, whence perhaps the narae.

The grow foul, and lofe its
fapjihire ftould 2. A ridge rifing above the rsft, or pro- I d,-ew blood by leeches behind bis ear. tfifemati.
keauty, when worn by one that is leeherius ; the Sticking like heihcs, till tliey burit witli blood.
jtfting beyond the reft.
emerald fliould fly to pieces, if it touch the (kin Without rcmorfe infatiably. Rcjcommin,
The tijut parallel (licks rifing above five inclKS
of any unchafte perfcn. Vtrben. high?r than the hanjkei chief, fcrved as ledges on 7i Leech, v. a. [from the noun.] To
Le'cHEROusLY. oi^-v. [fron» /teberaut.] each fide. CuUiver. medicaments.
treat with
Lewdly luftfully. ; 3. Any prominence, or rifing part. Le'echcraft. n. /, [leech and craft.'\
Lb'cherouskess. »./. [from Ucherous'\ Beneath a ledge of rocl^s bis fleet he hides. The art of healing.
Lewdnefs. The bending brow above a fafe retreat provides. Wc &\iiy fpeecl), but others we perfu.ide :
Le'chery. m. J. [from leci/er.] Lewd Drydcn, We leechcrafl learn, but others cu:e with, it.
nefs; lull.
Led HORSE. », / [led and hor/t.] A Dav'te).
The relt welter with as little fliame fumpter horfe. Leef. aJj, [lie^t, /evf, Dutejj.] IwiaJ ;
in open /i:iety
as fwinc do in the common mire. Aftam- Lee. n./. [lie, French.] fond.
Againit fuch lewdlters, and their lechery, 1. Dregs; iediment; refufe : commonly Whiloine alt ihefe wsre low a*d Iccf,
Thofe that betray them do no treachery. Shakcff. And \av'd their flocks to r'ccd ;
Jees.
Le'ction.b./ They never drove to be the chief,
[/f<3»«, Latin.] A read- My cloaths, my exchang'd for thee,
fex,
And fimple was their weed. Sptn/ir's Piij!r.reili, '
ing ; a variety in copies. I'll mingle with the people's wretched lee. Prior.
Every cridck has his own hypothefis 2. [Sea terra ; luppoied hy Skinner from
Leek, a /. [leac, Saxoa; /oori, Dutch i.
: if the
commoa te«t be not favourable to his opinion, a I'eau,French.] it is generally that fide
leechk, Erfe ; porrum, Latin.] piaat. A
Uakn fliall be made authcntick.
various JValti. Know'it tliOB Fluellai .---Or'es.
which is oppofite to the wind, as the lee
LE'CTURE. n.f. [Uaure, French.] fhore is that the wind blows on.
TuTell him I'll knock his Icck about his pate.
1. A difcourfe pronounced upon any fub

'l"o Upon St. Davids day. Shakc'fcart,
be under the lee of the (hore, is to be Leek to the Wclih, to Dutchman butter's dear.
jeet.
Mark him, , dofe under the weather Ihore. A Ue\ (7.-IV.
while Dametas reads his ruftick
ivardikyp is one that is not fait by a
We ufe acrid plants inwardly and autw.irdly in
Icllure iiim.howto feed his beads before n.»n,
lint..-
gangrenes ; io thu Iciiivy, watcr-crclTe!, hjn'c-
and where to IhaJe them in the extreme biiat. wind, 10 make her way fo good as (he radilh, garlick, or hck pouaê. VLyer ortHammrs.
'1^0 by the /«,
Sldtity* niight. lay a (hip is to LEER. n.f. [)3leape, baxoa'.]
Wrangling pedant. bring her fo that all her fails may li'.- 1. An oblique view.
When in mufick we have fpcnt an. hour.
Your hauri (hill have K-ifute (qt as much. Stai. aga^nlt the mafis and flirotids flat, and I fpy entertai nnwu; in her ; (he gives the leer of
When Icttecs fron) Cafar wsie given 'o Ruflicuf, the wind to cotne right on her broad- invitation. SbakcJ'f. M.rry /fmcs t^f-JVigiljcr,
hfrefu&d ttf opea them tiU tlie philofoplêi h.ii Afide the devil turn'd
fide, fo that fhe will mal&e little or no
done his ifljrra. For envy, yet with jealous ktr malign
Ttryhr's H:it Liilng. way. Did. Ey'd them
Virtue is the allc.mce, MiU-,rt^
folid g->iid, which tutors (hoirld If we, in the bay of Blfcay, had had a port under
,
i)Ot rnly read UHuea and talk of, but the labour our ite, that we m
gHt I'.ave kept our traniporting
2. A laboured caft of countenance.
and a.t of education (hould fumi(i the mind with, (hips with out m.n of war, we had taken the In-
Damn with faint praif;, concede with civil leer.
and faft.'n there. L-,clc. dian fljct. P»fe.
Raleigh.
2. The att or praflice of read/ng ; pe'rulal TheHollanders were before Dunkirk wi Ji the
I place a ditcfman full before mr fight
In the /ffluPt of holy fcripture, their apprelien- wind at norlhwell, making a lee (hore in all wcatheni. A bloatcii niinider in all his êcr.
fions are camm;]nl) conlined unto the literal fcufe With ihAm-icfs viiagc, and îtifiiious Uer, S-wift*
Raleigh.
of the t;xt. Brimr.. Unprovided of tackling and viftualling, they To Leer, [from^ the noun.]
1/. a.
J.
A magiftcrial reprimand; a pedaniitic are forced to fea by a ftorm ; yet better do fo than 1. To look obliquely ; to look archlv.
difcooife. venture fplitting and finking on a lee (hore. I will I cr u|v,n him as he crmcs by ; a.id do but
NumMia will be Weft by Cato's7fff«r«. Kirg Cbarlei. mark the countenance that he
iv. 11 give mo. H.k,
jtjrfifcn.
film, l.aply flumb'rir.g on the Norway foam. wonder whether you tade tlic pleafiire of inde-
I
To Le'cture. f « [fronv the noun.]
The pilot of (ome fmail night-foundcr'd (ki(f. pendency, or whether you do not fjnietimej /^rr
l'. To in(in;fl foiinalfy.
Deeming fome ifiind, oft, as feameo tell. upon the court. Utoif:,
2. ToinAruAiafolencly and dogmatically. With fixed anchor in his i'caly riod. 2. To look with a. forced countenance.'
flwtran
; ; 1
L E F LEG Ê G
Bertran has b«n taught the arts of courts, A raven from a wither'd oak, t(me of memory and what is fince, u, ia a legal
;
To gild a face with I'miles, and Uer a man to ruin. Left of their lodging was oblig'd to croak ; fenfe, within the time of memory. Hale. '
That omen lik'd him not. Dryden. 2. Lawful ; not contrary to law.
liEES. n./. [lie, French.] Dregs; The Icfi foot naked when they march to fight,
I'edi-
3. According to the law of the old dif-
But in a bull's taw hide they iheathe the right.
jnenc : it has feldom a iingular. penfatioii.
Dryden,
The memory of king Rickaid was fo ftrong,
The man who ftrugglcs in the fight, His merit)
that it bottom of men's hearts;
lay like lus at the To fave them, not their own, though legal, works.
Fatigues left arm as well as right. Prkr.
and if tiie vcflcl was but ftirred, it would come Milton'
up.
'^'
Bacon'i Henry VII.
Leftha'n DED. tidj. \lfft and hand.\
,
Ufing the left-hand rather than right.
Lega'lity. ».y^ [legalite, French.] Law-
If they love las, and leave the luily wine,
The limbs ufcd moft on the right-fide,
are
fulnefs.
Invy them not their palates with the ftrinc.
B. Jor,J(m. whereby cuftom helpeth ; for wc fee, that fome arc To Le'galize. -v. a. [legali/er, French;
I Thofe lees that trouble it, refine left-handed, which are fmh
have ufed the Ici't
as from iegal.] To authorize ; to make
The agitated foul of generous wine. Dryden* hand moft. Bacon. lawful.
fe Leese. -v. a. \lefen, Dutch.] To For the feat of the heart and liver on one fiJe, If any thing an
legalize leva^ge, it Hiould be
whereby men become left -handed, it happeneth too
lofe : an old word. injury from an extremely obliged perfon : but re-,
rarely to countenance an effeft fo common for
Then fell to thy profit both butter and cheefe,
:
venge is fo abfolutely the peculiar of Heaven^
the feat of the liver on the left-fide is very mon-
Who bgiethfooner the mote he (hall Uejt- Tujir,
it
ftrous. BrKvnî Vulgar Errours.
that no confideratlon can impower, even the heft
No caufe, nor client fat, will Chev'ril letfe. men, to alfumc the execution of it. South.
But as they come on both fides he takes fees ; Left-ha'ndedness. n, /. [from A/>- Le'gally. adv. [from Jegal."] Law-
And pleafeth both : for while he melts his gieafe handed.'\ Habitual ufe of the left-hand. fully according to law.
;
For this, that wins for whom he huldi his peace. Although a fquint left -hendednejs
A prince may not, much lefs may inferior judges,
B* 'Jonfon. B' ungracious ; yet we cannot want that hand. deny juftlce, when it is legally and competently de-
How in the port our fleet dear time did tcefr, Donne. manded. Taylorm
Withering like prifoners, which lie but for fees. Leg. Danilh Icggur, Iflandick.]
»./. [leg, ;
Le'gatary. a. /. [legataire, French :
Donne. 1. The limb by which we walk ; particu- from legatum, Latin.] One who has a
Leet. n.f. larly that part between the knee and the
Lette, or leta, a othetwife called a law-day. legacy left.
foot. An executor
(hall exhibit a true inventory of
The word feemeth to have grown from the Saxon
They harte ; and what their tardy feet deny'd. goods, taken in the prefence of fit perfons, as cre-
leSe, which was a court of jurifdi£Uon above
The trufty ftaff, their better leg, lupply'd. Dryden. ditors and legataries are, unto the ordinary.
the wapentake or hundred, comprcHending three or Ayliffe.,
Purging comfits, and ants eggs. Le'gate.
four of them, otherwife called thirfliing, and con- «. /. \legatui, Latin ; legate
Had almoft brought.him ofi'his legs. Hudiiras.
tained the third part of a province or (hire thefe :
Such intrigues people cannot meet with, who
French ; legato, Italian.]
^jurifdidicns, one and other, be now aboliAed, and
up
have nothing but legs to carry them. Add'ihn.
1. A deputy ; an ambalTador.
fwailowed in the county court. Cvwcl,
An aft of obeifance ; a bow with the The legates from th' yl^tolian prince return !
Who
has a breail fo pure, 2.
Sad news they bring, that after all the coft
But fome uncleanly apprehenfions leg drawn back.
And care employ'd, their embalfy is loft. Dryden.
Keep U^s and law-days, and in feflions fit At court, he that cannot make a leg, put oft"
With meditations lawful ? Shaiefpeare's Othelk. his cap, kifs his hand, and fay nothing, ha; nei-
2. A kind of fpiritual ambaflador from
You would prefent her at the leet, ther leg, hands, lip, nor cap. Sbakeffeare.
the pope ; a commiffioner deputed by
Becaufe flie bought ftone jugs, and no feal'd quarts. Their horfes never give a blow. the pope fbr ecclefiaftical aiFairs.
Sbakefpeare, But when they make a leg, and bow. Hudiiras. Look where the holy legate comes apace,
t.^'iwA».D. aJJ. [lee and peapb, Saxon.] If the boy Ihould not put off his hat, nor make To give us warrant from the hand of Heav'n.
legs very gracefully, a dancing -roafier will cure that
Towards the wind. See Lee. Shakejpeare.
The claflicae were called long fliips, the onerariae defeft. isfif. Upon fummons, he fubmitted him-
the legate's
TOund, becaufe of
He made his leg, and went away. Swift. felf to an examination, and appeared before him.
their figure approaching towards
circular : this figure, though proper for the ftow- 3. To fiand on his oiun Legs. To fupport Atterbury.
age of goods, was not the fitted for failing, be- himfelf. Legate'e. n.f. [from legatum, Latin.
caufe of the great quantity of Ireôard way, except Perfonj of their fortune and quality could well One who has a legacy left him.
when they failed full before the wind. Arbulbnol. have Jiood ujion their own legs, and needed not to If-he chance to 'fcape this difmal bout,
Let no flatefman dare lay in for countenance and fupport. Collier. The former legatees are blotted out. Dryden.
A kingdom to a Ihip compare j 4. That by which any thing is fupported on My will is, that if any of the above-named le-
Lell he ihould call our commonweal gatees (hould die before me, that then tlie refpeftiva
the ground : as, the leg of a table.
A veffcl with a double keel
Le'oacy.w./ legaclea (hall revert to myfelf. Sivift.
Wliich juft new [/egatum, Litin.]
like ours, rigg'd and mao'd,
Legtey is a particular thing given by laft will and
Lz'gatine. adj. [from legate.]
And got about a league from land.
By change of wind to Ue-ward fide. tellament. Co%vel. 1. Made by a legate.
F The pilot knew not how to guide.
Left, participle preter. oi lea've.
Svi'ift.
If there be no fuch thing apparent upon record,
they do as if one fliould demand a legacy by force
and virtue of fome written teftament, wherein
When any one is abfolved from excommunica-
tion, it is provided by a ligatir.e conftitution, that
fome one (hall publifli fuch abfolutlon. Ayliffe.
Alas, poor lady ! dcfolate and left
weep myfelf to think
there being no fuch thing fpecified, he plcadeth 2. Belonging to a legate of the Rotnaa
I upon thy words. Shahefp.
that there it muft needs be, and bringeth argu- fee.
Had fuch a river as this been left to Itfelf, to
ments from the love or g6od-will which always All thefe you have done of late,
have found its way out from among the Alps,
the teftator bore him
imagining, that thefe, or
; By your power legatine within this kingdom.
whatever windings it had made, it muft have form-
the like proofs, will convifl a teftament to have
ed feveral little feas. Fall in the compafs of a praemunire. Slakejpeare.
Mdijon. that in it, which other men can nowhere by lead-
Were 1 Itfi to myfelf, I would rat.her ain at in-
ing find.
Lega'tion. It./, [legatio, Latin.] Depu-
Honker.
ftrufting than diverting j but if we will be ufeful tation commiflion emba/Ty.
Fetch the will hither, and we fliall determine ; ;
to the world, we muft take it as we find it. After a legation ad res repctendas, and a refufal,
How to cut oft" fome charge in legacies. Shakcfp.
Mdi/cn's SfeHaior. Good counfel and a denunciation or indi(îon of a war, the war
Is bed legacy a father can leave
the
Left. Dutch ; leevus, Latin.]
aiij. \lufte, a child. VEflrangi.
is no more confined to the place of the quarrel,
Siniftrous not right.; When he thought you gone but is left at large. Bacon.
That there is alfo in men a natural prepotency T' augment the number of the blefs'd above. In attiring, the duke had a fine and unaffeft-
in the right, we cannot with conflancy affirm, if He decm'd 'em legacies of royal love ed politenefs, and upon occafion coftly, ^s in hia
;
we make obfervation in children, who, permitted Nor arm'd, his brothers portions to Invade, legations. IVotton.
the freedom of both hands, do ofttimcs confine it But to defend the prefent you had m.idc. Dryden. Lega'tor. n./. [from lego, Latin.] One
unto the lift, and are not without great difficulty When the heir of this vaft treafure knew who makes a will, and leaves legacies.
tiftrained from it. Bnivn's Vulgar Erioun. How large a legacy was left to you, Suppofe debate
The right X/t Pluts's golden palace guides. He wifely ty'd it to the crown again. Drydin. Betwixt pretenders to a fair eftate,
The left to that unhappy region tends. Leave to thy children, tuniuit, ftrife, and war, Bequeath'd by fome legator'i laft intent. Dryden.
Which to the depth of Tartarus defccnds. Dryden. Portions of toil, and legacies of caie. Prior.
^hegods of greater r.jtions dwell around. Le'cend. n.f. [legetida, Latin.]
And, on the right and left, the palace bound
LE'G AL. ae/;. [/egal, French ; legej, Lat.] I. A chronicle or regifler of the lives of
The commons where they can.
;
I. Done or conceived according to law.
faints.
Dry dm-
Whatfoever was before Richard I, was before
Vol. II. Legends being gr«wn ia a manner to i>e aothine
£ cift
. ; ;
LEG LEG LEI

(liebat Vaps of friToIout wd fcanjalous Tifiitie;, makes a bold man have vigour and enterpriie in tliat they may do no injury to the legitimate, by
thty have been even with dildiin thrown out, the his air and motion ^ it ftamps value and fignifi- receiving a portion. Taylor..
«rynefts which bied them abhoning them, lltoktr. cancy upon his face. Col/i.r. 7e Leoi'timate. o/. a. [legitimer, Fr.
There are in Rome two fcts of antquitici, the Le'oibly. aJv. [from iigi He.] In fuch from the adjeftive ]
cbiifilan ud the heathen ; the formrt, though of
a manner as may be read. 1. To procure to any the rights of legiti-
a frcOicr datr, arc lb embroiled with fable and
ligerj, that one receives but little fatiil'adion.
Le'cion. »./. {_ligio, Latin.] mate birth.
Md'ifca, 1. A body of Roman foldiers, confiding Legitimate him that was a baftard. Jlyliffe.
2. Any memorial or relation. of about five ihoufand. 2. To make lawful.

And in thii legtaJ aU that glorious deeJ The moft remarkable piece in Antonious's pillar It would be impoOible for any enterprize to be
Read, whjlft you ai m you j arm you whibl you read. is, the figure of Jupiier Pluvius fending rain on lawful, if that which Ihould legitimate it is fubfe>
Fairfax. the fainting army of Marcus Aurellus, and thun- quent to it, and can have no influence to make
3. Aa incredible anauibentick narrative. derbolts on his enemies, which is the greateli it good or bad. Decay of Piety.
Who can fhow the l.-gnuli, that record
confirmation poflible of the ftory of the Chrift- Legi'timately. adv. [from legiti-
Wore ian legiit. jiddi/o".
idle tales, or fables fo abfurd > Blackmori. mate.]
It is the way of attaining to Heaven, that makes 2. A military force.
I. Lawfully.
profane fcorneri fo willingly let go the eapedation She to foicign realms
Sends forth her dreadful
z. Genuinely.
•f it. It is net the articles of the creed, but the legiotn. Philips.
By degrees he rofe to Jove's imperial (bat
duty to God and their neighbour, that Is fuch an 3. Any great number.
Thus ditiiculties prove a foul legitimately great.
inconliftent incredible tigerJ. Benllty. Not in the legions DryJen.
4. Any infcription ; particalarly on me- Of honid hell, can come a devil more damn'd.
Legitima'tion. »._/". [legitimation, Fr.
dals or coinj. Shake fffCLtrc.
The partition between good and evil is broken from legitimate.]
Compare the beauty and comprehcnfivencfs of
ItgtnJi on ancient coins.
down J and where one fin has entered, legions will I. Lawful birth.
Miiifi't on Mtdals.
force their way through the fame breach. Rogers. have difdaimed my land
Lb'ger. n.f. [from hgger, Dutch, To Le'cionary. I
name, and all
;
adj. [from legieis.'] Legitimation, is gone :

Jie or remain in a place.] Any thing Then, good my jnotlier, let me know my father.
1 Relating to a legion.
that lies in a place ; as, a Icgtr am- Shakefpeare.
2. Containing a legion.
ba/Ikdor; a refidenc; one chat conti- From whence will arife many queftions of legiti-
3. Containing a great indefinite number. mation, and what in nature is the difierence be-
Bues at the court to which he is fent;
Too many applying themfelves betwixt jeft and twixt a wife and a concubine. Locke.
a leger-book, a book that lies in the eameft, make up the legionary body of error.
compting-houfe.
2. The adl of invelling with the privileges
BrovJn^s Vulgar Errcurs.
Lord Angelo, having affairs to Heav'n, of lawful birth.
Legisla'tion. ». /. [from legijlator,
Intends you for liis fwilt ambalTador,
Latin.] adlThe of giving laws.
LE'GUME. ) »./. [legume, Fr. legumen,
What you iluU be an everlafting It'iger, Sbahffean. Pythagoras joined tegijialion to his philofophy, LEGV'MEN.\ Lat.] Seeds not reaped,
I've giv'n him that,
and, like others, pretended to miracles and revela- but gathered by the hand ; as, beans:
Which, if he taice, ihall quite unpeople her tions from God, to give a more venerable fanftion in general, all larger feeds ; pulfe.
Of leijgeri for her fweet. Shaiefftare'i Cymh/'mt. to the laws he prcfcribed. Litthtsn. Some legumens, as peas or beans, if newly gi.
If leigir ambaffadors or agents were fent to re-
main neat the courts of princes, to obferve their Leoisla'tive. adj. [from legijlator.] thered and diftilled in a retort, will afl'ord an acid
Giving laws; lawgiving. fpirit. Boyie.
tnotions, fiich weie made choice 6f as were vigi-
Their hgijlative frenzy they repent, In the fpring fellupon which eofued
great rains,
lanU Bacon.
£na£fcing it ihould make no precedent. Denham. a moft deftruîve mildew upon the corn and le-
Who can endear gumes. Arbuthnot.
Thy praife too much ? thou art Heav'n's Iciger here, The poet isakindof lawgiver, and thofe qualities
Working againft the ftates of death and hell. Htrlcrr. are proper to the legijlatiiie ftyle. Dryden. Legu'minous. \legumineux, Fr. from
fliijr.
He withdrew not his confidence from any of LEGISLA'TOK. »./. [legijlator, Latin; legumen.] Belonging to pulfe ; confift-
tfaofe who
attended his petfon, who, in truth, lay legijlateur, French.] A lawgiver; one ing of pulfe.
liigtr for the covenant, and kept up the fpirits of The propereft food of the vegetable kingdom is
their countrymen by their intelligence. ClarenJen.
who makes laws for any community.
It fpoke like a legijlator : the thing fpoke was a taken from the farinaceous feeds ; as oats, barley,
I call that a Irjger bait, which is fixed, or made and wheat : or of fome of the filiquofe or legu-
law. SoHbt
to reft, in one certain place, when you (hall be minous as, peas or beans. Arbuthnot.
Heroes in animated marble frown. ;
abfent and I call that a walking bait which you
have ev4r
;
And legijlators feem to tliink in Hone. Pope. Le'isurable. fldj/. [ixom leifure,] Done
in motion. ffâiion.
Lecerdema'in. Legisla'ture. B.J. [from legijlator, at leifure ; not hurried ; enjoying lei-
»./. [contrafled perhaps
Latin.] I'he power that makes laws. fure.
from legereti de main, French.] Slight
Without the concurrent confent of all three A
relation inexcufable in his works of leijurahle
of hand ; juggle ; power of deceiving parts of the legijlaturi,
no law is, or can be made. hours, the examination being 3s ready as the rela<
the eye by nimble motion j trick ; de- Hitlers Com. Lano. tion. ,
Brown, .
ception ; knack. In the notion of a legijjaiure is implied a power Le'isurably. eidv. [ftorn leijurahle.] Ac
He fo light was it legerdemain, to change, repeal, and fufpend laws in being, as well
leifure ; without tumult or hurry.
That what he touch'd came not to light again. as to make new laws. Addiftn.
Let us beg of God, that when the hour of our
Hubberi. By the fupreme magiftrate is properly under-
reft is come, the patterns of our difTolution may
Of all the trieks and Imrdemain by which men ftnod the legiilailve power; but the word magiftrate
be Jacob, Mofes, Jolhua, and David, who leifur-
laipofe upon their own fouh, there is none fo com- feeming to denote a fingle perfon, and to exprcfs
ably ending their lives in peace, prayed for the
mon as the plea of a good intention. South. the executive power, it came to pafs that the obe-
mercies of God upon their pofterity. Hctktr,
Lece'ritv. n. /. dJEfce due to the legijlature was, for want of con-
[Ugerete, French.] LE'ISURE.
fidering this eafy diftin£lion, mifapplied to the ad- «./. [loi^r, French.]
Lightnefs; nimblenefs; quicknefs. A miniftration. Swift. 1, Freedom from bufinefs or hurry; va-
word not in ufc.
Wh:n the mind is qnicken'd.
Legi'timacy. n.f. [(torn legitimate.] cancy of mind ;
power to fpend time
The organs, though deftinft and dead before. 1. Lawfulnefs of birth. according to choice.
Break up their drowfy grave, and newly move In refpe^ of his legitimacy, it will be good. A gentleman fell very fick ; and a friend faid to
With cafted flough and freft legerity. -«'/#• him, Send for a phyfician ; but the fick man an-
Sbahffeare. . .
Lt'oGtD. aJJ. [from ieg.] Having legs; 2. Genoinenefs ; not fpurioufnefs. fwered. It is no matter ; for if I die, I will die
Tht legitimacy or reality of thefc marine bodies at leijvre. Baeon^s Apophthegms.
furnifhed with legs.
vindicated, I now inquire by what means they were Where ambition and avarice have made no en-
Le'cible. at/J. [ligihilit, Latin.] hurried out of the ocean. IVoodicard. trance, the defire of leifure is much more natural
I. Such as may be read. than of bufinefs and care. Temple,
You obferve fotne clergymen with their heads
LEGl'TIMATE. adj.[from legitimus,
You enjoy your quiet in a garden, where you
held down within an inch of the culbion, to read
Lat. legitime, French.] Born in mar- have not only the leifure of thinking, but the ple.i-
what is hardly hgiile. riage ; lawfully begotten. fure to think of nothing which can difconipofe
Sviift.
Apparent; difcoverable. L/g.titnate Edgar, I mart have your land your mind. Dryden.
a.
People'* opinions of themfelves ate
Our father's 1 )ve is to the baftard Edmund. Shaiefp. 2. Convenience of time.
/egiile in
their countenancci. Thus
An adulterous perfon is tied to make provifion
We'll make our kifuves to attend on yours.
* kind imagination
for (he childtcB bcgottca in ujiiawful cmbtaces. Shakefpearit
They
! ; ; ; ; ; '
L E M L E ^r L EN
Theyfunimon'd up their memy, (trait took hoUe To LEND.
Commanded me
v. a. preterite, and part. paff. 5. Long duration or protraftion.
to follow, and 2tiend
The
lent. [lasnan, Saxon; Icenen, Dutch.] May Heav'n, great monarch, ftill augment your
Idfare of their anfHer. iihakejp. Khg Lear.
O happy youth !
I. To afford or fupply, on condition of blifs.
With
length of days, and every day like this. Dryd.
For whomthy fates refervt fo fair a bride : repayment.
Such toil requir'd the Roman name.
He and had no kifurc more to fay,
(igh'd, In common worldly things 'tis call'd ungrateful
Such length of labour for fo vaft a frame. Dryden.
His honour call'd his eyes another way. Drydm* With dull unwillingnefs to fay a debt.
In lengib of time it will cover the whole plain,
I lha!l leave with him that rebuke, to be confi- Which, witli a bounteous hand, was kindly lent
j and make one mountain with that on which it
dered at his k'tj^rc. ^ Locke. Much more to be thus oppofite with Heav'n.
now ftands. Addif n.
Want
.
3. of leifure. Not ufed. Sbakefpeare.

Thou not give him tliy money upon ufury,
(halt 6. Reach or expanfion of any thing.
More than I h»ve faid, living countrymen ;
nor lend him thy victuals for incrcafe. I do not recommend to all a purfuit of fciences,
The Uifrre and enforcement of the time
to thofe extenfive lettglli to which the modernt
Forbids to dwell on. Siaic/jKcre^s Rlthard III. Ll*v. XXV. 37.
They dare not give, and e'en refufe to lend. have advanced. ffâtls,
Leisurely, adj. [from /ei/ure.] Not To their poor kindred, or a wanting friend. DryJev. 7. Full extent ; uncontrafted ftate.
hafty ; deliberate ; done without 2._To If Lsetitia, who fent me this account, will ac-
fuffer to be ufed on condition that
hurry. quaint me with the worthy gentleman's name, I
it be reflored.
He was the wretchedeft thing when he was young, will infer't it at length in one of my papers.
So long a growing, and fo ieijurcly.
I'll lend it thee, my dear, but have no power to
give it from me. s SpeSialm: Addifon
That, if the rale were true, he Ihould be gracious. Sbakefpeare.
The fair bleffing we voucbfafe to fend 8. Diftance.
Sbakefpeare. He had marched to the length of Exeter, which
Nor can we fpate you long, though often we may
The earlof Warwick, with a handful of men, he had fome thought of befieging.
lend. Dryder.. Clarendon.
fired Leith and Edinl« |^h, and returned by a U'l-
march. 3. To afford ;
_
to grant in general. 9. End ; latter part of any aflignable

j-jrcly Hayvjard,
The bridge is human life ! upon a le:furtly fur-
Covetoufnefs, like the fea, receives the tilbute lime.
rey of it, I found that it coniilled of threefcore
of all rivers, though far unlike it in lending any Churches purged of things burdenfome, all was
and tea intire arches.
back again. Dc.ay of P'lety. brought at the length unto that wherein now we
Addijcr.,
Painting and poefy are two fillers (b like, that ftand.
Le'isurely. ttd-v. [from lei/ure.] Not Hooker.
they lend to each other their name and office one :
Acrooked flick is not ftraitened, unlefs it be
in a hurry ; flowly ; deliberately. is called a dumb poefy, and the other a fpeaking bent as far on the clear contrary fide, that fo it
The Belgians hop'd, that with diforder'd hade. P'ûre. may
Dryden's Dufrefnoy. fettle itfelf at the lengtb in a middle ftate of
Our deep-cut keels upon the fands might run From thy new hope, and from thy growing (lore. evennefs between them both. Hooker.
Or if with caution Uifurcly we paft.
Their numerous grofs might charge us one by
Now lend alTiftance, and relieve the poor. DryJen.
Cato, lend me for a while thy patience.
10. M Length. [An adverbial mode
one- Dryden. of fpeech. It was formerly written at
And condefcend to hear a young man fpeak. Addif.
We defcendcd very liifursly, my friend being
Cephifa, thou
the length.] At ; in conclufion.
laft
careful to count the fteps. Addij:ir:. Wilt lend a hand to dofe thy miftrelV eyes. At length, at length, have thee in my arms.
I
Le'man. n.f. [Generally fuppofed to be Though our malevolent ftars have ftruggled hard.
A. Pbilipi.
And held us long afunder. Dryden's Kirg Arthur.
laimant, the lover, French ; but ima- Le nder. «./ [from lend.^
gined hy Junius, with almoU equal pro- 1. One who lends any
TffLE'NGTHEN. -v.a. [from length.]
thing.
1. To draw out; to make longer;
bability, to be derived from leef, Dutch, 2. One who makes a trade of putting to
orleop, Saxon, belcved, and /na/x. This elongate.
money to intereft.
Relaxing the libres, is making them flexible, or
etymology it ftrongly fupported by the Let the ftate be anfwered fome fmall matter, and
eafy to be lengthened without rupture.
the reft left to the lei:der
Ariutbnott
antient orthography, according to which abatement be ; if the
Falling dews with fpangles deck'd the glade.
fmall, it will not difcourage the Undir : he that
it was written leveman.] A fweetheart And the low fun had lengthened every (hade. Pope.
took ten in the hundred, will fooner defcend to
a gallant ; or a miftrefs. Uanmtr. eight than give over this trade. 2. Toprotraft; to continue.
Bucm.
Hold for my fake, and do him not to dye Whole droves of lenden crowd the bankers doors Fiame your mind to mirth and merriment.
But vanquiflj'd, thine eternal bondllave make, To call in money. Which bars a thoufand harms, and lengthens life.
Drydens Sfani/h Fryar.
And me thy worthy meed unto thy Iman take. would certainly encourage the lender to
Interell Sbakefpeare^
Spenfer, venture in fuch a time of danger. Break off thy fins by righteoufnefs, and thine ini-
Addifon.
A
cup of wine, quities by (hewing mercy to the poor : if it may be
That's brilk and fine. Length. »./. [from lenj^, Saxon.] a lengthening of thy traoquillity. Dan.
And drink unto the Innati mine. 1. The extent of any thing material from It is inour power to fecure to ourfelves an inte-
Shakrfpttre.
Le'mma. end. to end reft in the divine mercies that are yet to come, and
». /
[>i«fifta; lent me, FrencYi.]
drawn through a body.
; the longefl line chat can be
to lengthen the courfe of our prefcnt profperity.
A propofition previoufly aflamed.
Anerhury's Sermons.
There is in 1 icinum a church that
LE'MON. ». /. [//««», French ; limo- one hundred feet, in breadth twenty, and in heighth
!s in lengtb
3. To protraft pronunciation.
Htum, low Lat.] near fifty : it reporteth the voice twelve or thirteen The learned languages were Icfs conflralned in
1. The fruit of the lemon-tree. times.
£^„_ the quantity of every fyllable, befidc helps of gram-
The juice of lemmt is more cooling and aftrin- 2. Horizontal extenfion. matical figures for the leugtbtmng or abbreviation
%%m than that of oranges. Arbuthm!. Mez^ntlus rulhes on his foes. of them. Dryden.
The dyers afe it for dying of bright yellows and And firft unhappy Acron overthrows
;
4. To Lengthen out. [The particle out
Itram colours. Mortlmtr. Strctch'd at his length he fpurns the fwarthy ground. is only emphatical.] To protradl ; to
Bear me, Pomona Drydetl, extend.
To where the Itmon and the piercing lime. Comparative extent; What
3. certain portion if I pleafe to lengthen out his date
With the deep orange, glowing through the green.
Their lighter glories blend.
of fpace or time : in this fenfe it has a A day, and uke a pride to cozen fate .'
Dryden.
Tbmfiri, I'd hoard up every moment of my
plural. life.
2. The tree that bears lemons. To lengthen out the payment of my tears. Dry.,
Large lengths of and (hores ieas j.
The leivon tree balh large ftifF leaves ; the It lengthens out every aft of worlhip, and pro-
flower confifts of many leaves, which expand in
Between my father and my
mother lay. Sbakefpeare.
To get from tb' enemy, and Ralph, free duces more lafting and permanent impreffions in
form of a rofe: the fruit is almoft of an ovil j
the mind, than thofe which accompany any tran-
Left danger, fears, and foes, behind.
figure, and divided into feveral ceils, in which are fient form of words.
Arid beat, at leaft, three lengths the wind. Hiidih. Addifon.
lodged hard feeds, furrounded by a thick flelhy
'Jime glides along with undifcovcr'd haftc. 7« Le'ncthen. i;. ». To grow longer ;
fubftancc, which, for the mo/t part, is full of an
The future but a lengtb beyond the part. Dryden. to increafe in length.
acid juice. 'I here are many varieties of this tree,
and the fruit is yearly imported from Lilbon in 4. Extent of duration or fpace. One may as well make
a yard, whofe parti
great plenty. What length of lands, what oceans lengthen and (hrink, as a nfcWure of trade in ma-
Mi/.'er. have you
terials, that have not always a fettled value. Loeke.
Lemona'de. »./ [from /men.] Liquor pafa d.
What ftornis fuftain'd, and on what
Still 'tis farther from its end
made of water, fugar, and the juice of fliores been
Still finds its error lengthen with
;
way.
"ft* Dryden.
its Prior.
lemons. Haying thus got the idea of duration, the next Le'ngthvvise. adv. [length and luife.]
Thou, and thy wife, and children, fliould walk thing is to get fome mcafure of this common dura- According to the length ; in a longitu-
U my (arden, boy toys, and drink Uminadt. tion, whereby to judge of it« different lengths.
dinal direflion.
Arhuth. J. Bull.
Lficke,
Le'nient. adj. [lenient, Latin.]
E a I. Aflliafive;
}
L E N LEO L E S
1. A/Tuafive ; foftening; mttigadng. She qiieach'd her fury at the flood, , Sheep tun not half fo tim'rous from the wolf,
In thii one ptflion can Hrength enjoy j nun And with a lenten fallad cool'd her blood. Or horli; or t* n from the leopard.
Tune, that on aU dungs lays hit inicr.t hand. Their commons, though but coarfe, were nothing As you fly from your oft-fubaued llaves. Sbakeff,
Yet tamo not ihJi ; it liicks to our Uft fand. fcant. DryJen'tHi^d anil Panther. A leopard is every way, in (hape and anions,
Pcpe. Lmri'cv I. AR. adj. yeitiUulairt, French.] like a cat : his head, teeth, tongue, feet, claws,
2. With Doubly convex of the form of a lens.

tail, all like he boxes with his fore-feet,
a cat's ;
cf. ;
at a cat doth her kittens ; leaps at the prey, as a
Confolatorics writ The cryftilline humour is of a lenticular figure,
Witli (ludy'dargumcnt, and much perfualion fought, cat at a moufe; and will alio fpit much alter the
convex on both fides. Ray en Creatnn.
fame manner £} that they feem to dili'er, juH as a
Lenient o/" grief and anxious thought. MUion- Lb'ntiform. adj. [lens zni forma, Lat.] kite dJth from an eagle.
:
Crtta-
3. Laxative ; emollient. Having the form of a lens. Before the king tame leofardi led the way.
Oils relax the fibres, are Itv'uitt, balfamick, and
Lenti'ginous. a/^'. [Uotn lentigo, Lat.] And troops of lions innocently play. Dryden.
abate acrimony in the blood. Arbuthmt en jil'm.
Scurfy ; furfuraceous. Le'per. n. f. [le/ira, lefrofus, Latin,]
Le'nient. n.f. An emollient, or affua-
five application.
LENTIGO, n.f. [Latin.] A freckly or One infected with a leproly.
fcurfy eruption upon the fkin ; fuch Iam no loathfome leper ; look on me. Sbakefp.
I drefTed it with lenirnlt. ffîfesun's Surgery.
efpecially as is common to women in
The leper in whom the plague is, hi: cloaths
y»LE'KlFY. v. n. [lenijier, old French ; fliall be rent. An.', xiii. 45.
Itnio, Latin. J To
afluage ; to mitigate. child-bearing. încy.
Le'perous. adj. [Formed from leprous,
Ufed for fquinancics and inflammations in the Le'ntjl. «. J', [lens, Lat. lentille, Fr.]
to make out averfe.] Cauling lepro*
throat, it fccmeth to have a mollifying and Unify- A plant.
fy infedted with leprofy ; leprous.
;
»rj virtue. Baeun. hath a papilionaceous flower, the pointal of
It
AU foft'ning fimples, known of fov'reign ufe. which becomes a ihort pod, containing oibicular Upon my fecure hour thy uncle dole,
Me prelles out, and pours their noble juice feeds, for the moft part convex ; the leaves are With juice of curfed he'* ion in a vial.
j
Thefe firrt infus'd, to Unify the pain. conjugated, growing to one mid-rib, and are ter- And in the porches of mine ears did pout
He tugs with pincers, but he tugs in vain. Dryien. minated by tendrils. Miller.
The hptroui diftilment. Siakrjpcare'i Hamlet-
Le'nitive. adj. \ltnitif, French ; Itnio, The Philiftines were gathered together, where Leporine, adj. [leforinus, Lat.] Be-
Latin.] AfTuafive; emollient. was a piece of ground full of leniiles. longing to a hare ; having the nature
Some plants have a milk in them ; the caufe
iSam. xxiii. 11. of a hare.
may be an inception of putrcfaflion : for thofe Le'ntisck. Latin ; len-
«. /. [lentifcus, Lepro'sity. ». y! [from le/rous,] Squ<^
milks have all an acrimony, though one would tifque, French.] Lentifck wood is of a mous difeafe.
think they Ihould be lenitive. Bacon. pale brown, almoil whitifli, rellnous, If the crudities, impurities, and leprojttiei of
There is aliment Itniti-ue expelling the faces metals were cured, they would become gold.
fragrant, and acrid : it is the tree which
Vnthcut llimulating the bowels j fuch are animal Bacon Nat. Hift,
' oils. Arhuthnot.
produces mallich, efteemed allringent i
Le'nitive. ti. /. and balfamick. Hill. Le'prosy. n. f. [lepra, Lat. leprt, Fr.]
1. Any thing medicinally applied to eafe

Leniiftk is a beautiful evergreen, the maftich or A loathfome dillemper, whicb covers
gum of which is of ufe for the teeth or gums.
the body with a kind of white fcales.
pain> Murtimer's Hujharjry. Itches, blains.
2. A palliative. Le'ntitude. «. / [from Itntus, Lat.] Sow all the Athenian bofjms, and their crop
There are /enitivet that fi-iendlhip will apply, be-
Be general lefrofy.
Sluggilhnefs ; llownefs. Diit. Sbakefp, Timon of Athens.
fore it would be brought to decretory rigours.
Soutb^s Sermotii.
Le'ntner. n.f. A kind of hawk. It is a plague of leprofy. Lev. xiii. 3.
I Ihould enlarge my difcourfe to the obferv<tion
Between the malice of my eneinies and other
Le'nity. n. /. [hnitas, Latin.] Mild- men's millakes, I put as great a difference as be-
of the haggard, aad the two forts of Icnineri.
nefs ; mercy ; tendernefs ; foftnefs of fValtcnî Angler.
tween the itch of novelty, and the leprofy of dif.
temper. loyalty. King Charles.
LE'NTOR-. n.f. [lentor, Lat. lenleur, Fr.] Audiors, upon the firfl entrance of the pox,
Henry gives confent.
1. Tenacity; vilcofity. looked upon it (a highly infectious, that they ran
Of meer compafliom and of lenity.
Some bodies have a kind of levtor, and more away from it as much as the Jews did from the
To eafe your country. Shakefpeare's Hen. VI.
depeîblc nature than others. Bacon.
Jênity mull gain leprofy. }yijevun\ Surgery^
The 2. Slownefs; delay; fluggifh coldnefs.
mighty men, and pjeafe the difcontent. Dan. Le'prous. adj. [lepra, Latin ; lepreux,
Albeit fo ample a pardon was proclaimed touch- The /ifnrOT- of eruptions, not inflammatory, points
to an acid caufe. Arhuthnot on Diet.
French.] Infeited with a leprofy.
ing treafon, yet coi^ not the boldnefs be beaten
The filly amorous fucks his death.
4own either with leverity, or with lenity be abated. 3. [In phyfick.] That fizy, vifcid, co-
By drawing in a lefroui harlot's breath. Donne.
H-tyzi'orti. agulated part of the blood, which, in
Thefe jealoufies malignant fevers, obllru£l$ the capillary
Lere. n.f. [Iijie, Saxon ; leere, Dutch.]
Have but one root, the old imprifon'd king,
veflels. '{uincy.
A leflbn ; lore ; doftrine. Obfolete.
"Whofe pleasM the gaping crowd :
lenity firft This fenfe is ftill retained in Scotland^
But when long try'd, and found fupinely good, Le'ntous. adj. [lentus, Latin.] Vilcous;
The kid pitying his heavineft,
tike ^top't log, they leapt upon his back. Dry J. tenacious ; capable to be drawn out. Alked the caule of his great diftrefs 5
In this fp3wn of a lentous and tranfparent body, And alfii who, and whence, that he were.
JiENs. »./ From refemblance to the feed
are to be difcerned many fpecks which become Though he that had well ycond his lere.
of a lentil.
black, 1 fuhftance more compacted and tcrrellrious
A glafc fphericalty convex on both lides, Thus melled his talk with many a teare. Spenfer,
is ufual- than the other ; for it rifeth not in diftillation.
ly called a lent
; fuch as is a burning-glafs, or fpec-
Brown. Le'rry. n.f. [from /fr*.] A rating;, a
tack-glafs, or an objefl-glafs of a telcfcope. leilure. Rultick word.
Le'od. n.f. Leod
the people; fignifies
Nev;tonî Optifh.
or, rather, a nation, country, Ifc Less. A negative or privative termina-
According to the difference of the Unja, I ufcd
jiarious dittances. Thus, leodgar is one of great interell tion, [leap, Saxon ; /oor, Dutch.] Join-
Ncvitm'i Optiiks.
iiiKT. part paff. from lend. with the people or oation. Gihfon.
ed to a fubHantive, it implies the ab-
By Jove the ftrar.ger and the poor are fent, hs.'ov. n.f. Leaf denotes love; fo leof- fence or privation cf the thing exprefled
And whit to thofe we give, to Jove is lent. P /«• ivin is a winner of love ; leofjian, bell by that fubllantive: as, a luitlefs man,
LENT. »./. [lentin, the fpring, Saxon.] beloved : like thefe Agapetus, Krafmus, a man without wit ; childlefs, without
The qaadrageftmal faA ; a time of ab- Philo, Amandus, l^c, Gibfon's Camden. children ; fatherlefs, deprived of a fa-
ftinence ; the time from Aihwednefday hz'otiitii. adj. [leoninus , hilia."^ ther ; pennylefs, wanting money.
to Eafter. 1. Belonging to a lion; having the na- Less. adj. [Iea|-, Saxon.] The compa-
Lent isfrom ffMging, becaufe it falleth in the rative cf little oppofed to greater, or
ture of a lion. :
fpring ht which our piogeniturs, the Gcrraajis,
ufe glmi.
•,
2. Leonine verfes are thofe of which the to fo great ; not fo much ; not equal.
CamJs-n.
end rhimes to the iniddle, fo named Mary, the mother of James the left.
Lb'ntek. adj. [from lent.'] Such as it Mark, XV. 40.
from Z.f0 the inventor as, : ,
ufed in lent ; fparing. He that thinks he has a pofitive idea of infinite
Gloria fa£lorum temere conceditur horum.
My lord, if you delight not in man, what lenten fpace will find, that he can no more have a pofitive
Cntcruiiuneot tiu p layen ihalT receive from ynu !
Leopard, n. f [leo And fardut, Lat.J idea of the greatcft than he has of the leaft fpace
Sbttkrjp. Hamlet A fpoued bcall of prey. for la this latter we arc capable only of a com-
( farativs
L E S L E S LET
caraiive Idea of fmaJlnefs, which will always be authority which a mode originally erro- tion or care left a thing (hould happen.
Uji than any one whereof we have the pofitivc idea. neous can derive from cuftom. Forty ftripes he may give him, and not exceed,
hocke, if he fliould exceed, then thy brother /hould
What great defpite doth fortune to thee bear. Irfi
AU the ideas that are conCdered as having parts, Thus lowly to abafe thy beauty bright, fecm vile. Deut. xxv.
and are capable of increale by the addition cf any That it fhould not deface all other light? Lef they fairtt
leffer
equal or /r/i parts, afford us, by their repetition, Fairy Sêen. At the fad fentence rigoroully urg'd.
the idea of infinity. hacks. All terror hide. Milton,
It is. the blot, modefty finds.
lejjer
'Tis liji to conquer, than to make wars ceaft.
Women change their fliapes than men their
to
My labour will fuftain me, and leji cold
And, without fighting, awe tjje world to peace.
minds. Sbahefpeare. Or heat fliould injure us, his timely care
haUifax.
The mountains, and higher parts of the earth, Hath unbefought provided. • Miltm,
Less. n. f. Not fo much; oppofed to grow A^r and Isjfer from age to age fometimes :
King Luitprand brought hither the corps, Icjt it
might be abul'ed by the barbarous nations. Addijon.
mort, or to as much. the roots of them are weakened by fubterraneous
They gathered fome more; fome /f/j. fires, and fometimes tumbled by earthquakes into z. It fometimes means only that, with a
Exod. xvi. 1 7. caverns that are under them. Burref. kind of emphafis.
Thy fervant knew nothing of this, hfi or more. Cain, after the murder of his brother, cries out. One doubt
1 Sam. Every man that findeth me ihall (lay me. By the Perfues me ftill, hfi all I cannot die.
Yetcould he not his dofing eyes withdraw, fame reafon may a man, in the flate of nature, Lift that pure breath of life, the fpirit of man.
Though UJs and hfi of Emily he faw. DryJer.. punilh the I,jjir breaches of that law. Locke. Which God infpir'd, cannot together pcrifli
"Liss. adv. In a fmaller degree; in a Any heat promotes the afcent of mineral matter, With this corporeal clod. Milton.
but more efpecially of that which is fubtile, and is
lower degree. Le'stercock. n.f. They have
a device
confequentiy moveable more cafily, and with a
This opinion prefents a /./i merry, but not left
lejfer power. IVoodivard. of two flicks with corks, and
filled
dangerous, temptacion to thole in adverfity. crofled flatlong, out of whofe midft
The larger here, and there the I'ffer lambs.
Dtcaj of Piety.
The new-fall'a young het4 bleating for their dams. there rifeih a thread, and at the fame
The Itfs betwixt ns and the ob-
fpace there is
Pope.
jeft, and the more pure the air is, by fo much hangeth a fail ; termed
to this engine,
the more the fpecies are prefetved and diftingui/h-
Le'sser. adv. [formed by corruption a lejiercock, they tie one end of their
ed ; and, on the contrary, the more fpace of air from /(/}•] boulter, fo as the wind coming from the
there is, and the left it is pure, fo mncii the more Some fay he's mad others, that lejfr hate him,
fliore fillcth the fail, and the fail car-
j
the objedl is confufed and embroiled. Dryden. Do call it valiant fury. Shakcfpeare's Macbeth.
rieth the boukcr into the fea, which,
Their learning lay chiefly in flourifli j they were Le'sses. a. /. [laijfeet, French.] The
not much wifer th n the /r/j pretending multitude. after the refpite of fome hours, is drawn
dung of beafts left on the ground.
C^/luron Pride. in again by a cord faflened at the nearer
The hfi they themfelves want from others, they
LE'SSON. n. /. [Ufon, French ; Uaio,
end. Caretu.
will be Ifi carefijl to fupply the neceflities of the
Latin.]
indigent. Smalridgt. 1. Any thing read or repeated to a To LET. v. a. [Isran, Saxon.]
Happy, and happy ftill, (he might have prov'd. teacher, in order to improvement. 1. To allow; tofuffer; to permit.
Were (he /r/i beautiful, or /./i belov'd. Pope. Nay, nay, quoth he, ftrife and doubt.
let be your
Ibut repeat that Icjp>n
Fairfax.
Le'ssee. n. /. The perfon to whom a Which I have leam'd from thee. Dcnbam's Sophy.
Where there is a certainty and an uncertainty,
leafe is given. 2. Precept ; notion inculcated.
let the uncertainty go, and hold to that which is
This day's enfample hath this te^n dear
ToLe'ssen. 1/. «. [from //?/}] certain. Bijhop Sander/in.
Deep written in my heart with Iron pen.
To make lefs to diminifh in bulk. On the crowd he caft a furious look,
I. ; That blifs may not abide in ftate of mortal men.
And wither'd all their ftrength before he fpoke;
2- To diminifh the degree of any ftate or Fairy êen.
Back on your lives, let be, faid he, my prey.
quality to make let's intenfe. Be not jealous over the wife of thy bolbm, and
; And my
vengeance take thi deftin'd way.
let
Kings may give teach her not an evil lc£iit againft thyfelf*
Dryden.
Ecchs, IX. I.
To beggars, and not leffin their own greatnefs. Remember me ; fpeak, Raymond, will you let
Vcnham. 3. Portions of fcripture read in divine fer-
him ?
Though charity alone will not make one happy vice. '
Shall he ? Dryden's Spanijh Fr.
remember Leonora
ID the other world, yet it (hall lejjir. his punifliment. Notwithftanding fo eminent properties, whereof We muft notgo manifeft trutiis, becaufe we
let
Calumy't Scrmjm. /JJont are happily deftitute yet Iffflnt being free cannot anfwer all queftions about them. C«l!icr.
;
Colled into one fum as great a number as you trom fome inconveniencies whereunto fermons are One who fixes his thoughts intently on one
flcafe, this multitude, how great foevcr, Itffens not mjft fubjeft, they may, in this refpcft, no lefs thing, fo as to take but little notice of the fuc-
one jot the power of adding to it, or brings him take, than in other they muft give the hand which celHon of ideas in his mind, hti flip out of his
any nearer the end of the inexhaullible Hock of bctokeneth pre-emlnenco. Hooker. account a good part of tliat duration. Locke.
Dumber. Lode. Tune pricked for an inftroment. A folution of mercury in aqua fortis being poured
4.
This ihirft after fame betrayj him into fuch in- upon iron, copper, tin, or lead, difl'olves the metal,
Thofe good laws were like good lejfaits fet for a
decencies as are a lijpmtig to his reputation, and is and let! go the mercury. Nc-wtons Opticks.
flute out of tune; of which liff^ni little ufe can
locked upon as a wealuiefs in the greatell cha-
be made, till the flute be made fit to be played on. z. A fign of the optative mood ufed before
rafters. yiddifin'i Spe/latc. Daviei on Ireland.
Nor which the brutal part of the firft, and imperative bef )re the third
are the pleafures
the creation enjoy, fubjeft to be hffiiud by the un- 5. A rating leflure. perfon. Before the firft perfon fir lar
Atterhury.
S!ke would give her a Irffin for walking fo late,
eafincfs which arifes from fancy.
that Ihould make her keep within doors for one it fignifies refoluiion, fixed purpok, or
3. To degrade; to deprive of power or fortnight. Sidrey. ardent wilh.
dignity. To Le'sson. v. a. [from the noun.] To Lit me die with the Phillftlnes. jfvdges.
forks Who teach ; to inilruft.
Here let me fit.
To Ijjin thee, againft his purpofe fctves And hold hngh converfe with the mighty dead.
Even in kind love, I do conjure thee
To manifeft the more thy might. Mitton. Tbsnifitt.
magnify his when To Icjfin Shakejp. Tiuo Gentlemen of Verona.
me.
St. Paul chole to office, ill
Before the firft perfon plural, let implies
Well haft thou Uffvn'dw, this (hall we do. Shak. 3.
men confpircd to /iffcn it. jitiertury'i Sermons.
exhortation.
Children fhould be feafoned betimes, and Icjincd
To Le'ssen. v. n. To grow lefs ; to
into a contempt and deteftatJon of this vice. Rife i let us go. Ma-k.
fhrink to be diminifhed.
; L'EJirange'i Fables. Let us feek out fome defolate Ihade. Slakfpcare.
Ail government may be efteemcd to grow ftrong Le'ssor. w. /. One who any thing
lets 4. Before the third perfon, finguiar or
01 weak, as the general opinion in thofe that go-
to farm, or otherwife, by leafe. plural, let implies permifllon.
vern is fccn to lijjin or increafe. Temple.
Lords of the world have but for life their leafe, Let Euclid reft, and Archimedes paufe. Milton.
The objeftion hjpns much, and comes to no
more than this, there wu one witncfs of no good
And that too, if the lejhr pleafe, muft ceafe. 5. Or precept.
Denham. him from on« of tlie
reputation. Atterhury. Let tlie foldicrs fclse afl'a/fl-
If he demifcs the glebe to a layman, the tenant Dryden,
Le'sser. aJj, A barbarous (forruption of muft pay the fmall tithes to the vicar, and the
nates.
le/t, formed by the vulgar from the Parergon.

6. Sometimes it implies conceflion.
great tithes to the hjf,r. Ayl'iffe'i
O'er golden fands let rich Paitolus flow,
habit of terminating comparatives in LfcST. conj. [from the adjedlive leaft.\ Or trees weep amber on tlic banks of Po,
*r ; afterwards adopted by poets, and I. This particle may be fometimes re- While by our oaks the precious loads are born.
then by writers of profe, till it has all the meaning preven- And realms commanded which tliofe trees adorn.
I folved into that not,
Pope.
; . ;
. ; ;
LET LET LET

Be rul'd by me The myflery of iniquity doth already work ; only
J. Before a thing in the paflire voice, Iti tet't purge this choler without letting hlood. Shak. he who now leiteth will let, until be be taken out
implies command. His ancient knot of dangerous adverfaries of the way. 1 Thif.
J^t not the objects which ought to be conti- work, and who will let it^ Jfa, xliii. 11.
I will
To-morrow are let hlood at Shak.
Pomfret caftle.
gaous be Separated, and /'/ thofe which ought to And now no longer letted of his prey.
Hippocrates let great quantities of hhod, and
b<- fepaiated be apparently fo to us but let this be
\
openrd feveral veins at a time, /irhutir.ot on Coint. He leaps up at it with enrag'd defue,
dODC by a Imal) and plealing difference. Dryitn, O'erlooks the neighbours with a wide furtey,
15. To Let ilooii, is ufed with a dative
8. Let has an infinitive mood after it And nods at every houfe his threatening fire. Dryd.
of the perfon whofe blood is let.
without the particle to, as in the for-
doth 2. To Let, when it fignifiet to permit or
As tcrebration doth meliorate fruits, fo
mer examples. letting plants hlood, as pricking vines, thereby let- has kt in the preterite and part,
Ita've,
But one fubmiflive word which you Ut fall.
ting forth tears. Bacon. paflive
; but when it fignifies to binder,
Will make him in good humour with us Dryi.
The feventh year thou Aialt lit it
all.
reft, and lie

16. To Let /». To admit. it has letted ; as, multa me impedierunt,
Let in your king, whofe labour'd fpirits many things have letted me.
ftlll. Ex.d.
Crave harbourage within your city walls. Shakef.
IntroduHion to Grammar,
9. To leave : in this fenfe It is commonly Rofcetes preicnted his army before the gates of
followed by alone the city, in hopes that the citizens would niife To Let. i/. n. To forbear; to withhold
They did me too much injury. fame tumult, and /;/ him in. Knolles. himfelf.
That ever faid 1 hcarktn'd tor your death. What boots it at one gate to make defence. After king Ferdinando had taken upon him the
If it were fo, I might have lei atne And at another to let in the foe, perfon of a fraternal ally to the king, he would not
Th' intuiting hand of Douglas over you.
Shakef. ElTeminately vanquifh'd Milton's Agor.ifies.
.' let to counfel the king. Baton.
The public outrages of a deliroying tyranny arc The more tender our fpirits are made by religion, Let. n.f. [from the verb.] Hindrance;
but childilh appetites, lei alone till they are gro^vn the more eafy we are to let in grief, if the caufc be obflacle ; obAruAion ; impediment.
ungovernable. Jj" 'Ejlrange' i Fables* innocent. Taylor.
The fccret lets and difKcultics in public proceed-
Ltt me akne to accufe him afterwards. Dryden. They but preferve the aflies, thou the flame. ings are innumerable and inevitable. Hooker.
This is of no ufe, and had keen better let aline 1 True to his fenfe, but truer to his fame. Solyman without prefented his army before
let
he is fain to refolve all into prefent pofTelTiun. Lo(ie» Fording his current, where thou find'ft it low,
the city of Belgrade. Knilles'i Uijicry of the Turks.
Neftor, do not us a/sK till you have flijrten-
Icl Let'fl in thine ow,t to make it rife and flow. It had been done ere this, had I been conful
ed our necks, and reduced them to their anticnt Denham. We had had no flop, no I't. Ben "Jonfon's Caiiliiu.
ftandard. AiUifon. To give a period to my life, and to his fears,
Juft judge, two lets remove ; that free from dread,
This notion might be let alone and defplfed, as a you're welcome here's a throat, a heart, or any
;
I may before thy high tribunal plead. S.indyi.
piece of harmlefs unintelligible enthufiafm. R^jgen, other part, ready to in death, and receive his
let
To thefe internal <lifpofitiuns to fin, add the ex-
10. To more than permit ; to give. commands. Denham. ternal opportunities and occafions concurring with
There's a letter for you, Sir, if your name be 17. If a noun follows, for let in, let into them, and removing al'v lets and rubs out of the
Horatio, as I am let to know it is. Shakeffeare. is required. way, and making the path of deflruftion plain
11. To put to grant to a tenant.
to hire; It is the key that lets them into their very heart, before tlie finncr's facej fo that he may run hit
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon ; he let and enables them to command all that is there. courfe freely. South.
the vineyard unto keepers. Cant. viii. 1 1 Scuth*s Sermons. Let, the termination of diiriinutive words,
Nothing deadens fo much the compo/ition of a There are pi&ures of fuch as have been diftin- from lyre, Stxon, little, Jmall ; as, r;T«-
picture, as figures which appertain not to the fub- guifhed by their birth or miracles, with infcrip-
iet, a/mall Rreum ; hamlet, a little vil-
jeft we may call them figures to be let. Dryden.
: tions, that let you into the name and hiflory of the
She let her fecond floor to a veiy genteel man. perfon reprefented. yiddifn.
lage.
Taller. Mofl have fpoken of ill fuccefs, and
hiftorians Letha'rgick. adj. [lethargiqiie, Fren.
A law was enabled, prohibidng all bifhops, ^nd terrible events, as if they had been let into the fecrcts from lethargy.'] Sleepy by difeafe, be-
other ccclefiaftic^l corporations, from letting their of Providence, and made acquainted with that pri- yond the natural power of fleep.
bnds for above the term of twenty years. Swift. vate conduct by which the world is governed.
Vengeance is as if minutely proclaimed in
12. To any thing to take a courfe
fufFer AdJifon.
thunder from heaven, to give men no reft in their
which requires no impulfive violence. Thefe are not myfteries for ordinary readers to be
fins, till they awake from the lethargiek fleep, and
1:1 into. Addif'jn.
In this fenfe it is commonly joined with arifc from fo dead, fo mortiferous a ftate.
As we rode through the town, I was lei into the
Hammond's Fundamentals.
a particle. charaêrs of all the inhabitants ; one was a dug,
She let them down by a cord through the win-
Let me but try if I can wake his pity
another a whelp, and another a cur. Addifcn.
dow. Jojhua.
From his Uthargiek fleep. Denham's Sophy.
Launch out into the deep, and let dciun your
18. To Let »«, or into. To procure ad- A lethargy demands the fame cure and diet as an
iniflion. apoplexy from a phlegmatick cafe, fuch being the
nets for a draught. Luke, v. 4.
hti dmin thy pitcher, that I may drink. They fhould fpeak properly and correSly, conftitution of the lethargiek. Arbuthnot on Diet.
Gen. xxiv. 14. whereby they may let their thoughts into other Letha'rgickness. n. /. [from lethar-
The beginning of when one men's minds the more ealily. Loeke.
gici.] Morbid
llrife is as leiteth fleepinel's j drowfinefs
tut wixsr. Prmi. xvii.14. As foon as they have hewn down any quantity
to a difeafe.
Ai terebratioD doth meliorate fruit,
io doth
of the rocks, they let in their fprings and rcfervoirs
among their works. Addijon.
A grain of glory mixt with humblenefs.
pricking vines or trees after they be of fome growth, Cures both a fever, and Uthargicknefi. Hrbert.
and thereby letting forth gum or tears. Beicon. 19. To Let off. To difcharge. Origi-
And if I knew which way to do"t. nally ufed of an arrow difmiffed from
LE'THARGY. [xnSapia ; lethar-
». /.
Your honour you out.

fafe, I'd let Hudihras. the gripe, and therefore fufFered to fly
gie, f rcnth.] A morbid drowlinefs ; a
The our love to mutable obje£ts doth
letting out Aeep from which one cannot be kept
off the firing now applied to guns. «
:
:but enlarge our hearts, and make them the wider awake.
marks for fortune to be wounded. Boyle.
Charging my piftol with powder, I cautioned the
emperor not to be afraid, and then let it off in the The l.thargj muft have his quiet courfe j
My heart finks in me while I hear him fpeak. If not, he foams at mouth, and by and by
air. Swift.
And every flacken'd fibre drops its hold Breaks out to favage madncfs. Shakefpeare.
Like nature letting down the fprings of life. Dryd. 20. To ht.T cut. Toleafeout; to give to
Though his eye is open, as the morning's,
From this point of the ftory, the poet is Ut hire or farm. Towards lufts and plcaiurcs yet fo faft a leth-irgy
;
Jinvn to his traditional poverty. Pope. To LET. v. a. [lertan, Saxon.] Has feizcd his powers towards public cares and
You muft Ut it drtvn, tliat is, make it fofter by 1. To hinder; to obftruft ; to oppofe. dangers.
tempering it. Moxont Mechanical Exercifes He llecps like death. Denham's Sophy
Their not letted from enjoying their
fenfes are
13. To permit to take any
ftate or courfe. objects : we have
the impediments of honour, and Europe lay then under deep Ittbargy \ and was
a
Finding aneafe in not underftanding, he Ut loofe the torments of confcience. Sidney. no othcrwife to be refcued from it, but by one that
his thoughts wholly to plcafure. Sidney. To glorify him in all things, is to do nothing would cry mightily. Atterhury,
Let reafon teich impolTibility in any thing, and whereby the name of God may be blafphemed ; A lethargy is a lighter fort of apoplexy, and de-
the will of man doth let it go. Hooker. nothing whereby the falvation of Jew or Grecian, mands the fame cure and diet. Arbuthnot on Diet,
He was let loofe among the woods as foon as he or any in the church of Chrill, may be let or bin- Le'tii ARGiED. atl/. [from the noun.]
was able to ride on horfcback, or carry a gun. deied. Hooker.
Laid alleep ; entranced.
jiddifon'i Sfettalor. off, whatever wight thou be.
Leave, ah, leave
His motion weakens, or his difcemings
Let To weary wretch from her due reil.
let a
J 4. 7*# iJooJ, is elliptical for to let Are lelhargied, Shakefpea'e's King Lear,
cut blooJ. To freefrom confinement
it
And trouble dying foul's tranquillity Fairy
Wherefore do ye let the people from their works
!
^ .>
Le'the. ». /. [\iiS»i.] Oblivion ; a
to.fufer it to ftream out of the vein. go you unto your burdens. £xod. v. 4. draught of oblivion.
The-
' ;:
LET LEV LEV

The conquering wine hath fteept our ferfe Lettuce thought to be poifonous, when it is fo
Is winds, and beat down and level the fwelling and
la foft and delicate lethi, Sbaktffeare- old as to have milk. Ba*on^s Natural Hiftory, mountainous billows of the fea. Raleigh*
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls The medicaments proper to dimini/h milk, are With unrefifted might the monarch reigns«
His wat'rj labyrinth, which whofo drinks lettuce, purflane, endive. IViJemafTs Surgery. He itvels mountains, and he raifes plains
Forgets both joy and grief. Milton. LWV ANT. eic/J. [/f^c»/, French.] Ealt- And not regarding difference of degree,
Abas'd your daughter, and exalted me. Dryden.
Le'tter. n. /. [from /f/.] ern.
1. One who lets or permits. Thwart of thofe, as fierce 4. To bring to equality of condition.
Reafon can never aflent to the admiflion of tliofe
2. One »vho hinders. Forth rulh the leviirtt, and the poncnt winds,
appetites which would over-run the foul,
brutifli
Eurus and Zephyr. Mdton\ Paradise Loji.
3. One who gives vent to any thing ; as, and level its fuperior with its inferior faculties.
a blood- let ter,
Le'vant. n. /. The eaft, particularly Decay of Piety.
^
thofe coalls of the Mediterranean eail
LE'TTER. »./. \lettre, French; litera, 5. Topoint in taking aim ; to aim.
of Italy. Each at the head
Latin.]
1. One of the elements of fyllables.
LEVATOR, n.f. [Latin.] Achirurgical Level'd his deadly aim. Mi/ton*
A fupcrfcriptjon was written over him in Utteri inllrument, whereby deprefled parts of One to the gunners on St. Jago's tow'r.
the fkull are lifted up. Bid 'em for Ihame level their cannon lower. Drjd%
of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. Luke, xxiii. 58.
Iron globes which on the vidlor hoft
Thou whorefon Zed thou unnecefl'ary Uticr
!
.'
Some furgeons bring out the bone in the bore j
SLakefpeare* but it will be fafer to raifc it up with your levator,
Levd'd with fuch impetuous fury fmote. Milton.
2. A written meffage ; an epiftle. when it is but lightly retained in fome part. The conftrudlion I believe is not,
They ufe to write it on the top of latent Shut. H'ijcmant Surgery. globes level'd on the hoft, but globes
I letter from her
have a Leucophlb'omacy. n. f. [from Ituco- level'd fmote on the hoft.
Of fuch contents as you will wonder at. Sbake/p. phlegmatick.l Palenefs, with vifcid juices 6. To direiS to any end.
When a Spaniard would write a litter by hira, the and cold fweatings. The whole body of puritans was drawn to be abet-
Indian would marvel how it fliould be poflible, that by a few men, whofe defigns from
tors of all villainy
Spirits produce debility, flatulency, fevers, leuco-
he, to whom he came, Ihould be able to know all
the were levelled to deftroy both religion and
pbtegmacy, and dropfies. Arl utbnot on Aliments. firft
things. Ahiot. government.
The affes will do very well for trumpeters, and the
Leucophlegm a'tick. adj. \\ivKoc and Stvift.
make excellent litter carriers. VEfirangc. (phiyfux.] Having fuch a conititution of 7. To fuit; to proportion.
hares will
Behold the law
The of lelteri ought to
ftile be free, ealy, and body where the blood is of a pale co-
And rule of beings in your Maker's mind
natural ; as near approaching to familiar converfa- lour, vifcid, and cold, whereby it fluffs And thence, like limbecks, rich ideas draw,
tion as polTible ; the two beft qualities in converfa-
and bloats the habit, or raifes white tu- To fit the leveWd ufe of humankind. Dryden,
tjon are, goud humour and good breeding ; thofe
Utters are therefore certainly the belt that Ihew the
mours in the feet, legs, or any other To Le'vel. ni. n.
ni»ft of thefe two qualities. Walp. parts ; and fuch are commonly aAhma- 1. To aim at ; to bring the gun or arrow
Mrs. P. B. has writ to me, and is one of the ticlc and dropfical. încy. to the fame diredlion with the mark.
beft Utter writers I know ; very good fenfe, civility, Afthmatick perfons have voracious appetites, and The glory of God, and the good of his church,
and friendlbip, without any ftiffnefs or conftraint. for want of a right fanguification are leucophlegma- was the thing which the apoftles aimed at, and
S-wft. tick. Arhutbnot. therefore ought to be the mark whereat we alf«
3. The verbal exprefflon ; the literal LEVEE, n.f. [French.] level. Hsoker.
meaning. 1. Thetime of riling. 2. To conjefture to attempt to guefs.
;
Touching tranflations of holy fcrlpture, we may 2. The concourfe of thofe who crowd I pray thee overname them ; and, as thou nameft
not difdUow of their painful travels herein, who them 1 will defcribe them and, according to my
;
round a man of power in a morning. defcription, level at my affeftion. Siakefpeare.
fttiOly have tied themfdves to the very original
Would'ft thou be firft minifter of ftate ;
Utter. Hooker.
To have thy le^cti crouded with refort 3. To be in the fame dircflion with a
In obedience to human laws, we muft obferve the mark.
letter of the law, without doing violence to the rea-
Of a depending, gaping, fervile court? Dryden.
None of her fylvan fubjeSs made their court. He to his engine flew,
ibn of the law, and the intention of the lawgiver. Plac'd near at hand in open view,
Levees and couchees pafs'd without refort.
TiiyUri licly L'rvifig.
Dryden.
•
And rais'd it till it leveWd right
Thofe words of bis muft be underilood not ac- Againft the glow-worm tail of kite. HuJilras.
cording to the bare rigour of tiie letter, but accord, LE'VEL. adj. [Ixpel. Saxon.]
ing to the allowances of expreffion. Ssuib. 1. Even; not having one part higher than 4. To make attempts ; to aim.
Ambitious York did level at thy crown.
What fincc the pretor did my fettcri
! loofe. another.
And left me freely at my own diipofe. ^ Sbakefpcare.
The doors
May not live without controul and awe,
I Difcover ample fpaces o'er the fmooth 5. To efface diftindlion or fuperiority : as,
Excepting ftill the letter of the law ? Dryden, And Irvel pavement. Milton.
infamy is always trying to le'vel.
4. without the Angular : learning.
£,rt/^rr The garden, feated on the level floor. Le'vel. n.f. [from the adjedlive.]
The Jews marvelled, faying, How knoweth this She left behind. Dryden s Boccace. 1. A plane; a furface without protube-
man Utters, having never learned i 'John, vii. 1 5. 2. Even with any thing elfe ; in the fame rances or inequalities.
5. Any thing to be read. line with any thing. After draining of the level in Northamptonlhire,
Good laws are at beft but a dead letter. Addifin. Our navy, is addrefs'd, our pow'r colledled. innumerable mice did upon a fuddcn arife.
6.'^ype with which booics are printed. And ev'ry thing lies/eft/ to our wi(h. Shakefpeare. Hiile's Original of Mankind.
The iron ladles that letter founders ufe to the Now ihaves with level wing the deep. Milton. Thofe bred mountainous country overfize
In a
cafting of printing Utters, are kept conftantly in There is a knowledge which is very proper to thofe that dwell on low levels. Sandys's Travels*
melting metal. Moxm. man, and lies level to human underftanding, the 2. Rate; ftandard ; cuftomary height.
To Le'tter. -v. a. [from letter.']^ To knowledge of our Creator, and of the duty we owe Love of her made us raife up our thoughts above
to him. 'Tillotfon.
the ordinary level of the world, fo as great clerks do
ftamp with letters.
I obferved one weight littered on both fides ; and
3. Having no gradations of fuperiority. not difdain our conference. Sidney,
found on one fide, written in the dialed of men,

Be IlvcI irvprcferments, and you will foon be as The praifes of military men infpired me with
]
hvcl in your learning. BentUy. thoughts above my ordinury level. Dryden,
and underneath it, calamities ; on the other fide was
written, in the langoage of the gods, and under- To Le'vel. v. a. [from the adjeflive.] 3. Suitable or proportionaie height.
neath, bleflings. AdJ:Jon. 1. To make even ; to free from inequali- It might perhaps advance their minds fo far
Above the level oi fubje£lIon, as
Le'ttered. adj. [from letter.] Lite- ties : as, he le'vel] the walks,
them the
T' alfume to glory of tliat war. Daniel,
rate; educated to learning. 2. To reduce to the fame height with 4. A ftate of equality.
A martial man, not fweetened by a lettered cdu--
fomething etfe. The time is not far off when we (hall be upon the
cation, is apt to have a tinQure of fournefi. Lefs bright the moon, level ^ I am refolved to anticipate the time, and be
Collier on Pride But oppofite in levd'd weft, was fet. Milton. upon the level with them now for he is to that
:
»./. [laSuca, Latin.] He will thy foes with filent Iham^ confound. neither (ceks nor wants them. Atterbury to Pope.
kLB'TTUCE.
The fpecies are, common or garden lettuce ; cab- And their proud ftruilures level with the ground. Frovidence, for the moft part, fets us upon a
•
bage Itituce ; Silefia lettuce ; white and black cos ; Sandys. le^êl, and obfcrves proportion in its difpenfations
white cos ; red capuchin lettuce. Miller.
3. To lay flat. towards us. Addijon's Speltator,
..„,._„^
Fat coiworts, and comforting purfeline,
.... do
We know by
ciamon
experience, that downright rains
all
dificvet the violence sf outrageous

I
like, it
fuppofe, by the of old friends, and the
ftile
muft be fomebody there of his own leiîl;

among
: .
LEV LET LEW

aftiong whsm his party have, indeol, mere fricndi Their travels o'er that filver field doe^ 0iow Where wigs with wigs, with fword-knots (tmi.
thui 1 could wifli. S^viJ't, Like track of levereti in morning fnow. hâller. knots ftrive,
5. An inftrumenc whereby mafons adjuft Le'vet. n./. [itoiti Ifvir, French.] A Beaus banlfli bcaus, and coaches coaches drive.
their work. This erring mortals levity may call.
blaft on the trumpet ; probably that by Pefi.
The hvel is from two to ten feet long, that it may which the foldiers are called in the 3. Untteadinefs ; laxity of mind.
reach over a conndcrabic length of the work if the I unbofom'd all mj fecrets to thee
•.
morning. Not out oi levity, but over-power'd

;
plumb-line hang jull upon the pcipendicular, when

the /ct'e/ is fet flat, down upon the work, the work
He that led the cavalcade By thy rcqucft. Miltoit'i Agnifiu,
"Wore a fowgeldcr's flagellet. ^
is Irvel ; but if it hangs on either fijc the perpendi-
On which he blew 4. Idle pleafure ; vanity.
as ftrong a Uvet,
cular, the floor or work muft be raifcd on that fide, He never employed his omnipotence out of /.rify
As weU-fce'd lawyer on his breviate. Hudihras.
till the plumb-line hang exadly on the perpendicu- or oflentacion, but as the necelTities of men required.
lar. Moxon's Mtibjuieal Excrcijti. Le'verook. «./. [lapejie, Saxon.] This
Calami^
6. Rule ; plan ; rcheme : borrowed from word is retained in Scotland, and de- Trifling gaiety want of
J. ferioufnefs. ;
the mechanick level. notes the lark. Our graver bufmefs frowns at this Uvity. Sbai.
Be the fair /tvct of thy aSions laid. The fmaller birds have their particular feafons ; Hoptun abhorred the licence, and the levitiei,
As temp'rance wills, and prudence may perfuade. as, the leverook, fyattorTi Angler. with which he faw too many corrupted. Clarendm,
And try if life be worth the liver's care. Frier.
It the lufft fa' 'twill fmoore aw the Icvcrocti. That fpirit of religion and ferioufnefs vaniflicd,
Seotcb Prov. and a
7. The line of dire£lion in which any mif- fpirit of levity and libertiuifm, infidelity and
iive weapon is aimed.

Li'viASLE. ad/, [from/f-ry.] That may profanenefe, Itarted up in the room of it. Aiterburj,
I ftood i' th' level be levied. To LE'VY. <v. a. [lever, French.]
Of a full charg'd confederacy, and gave thanks The fums which any agreed to pay, and were not I. Toraife; to bring together: applied
To you that chok'd Shakffpearct Htnry VIII. brought in, were to be leviable by courfe of law.
it.
to men.
As if that name. Baani H nry VII. He refolved to finifli theconqtieft of Iirland, and
Shot from the deadly levd of a gun. LEVI'ArHAN. [Tn'lb] A water n.f. to that cndlevied a mighty army. Davict ck Inland.
Did murthcr her. Shaiefpeare's Romio and yuliet.
Thrice happy is that humble pair.
animal mentioned in the book of Job. z. To applied to war.
raife : '1 his fenfe,
Beneath the Imel of all care. By fome imagined the crocodile, but in though Milton's, feems improper.
Over whofe heads thofe .nrrows flv, poetry generally taken for the whale. They live in hatred, enmity, and ftrife.
Of fad diftruft and jealoufy. '
Waller. We may, as bootlefs, fpcnd our vain command Among themfelves, and lety cruel wars. AC/,'o».
8. The line in which the fight pafles. Upon th' enraged foldiers in their fpoil. 3. Toraife: applied to money.
Fir'd at fight with what the mufe imparts,
firft
As fend our precepts to the Ifviaikan, Levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war. '
In youth we tempt the heights of arts ;

fearlefs
To come alhore. Shetkejp/are's Henry V. Numben.
While from the bounded ttvil of our mind Canft thou dnrw out levialban with an hook ? Inftead of a (hip, he Ihould levy upon his courrty
Short views we take, nor fee the lengths behind. Job. fuch a fum of money. Clarendim.
More to embroil the deep leviatbaa.
Pfe. ;
Le'vy. n.f. {from the verb.]
Le'veller. n./. [from
And his unwieldy trîn, in dreadful fport
lei'tl.]
Tempeft the loofcn'd brine. TbomJcn'sJVinler.
1. The aft of raifing money or men.
1. One who makes any thing even. They have already contributed all their fuper-
2. One who deflroys fuperiority one who To LE'VIGATE. ;
-v. a. [lecuigo, Latin.] fluous hands, and every new levy they make muft
endeavours to bring all to the fame ftate 1. To rub or grind to an impalpable be at the expcnce of their farms and commerce.
of equality. powder. Mdifon's State of the War.

You are an everlafting leveller you won't allow 2. To mix till the liquor becomes fmooth 2. War raifed.
;
and uniform. Treafon has done his worft nor fteel, nor poifon.
encouragement to extraordinary merit. C'Jlier.
:
The white, as confifting of Malice domcftick, foreign levy, nothing

Le'velness. »./. [from /e-vel.] chyle is fait, oil, and
Can touch him further!
water, much levigated or fmooth. Arhuibmt. Shakrjpcar€i Macbeth.
1. Evennefj; equality of furface.
2. Equality with fomething elfe.
Leviga'tion. «._/. [from levigate.'^ LEWD. [laspede, Saxon.]
aeij.
The river Tiber is exprefled lying along, for fo Levigaiion is the reducing of hard bodies, as coral, 1 Lay ; not clerical j from leod, people.
tutty, and precious ftoncs, into a fubtile powder,
you muft remember to draw rivers, to exprefs their It is fometimes grofs ; ignorant. Ob-
by grinding upon marble with a muiler ; but un-
ievehijt with the earth. Petcham. folete.
Icfs the inftruments are extremely hard, they will
Le'ven. n. /. [/e-vaiir, French. Com- fo wear as to double the weight of the medicine.
For/iwj'</ men this book I writ. B'Jh-.pGroJihead.
monly, though lefs properly, written So thefe great clerks their little wifdom fliew
îney.
haven; fee Leaven.] To mock the le^vd, as learn'd in this as they.
Le'vite. n./. [leîta, Latin, from Z,fi;/.]
Davits.
1. Ferment ; that which, being mixed in 1. One of the tribe of Levi; one born 2. Wicked ; bad ; difTolute.
bread, makes it rife and ferment. to the office of priefthood among the If fome be admitted into the miniftry, either void
2. Any'thing capable of changing the na- Jews. of learning, or lewd in life, are all the reft to be
ture of a'greater mafs. In the Chriftian church, the office of deacons condemned ? Wtitgiftt.
The matter fermcnteth upon the old Inen, and fuccceded in the place of the levi:es among the Before they did opprefs the people, only by colour
becometb more acrid. tflfeman'i Surg{ry. Jews, who were as miniftfrs and fervants to the of a levid cuftom, they did afterwards ufe the fame
The peililcntial leva'tm conveyed in goods. priefts. -^yl'iffe'i Parergon. oppreflions by warrant. Davus.
ulrhuthmt. 2. A pried : ufed in contempt. 3. Ltiflful ; libidinous.
Leaver. »./. [levier, French^] Levi'tical. {from leviu} Belong- He is not lolling on a /rrttrf love-bed ;
ae/J.
The fecond mechanical power, is a balance Xi'p- But on his knees at meditation. Sbahefpeare.
ing to the levite« ; making part of the Then /r»</ Anchemolus he laid in duft.
ported by a hypomochlion ; only the center is not
in the middle, as in the common balance, but near religion of the Jews. Who ftain'd his ftep-dame't bed with impious luft.
one end ; for which reafon it is ufed to elevate or By the Uiiiical law, both the man and the wo- Drfdfti.
wife a great weight ; whence comes the name Ifver.
man were ftoned to death ; fo heinous a crime was Le'wdfy. adv. [from /*w</.]
adultery. Ayliffe.
Harris. 1. Wickedly ; naughtily.
Have you any leaveri to Yih me up again-, being Le'vity. n.f. Latin.] [leiiifas,
A of naughty perfi.ns, letvdly bent,
foit
ôwn ? Shakefpeare. 1. Lightnefs ; not heavinefs ; the quality Have pra£lis'd dangeroufly againft your ftate. Sbilk.
Some draw with cords, and fome the monfter by which any body has lefs weight than 2. LibidinouAy ; lullfully.
With rolls and le-vert. • Daiham.
another. He lov'd fiair lady Eltred, Irtudly lov'd,
In a lever, the motion can be continued only for
He gave the form of levity to that which afcend- Whofe wanton pieafures him too much did pleaie.
to ftiort a fpace, as may be anfwcrable fo that little
.diftance betwixt the
edj to that which defcended, the form of gravity. That -quite his heart from Cuendeiine temov'd.
fulcimcnt and the weight
Mrbfch i( always by fo much lefler, jis the difpropor- Raieigb. Spenjir.
This bubble, by reafon of its comparative Itviiy So leûdly dull his idle works appear.
iion betwixt the weight and the power is greater, and
ihe motion itfelf more eafy. W~ilk. Mali. Magick. to the fluidity that cnclofcs it, would afcend to the The wretched texts deferve no comments here.
Some top. BcKilej. Dryden.

hoifting liaveri, fome the wheels prepare.
DryJen. 2. Inconftancy ; changeablenefs. Le'wdness. n.f. [from leiud."] Luftful
They every day broached fome new thing ; which licentioufnefs.
tE'vERET. «r, /. [lievrtt, French.] A reftlefs le% ity they did interpret to be their growing Suffer no levvdnefs, nor indecnt fpcech,
jfoung hare. in Spiritual pctftilioai Jietttr. Th' apartmeat of the leader youth to ruch. Dijd.
Damianut's
! ; . : ; ! -
L I B L I B L I B
D»mlaniis"» letter to Nicholas ij «n tnthenticfc niaikni, and th« fmoke of ta dead facrlfiees, Be infinitely good, snd of his good
record of the limdnejjes committed under the reign men. Romtjh Idolatry.
Slill:ng_flcet on As liberal and free, as infinite. MibcHt
of celibacy. Atlcrhury. The goblet then flie took, with neClar crown'd, The liberal are fecure alune.
Sprinkling the fitft libations on the ground. For what we frankly give, for ever our own.
Le'wdster. n.f. [from /««</.] A lecher;
Dryden s JEneid.
Is
Gran'uillf
one given to criminal pleafures.
Againft fuch le^vdjlrrs, and cheir lechery,
Li'bbard. n.f. [liebard, German; leo- 4. It has »/^ before the thing, and to before
Thofe that betray them do no treachery. Sbaitfp. pardui, Latin.] A leopard. the perlon.
Make the libbard ftem There is no art better than to be liberal e/°prail«
LEWIS n.f. [Fsench.] A golden
D'OR. Leave roaring, when in rage he for revenge did yearn. and commendation to others, in that wherein a
French coin, in value twelve iivres, now Spenjer. man's feif hath any perfedlion. Bacon s EJfays*
fettled at fevcnteen (hillings. Dicl. The libbsrd and the tiger, as the mole Several clergymen, otherwife little fond of oblcurt
LeXI CO'c R A PH E R. /f.y. \%iîy.li and ypa.<pu; Rifing, the crumbled earth above them threw. terms, are, in their ferraons, very liberal of ^ thofc
Milton. which they find in ecdcfiaftical writers, as if wer»
hxkographe, French.] A writer of dic- it
The of Africk are by Pifo refembled

torrid parts our duty to underftand them. Sivift^
tionaries a harmlefs drudge, that bufies
;
to a libhard^^ fkin, the diftance of whofe fpots re., Libera'lity. n.f. [liberalitas, Latin;
himfielf in tracing the original, and de- prcfent the difperfenefs of habitations, or towns of /ibera/ite,¥T.] Munificence; bounty;
tailing the fignification of words. Africk. Brer£*ivocd
generofity; generous profufion.
Commentators and lexic9graftb:-n acquainted with Ll'BEL. H. /. [lihettus, Latin j libelle,
Why
Iboutd he defpair, that knows to court
the Syriack language, have given thefe hints in their French.] With words, fair looks, and liberality ? Shakefpeare.
writings on fcripture. ffâtls.
1. A fatire; defamatory writing; a lam- Such moderation with thy bounty join.
LEXlCO'cRAPHr. n.f. [xE|ixe»and-)-faipi.] poon. That thou may'ft nothing give that is not tblne|
The art or practice of writing diAion- Are we reproached for the name of Chriil ? that That liberality is but caft away.
aries. ignominy ferves but to advance our future glory Which makes us borrow what we cannot pay.
j
Dtrihanu
LE'XICON. n.f. [a.|«».] Adiftionary; every fuch libel here becomes panegyrick there
'
Decay of Piety. Li'berally. adv. [from liberal]

a book teaching the fignificaiion of
Good heav'n ! that fots and knaves (hould be fu 1. Bounteoufly ; bountifully; largely.
words. vain. If any of you lack wifdom, let him a(k of God,
Though a linguid ihould pride himlelf to have To wi/h their vile refemblance may remain ! that giveth to all taea liberally, and upbraideth not.
all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet And ftand recorded, at their own requed. y^mes, i. 5.
if he had not ftudicd the folid things io them as
To future days, a libel or a jeft. Dryden.
well as the words and lexicons, yet he were nothing
2. Not meanly magnanimoudy. ;
fo much to b€ cfteemed a learned man as any yeo-

2. [In the civil law.] A declaration or Li'bertinb. n.f. [//^frr/», French.]
man competently wife in bis mother dialed only. charge in writing againfl a perfon exhi- 1. One unconfined ; one at'liberty.
Mihoti. bited in court. When he fpeaks.
L«r. »./ To Li'bel. 'v. n. [from the noun.] To The air, a charter'd libertine, is rt!ll
hry, Ite, lay, are all from the Saxon leaj, a fpread defamation, written or printed : And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears.
field or pailure, by the ufual melting of the letter 3 it is now commonly ufed as an adive
To ftcal his fweet and honied fentences.
or g. Gihjoni Camden. Shakefpeare^ s Henry V.
verb, without the prepofition again/}.
Li'able. aJj. [liable, from lier, old Sweet fcrawls of Rome
2. One who lives without reUraint or law,
to fly about the ftrects
Man, libertine, may rove,
French.] Obnoxious ; not exempt W hat's this but libelling againji the fenate ?
the lawlefs
Free and unqueftion "d. Rogue's fane SI ore.
fubjedl : with ta. ShaUJ'peiire.
Want of power is the only bound that a libertine
But what is ftreogth without a double Ihare He, like a privileg'd fpy, whom nothing can
puts to his views upjn any of the fex. CLri[/a.
Of wifdom ^ vali, unwieldy, burthenfome. Difcreditj/.Vf/j now gain)) each great man. Donne.
To Li'bel. a. To fatirife; to lam- 3. One who pays no regard to the pre-
Proudly fecure, yet liable lo fall <v,
Mi/mn'i Agcniftts. cepts of religion.
By wcakeft fubtlcties. poon.
The EngliA boaft of Spenfer and Milton, who They fay this town is full of couzenage,
Is the peerage of England dilhonoared when a
Difguifed cheaters, prating mountebanks.
neither of them wanted genius or learning and yet ',
peer fuffers for histreafon? if he be libelled, or any
both of them are liable to many cenfures. Dryden, And many fuch like libertines of {\n. Shakfpcar'm
way defamed, he has bis fcandalum magnatum to
This, r.r any other fcheme, coming from a private That word may be applied to fome few liberiities
punifli the ofiender. Dryden.
in the audience. Cillier^s Vv.nu of the Siage.
hand, might be liable to many defeats. Sipi/t. But what fo pure which envious tongues will
Li'ar. n.y. [from /ie. This word would fpare ? 4. [Inlaw; liberlinus, Latin.] A freed
analogically be /ier ; but this ortho- Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair. Pope. man ; or rather, the fon of a freedman.
graphy has prevailed, and the conve- Li'beller. n.f. [from libel.'\ A de- Some
perfons arc forbidden to be accufers on the
women ; others on the fcore
fcore of their fex, as '
nience of diflinflion from /ier, he who

famer by writing; a lampooner.
of their age, as pupils and infants j others on t!i«
Our common libellers are as frê from the impu-
lies down, is fufficient to confirm it.] fcore of their condition, as libertines againfl their
tation of wit, as of morality. Dryden^ s Ju-venal.
One who tells falfehood ; one who wants The fquibs are thofc who, in the common phrafc,
patrons. yiyliffe's Parertôiiu
veracity. are called libellers and lampooners. Tatler. Li'behtjkb. adj. [libertin, t'teach.] Li-
She's like a liar, gone to buraing bell The common libelleri, in their invcftlves, tax centious ; irreligious.
•Twjs 1 that kill'd her. Sbakrfpeare's Othello. the chun;h with an infatiable defire of power and There arc men that marry not, but chufe rathir
He approves the common liar, fame. wealth, equaliv common to all bodies of men. a libertine and impure fingle life, than to be yoked
•
Who fpeaks him thns at Rome. Shakefpeare.
'
Swift. in marriage. Bacon.

do not rtjefl his obl'ervation as untrue, mnch
I Li'bellous. <j<^'. [from libel.] Defama- Might not the queen make diligent inquiry, ii"
Ws condemn the perfon himfclf as a liar, whenfo- tory.
any perfon about her Ihould bapjicn to be of Hbertint
«ver it fecms to be contradicted. Beyle. principles or morals ? Sîuiji's Proj'Û
It was the moft malicious furmife that had ever
Thy better foul abhors a /i.ir's part.
been brewed, howfocver countenanced by a libJl'jus Li'bertimsm. n.f. [from libertine.] Ir-
Wife is thy voice, and noble is thy heart. Pope.
pamphlet. fV'^'tin. religion ; iicentioufnefs of opinions and
Li'aro. adj. pradlice.
Li'beral. at//, [liberalis, Latin ; liberal,
1. Mingled roan. Markham. That fpiritof religion and ferioufncfs vani/Iied
French.]
2. Liard in Scotland denotes grey-haired : all at once, and a Ipirit of liberty and libcitinifm, ot"
1. Not mean ; not low in birth; not low infidelity and profancnefs, ftarted up in the room of
as, he's ^ liard o\A man.
in mind. it. yltierbury^s Sermons.
Liba'tion. u.f. [libatio, Latin.] 2. Becoming a gentleman. Li'berty. n.f, [liberie, t'Lcnuh; liber-
1. The aft of pouring wine on the ground 3. Munificent; generous; bountiful; not tas, Latin.]
in honour of fome deity. parfimonious. I. Freedom, as oppofed to flavery.
In difcging new earth pour in fome wine, that the Her name was Mercy, well known over all. My n"Uifler knows of your being here, and hafh
vapour of the earth and wine may comfort the fpirits, To be both gracious and eke liberal. Fairy ^cen. threitenerl to put me into cvcrlafting liberty, if I
provioed it be nut Ltken for a heathen facrilice, or Sparing would Ihew a worfe fm than ill doctrine. tell you of it ; for be fwears, he'll turn me ,tway.
iii)ati&n to the earth. Bacon s Natural llijiory. Men of his way (hould be moft liberal. Shakefpeare.
2. The wine fo poured. They're fet here for examples. Hhak'Jp. Hen. VIII. O thou goddefs, heav'niy bright
liberty !
They had no other crime to objc£t againft Needs muft the pow r Profufe of blifs, and pregnant with delight,
the Chriftians, but that they di4 oot oSa up That tuM usj wA t«[ w this WB^k wcf Id, Eternal plcifuiW is thy prcftoce reign. Mlifin.
Voi.Ii. F 2. Exemption
; . ; :
L 1 B L I C L I C
». Exemption from tyranny or luordinate dilVarered ft other times. Thefe kinds are call- i. A degree in Spanilh univerfitles.
ed, the one a lihraiicn in longitude, and the other A m.-in might, after that time, fue for the degree
govcrnmcnc. Ecfijes this, there
* libratijit in latitude. is a of licentiate or mafter in this fatuity^ Ayliffe.
Jultly thou abhorr'ft _
third kind, which they call an apparent litraiiin,

Ta Lice'ntiate. f.
The (on, who, on the quiet ftatc of man a. [licentiir, Fr.j
and which confi/ls in this, lia: when the moon
Such trouble brought, aS'^îng to fubtlue
is at her greatctl clonâtian from the fouth, her
To permit ; to encourage by licenfe.
Rational litieny ; yet know withal,
axis being then almoft perpendicular to the plane
We may not haiard either the ftifling of generous
Since thy original lapfe, true /.-A.-ryt Inclinations, or the licatiiating of any thing that ia
of the ediptick, the fun mud enlig!itcn towards
Is loft, which alwayi with right reafoa dwelli. coaile. L'Ejirang*.
the north pole of the moon fome parts which he
Milieu. Lice'ntious.
did not before, and that, on the contrary, fome «<^'. [licencieux, French;
3. Freedom, as oppofed to nece/fity. parts of thofe which he enlightened towards the Laiin.]
licentio/ui,
Lilerly the power in any agent to do, or for-
is oppolitc pole are cbfcuted ; and this produces the 1. Unreftrained by law or morality.
bear, any particular a3ion, according to the deter- fame tStdi which the lihraiion in latitude dues. Later ages pride, like corn-fed llted,
mination, or thought of the mind, whereby either Dia. Trev. Abus'd her plenty, and fat fwoln cactcafe.
of them is p;c/erred to the other. LAi.kt.
Thofe planets which move upon their axis, do To all licenticu: luft, and 'gan exceed
As it is in the motions of the body, <o it is in not all make intire revolutions for the moon
;
The meafare of her mean, and natural (irft nai.
the thoughts of our minds : where any one is fuch, maketh only a k'lnd of libration, or a reciprocated Fairy Sûcen.
that we have power to take it up, or lay it by, ac- motion on her own axis. Grew. How would it touch thee to the quick,
cording to the preference of the mind, there we arc
Lockt.
Li'bratory. adj. [from lihro, Latin.] Should'ft thou but hciu I were licentitusf
at liitrty.
Balancing playing like a balance. And that this body, cohfccrate to thee.
4. Privilege ; exemption ; immunity. ;
With rulfian lull (hould be contaminate i Slaieff,
His majeily gave not an inlire country to any, Lice, the plural of lou/t.
Red blillers rifing on their paps appear, 2. Prefumptuous ; unconHned.
much lefs did he grant }uia regalia, or any extraor-
Dtni.ei. And (laming carbuncles, and noifome fwcat, The Tyber, whofe liccmious waves
dinary lihiriia.
And clammy den-s, that loarhfome lice beget So often overflow'd the r.eighbouring fields.
5. Relaxation of reftraint : as, he fees hira- Till the (low creeping evil eats his way. Dryd. tîr. Now runs a fmooth and incffenfive courfe. Rofcomt
felf at liberty to chufe his condition. Lice'ntiousl Y. adv. [from licentioiu.]
Licenfe they mean svhcn they cry A'Jeryr. Milton.
Li'cebane. n. /. [lice and bane.] A
plant. With too much liberty; without jull re-
6. Leave ; permifGon.
I (hall take the iiitrly to confider a third ground, LICENSE, n./. [//Vm/;«, Latin; licence, ftraint.
French.] The licentiates, fomewhat lifentioufty, will pardon

which, with fome men, has the fame authority.
themfeh'es. Camden's Remain!.
Locit. 1. Exorbitant liberty ; contempt of legal
LiBi'dinovs. [Ubidinojut, Latin.]
Lice'ntiouskess. It./, [from liceniiouj.]
e/(/\ and neceffary reftraint.
Boundlefs liberty; contempt of juft re-
Lewd ; luftful. Some of the wifer, feeing that a popular licmce is
None revolt from the faith ; becaufe they mufl indeed the many-headed tyranny, prevailed with the ftraint.
not look upon awoman to luH after her, but bereft to make Mufidorus their chief. Sidney, One error is fo fruitful, as it begetteth a thoufani
caufe they arc much more reflrained from
the per- Taunt my faults children, if the lictntioufnefs thereof be not timely
petration of their lufts. If wanton glances and With fuch full licence, as both truth and malice reftrained. Raleigh.
iitiJimus thoughts had been permitted by the gof. Have power to utter. Sbakrfp. Ant. and CUopatra. This cuftom has been always looked upon, by
the wifeft men, as an effita of licentioufncfs, and not
^, they would have apodatized nevcrtlulefs. They haul for freedom in tiieir fcnfelefs moods,
of liberty.
Benily. And ftiU revolt when truth would fet them free j Sivi/t.
Licmce they mean, when they cry liberty. Milton. During the greateft licentioufnrfs of the prefs, the
Libi'dikously. adv. [from /iiidiaeuj.}
charafter of the queen was inlulted.
The privilege that ancient poets claim, S'uift,
Lewdly lulU'ully. ;
Now turn'd to licenfe by too juft a
Rofccm. name. LicH. n.f. [lice, Saxon.] A dead car-
Li'BRAL.fl/^'. [/ibralitiLtit.} Of a pound Though not a
this be a ftate of liberty, yet it is
cafe ; whence lichwake, the time or aft
weight. Z)/'<ff. ftate of licence; though man, in that (late, have an
uncontroulablc liberty to difpofe of his perfon or of watching by the dead ; lichgate, the
Libra'rian. n./. [//^rar/ttj, Latin.]
polTeflions, yet he has not liberty to deftroy him- gate through which the dead are car-
I. One who has the care of a library.
fclf. Locke. ried to the grave ; Lichjitld, the field
3. One who tranfcribes or copies books.
Charybdjs thrice fwallows, and thrice refunds the
2. A grant of permiflion. of the dead, a city in StafFordfliire,
They lent fame to bring them a licence from the
fo named from martyred chriftians.
waves : tliis mult be underftood of regular tides. ^
fenate. yudilh, xi, 14.
There are indeed but two tides in a day, but this is
Thofe few
Salve magna parens. Lichwake is ftill
abftra£t names that the fchools forged,
the error of the lihrariatt. Srtnmf. retained in Scotland in the fame fenfe.
and put into the mouths of their fchoiars, could
Li'brary, French.]
». /. A[/ibrarie, never yet get admittance into common ufe, or ob- Li'cHOWL. n./. [licb and nijul.] A fort
large colleflioa of books, publick or tain the ftcence of publick approbation. Locke. of owl, by the vulgar fuppofed to fore-
private. We procured a licence of the duke of Parma to
tel death.
Then as they 'gan his lihivry to view, enter the theatre and gallery. Addifon en Italy.
And Te Lick. v. et. [licean, Saxon; lecktn,
antique regifters for to avife, 3. Liberty ; permiflion.
There chanced to the princess hand to rife It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver
Dutch.]
An antient book, hight Briton's monuments. any man to die, before that he which is accufcd 1 To pafs over with the tongue.
Fairy Sûfn. have the accufers face to face, and have licence to i^fculapius went about with a dng and a Oie-
1 have given you the library of a painter, and a anfwer for himfelf. Acls. goat, both which he ufed much in his cures; the
catalogue of fuch books as he ought to read. TiLi'cENSE. firft for licking all ulcerated wounds, and the goat's
'V. a. [//rt»f/Vr, French.]
Drydtni Dufrefnoy. milk foi the difeafes of the ftomach and lungs.
1. To permit by a legal grant.
?a Li'brate. t. a. [libra, Latin.] To Wit's Titans brav'd the (kies,
Tmfle,
poife ; to balance ; to hold in equipoife. And the piefs groan'd witli Hcent'd blafphcmies.
A bear's a favage beaft
Whelp'd without form, until the dam
Libra'tion. ».y. [liiralh, Latin; libra- l-ofe.
Has lick'd it into (hape and frame. Hudibratt
French.]
tioH, 2. To difmifs ; to fend away. Not in He w th his tepid rays the rofe renews.
1. The ftate of being balanced. ufe. And licki the drooping leaves, and dries the dews.
This is what may be faid of the balance, and the He would play well, and willingly, at fome games Dryden,
liirati.n of the body. Dryden't Dufrifnoy, of greateft attention, which (hewed, that when he I have feen an antiquary lick an old coin, among
Their pinions (till lilted he could licenfe his thoughts. IVotton. other trials, to diftinguilh the age of it by its tafte.
In loofe liiraticvs llretch'd, to truft the void Li'cENSER. n. /. [from licenfe^ A Addifon*
Trembling refufe. Tbimpn't Sfring. granter of permiffion; commonly a tool 2. To to take in by the tongue.
lap ;
2. [Jn aftronomy.] * At once pluck out

of power.
Lih-ation is the balancing motion or trepida- The muItituJTnous tongue ; let them not lick
tion in the firmament, whereby the declination of Lice'ntiate. u. f, [licentiatut , low The fweet which is their poifon. Shakeffeartt
the fun, and the latitude of the ftars, change from Latin.] 3. ?"« Lick «/. Todevour.
time tJ time. Aftronomets likcwife afcribe to the I. A man who ufes licenfe. Not in ufe. Now (hull this company
lick vf all that are round
moDn a lifratcry motion, or motion of trepidation, The licentiates fomewhat licentioufly, left they about us, as the ox lickcth up the grafs. Numhert,
which they pretend is from eart to weft, and from (hould prejudice poetical liberty, will pardon them- When luxury has lick'd up all thy pelf,
north to fouih, becaufe that a: full moon they felvcs for doubling or lejeftiog a letter, if the fcnfe Curs'd by thy neighbours, thy truftces, thyfclf
ônetiines di&over patts uf her diik whUh ate out fÛ ^ftly. Cemden. Think how poileiicy will treat thy name. Pope,
Lick.
; . ;
L I D L I B L I E
Lick. «. / [from the verb.] A blow ; The rod of Hermei Wy little daughter Hetb at the point cf death |
rough ufage. A low word. To fleep could mortal eye-Ids fix, I pray thee come and lay thy hands on her, that
And drive departed fouls to Styx : ihc may be liealed. Mark*
He turned upon me as round as a chafed boar,
and gave me a lici acrofs the face. Drydin.
That rod was juft a type of Sid's^ 5. To pals the time of fleep.
Which o'er a Britilh lenates /ids The watchful traveller,
Li'cKERisH. J adj. [liccepa, a glutum, Cpuld fcattcr opium full as well,. That by the moon's miftaken light did rife.
Li'cKKROus.J baxoo. This feems to be And drive as many fouls to hell. Svui/t, Lay down again, and clos'd his weary eyes. Dvyd*
the proper way of fpelling the word, Lie. »./. [/(>, French.] Any thing im- Forlorn he muft, and perfecuted (iie
which has no affinity with liquor, but pregnated with fome other body ; as, Climb the (teep mountain, in the cavern lie. Prior*
with Uie.'\ foap or fait. 6. To be laid up or repofited.
I have feen where copperas is made, great vailety
1. Nice in the choice of food. Chamber -/it breeds fleas like a loach. Staic/f-.
Voluptuous men facrifice all fubQantlal fatisfac- All liquid things concofted by heat become yel of them, divers of which I have yet lyirg by me.
tions to a li^nzrijh palate. UEJlrauge* low i as lye, wort, GJ'f Peacham on Dra'Wing* Boyle*
2. Eager ; greedy to fwallow ; eager not Lie. n.f. 1 lije, Saxon.] 7. To remain fixed.
A criminal falfehood. The Spaniards have but
one temptation to quar-
wi'.h hunger but guft. 1.
relwith us, the recovering of Jamaica, for that has
It is never tongue-tied, where fit commenda- Thou abhorred tyrant ; with my tvinri
lieft,
ever Hen at their hearts. TeMfie*
tion,whereof womankind is fo Ikktrijb, is of&red I'll prove the lie thou fpeak'ft. Shukejpeare^ s Macb.
unto it. Sidr.ey. A lye is properly an outward fignification of 8. To refide.

rf thou doeft well, (halt thou not be accepted ?
Strephon, fond boy, delighted, did not know fomething contrary to, or at leaft bclidc, the in-
ward fenfe of the mind ; fo that when one thing and if thou doeft not well, fin Hah at the door.
That it was love that ihin'd in Ihining maid ;
But lick'r'jut, poifon'd, fain to her would go. is fignifi;d or expreffed, and the fame thing not dn. iv. J*
SidKey. meant or intended, that is properly a iye* South, 9. To
be placed or Ctiiated, with refpedt
Certain rare manufcripts, fought in the moft re- Truth is the objeft of our underftanding, as good to fomething elfe.
mote parts by Erpenius, the moft excellent linguift, IS of our will ; and the underftanding can no more
Deferts, where there lay no way». Wifdcm.
bad been left tu his widow, and were upon lale to be delighted with a lye, Chan the will can chufe an
I fly
the jel'uiti, I'lquarijh cbapmen of all fuch ware. apparent evil. Dryden,
To thofe happy climes tiiat He^
fynDn. When 1 hear my neighbour fpeak that which is Where day never ihu;s hi« eye. Milton*
In vain he profier'd all his goods to fave not true, and 1 fay to him. This is not true, or
There our way, and that our paflage home.
lies
His body, deftin'd to that living grave; this is falfe, I only convey to him the naked idea
Dryden*- ,
The l.q-MTijh ha;; n-jeils the pelf with (corn, of his error; this is the primary idea: but if 1
Envy lies between beings equal in nature, thuugh>
And nothmg but the man would fcrve her turn. fay it is a lie, the word lie carries alio a fecondary
unequal in circumftances. Collier of Envy.
Dryder, idea for it implies both the fallehood of the
;
The bulinefs of a tutor, rightly employed, liet
In fame province* tbe; were fo liqmt'ip> after fpecch, and my reproach and cenfure of the fpeaker.
out of the road. Locke on Education*
man's flclb, that they would fuck the blood as it tV,itli's Logick.
What liesbeyond our pofitive idea towards infi-
run from the dying man. Locke* 2. A charge of falfehood : to givt the lie, nity, lies in obfcurity, aiid has the undcterminate
3. Nice ; delicate ; tempting the appetite. is a formulary phrafe. confufion of a negative idea. Lacke*
This feofe I doubt. That lie (hall lye fo heavy on my fword. 10. Toprefs upi^n afflidlively..
Would'ft thou feek again to trap me here That it fliall render vengeance and revenge ; Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and than halt
. With licierrjb baits, fit to enfnare a brute ' Milton* Till thou the lie giver, and that lit, reft affiified me with all thy waves. PJalir.s*
Li'cKHRisHNEss. H. /. [trom lickcrijh.^ In earth as quiet as thy fathers flcull. H hakefpeare. He that commits a fin (hall find
It is a contradiction to fuppofe, that whole na -
The prefling guilt lie heavy on his mind,
Nicenefs of palate.
tions of men
(hould unanimoully gift the he to Though bribes or favour (hall
afl'crt hiscaufe. Creech.
Ll'ceR.iCE. n. /. [7>.t;*B£'a'.â ; liquorjcta, what, by the moft invincible evidence, every one Shew the power of religion, in abating that
Italian.] A root of fweet tafte. of tliem knew to be true. Locke. particular anguilh which fecras to lie fo heavy on'
hiquorkc root is long and llender, externally of Men will give their own experience the He, ra- Leonora. jiJdij'on*-
aHu&y tedJifh brown, buc within of a fine yel- ther than admit of any thing difagreeing with thcfe
1 1 . To be troublefome or tedious.
low, full of juice, and of a talle (weeter than tenets. Locke.
Suppofe kings, befides the entertainment of
fugar ; it grows wild in many parts of France, 3. A fiflion. This fenfe is ludicrous. luxury, (hould have fpent their time, at leaft wh»t
-
Italy, Spain, and Germany. The infpiflated juice The cock and fox, the fool and knave imply; lay upon their hands, in chemiftry, ic cannot be
•f this root is brought to ui from Spain and Hol- The truth is moral, though the tale a tie. Drydea, denied but princes may pai's their time advantagc-
land J f(om the firll of which places it obtained
To Lie. t/. «. [leojan, Saxon ; liegen, oufly that way. Temfle,
the Dame of Spaniih juice. would recommend the
HiWi Materia Medica. Dutch.] 1 ftudies of knowledge to
1. To utter criminal falfehood.
the female world, tliat they may not be at a loft
irCTOR. »./. [Latin.) beadle that A I know not where he lodges ; and for
to ds- me
how to employ thofe hours that lie- upon thelt
attended the confuU CO apprehend or hands. AdJijons Guardian*
vife a lodging, and fay.
or he lies He lies here,
puniQi criminals. there, were to lie in mine own throat. Slakejpcare. 12. To be judicially imputed.
Saucy rîors If a foul lye unto his neighbour in that which If he (hould intend his voyage towards my wife,
Will catch at u-; like ftrumpeu. was delivered him to keep, he I would turn her loofe to him ; and what he get^
Sbtkijfeart. fhall reftore that
I'rocnnfuls to their provinces which was delivered. Lev. more of her than (harp words, let it lie on my
Hailing, or on return, in robes of ftate, Should I lye againft my right ? yob, xxxiv. 6. head. Shakejpeare.
Liflors and rods tlie enfigni of their power. Mi/ton. 2. To ex"hibit fail'ereprefentation. 13. To be in any particular (late.
Democritus could feed his fpleen, and ihake Inform us, vrill the emptor treat ? If money go before, all ways do lie open. Shak.-
His fides and flioulders till he itlt cm ake ; Or do the prints and papers lie f Stuift.
The higliways He wafte, the wayfaring man
Though in his count.y-ti>wn no UB^n were, To LIE. If. I lay ; I have lain or
n. pret.
ceafcth. Ifaiab,
Nor rods, nor ax, nor tribune. Drydeni "Jtevtital. The fevcnth year thou (halt let it reft and lie
lien, [hejan, Saxon; liggen, Dutch.]
Lid. n. f. Saxon; lied, German.] ftill. Exodus^
[Jjlib,
1. To reft horizontally, or with very great Do not think that the knowledge of any particu-
1. A. cover; any thing that (huts down inclination againft fomething elfe. lar fubjedl cannot be improved, merely becaufe it
over a veflel ; any ftopple that covers To has lain without Improvement.
2. reft ; to prefs upon. ffâtts.
the mcii'.h. but not enters it. Death liei on her like an untimely (how'r 14. To
be in a Hate o( concealment.
Hope, inlical of flying off with the reft, (luck Upon the fweeteft fluw'r of all the field. Siakefj>. Many things in them He concealed t» us, which-
h clo<e to the i.i of Che cup, that it was Ihut Lie heavy on him, earth, for he they who were concerned underftood at fitft fight.
down upon hcc Addij<jv* Laid many a heavy load on thee. Locke.
2. The membrane that, when we fleep or Epitaph on Vanbrugh. 15. To be in prifon.
wink, is drawn over the eye. 3. To be repofited in the grave. "^Tour imprifonment (hail not be long ;
Do H'/t for ever, with thy veiled lidt. All the kings of the nations He in glory, every I will deliver you, or elfe lie for you. Sbake/peare*
Seek for thy noble father in the duit. Shaiffjiearc, one in his own houfe. Ija. xiv. i?. t6. To be in a bad ftate.
Our eyes have lidt, our earsope we keep.
iliil I will /;- with my fathers, and thou fiialt carry Why you
pining and pinching yourfelf in
will lie
Vavi^t, me out of £gypt, and bury me in your burying- fuch a lunefome, ftarving coutfe of life I
That eye dropp'd fenfe d':Ilind and clear. place. Gen. xlvii. 30. L'EJlrange's Fahlet..
As any mufe's tongue colIJ fpcak 4. To be in a flate of decumbiture. he generality of mankind iie pecking at ona
'I
When from its /id .1 pe.i.i_, tear How many good young princes would do fo ; their another, till one by one they are all torn to pieces.
IU» trickling down hec bcautcout chtclu Prkr, fathers lyin^ lo lick as yours at this tine is? i>i,ak. L'EJlrange's lailei.
F a Are
. . ; :
L I E t I E L I E
Alt lilt goHt to da your dniilg«rf, and jov tit Burap* lay then under a de«p lethargy, jnd was Li'Eir. the participle of lie.
Miowiag with your linger in your mouth > no otherwife to be refcued but by one that would One of the people might ligbdy have /fiw with
cry mightily. Autrtury. thy wife. Cen. ixvi. 10.
17. To be in a helpleft or expoJed flttc. 28. To Lie upon. To become the matter Liente'rick. «^°. [from iientery.] Per-
To fee a luted perfon fupetior, and to lit under of obligation or duty.
Ihcanguilb of a dibdvtntage, it far enough fiora
taining to a lientery.
Thcfc arc not places merely of favour, the charge There are many medicinal preparations of iron,
iiyttian. CtJIUr.
of fouls lies siftn them ; the grcateft account where- but none equal to tlietindure made without acids ;
It is but a verY (mtW comfort, that a plain man,
of will be required at their hands. Bsôn. efpecially in obftiuflions, and to ftrcngthen the
^m; under a (harp At of the ftone fur a vreek, re- It Ihould Hi upon him to make out how mat- tone of the parts ; as in runierick and other like
ceives from this fine fentence. TilUtfon,
ter, by undirefted motion, could at firft necefla-
As a D-.an Ihould always l>e upon his guard igiinft cafes. Gretv^s Mufaum*
rily fall, without ever erring or mifcarrying, into
the vices Co which he \t molt cxpofed, fowe Ihould Li'entert. It,
f, [from îlor, lefve^
fuch a curbus formation of human bodies.
take a more than ordinary care not to lit at the fmooth, andtilijot, intejlinum, gut ; //V«-
Btntley^s Sermons.
mercy of the weather in our moral conduct.
29. To Lie <with. To
converfe in bed. terie, Fr.] A
particular looi'enefs, or
Adciji.n'l Frtthcldtr,
Pardun me, Baffanio, diarrhoea, wherein the fcod pafles fo
The maintenance of the clergy is precarious, and
rolleSed from a mod mifetable race of faimers, at
For by this ring fhe Ijy iviih me. Sbakefpeare. fuddenly through the ftomach and guts,
whofe mercy every miniftcr hci to be defrauded. 30. It may be oblerved of this word in as to be thrown out by ftool with little
Sviift. general, that it commonly implies fome- or no alteration. încy.
18. To coDTid. thing of floggifhnefs, inaflion, or ilcadi- Li'er. «./. [from to /»>.] One that reft*
The image of it gives me content already ; and nefs, applied to perfons; and fome gra- or lies down, or remains concealed.
I truft it will grow to a moll profperous perfcîon.
vity or permanency of condition, ap There were Hers in ambufli againft him behind
«*-lt lie\ much in your holding upj Sbahtfptart, tlie city.
plied to things. Jof. viii. 14.
He that thinks that diverlion inay not hard /iV in
labour, forgets the early rifmg, and hard riding of Lief. aJj. [leop, Saxon; lief, Dutch.] LIEU. [French.] Place; room:
tt^f. it
huntfmcn. L'iLke, Dear beloved. Obfolete.

;
is only ufed with in : in lieu, inftead.
To be in the power ; to belong to. My lord Ihe thus beguiled had. God, of his great lilsrality, had determined, in
19. licffjl
For he was lieu of man's endeavours, to beftow the fame bjr
Do'ft thou endeavour, as much as in thee lies, fleflj; all flcfli doth frailty breed.
the rule of that juftice which beft befeemeth him.
to prcferve the lives of all men ? Fairy Sûeen.
Duppai Rulti for Dtz/ction, You, with the reft, 'J Htoker,
• •
In lieu of fuch an increafe of dominion, it is our

He fliews himfclf very malicious if he knows I Caufelefs have laid difgraces on my head
And with your beft endeavour have bulincfs to extend our trade. AeUif>n's FriebtUer^
deferve credit, and yet goes about to blall it, as ftirr'd up
much as in him lits. SiiUingfiect o» Idolatry. My mine enemy. Shak. lien. VI.
licfejl liege to be Li BV E. ad'v. [SecLiEV.] Willingly.
Mars is the warrior's god j in nim it Via Lief. adv. Willingly: now ufed only Speak the fpeech, I pray you, as I pronounced
On whom he favours to confer the prize. Drydtti. in familiar fpeech.
it to you, trippingly on tli« tongue ! but if you
20. To
be valid in a court of judicature: mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lieve
If I could fpeak fo wifely under an arreft, I
the town-crier had fpoke my lines. Sbakefpeare,
as, an aflion lieth againfl one, would fend for certain of my and yet
creditors
;
Aîcn is death to fome Ibrr of people, and they
21. To coA : as, it liet me in more mo- to fay the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of
would as lietie hang it work. LEftrange.
freedom, as the'morality of imprifonment. Sbak.
ney. Lieute'nancy. n. /, [lieutenance, Fr,
Ll EG E. atij, [lige, Fr. ligio, Italian; li-
22. To Lie «r. To importune; to tc»<»s. from lieutenant.]
gim, low Lat.J
23. To Lie by. To reft ; to remain ftill. 1. The office of a lieutenant.
1. Bound by fome feudal tenure; fob-
Ev'ry thing that heard him play, If fuch tricks as thefe ftrip you out of youf
Ev'n the billows of the fea. jeft whence //>fr»sfln for fubjcft.
:
lieuttranty, it had been better you had not kilTed
Hung their heads, and then hy hy } 2. Sovereign. [This fignificaiion feems your three fingers fo oft. Sbakefpeare,
In fwett mulick is fuch art. to have accidentally rifen from the for- 2. The body of lieutenants. •
Killing care, and grief of heart.
mer, the lord of liege men, being by The lift of undifputcd mafters, is hardly fo lonf
Fall alleep, or hearing die. Shaktff.Hm. VIIl. as the lift of the lieutenancy of our metropolis.
millake called liege lord.']
24. To Lie
Jowit, To reft j to go into a
Did not the whole realm acknowledge Henry Felti,n on the Claffitkt.
ilate of repofe. LIEUTE'NANT. «.
VIII. for their king and liege lord ? Sfenjer. /. [lieutenant,
The leopard Ihall /» dawu with the kid. My lady liege, faid he, French.]
Jjiiiah,x\. 6.
The needy Ihall I'l down in fafcty. 7/j. xiv. 30.
Wliat all your fex defire is Dryden. fovereignty. 1. A deputy ; one wKb ads by vicariout
So much of it as is founded on the law of na-
authority.
15. Ta Lie doiun. To finlc into the ture, may he ftilcd natural religion ; that is to lay,
Whither away fofaft?
grave. a devotednefs unto God our liegt lord, fo as to adi
—No farther than the tower.
His bines are full of the fin of his youth, which in ail things according to his will. Greiu's Cofm.
— We U enter all together.
ftiall lit dnan with him in the dull, yob, xx. 1 1 Liege. «. / Sovereign; fuperior lord And in good time here the ruu'etunt comes.
»6. To Lie in. To be in childbed. fcarcely in ufe. Sbakefpeare,
As for all other good women that love to do but
O pardon mc, my Ficge ! but for my tears I muft put you in mind of the lords lieutenants,
work, how handfome I had foreftall'd this dear and deep rebuke. Sbakcf. and deputy lieutenants, of the counties : their pro-
little it is to lie in and Ileep,
or to loufe thcmfelves in the fun-ihine, they that The other part referv'd I by confent. per ufe is for ordering the military aiTairs, in order
liave been but a while in Ireland can well wltncl's. For that my fovereign licgi was in my debt. Shake/. to oppofe an invafion from abroad, or a rebellion or
Sfenfcr en Ire'and.
The natives, dubious whom fedition at home. Baton*
You con6ne yourfelf moft unrcafonably. Comej' They mull obey, in conftematlon wait Killing, as it is confidered in itfcif without all
you muft go vifit the lady that lici »<i. Shatrfp. Cor. Till rigid conqueft will pronounce their liege. undue circumftances, was never prohibited to the
She had and her right bread had been
lain in, Philips. lawful magiftrate, who is the vicegerent or lieute~
apoftcmatcd. Wijcman-i Surgery. Li'egeman. «. / [from liege and man] rant of God, from whom he derives his power of
The doftor has praftifed both by fea and land, A fubjeft : not in ufe. life and death. Sramtall -againfl Ihites,
Sent by our new lieutenant, who in Rome,
«nd therefore cures the green licknel's and lyirî in. This liegeman 'gan to wax more bold.
Sfeflaitr. And when he felt the folly of his lord.
And fincc from me, has lieard of your renown,
WhenFlorimel delign'd to lie privately m ; come
She chofewith fuch prudence her pangs to conceal.
In his own kind, he 'gan himfclf unfold. Fairy
SIth then the anceftors of thofe that now live,
^ 2.
I
In war, one
to oflo- [icace.
who holds the next rank
Philips' s Briton,
That her nurfe, nay her midwife, fcarce heard yielded themfclves then fubjeAs and liegemen, Ihall to a fuperior of any denomination ; as,
her once fqucal. Prior. itnot tye their children to the fame fubjeîon ? a general has his lieutenant generals, a
Hyllcrical aff'ofiiuDs are contraded by accidents Spenfer on Inland.
in iyiKi in. Arimthnot «i Dia.
colonel his lieutenant colonel, and a cap-
Stand, ho who is there f
I
tain fimply his lieutenant.

t~. To Lit. under. To be fubjeft to; to —Friends to this ground, and litgemtn to the Dane.
were meet that fuch captains only were em-
It
be opprelTed by. Shakefpeare.
ployed as have formerly fcrvcd in that country, and
Agenerous perfon will Re under a great dif- Li'eger. n. f. [more proper legier, or been at Icaft li.uunarti there. Spenfer en Ireland,
•dvantage. Smalrijgt's Sermors, ledger^ A refident ambaflador. According to military cuftom the place was
This miftakc never ought to be imputed to Dry- His palTions and his fears good, and the lieutenant of the colonel's company
irn, but to thrfc who fuffeicj fo noble * genius to Lie you in his brcali, and there
liegers for might well pretend to the next vacant capta-nfiiip.
4k SfWfr nccclSty. ^"pe. Negotiate your afiairs, Daibam'i Stphy, Hôtttit,
. ^ \
L I F L I I' L I F
The ett] of Eflex wu made ntultntnl gtfieral of •
After a life of glorious toils endur'd, His ground,
forelieid (li^ck the
trmy ; the moft popuUr man of the king-
Ciie Clos'« their long glories with a figli. Pofe, Lifebiotd and Ufe rufli'd mingled through the wound.
dom, and the darling ot the fwordmen. Clarendon, I'll teach my hau\y to lead good lives, Dryden,
His V.euunanty engaging againil his pofitive or- Mrs. Barker, They loved with tJiat calm and noble value whicii
ders, being beaten by Lyfander, Alcibiadcs was 6. Condition manner of living with
; re- dwells in the heart, with a warmth like that of
gain baniihed. Stvifl. fpedt to happinefs and mifery. tifchhod, Sfeilator.
Canft thou fo many gallant foldlers fee, Money, the /f/e-i/Mi/ of the nation.
Such was the life the frugal Sabines kd ;
And captains and limcmrtts flight (or me Gay, .'
So Remus and his brotlicr god were bred. Dryden,

Corrupts and fta^n'ates in the veins,
Unlefi a proper circulation
Lieute'nantship. «. /. [from lieute- 7. Continuance of our prefent Hate : as,
Iti motion and its Ircat tiiaintains. Sivift,
nant.] The rank or office of lieutenant. half his life was fpent in ftudy. LiFEEVERLA'bTiNc. An herb. Ainfvj.
Life. a./, plural Jives, [lipian, to live, Some have not any cicir ideas all Cnzwlivn. Locke.
Untam'd and fierce the tyger ftill remains.
Li'feciving. adj. \!ife and gi-ving]
Saxon. J Having the power to give life.
And with biting on his chains. Prior.
tires his life
1. Union and co-operation of foul with
The adminiliration of this bank is for lî:, .
His own heat.
body; vitality; animation, oppofed lo and partly in the hajids of the chief citizens. Kindled at fird from heav'ii's lif giving fire.
an inanimate Jiate. Aildifcii on Italy. Speiiftft

On thy life no more. 8. The living fornri : oppofed to copies. He fat deviling death
—Aly life 1 never held but as a pavm That is the belt pirt of beauty wliich a pi&iirc
To them who liv'd ; nor on the virtue thought
To wage againft thy foes. Shaktjf, King Lear, cannot cxprcfs, no, nor the firft fight of the life.
Of that lifrgiviug plant. Milton's Paradije Lcf,
She ihews a body rather than a /f/I-,
j
' Baccn^s £ffiyi. Lipecua'rd. «. f. {life and guard.
.
Aftatue than a breather. Siakejp. Ant.iiiuiCleofnt, Let him vifit eminent pcrfons of great name Theguard of a King's perfon.
Let the waters bring forth abundantly the mov- '
abroad, that may t^ll how ti>e if//< Migreeth with
lie Li'feless. adj. [from life.]
ing creature that hath life. Gen, i. ao. the fame. £ajxr.
1. Dead; deprived of life.
_ .
. The fame man confifts in nothing

identity of the He that would be a maftcr, mud draw by the
X who make the triumph of to-day.
but a participation of th« fame contioued life, by life as well as copy from origisa)*, aai join theory
conftandy ticeting particles of matter, in fuccelTion
May of c (-morrow's pomp one part appear,
and experience t^gethar. Cullicr,
vitally united to the fame organized body. L'^ke.
OhalHy witji wQunds, and lifilefs on the bier. Priif,
9. ExaA relemblance: with to before it.
2. Uoanimated void of life.
2. Prefent Hate; as diliinct from other 1 no character of any perfon was ever
belJCTe
;
Was I to have never parted from thy fide

parts of human exigence. better drawn eo the life tluu this. Dinhem. ;
As good have grown there ftill a lifcle/s rib Milton,
O ife, thou notliing's younger brother ! Rich carvings, portraiture, and imag'ry.
• Thus l>fgan
1
So like, that we may take the one for t'other I Where ev'ry figure to tljc life exprcfs'd
Outrage from Ifelefi things. Milton^
Dieam of a fliadow ! a reficdlion made The godhead's pow'r. Uryden'i fCrtgbt's talc.
The po'.vcrwhich produces their motions, fpringa
From the falfe glories of the gay rcfleiled bow. He faw in order painted on the wall from fometliin^ without themfelves : if this power
Is more a folid thing thon thou ! The Wars that fame around tlie world had blo^'n,
were fufpeoded, they would become a iifelefs un-
Tbou weak built ifthmus, that doll proudly rife All to the life, and every leader kjjowni Dryden,
aftivc heap of matter. Cb.yne.
Up betwixt two eternities 10. General Rate of man.
;
A(id empty words Ihe gave, and Ibunding (train.
Yet canlt not wave nor wind fuftain^ Studious they appear Rut fenfelels, /i/i;/(yi .' idol void and vain. Popis*
But, broken and c'erwhelm'd, the ocean meets Of arts that inventors rare
polifli life ; !
again. Cowley. Maker. 3. Wanting power, force, or fplrit.

Unmindful of their Milton.
When confider life, Hopelcfs and helplefs doth yEgeon wend,
I 'tis all a cheat, All that cheers or fofccn's life.
Yet hope men favour the dccrit,
fool'd by But to procraitinatehis liftlfi end. Shakefpeare.
The tender filter, daughter, friend, and wife. Pope.
lîve on, and think to-morrow will repay ;
Unknowing to command, proud to obey,
To-morrow's f.itfer than the farmer day ;

1 1 Common occurrences ; human affairs j
A Ifelcfs king, a royal llwde I lay. Priori
lies more ; and when it fays we fliall be bled
the couife of things. 4. Wanting or deprived of phyfical en-
With fume new joy, takes off what we polTeft. This I know, not only by reading of books in
ergy.
Strange C02?n.ige none would live pad years again,
!
my ftudy, but alfo by experiente of life abroad in
The other v'ftor-flame a moment (food.
the world. Reborn,
Yet all hope pleafure is wh;tt yet remain ; Then fell, and Iifelefs left th' extinguifli'd wooW.
And from the dregs of Ife think to receive Not to know at large of things remote
Drydettm
What the &Hi fprightly running could not give : From ufe, obfture and fubtilej but to know
That which before. us lies in daily Ift, Li'feleslv. adv. [from Iifelefs.] With-
I'm tir'd of waiting for this cbemick gold.
Is the prime wifdom. Milton's Ptradife Lofl. out vigour ; frigidly; jejunely.
Which fools us young, and beggars us when old.
Dryden. 12. Living perfon.' Li'felike. adj, ylife a.ni Hie,] Likes
Howe'er 'tis well that while mankind Why Ihould I play the RoiAan fool, and die living perfon.
Through life'i perverfe mcaiiders eirs, .
On my own fword ? whilft ] fee lives the galhes Minerva, liflike, on embodied air
He can imagin d pleafure^ find. Do better upon them. Shak'jpear't Macietb. Inaprefs'd the form of Ipthcma the fair. Pope,
To combat ag.iinft real cares. Prier, 13. Narrative of a life pall. LrFESTRiNC. ». and fring.]
[life
f.
So peaceful Ih^lt thou end thy blifsful days, Plutarch, that wiiosa h'ls lifct
Nerve ; ftriflgs imagined to convey hie.
And fteal thyftlf from hfe by flow derays. Pnpe, Tells us, that Cato dearly lov'd his wife. Pope,
Thrfe lines arc the veins, the arteries.
3. Enjoyment, or poireifion of exigence, 14. Spirit; brifknefs 'j viyacity ;. refolu- The undeciying liffftrings of thofe hearts
asoppofed to death. tion. , 1' ,
That ftill Ih'all pant, and Rill (hall exercife
.
Then aiaricc 'gan through his veins to infpire The Helots bent thitherward -with a Hew ITfe The motion ("pirit and nature both impart. Daniel.
Kit gf«edy flames, and kindle life devouring Are. of rcfol'jtion, ,as if their captain had b^cn a root LrFETiME. ri.f. [life and time.] Con-
Fairy êen. out of which their courage' had fprtmg. Sidney.
tinuance or duration of life.
Their complot is to have my life
'
They have no notion of Kfe and fire in fancy Joidain talked profe all without
his life-time,
And, if my death might make this ifland happy. and in words ; and any thing that is.jull itf gram- knowing what it was. Addijon on Medals,
And prove the period of their tyranny, mar and in meafure, is as'good oratory and poetry
I would expend it with all willingnefs. Stakeffrare. to them as the belt. 'Fclt'jn.
Lu'ewe'ary, adj. [life and 'weary,\
Norlove thy life, nor hate ; but what thou liv'll Not with half the fire and life. Wretched J tired of Jiving.
Isve wrll, how long or fliort permit to Heav'n. With which he kifs'd Amphytrion's wife. Prisr. '
Let me hive
Milten. 15. Animal; animated exillence ; anitval A dram of foon fpeeding gew.
poffoo, fitcli
He entreated me not to take his life, but exaft a As will difperfe itfelf all the veins, through
being.
fom of miney. Brxme en the OdyJKy. 1'hat the iffetveary taker may fall dead. Hhakefpeare,
Full nature fwarms with life, Tbosnftn.
4. Blood, the fuppofed vehicle of life. •Ti Lift. f. a. [hffta, Swediih ; loffier^
16. Syilem of animal nature.
His gufliing entrails fmoak'd upon the gro'jnd. Danifli. I lifted, or lift ; I have lifted,
Lives through ail lift. Pope.
And the warm life came ilTuing through the wounds or
i Condufl manner of living with re-
I-epe, 17. Life is
whatever jrows and decays.
alfo ufed of vegetables, and
I. To
lift.
raifs from the ground ; to heave (
5. ;
to elevate J to hold on high.
(ptO. to virtue or vice. Li'feblood. »i/. [///> and blood.] The Filial ingratitude 1
Hia faith perhaps in fomc nice tenet! migiit blood neceflary to life; the vital blood- Is 4t not as tills mouth (hould rear tliis hand
Be wioog i his life I'm furc was in the right. '1 his fKknt;fs doth infcft For lifting food to't .'
Shakespeare' s King Leal,
Cruelty. The very llfebtood of our entcrpri«. i'i'aiefpeare. your gucfts are coming ;
Henry and Edward, hrighteft fons of fame, How could It tbou dtaia th« liftbliod of the Lift xip yo'ir countenance, as 'twere tht day
Aad victuotu Aificd, a jnosc tKKi jauBt ; «Iiild j Sbthjfeare. y I eelebiatioB of thM nuptial. Shah, IVinttr's Talr.
Propf'4
L I P L I G L I G
Pwpp'i! by the fprin;, it tiftt iloft the htti, Thou, Lord, art my glory, and the lifter up
J.
The ft«te of being bound. Not ytry
But of 1 fickly beau.y fooa to Hied, of mine head. PfaU iii. 3. proper.
In fummer living, and in winter dud. DryJen. To Lio. v. n. [leggen, Dutch.] To lie. Sand and gravel grounds eafily admit of heiC
2. To bear ; to fupport. Not in ufe. Thou kei)tt Uie great care' and moifluri:, for which they are not much the
So down hf fell, thit th' earth him underneath '
I have of thy health and tliy welfare, better, becaufe they let it pals too foon, and con-
'
Did groan, is feeble lo great load to /:/t. Fa:ty ^. Which many wild beafts I'ggen in wait, tiafl no ligature. Mirlitner't Hufiaudrj,
J. To rob ; to plunder. Whence ttie F»r to entrap in thy tender ftjte. Sperfer'i Pafiorals,
LIGHT, n.f. [leo)3r, Saxon.].
X.ttzn Jhoplifttr. LI'GAMENT. n. /. 'iligamenlum, from 1. That material medium of iight ; that
So weary beet in little cellt repofe. ligo, Litin ligament, French.]
; body by which we fee ; laminous mat-
But ii' night robben lift the «xll-ftor'd hive,
I. Ligament is a white and folid body, ter.
All humming tlirough their waxen city growi,
Diyden.
fofterthan a cartilage, but harder than Lij^ht is propagated from luminous bodies in time,
4. To exalt to elevate mentally.

;
a membrane; they have no confpicu- and Ipends about feven or eight minutes of <a
ous cavities, neither have they any hour in pafling from tire fun to the earth.
My heart was lift up in the ways of the LorJ,
Ne-wton's Oplicks^
'
xCbrm. fenfe, left they Ihould fuffer upon the
Of Orpheus now no more let poets Jell, 2. State of the elements, in which things
motion of the joint: their chief ufe is
To bright CKcilia greater pow'r is given. become vifible : oppofed to darkneft.
to fallen the bones, which are articu-
His numbers rais'd a fhnds from bell, God called the light day, and tire darknefs he
Heis r<ft the foul to heav'n. fcpc. I
lated motion, left they
together for called night- Genejis*
5. To raife in fortune. Ihould be diflocated with exercife. So alike thou driv'ft away
The eye of the Lord I'ificd up his head from ûincy. Light and darknefs, night and day. Careto%
mifery. Euluj. Be all their ligaments at once unbound, 3. Power of perceiving external objeds
6> To raife in eftimation. And their disjointed bones to powder ground. by the eye : oppofed to blinilnefs.
Neither can it be thought, becaufe feme lefTons Sandys* My ftrength me ;
faileth as for the light of mint-
are chofen out of the Apocrypha, that wc do offer The incus is one way joined to the malleus, the eyes, it alfe is gone from me. PJalmst
difgraee to the word of Cod, or lift up the writings other end being a procefs is fixed with a ligament to If be true that /iî>f is in the foul.
it
,
the (tapes. Haider. in every part, why was the fight
of men above it. Htokcr. She all
7. To exalt in dignity. ,2. [in popular or poetical language.] To fuch a flender ball as th" eye confin'd.
See to what a godlike height Any thing which conneds the parts of So obvious and fo eafy to be quench'd.
The Roman virtues I'lf: up mortal man ! Aiiijon. the body. And not as feeling through all parts diffus'd.
To Though our ligaments betimes grow weak, That flje might look at will through er'ry pore ^
8. elevate ; as with pride.
to (Well,
Miltin,
Lifted op with pride. Tim, ifi. 6. We muft not force them till themfelves they break.
Our fuccelliss have been great, and our hearts Daibam, 4. Day.
haTc been too much lifttd up by them, fo that Bond chain entanglement. The murderer riling with the tight kllleth the
3. ; ;
we have rcafon to humble ourfclves. poor. Jot,
Atterbury, Menfometimes, upon the hour of departure, do
Ere the third dawning tight
9. Up is fometimes emphatically added to fpeak and reafon above themfelves ; for then the
Return, the ftars of mom fhall fee him rife
•
li/t. foul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of
the body, leafons like berfelf, and difcourfes in a
Out of his grave, ftefh as the dawning light.
He up his fpear againft eight hundred, whom
lift
Mlicn,
he (lew at one time. 2 Sam. xjtiii. 8. Arain above mortality. Addijons SpeBalor.
Ligame'ntal. adj. [from ligamrrit.] 5. Life.
Arife, Ift vp the lad, and hold him in thine I
Infants that never faw tight. Joh,
hand. Gcntfii. Ligame'ntous. j Compofing a liga-
Swif\ roll the years, and rife the expcêd morn,
To Lift, v, n. To ftrive to raife by tneiK. O fpring to light, aufpicious babe be born ! Pope.
ftrengtb. The
uracho3, or ligamental paHage, is derived
6. Artificial illumination.
Pinch cattle of pafture while fummer doth lall, from the bottom of the bladder, whereby it dif-
Seven lamps fhall give light. Numb-
And at their tailcs ere a winter be paft. Tujftr, chargcth the watery and urinary part of its aliment.
t\ft
Brotun^s Vulgar Errcurs. 7. Illumination of mind ; inftrudion ;
The mind, by being engaged in a talk beyond
The clavicle is infcrted into the firlt bone of knowledge.
'
the body ftrained by lifting at a
its lircigth, like
weight too heavy, has often its force broken. the (lernon, and bound in by a ftrong ligamentous Of thofc things which are for direftion of all
membrane. }fifeman. the parts of our life needful, and not impoflible
lM:kc.
Liga'tion. n.f. [ligat/o, Latin,] to be difcerned by the light of nature itfelf, are
Lift. n.f. [from the verb.] there not many
wli.ch few men's natural capacity
1. The manner of lifting. 1 . 7'he iSt of binding. hath b;en able to find out ? Hooker.
In the lift of the feet, when a man goeth up the 2. The ftate of being bound. Light may be taken from the experiment of the
hiU, the weight of the body bearcth molt upon the Theflumber of the body feems to be but the horfe-tooth ring, how that thofe things which
knees. Bacon. waking 01 the foul : it'is the ligation of fenfe, but afTuagc the ftrife of the fpirits, do help difcaf'ea,
In races, it is not the large Aride; or high lift, the liberty of reafon. Addifon. contrary to the intention dcfircd. Bacon's Nat. Hifi*
that makes the fpecd. Bacon's Efjayu 1 will place within them as a guide
Li'gature. n. /. [ligature, French; //-
2. The aft of lifting.
gatura, Latin.]
My umpire confcicnce, whom if they will hear, ,
The goat gives the fux a ///>, and out he fprings. Light after light well us'd they fhall attain.
1. Any thing tied round another; ban- And to the end perfifling fafe arrive. Milicn.
ISEjtrav.ge.
dage. '
1 opened Arioflo in Italian, and the very full

3. Effort; flruggle. DeaJ li/t i$ an effort
.
He deludcth us alfo by philters, ligatures, charms, two lines gave me light to all I could dcfire. Diyd.
to raife what with the whole force can-
and many fupcrftitious ways in the cure of dif- If internal light, or any projujfition which we
not be moved ; and figuratively any cafes. Brovin. take for infpired, be conformable to the principles
flate of impotence and inability. C" you flit the artery, and thruft into it a pipe, of reafon, or to tlie word of God, which is attefted
[ M)&If and Tralli made a lhif> and caft a ftrait ligature upon that part of the ar- revelation, reafon warrants it. Locke*
To help him out at a dead lift, Hudihras, tery ; notwithllanding the blood hath free palTage The ordinary words of language, and our com-
Mr. Dudor had puaaled his brains through the pipe, yet will not the artery beat be- mon ufe of them, would have given us light into,
In making a ballad, but was at a Hand. low the ligature ; but do but take off the lig.iture, the nature of our ideas, if conlidered with atten-
And you freely mull own, yoo were at a dead l!fi. it will bftat immediately. Ray on the Creation. tion. Lscke.
Stvifl. The many ligatures of our Englilh drefs check The books of Varro concerning navigation arc
4. Li/i, in Scotland, denotes a load or the circulation of the blood. Sp^Bator. lod, which no doubt would have given us grc.ic
I found my -arms and legs very ftrongly fadened light in thofc matters. Arbuthnot in dirs.
furcharge-of any thing; as alfo, if one
on' each fide to the groimd ; 1 likewife felt feverai
be difguifed much with liquor, they fay. 8. The part of a piflure which is drawn
flender ligatures acrofs mj body, from my arm-pics
He ha) gat a great lift. to my thighs. Gulliver's Trai/cls.
with bright colours, or in which the
5. [In Scottilh.] Thellcy: forinaftarry The ad of bitiding. light is fuppofed to fall.
2,
night they fay, Hctu clear the lift is ! The fatal noole 'performed its office, and with
Never admit two equal iighis in the fame pic-
the blood into his face. ture but the greater light mult Itrike foicibiy on
;
6. Lifts of a fail are. ropes to raife or moft (Irifl ligature l<)iieezed
th&fti places of the pit^tirc where the priucipat
Arbuti. 7. B:.ll.
lower them at pleafure. figures are ; diminifhing as it comes nearer the
Any (toppagc of the produce circulation will
Li'fter. «. /. [from U/tA One that a drepfy, as by ftrong ligature or compreflioo.
borders* Drydcn's DufrtJnoy%
iift». AriutiiHt in Diet. 9. Reach of knowledge ; mental view.
Ligit%
; . ; ;
L I L I G L I G
tigtf, sni undcrftandirg, and wifJom, Bke tb« It will be light, that you may bear it In painting, the light and a white colour are
wildom of the gods, was faund in him. Under of any length.
a sloke that Shakefpmre,
is but one and the fame thing; no colour more re-
Dav'iel, T. 1 1 A
king that would not feel his crown too heavy, fembles the air than white, and by confequcnce
We faw as it were thick clouds, which did put muft wear it every day; but if he think it too no colour which is lighter. Dryden.
us in fome hope of land, knowing how that part light, he knowetli not of what metal it is made. Two cylndrick bodies with annular fulcl, found
of the South Sea was utterly unknown, and might Bacon s Ejfjys. with (harks teeth, and other fliclls, in a tight co-
have idands or continents that hitherto were not
3. Not affliftive ; eafy to be endured. loured clay. Wood-ward.
come to ligt;. Bacon'i Natural Hifiary. Every light and common thing incident into any hicHT. âd-v. [for lightly, by colloquial
They have brought to l.^ not a few profit- part of man's life. Hoiker. corruption.] Lightly ; cheaply.
able experiments. Bacm'i Natural Hif.ory. Light fuft''rings give us leifure to complain. Shall wc fet light by that cuftom of reading, from
10. Point of view ; fituation ; direflion We groan, but caimot fpeak, in greater pain. whence fo precious a benefit hath grown ? Hooker.
in which the light falls. Dry den.
Frequent confideration of a thing wears off the 4. Eafjr to be performed not
difficult.
To Light. <v. a. [from light, »./.]
;
ftrangenefs of it ; and (hews it in its feveral urtn, Well pleas'd were all his friends, the talk was 1. To kindle; to inflame; to fet on
and various ways of a;-f earance, to the view of the light. fire ; to make flame.
mind. South. The father, mother, daughter, they invite. Drydcn. Swinging coals about in the wire, thoroughly
It is impoflsble for aman of the grtatell parts 5. Eafy to be adled on by any power. lighted ciiem. Bo\le.
to confider any thing in its whole extent, and in all Apples of a ripe flavour, frefh and fair, This truth fliines fo clear, that to go about to
its variety of light!. SfeHatir. Mellow'd by winter from their cruder juice, prove it, were to light a candle to feek the fun.
An author who has net learned the art of Light of digeftion now, and fit for ufc. Drydtn. Glanville.
ranging his thoughts, and fetting them in proper
6. Not heavily armed. The maid5, who waited her commands.
i'.ghis, will lofc himfelf in confufion. AJJifoti. Paulus Bachitius, with a company of light Ran in with lighted tapers in their hands. Dryden,
11. Publick view; publicic notice. horfemen, lay clofe in ambuih> in a convenient Be witnefs, gods, and ftrike Jocafla dead.
Why am I alk'd what next Oiall fee the light ? place for that purpofe. Knollcs.
If an immodcfl thought, or low ddire,
Heav'ns was 1 born for nothing but to write ?
I
Aftive
Inflam'd my breaft fince firft our loves were lighted.
7. ; nimble.
Pcff. He fo light was Dryden.
at legerdemain.
12. The publick. Abfence might cure it, or a fecond miftrefs
That what he touch'd came not to light again.
Grave epirtles bring vice to light. LigU up another flame, and put out this.
Spcnjcr.
Such as a king might read, a bilhop write. Pope. Afahel was as light of foot Adjifons Cattt
as a wild roe.
13. Explanation. 2 Sam. ii. iS. 2. To give light to ; to guide by light.
1 have endeavoured, throughout this drfcourfe, There Stamford came, for his honour was lame A beam that falls
that every former part might give ftrength unto all Of the gout three months together Frelh from the pure glance of thine eye,
that follow,, and every latter bring fome light unto But it prov'd, when tiicy fought, but a running Lighting to eternity. Crajham.
all before. Hxhr. , _
gout. Ah hoplefs, Ijftiiig flames ! like thofe that burn
We (hould compare places of fcripture treating of For were lighitr than ever.
his heels Denbam. To light tha dead, and warm th' unfruitful urn.
tlie fame point ; thus one part of the facred t»xt Youths, a blooming band ; Pope.
could not fail to give light unto another. Light bounding from the earth at once they rife. 3. To illuminate ; to fill with light.
E£ay an St. Ptiul't EfiJUn,
Locte't Their feet half viewlefs quiver in the Ikies. Pope. The fun was fet, and vefper, to fuppiy
14. Any thing that gives light; a pharos; 8. Unencumbered ; unembarrafled ; clear His abfent beams, had lighted up the flcy. Drydeit,
a taper ; any luminous body. of impediments. 4. Up isemphatically joined to light.
That li^hi burning in my hall
you fee is Unmarried men are beft mafters, but not beft No fun was lighted up the world to view.
How far that little candle throws his beams ! fubjefts ; for they are light to run away. Bac:n. Dryden s Ovid.
So Ihines a gocd deed in a naughty world. Shatefp. 9. Slight ; not great. 5. [From the
adjedive.] To lighten
Then he called for a light, and fprang in and A light error in the manner of making the fol- to eafe of a burthen.
fell down before Paul. A.ls, xvi. 29. lowing trials was enough to render fome of them Land fome of our paflengers.
I have fet thee to be a light of the Gentiles, for unfuccefsful. Boyle, And light this weary veffei of her load.
falration unto the ends of the earth. Alli, xiii.
47. 10. Not denfe ; not grofs. Fairy Slureti.
Let them be for figns.
In the wildcmefs there is no bread, nor water, To Light, v.
For feafons, and for days, and circling yearj n. [licit, chance, Dutch ;
j and our fool loatheth this light bread.
And let them be for ligtti, as I ordain preter. lighted or light, or lit.]
Numlers, xxl. 5.
Their office in the firmament of heav'n.
Light fumes are merry, groffer fumes arc fad. I. To happen 10 find; to fall upon by
To give light on the earth. Miltcti.
Both are the reafonable foul run mad. chance : it has on before the thing
put as great difference between our new lights Dryden.
1
and ancient truths, a* between the fun and a me. 11. Eafy to admit any influence; unfound.
"<"• fteady ; unfettled ; loofe. No more fettled In valour than difpofed to
GUn/ille.
Several ligbti will not be feen. Falfe of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand.
juftice, if either they had lighted on a better friend,
nr could have learned to make friendlhip a child,
If there be nothing elfe between Sbakefpeare.
;
Men doubt, becaufe they ftand fo thick Thefe tight vain perfons
and not the father of virtue. Sidney,
i* th' (ky. ftill are drunk and mad
If thofe be ftars that paint the galaxy. With and pieafures of their youth.
furfeitings,
The prince, by chance, did on a lady light.
Cowley.
IwHI make fome offers at their fafety, by That was right fair, and freflj as morning rofe.
Davies.
fixing fome marks like lights upon a coaft, by They are light of belief, great lifteners after Sfenfer,
which the may ««wi. Haply your eyeIhall light upon fome toy
diips avoid at leaft known rocks. _ Herwell.
There is no greater argument of a light and in- You
have defire to purchafe. Sbakefpeare.
TentflL-.
He mull confiderate perfun, than profanely to feoff at reli- As in the tides of people once up, there want
{i\\\ mourn
The fun, and not ftirring winds to make them more rough ; fo
moon, and ev'ry ftarry ligbr, e'on- Tillotfon.
_ this people did light upon two ringleaders. Bacon.
Edips'd to* him, and loft in everlafting night. 12. Gay; airy; wanting dignity or foli-
of late years, the royal oak did light upon count
Prlcr. dity ; trifling. Rhodophil.
Light. aJj. [Wojprc, Saxon.] Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too The way of producing fuch a change on colour-a
Honuell.
1. Not tonding to the center with great light. Sbakefpeare. may be eafily enougli lighted on, by thofe converlant
force ; not heavy. Forgive in the folutions of mercury. Boyle,
Hot and cold were in one body If fiaions light I mix with truth divine,
fixt. He
fought by arguments to footh her pain
Anil fill thefe linci with other praifc than thine. j
And foft with hard, and light with heavy mixt. Nor thofe avall'd
at length he lights on one.
:
DryJn. Fairfax. Before two moons their orb with light adorn.
T-L i-
Thefe t -
Notchafte; not regular in conduit.
_
weigbti did not exert their natural gra- 13. If Heav'n allow mc life, I will return. Dryden.
vity till they were laid in the golden balance, in- Let me not be light. Truth, light upon this way,
of no more avail is
fomuch that I could not guefs which was light or For a light wife doth make a heavy hufiiand. to us than error ; for what
taken up by us, is fo
heavy whilll held them in hand.my may be falfe as well as true ; and he has not done
I
MSJon. Sbakefpeare.
2. Not burdenfome; eafy to be worn, or 14. [?rom Ugh, n./.] Bright; clear. his duty, who has thus ftuiuUed upon truth in
carried, or lifted ; not onerous. As foon a the morning was tight, the men wer; his way to preferment. Loik'.
Jlotfc, oxen, plough, fent away. Gen. xliv. 3. Whofocver firft lit on a parcel of that fubftance
tumbrel, cart, waggon,
and wain. The horfes ran up and down with their tails we could not rationally take the bulk
call gold,
The and manes on a light fire. Kn.Ûs. and depend on its real effence.
figure to Locki.
ligbtir and ftiongtr the greater thy gaine.
As wily Reynard walk'd the ftrcets at night.
15. Not dark ; tending to whitenefs. On « trjgsjians m.ilk he chanc'il to light j
.
Turning
; ; ;
II b L 10- L I O
Turning it o'er, he mutter'd with jifdaln, Nature from the Itorm Thli grtve pwtakes the fle(hly birth,
lôw vjil a brad ii htrc without a brain MJifir, '. Shinei out afrc,(h ; and through the ligblen'd air Which cover lightly, gcntK earth. Stn Jimjt*,
A wi-aker man may fomelimts /igti en nouons A higher luftre, and a clearer calm, i. Without deep iniprelTion. .
which hjve eiUpcJ a wiret. ffatii tn tbt M'mJ. Diftufive tremble. Tbtmfi.ri'i Summer. The foft ideas of the cheerful note.
>• To fall in any particular direction : 2. To exonerate; to unload, [from /iît, Lightly recciv'd, weie eafily forgot. Prur,
with ««. ae/J.] 3. Kafily; readily i without difficulty ; of
The wounJed ftecd curvetj ; and raij'd upright, I'he mariners were afraid, and caft forth the courfe.
Liphti er his feet before his hoots behind : wares that were in the (hip into the fca, to light tn If they write or fpeak pub ickly but five words,
bpring up in air alot'ti and l.ilh the wind. Dryjen. it of them. jfcnah, i. 7. one of them is I'tgh'ly about the dangerous eftate
4. To to llrike on : with eu.
full ; 3. To make lefs heavy. of the church of England in lefpedt of abuled
He with furious rigour fmites.
at his foe Longwith woe
fince ceremonies. Haiktr,
That ftrongeft oak might fccm to overthrow ;
Nearer acquainted, now by proof,
I feci Uelieve not lightly that your fon
c
The ftr >ke •'fa his fliield fo hei\-y ligtit, That fellowlhip in pain divides not fmart. Will not exceed the common, or be caught
'J'hat to the ground it doublech him full low. Nor lightens aught each man's peculiar load. Milton, With cautclous baits and praft'ice. Sbakrêare.
Sfierffr, Strive Shortriimmer/ijil>i/y hoafui-ward fpring. Shak^
At anuncertain lot none can find thcmfelvci In oflices of love h»w we may l.ghien 4. Without rcalon.
grieved en whomfvjever it l,gh!e!b, Hicker. Each other's burden. Mill'.n. Flatter not the rich ; neither do thou willingly
They Ihall hunjjcr no more ; neither flinll the 4. To exhilarate ; to cheer. or lighily appear before great pcrf^nages. Taylor,
fun l:gh! on them, nor any heat. Riv. vii. 16. A trufty villain, very oft. IJet every man that hath a calling be diligent in
On me, me only, as tlje foiircc and I'pring When I am dull with care
and melancholy, puri'uance of its employment, fo as not ighily, at
Of all corruption, all the blame ligbis due. Lightent my humour with his merry jell. SkaVtfp. without reafonable occafioo, to negle^ it. Tajhr,
Milton't ParaJife Ijifl. The audience ate grown weary of continued Without dejeflion
5. ; cheerfully.
A corfe tighti upon him prefently after : his melancholy fcenes j and few tragedies (hail fuccccd Bid that welcome .
great army is he himfclf flain in

utterly ruined, in this age, if they are not lightened with a c )urfe Which comes to punilh us, and we puniih it.
ic, and his head and right hand cut of}', and hung of mirth. Dryden. Seeming to bear hgh.ly,
it Sbake/peare,
up before Jerufilem. S<,utb>
Li'c H T£ R w.yt [from light, to make light.
.
6. Not challely.
4. [AlijjjTan, Sax.] To defcend from a
A heavy boat into which ihips are light-
'\
If I were lightly difpofed, I could ftlll perhapt

liorfe or carriage. ened or unloaded. have offers, that fome, who hold their heads higher,
When Naaman faw him running after him, They have cock boats for pafTengers, and lighten would be giad to accept. Stri/t,
1b I'ubted down from the chariot to meet him. for burthen. Cercvi, Nimbly with agility not heavily or
7. ; ;
2 K:ngs, V. zi.
He climbM a flranded lighters height. tardily,
I faw 'em falute on horfeback,
Shot to the black abyfs, and plung'd downright. Methought I IVood on a wide river's bank
Seheld them wlien they ligbtxd, how they clung • ;
In their embraccment. Sbakefpcare,

Pope. When on a fudden, Toril'mond appear'd.
Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when jhe faw
Lt'cHTERMAN. n. /. [lighter and man.} Gave me his hand, and led me lightly o'er ;
Jfaac, (he ligbrej off the camel. Gtn. xxW, 64. One who manages a lighter. Leaping and bounding on the billows heads.
Where much employed, whatever
(hipping we had reach d the farther (hore. DryJ,
Till fafcly
The god Uld do\Vn his feeble rays. is
Then ligbud from bis glittering coach. Snuifi. becomes of the merchant, multitudes of people 8. Gaily; airily; with levity; without
will be gainers ; as hiipwrights, butchers, carmen, heed or care.
J. To letcle ; to reft; to Aoop from
and lightermen. Child.
flight. LiGHTMrNDED. adj. [light Ood tUt'ltd.}
plac'd a quire of fuch enticing birds.
Lichtfi'ncered. aef/, [light inifinger.'\
I Unfettled; unfteaay.
That bys. Shakfff,
(he will tight to liftcn to their Nimble at conveyance thievifh. ;
He that is haily to give credit is lightmiirdej,
Then as a bee which among weeds doth fall, Li'ghtfoot. adj. [light a.nd /bet.] Nim- Eccl. xix. 4«
Which fcem fwctt flow'rs, with luftre fre(h and gay, ble in running or dancipg ; adive. Li'oHTNEss. H,/. [hom light.]
She lighli on that, and this, and tafteth all, Him fo far had born his tigbifovt (ieed.
£ut pleas'd with nonej doth rife, and foar away. 1. Want of weight ; abfcnce of weight;
Pricked with wrach and fiery fierce difdain.
Duv'ifi* the contrary to hewoinefs.
That him to follow was but fruitJefs pain. Fairy S^
Plant trees and (htubs near home, for bees to Some are for mads of (hips, as fir and pine,
And all the troop of ligh'fo;t Naiades
pitch on at their fwarming, that they may not be becaulc of their length, rtraightncl's, and lightneftt
Flock all about to fee her lovely face. Spenfir.
ID danger of being loll for want of a hghring place. Bacon't Natural Hijlcry,
M'jitimer^l Hujhandry^
LiGHTFo'oT. K. /. Venifon. A cant Sujipofe many degrees of littlenef's and ligi-tnefs
word. many might
y« Li'ghten. <v. n. [Jjir lijfc, Saxon.]
.
in particles, fo as float in the air »
I. To flalh, with thunder.

Lichthe'aded. aJj. [light and heael.] good while before they tell. Surnc.
This dreadful night. 1, Unfteady ; loofe ; thoughtlefs ; weak. 2. Inconftancy; unfteadinefs.
That thunders, /igbiens, opens graves, and roars The Engli(h Liturgy, how pioufly and wifely fo- For, unto knight there is no greater (hame.
As d«th the lion. ever framed, had found great oppofition ; the cere- Than ligbm^fi and inconOancy in love. Fatr^ Siêen,
Shakefftarc,
Although I joy in thee, monies had wrought only upon l^ghthccdcd, weak Of two things they mull chufe one ; namely,
I have no joy of this contra^ to-night men, yet learned men excepted againd fome parti- whether they would, to their er.dlefs dilgrace, with
culars. CUrerd'jr.. ridiculous lightvep, difmifs him, whofe reftitution
it too raih, too unadvised, too fuddcn.
is
Delirious; difordered in the mind by they had in fo importunate manner dclired, or elfe
Too like the light'nini;, which doth ceafe to be 2.
£reonecan fay it lighten. Stak. Rumaand 'Jfu/Ut. condcfcend unto that demand. HatJttr,
difeafe.
The lightning that ligbtencib out of tiie one As 1 blow this feather from my face.
Lighthe'adedness. B.y. Delirioufnefs Obeying with my wind when I do blow.
fart under heaven, (hcwcth unto the other part.
diforder of the mind. And yielding to another when it btoM-£,
Luke, xvii. 14.
2< To fhine like lighuiing. Lighthe'arted. aJj. [light and heart.] Commanded always by the greateft gufl
Gay merry airy cheerful. Such is the lightnefi of you common men. Shakefp.
Yet looks he like a king : behold his eye. ; ; ;
Li'ghthouse. and \. Unchallity; want of conduit in women.

As bright as is the ca(;lc's, lightem forth n. f. [light hcufe.]
Is it the difdain of my eftate, or the opinioa
Controlling roajefty. Hhaksfpfart. An high building, at the top of which
of my ligbtncfi, that emboldened fuch bais faiicief
3. To to light.
fall ;
lights are hung to guide fhips at i^3. towards me ? Sidney,
O Lord, let thy mercy lightn upon us, as we He charged himfelf with the rifque of fuch veflels Can It he.
io put out truft in thee. Ccmmsn Prayer. as carried com in winter ; and built a pharos or That modeft}' may more betray our fenfe,
Vo Li'ghten. v. a. [from /igiK.] lighlhmfe. Arbuthnat. Than woman's li^btneU ? Shakespeare.
To illuminate to enlighten. Built two poles to the meridian, with immcnfe
I.
Upon his bloody finger
;
he doth wear fi^thtvfis on the top of them, ylrl/utbnot and Pope.

.(. Agility; nimbleaefs.
Li'ghtkinc.
^
A precious ring, tb.it l,gbieiu all the hole. Lightle'gged. atlf. [light and leg.] n.f. [from Ughtin, lighten- 1^
itig, lightning.
Sbsktfpcan, Nimble ; fwift. \
O light, which mak'.(l the light which makes Ligblhgged Pas has got the middle fpace. I. I'he Halh that attends thunder.
the day, Sidney. Lightning is a great flame, very bright, extend-
Which fctt'(V the eye withoot, and mind within ing cveiy way to a great diftance, fudiienly darting
Ligbtcn my
:
Li'cHTLBss. ad/, [from Ugh'.] Wanting
with one clear heav'niy tay,
fpirit upwards, and^there ending, fo that it is only mo.,
Which now to view itfelf doth firft begin. Daviet. light; dark. mentaneous. Mi/Jchenircclt,
A key of fire ran all along the (hore. Li'cHTLY. Wi/. [from light,] Scnfe thinks the lightning born before tlK thunder
;
And ligbttn'd all the tivcr with a bla«. Drydtn. I. Wi.Uiottt. weight. What tcUs us then they both tugcilicr arc ? Davits.
11 biUmoocus,
; ; . :
L I G L IK L I K
Salmoneas, fuff'ring crutl p»ir.s I founJ Li'gure. n.f. A precious done. The joyous nymphs, and lightfoot fairies,
Which thithet came to hear their mulick fweet.
For emulating Jove ; the rattling found The third row a ligurj, an agate, and an ame-
Of mimick thunder, and the glitt'ring blaze thyft. Exidus. Now hearing them fo heavily lament,
Dryd. Like heavily lamenting from them went. Spenfcr.
Of pointed lightnng!, and their forky rays.
LIKE. atfj. [lie, Saxon; liii, Dutch.]
No warning of the approach of flame. Like as a father pitietli his children, fo the Lord
I, Refembling; having refemblance. pitieth them that fear him. Pfjl. ciii. 1 3.
Swiftly, like fudden death, it came
Like travellers by lightning kill'd,
j
Whom art thou like in thy greatnefs? Are we proud and paffionate, malicious and re-
Eackiel, xxxi. 2. vengeful Is this to be /;A;-minded with Chrift,
I burnt the moment I beheld. Gramiiilt.
name.
?
His fon, or one of his illuftrious vi'ho was meek and lowly ? TiHotfon.
2. Mitigation; abateme*!. [from to light-
How the former, and almofl the fame me.
like I
What will be my confufion, when he fees
en, to make lefs heavy.] Drydeirs ^neid. Negledled, and forfaken like himfelf. Philips.
How oft when men are at the point of death, As the earth was dcfigneJ for the being of men, They roar'd like lions caught in toils, and rig'd
Have they been merry ? which their keepers call why might not all other planets be created for The man knew what they were, who heretofore
A /igh:ning before death. Sbak, Rtunco aniL Juliet* the like ufes, each for their own inhabitants ? Had feen the like lie murther'd on the fliore.
We were once of his recovery, upon a
in hopes BeHhy. ITaller..
kind meirage from the widow ; but this only proved This plan, as laid down by him, looks liicr '.n
2. In fuch a manner as befits.
a aghtning before death. AlJifin! Spe{}.itor. univerfal art than a diftinft loglck. Baker.
Be ftrong, and quit yourfelves like men.
Light."!, n./. [fuppofed to be called fo z. Equal ; of the fame quantity. I Sam. iv. 9.
from their lightnefs in proportion to More clergymen were impoverilhed by the late
Likely; probably. A popular ufe not
3.
war, than ever in the like fpace before. Sprjit.
their bulk.] 'the lungs ; the organs of analogical.
breathing ; we fay, ligits of other ajii- j. [¥ or likely.'] Probable; credible. demanded.
I like the work well ; ere it be
The trials were made, and it is like that the ex-
Bials, and /ungs of men. periment would have been effectual. Bacon.
As Hie enough it will, I'd h.ive it copied. Hhaktfp.
complaint was chiefly from the ligin, a part
The To Like., •v. a. [lican, Saxon liikeM,-
4. Likely; in a ftate that gives probable
;
as of no quick fenfe, fo no feat for any Djarp difeafe.

expefUtions. This is, I think, an im- •Dutch.]
Hay*wiirtt'
Li'cHTSOME. aefj. [from Iight'\_^ proper, though frequent ufe. I. To chufe with fome degiye of. prefer-
If the duke continues thefe favours towards ence.
1. Luminous; not dark; not obfcure
you, you aie like to be much advanced. As nothing can be fo rcafonably fpokcn as to •
not opake. Sbak4j,eare'i T-weifth Night, content all men, fo this f^êech was not of them all
Neither the fun, nor any thing fenfibleîs that
He is like to die for hunger, for' there is no more liked. Kn'olles.
Kght itfelf, which is the caufe di.it things are ligbt- bread. ycnmiab, xxxviii. 9. He gave fuch ^n account as made it appear that
J'.me, though it make itfelf, and all things elfe, The yearly value thereof is aheady increafed he liked the defign. Clarendon.
vifible j but a body moft enlightened, by whom the VJelike our prefent circumftsnces well, and dream
double of that it was within thefe few years, and is
neighbouring region, which the Greeks call aether, of no change. A:terbury.
like dally to rife higher till it amount to the price
the place of the fuppofed element of fire, is .iffea-
ed and qualified. Raleigh.

of our land in England. Damies. z. To approve ;.to view with approbation,
Hoptbn refolved to vifit Waller's qunrters, that not fondnefs.
White walls make rooms more /igitf.me than
he might judge whether he were likt to purfue his Though they did not like the evil he did, yet
black. Saeon. '
purpole. Clarendon.
tliey liked him that did the evil. Sidney.
Equal pofture, and quick (pirits, ate required to
Many were not eafy to be governed, nor like to He grew eoncent to mark their fpceches, then to
make colours lighffime. Bacon i Natural Hiftay.
conform themfelves to ftridl rules. Clarcndor'.
marvel at fuch wit in fliepherds, after to their
The fun like
If his rules of reafon be not better fuited to company.
His courfe exalted through the Ram had run, Sidney.
the mind than his rulei for health arc fitted to our He proceeded from looking to lik'.ng, and from
ThroogW Taurus, and the lighifmie realms of love.
bodies, he is not like to be much followed. liking to loving. Sidney.
Drydt'n.
Baker on Learning. For ieveral virtues
2. Gay ; airy ; having the power to ex-
Like. n.f. [This fubftantive is feldom I have /;;t'</ feveral women i never any •>
hilarate. With
more than the adjedlive ufed ellipti- fo full foul. Shakejpeare's tcmfefl,
It fuiteth fo fitly with that ligltfome aflêftion of
cally tht Hie for the like thing, or like I look'd upon her with a foldiet's eye ;
joy, wherein God dclightcth when his faints praife ;
That lik'd, but had a rougher taflc in hand
him. Ihokfr, per/on. ]
Than to drive liking to the Sbakeff. name of love.
The light/me paflion of joy was not that which 1. Some perfbn or thing refembling an- Scarce any man of fin in others,
pad'es to a liking .
now often ufurps the name; that trivial, vanifhing, other. but by firft pra<£tlfing it himfelf. South.
fupeificial thing, that only gilds the apprchenfion,
He was a man, take him for all and all, Beads can like, but not diitinguirti too.
and playi upon the furface of the foul. Sûth*
rihall not look upon his like again. Sbakefpeare. Nor their own liking by refledlion know. Dryden.
Li'cHTsoMENEss. «./. [frcm Hgit/o/r.e.] Every like is not the lame, O Cafar! Sbakeff. 3. To pleafe ; to be agreeable to. Now
1. Lominoafnefs rot opacity; not ob-
; Though there have been greater fleets' for num- tiifufed.
fcurity not darkfomenefs. ber, yet for the ncverthc like.
bulk of the (hips
; Well hoped he, eie long that hardy gue!^,
oar atmofphcie that the varfety of co- Baton's IVar Kvi:h.S^'itin.
It is to If ever covetous hand, or luftful eye.
which are painted on the Ikies, the light- Albeit an eagle did bear away a lamb in her ta-
lours, Or lips he laid on thing that lik'd him bett,
and the twilight, are owing. lons, yet a raven endeavouring to do the like was
fonmefs of oor air, Should be his prey. SpenJ.r's Fairy Qêen.
Cheyrie's Pb]l:J'jpb'!Cat Principlei* held entangled. liayviard.
Say, my fair brother now, if this device
merriment; One cfi'ers, andio makes a flay ;
oflêring
2, Cheerfulnefs ; levity. Do you, or may you to like entice.
like Hubberd.
Another forward fets, and doth no more ;
Licna'loes. n. /. [lignum aloei, Latin.] Thisdefire being recommended to her majefty, it'
A third the like, DanieVi CivitWar.
liked her to include the fame within one entire leafe.
Aloes wood. His defire
Bacon. •
The vjDies fpread forth as gardens by the river's By converfation with his like to help.
of Ugnahes which the Lord hath
He Aall dwell where it Rkeih him heft. Deitt,
fide, as the trees Or folace his defers. Milim's Paradife Lofl.
There them them,
let learn, as likes t(j defpifc
planted, and as cedar trees bcfide the water. Two likes may be mjftaken. L' Eft range.
God and Mcfliah. Milton s Paradife Lofi,
,
Numb, jcxiv. 6. She'd ftudy to reform the men.
Li'cS'EOVS. adj. [ligneui, Latin ; ligneux, Or add fome grains of folly more To Li KE. 'V. n.
French.] ^/ladeot wood ; wooden; re- To women than they had before 1 To be pleafed with wijh o/'before the :
This might their mutual fancy ftrike, thing approved. Obfolete.

fembiing wood.
Since cv'ry being loves its like. Sivift.
It fliould be tried -with fliooU of vines, »nd roots Of any thing more than of GoJ they could not
z. Ufed with y^fli/ ; near approach ; a ftate by any means like, as long as whatfoe^'er they knew
of red rofcs ; be they, being of a more
for it mxf
lignetut na:ure,'will incorporate with tlie tree itfelf. like to another ftate. A fenfe common, befidesGod, they apprehended it not in itfelf with-
Saconî Natural Hijfory, but not juft: perhaps had is a corrup- out dependency upon God. flooker.
Ten thoufand feeds of the plant harts-tongue, The young foldicrs did with fuch cheerfulnefs
tion for tuaj.
hardly make the bulk of a pepper-corn now the likeof this refolution, that they thought two days
:
Report being carri^'d fecretly from one to another
covcis, and the true body of each feed, the paren- a long delay. KnAles.
in my fliip, had like to have been ipy utter over-
chymous and ligneciti part of both, and the fibres of
throw. Raleigh. 2. To chufe; to lift ; to be pleafed.
thofe parts, multiplied one by another, afford a hun- The man likes not Ip take his brother's wife,
Like. ad'v.
dred thoufand millions of formed atoms. Hut how Deuter:niriny.
many more we cjnnot define. Grrw. I. In the fame manner; in the fame man- He that has the prifon doors fct open is perfett-
LIGNUMrrr^. n.f. [Latin.] Guia ner as: it is not always eafy to deter- ly at liberty, becauie he may either go or flay, as he
cum ; a very bud wood. mine whether it be adverb or adjeiljve. bcft liict. , Liicke.
Tot. IJ. G Li'k ELI HOOD,.

: ; : !
L I K L I L X I M
where there is a double fort of litenî, ft ga«d Ane ShtpvMck'd noon a kingdom ^here W) pity!
T .
. ? "-y- [from //*#/».] arid a o.id one. Drytien. No fi lends 00 hope! no kindred weep fo: me!
!
There will b: found a better //it. r /s, and a worfc Alntoll no grave allow d me like the t:ly, i
1. A(>pi*arance ; iheiv. Obfolfie. and the belter ts conllancly to be chuleo. Drjdm. 'i hat once wa> niilticfs ot the 6eid, anu Hourifli'd,
what of hU heart |ieic.-ive yoa in hu face,
bang my head, ana perilb.
By any lihiUiui he (how'd to Jay >
2. Form ; appearance. I'll hLci.Jf.are.
Never came trouble my
houfe in the TikeBip of
to Arnus, a river of luly, is drawn like an old
•— I'hat wicb no mm here be is oftendcd- Sbti'J^-
your grace ; for trouble being gone, comfort Ihoujd man, by his right fide a lion, huulm,; forth in hia
2. Krletnbiance ; iikenefs. Obl'olete. remain. right paw a red lily, or Aower-de.iuce.
iih,ikcjfieire.
The mayor and all hi. brrchren in bell fort.
It ij fafer to Hand upon our guard an aâinft PeMkam on Drawin^t
Like to the ienatori of antxiuc Rome, enemy in the IHemfi of a friend, than to embrace Take but the humbled lily uf the fic.d j
Go forth ai<d letch tlicir coniju'iTig Caefar in>
any man for a friend in tlic lii.tiji of an cn^ny. And if our piide will to our reafon yield,
Ab by a low, bat loving likt'Oioxl, L'tjlrangr. It mud by fure cnmpaiif;n be (hown.
Were now tiie iteiwral it' our gracious cmprcfs, That on the rc^-al fvât great David s fon,
At in good time he may, from and coming.
3. One who refemblcs another; a copy ;
Ire Array'd in all his robes, and t),e: of pow'r,
How many would the peaceful city quit a counterpart. Shines with let's glory than t'.at limple flow'r. Prior,
To «-elcome hiro f SiuktJ/>cju-e't Uirry V. Poor Cupid, fobbing, fcarce could fpeaic.
For her the lilies hang tlieir heads, and die. Pofe,
There is aoHielibtod between pure light and black Indeed, mamma, 1 did not know ye
darknefs, or between rightcoufncfs and reprobation. Alas ! how eafy my iiiiAakc !
LiLY-DAFPODll.. «. /. [lilio-narti£iu,\
Raleigh. 1 took you for your iikcn fi Cloc. Prior, A foreign flower.
IjlKtwiii. adu. [like and lui/e In like LlLY-HY ACi KTH. u./. [tilio hyactatbui.]
J. Probability; verifimilitude ; appearance
"^
of truth. manner; alio; moreover; 100. It hath a lily flower, compofed of fix leaves,
Jefus faid unto them, 1 alfo wilt alk you one thing, flia|>ed likethe fljwer of hyacinth : the roots are
Af it noteth one fuch to hire been in that age,
which if ye tell me, 1 Jiketvife will tell you by what fcaly,and Oiaped like tbofe of the lily. There are
fo had there been more, it would by likeliboiJ a> well
authority I do thefe things. Mult. xxi. 24. three fpecies of this plant ; one with a blue flo.vcr,
hare noted many.. . Hitter.
So was it in the decay of the Roman empire, and another white, and a third red. Milltr.
Many of likelih^d informed me of this before,
which hung fo toCteiing in the balance, that J tiknoife in the empire of Almaigne, after Charles the Lily of the Valley, or May lily. n. /„
'
could neither believe nor mifdoubt. Great, every bird taking a feather. Secen. [lilium 'ctinvallium. ]
Sbakijpeare' I Ail s ivell that eniU luell. Spirit of vitriol poured to pure unmixed ferum, 1 he flower confifts of one leaf, is Jhaped like*
It never yet did hurt, coagulates as if it had been boiled. Spirit of fea- beil, and divided at the top into fix fegments ; the
fair makes a perfect coagulation of the feium like-
To lay down /Mf/ji'W, and formsof hope. Sbjkeff. ovary liecomes a fofit gtobotar fruit, containing fede-
As there is no liUlitssd that the plice couid ivifi, but with fome diferent phznjmena. ral round feeds. It itvery common in Ihady wtv.>ds.
be fo altered, fo there is no probability that thefe jirhuthtjjt on jilimcnî.
Miller.
rivers were turned out of their courles. Li'king. adj^ [Perhaps becaufe plunip- Lily of the valley has a ftrong root that runs into
R.il-ight irôry of the IVorU. nefs is agreeable to the fight.] Flump the ground. Mortinnr'i Hi.JbMdry.
;
Where things arc leaft to be put to the venture, in a ftate of plumpnefs LiLYLivBRED. adj. [Illy and liver.]
as the eternal interells of the other world oijht to
i fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your Whiteiivereri ; cowardly.
be; there every, even the lejil, probability, or 7y*t--
A6oMf of danger, Ihould be provided aâinfl. S-urb.
meat and your drink ; for why ihouid he fee your A bafe, nijlivertd, adion-taking knave.
facea worfe lik.tig, than the cliildien which are of .
Sbakefl'tare' s Kjng Lear.
There are prediîons of our Saviour recorded
your fort Dan. i. 10. Li'maTURE.
by the evangelifts, which were not complj:ted till
i'
n./. [limalura, Latin.] Fil-
after their death«, and had no Lkcl'ilxod of being
Lt'KiNG. ti./. [hora liie.']
ings of any metal ; the particles rubbed
{q when they were pronounced by our blelTed Sa- 1. Good ftate of body; plumpnefs; off by a file.
viour. jItlHifon on the Chrifi'tan Rcii^hn. I'll repent, and that fuddenly, while in fome Tm Lij^B. n. /. [lim, Saxon and Scottifh ;
Thus, in all woul^ it be with a liber-
Ukdiiooii, nm/ig ; 1 Ihall be out of heart Ihortly, and then 1
tine, who fhould have a vifit from the other world fliall have no ftiengtii to repent. Shak^Jpearc. /fffl, Danilh.]
the 6rll horror it railed would go off, as new diver- Their young ones are in good liking; they grow 1. A member;
a jointed 'or articulated
fions came on. jtitcrhnry. up with com. Jfoi, xxxix. 4. part of animals.
Li'k ly. adj. [from lUe.'] Cappadocian flave^ were famous for their lulii- A fecond Hcftor, for his grim afpeO,
nefs ; and, being in good liking, were fet on a ftall, And
1. Such as may be liked ; fuch as may large proportion of, his ftrcnj,-knic limbs.
when expofcd to fale, to Ihew the good habit of Shakifpeare.
pleafc. Obiblete. Dryden'i N^s la Pcjiui.
Thefe young companions make themfclves be-
their body. O ! that I had her here, to tear her limt meal
2. State of trial. Shakejpeare.
lieve they love at the firft looking of a likely be?.uty.
The royal foul, that, like the lab'ting moon, Now am I come each limb to furvey.
SiJney.
By charms of art was hurried down ;
If thy appearance anl'wer loud report. ATtlicn's A-,
Sir John, they are your likJiifi men ; would
have yia fervcd with the beft. i<hakejf. Htnry IV.
.
f ore d with regret to leave her native fphere. 2. [Z,;/n^#, French ; //>8âj,Lat.] An edge;
Came but a while on /iking here. Dryden.
2. Probable ; fuch as may in reafon be a border. A
philofophical word.
3. Inclination. By moving the prifms about, the c jlours again
thought or believed ; fuch as may be Why do you longer feed on loathed light.
emerged out of the whitenefs, the violet and the
thought more reafonably than the con- Or liking find to gaze on earthly mold ? F.-.iry Sju.
blue at its inward timb, and at its outward Cmb the
trary : at, a /iAelj Aory, that is, a cre- Li'kinu. ti.f. [from the verb.] Delight red and yellow. Newto*.
dible ftory. in ; ple-ifure : in with ta. TfiLiMB. ni. a. [from the noun.]
Li'KEi.y. adv. Probably; as may rea- There are limits to be fet betwixt the boldnefs 1. To fupply with limbs.
fonablv be thought. and ralhnefs of a poet ; but he muit undcrlland
As they pleafe.
thole limits who pretends to judge, as v.ell as he
While man was innocent, he was likily ignorant They limh tbemfelves, and colour, Ihape, and (ize
of nothing that imported him
who undertakes to write : and be who has no likmg Afl'ume, as likes them bell, condenfe, or rare.
to know. Glant-il/e.
to the whole, ought in laf^ti to be excluded from
Milton.
9o Li'ken. i». a
[from liie.] To repre- cenluring of the parts. Dryden.
having refemblance 2. To tear afunder
difmember. j to
fcnt as ; to com- Li'i. ACH. ». /. [/«7af,/rA?r, French.] A Li'mbeck. n. f. [corrupted by popular
pare. tree.
The prince broke your head for litctiitig him t»i The white thorn is in leaf, and the lilacb tree.
pronunciation fn>m altmbick.] A llill.
fing'ing mm of WinJfor. Shakeffeari' i Hinry iV. Bacin.
Her checks, on which this (Ireanaing neit>ai fell,
For who, though with the t »nguc Stiil'd through the I'imteek of ber diamond eyes.
Li\iED., adj. [&om liiy-l Embelliftied
Of angels, can relate ? or to what things Fairfax.
with lilitf.
Liken on earth conlpicuuus, thai may lift Fires of Spain, and the line,
, Human imagination to fuch bsrght Nymphs and Ihepherds dance no more Whofc countries limhccki to our bodies be,
Of Cod-like power? Mi'tpn'tHn-adiftLiJi.
By fandy Ladon's liHed banks. ATdtcn, Canll thou fcr gain bear .'
Donne.
Li'keness. jr.y. [from //i».] ' Ll'LY. »./ [Jtlium, Latin.] unbound. Call up,
'
There are thirty-cwo fpecies of this plant, in- In various Jhapcs, old Proteus from tlie fca.
I. Relcnibl.nce ; limilitude.
cluding white lilies, orange iiliei, red /r&», and mar- Drain d through a limbeck to his naked form. M'tlt.
They all do live, and mived are
tagons of various forts. Milltr. The earth, by fecrct conveyances, lets in the li:a,
To multiply the of their kind.
lihenefi Sfrrfr. Oh had the monilcr feen thufe lily handi and fends it back freih, her boweU fciviog for a
Atranflitor it to make bin author appear as
!
Tremble, like afpen leaves, up'^n a lute, limhcck. H'VJtU

cbarminc as he can, provided he maintains his
And nuke the lilkcn tarings delight to kifs them ;
He firft furvey'd the charge with careful eyes.
•haiaAcr, and makes him not unlike himfclf.
He would not tliea have tvuch'd them for his life ! Vet judg'd, like vapours tiia fiom limbecks rife.
Ttatflation is a JujmI of drawing after the life,
Sbaktjfcart. It would in richer Ihowen dcfcrnd again. Dryden.
7 TJic
! ! ;
L I M L I M L I M
The warm limbeck draws London is ufnally made of chalk, which is weaker LI'MIT. n. /. [limite, French; limilor,
Salubrious waters from the nocent brood. Tbirips. than that made of ftoae. Hill's Materia Medica. Lat,] Bound; border; utmoll reach.
Ttiey were now, like fand without Umd, iU bound The whole limit of the mountain round about
Li'mbed. at/j. [from limi.^ Formco
together, efpecially as many as were Engli.h, who be moft holy.
fliall Excd. xlili. 12.
with regard to limbs. were at a gaze, looking ftrange one upon another,
A of five years- age, large tifit'd, and fed,
We
went, great emperor, by thy command.
fteer not knowing who was faithful to their lide. Baccn. To view tile utmoft limits of the land ;
To Jove's high altars Agamemnon led. Pcfe'i Iliad. As when a lofty pile is rais'd, Ev'n to the place where no more world is found.
Li'mber. aJj. Flexible; eafily bent; Vê never hear the workmen prais'd.
But foaming billows beating on the ground. DryJ.
pliant ; lithe.
* Who bring the Hme, or place the ftones.
To Limit, -v. a. [limiter, French, from
But all admire Inigo Jones. Stoift.
You put me off with limber tows.
Shakefptare.
the noun.]
Lime is commonly made of chalk, or of any fort
I wonder how, among thefe jealoufies of court
and ftate, Edward Atheling could fubfiit, being the of ftone that is not landy, or very cold. Mortimer. 1. To confine within certain bounds; to
indubicate heir of the Saxon line: but he bad tried. Lime tree, or Linden, b /. [Linb, rellrain ; to circumfcribe ; not to leave
and found bim a prince of liwhtr virtues j fo as Saxon ; ti/ia, Latin.] 'at large.
though he migb: have fome place in his caution, 1. The linden tree. They tempted God, and hmUed the Holy One of
jet he reckoned him beneath his fear. lfc!:cr..
The flower confifts of feveral leaves, placed or- Ifrael. Fblmi.
At once came forth whatever creeps the ground, bicularly, in the form of a rofe, having a long Thanks I muft you con, that you
Infeft, or worm : thofe wav'd their limber fans narrow leaf growing to the footftalk of each duller Are thieves profeft ; for there is b^nndIefs theft
For wings ; and fmalieft lineaments exad of flowers, from whofe cup rifes the pointal, which In limited profeflions. Sbekefp. Timon of All int.
In all the liverier deck'd of fnmmcr'a pride. M'tlicn. becomes telliculated, of one caplule, containing If a king come in by conqucil, he is no longer a
She durft never ftand at the bay, having no- monarch. -
timber is uled by carvers I'tviitcd Stvift*

an oblc*ng feed. '1 he
thing but her long foft iimiir ears to defend her. and turners. Thefe trees continue found many 2. To reftrain from a lax or general fig-
Mure mjiiheifm. years, and grow to a confidcrable bulk. Sir Tho- as, the uniiierfe is here limit-
nification :
, The mufcles were ftrong on both fides of the mas Brown mentions one, in Norfolk, llxteen yards ed to this earth.
afpera ai teria, but on the under fide, oppofite to (bat in circuit. MVUr.
of the csfopbagus, very limber* Ray on Creation, Limita'neous. adj. [from limit.] Be-
For her the livus their pleafing IHades deny,
For her the lilies hang their heaJs, and die. Pofe. long ng to the bounds. Di£iionary.
Li'mberness. »./. [iTOmlimher.'\ Flexi-
bility ; pliancy. 2. A fptfcies of lemon, yime, French.] Li'mitarv. adj. [from limit.'] Placed
Bear me, Pomona to thy citron groves at the boundaries as a guard or fuperin-
Li'mbo. n.f. [Eo quad Jit linobus infe- !
To where the lemon and the piercing I'lm-',

tendant.
r or urn. Du
Canê.] With the deep orange glowing through the green. Then, when I am thy captive, talk of chains.
1. A region bordering upon hell, in which Their lighter glories blend. Tbcmfoni Summer, Proud lim'rary cherub I Milton s Paradije Lofi.
there is neither pleafure nor pain. Po- To Lime. "v. a. [from lime.] Limita'tion. «./. [limitaiion, French ;
pularly hell. 1. To entaligle ; to enfnare. limilatio, Latin.]
No, he is in tartar limbo, worfe than hell, Oh bofom, black as death
1. Rellriilion ; citcumfcription.
A devil in an ererlafting garment hath Mm, Oh rmej (btll, that, ftruggling to be free,
Limitat'utt of each creature, is both the perfeQioa
Oae whofe hard heart is outton'd up with Itcel. Art more engaged. Sbakefpeare^s Haml-1. Hooker,
Sb.:kejpc-are. and the prefervation thereof.
Example, that fo terribly (hows in the wreck of
Oh what a fympathy of woe ii this maidenhood, cannot, for all that, difTuade fuccef-
Am 1 yourfelf,
But, as it were, in fort ot' limitation f Shakcfpeare.
As far from help ai iimip is from biifs. Shiihjfetire. fion, but that they are limed with the twigs that
I defpair, how of Adam's empire
this limitation
All ihcfe up-whirl d aloft threaten them. Sbakefpeare.
to his line and poderlty, will help us to one heir.
Ky o'er the baclcfi.ie of the woild far off. '1 he bird that hath been timtd in a bu(h.
This liK.tati.n, indeed, of our author, will fave
Into a I'mbo large and broaJ, fince call'd With trembling wings miidoubteth ev ry bu(h.
thofe the labour, who would look for liim amongft
The paradifc of fooU. Mi.Kni P^ra^'ife hrji- And I, tli« haplefs male to one Iweeirbird,
the race of brutes ; but will very little contribute
a. Any place ot niiftry and riilraint. Hivi: now the ta:al object in my eye, to the difcovery amongft men. Locke,
For he no fooner was at large, Where my poor youiu was lim'd, was caught, and If a king come in by conqueft, he is no longer
"
But I ruUa ftrai^h: br.mjht on the charge; kiUd. Sbchffearei Henry \\. a limited monarch ; if he afterwards confent to
And in the felf fame l:m!>.- put 2. To fmear with lime '
limita:'ions, he becomes immediately king de jure.
The knight and fûi.e, w,ne.e he was ihut. Hudib. Mj felf have lim'd a bufli for her. Stv'tft, •
Friar, thou art come off ihyfe.i, but poor i am And placed a quire of fuch enticing birds.
Drjd^ns Sf^^'fo Tryar.
2, Confinement from a lax or undeter-
left in limbo. That (he will light to lirten to their lays. Shakefp.
come to be lim-yi, and
minate import. ,
Lime. «. /. [Iim, jelyman, asxun, lo '1 hjfe twigs in time will
The caufe of error is ignorance, what reftrainta '
then you ate all loCt if you do but touch them.

and li/f.itations, aii principles have in regard of the
L'EJlra/i^c.
1, A vil'cous fubdance drawn over twigs, 3. To cement. This fenfe i» out of ulc.
matter whereunto they aie applicable. Haker,
which Catchei and entangles the wings I willnot ruinate my fajier's houfe,
Li'mmer. n.f. A mongrel.
of bird' that l-g'»t upon it. V/ho gave his bbod to lime the .lones together. To Limn. -v. a. [enluminer, French, to
Poor bird ! thou'dft nevei fear the net or time, And fet up Lancafter. Shak'fpeare'i H.nry VI. adorn books with pitlures.] To draw ;
The pittjU, nor the'gin. Shaielftari's A/fmbetk.
4.. To manure prnuntl with 1 me. to p'aint any thing.
You muft lay lime, to tangle her defiiej.
Encouragement that abatement of intereft gave Mine eye doth his effigies witnefj,
By wailful f innets, wh^fc compoieJ rfwnics to landlords and tenants, to improve by draining, Moft truly I'lKind. and living in your face. Shakefp.
Should be full fraught with lerviceabie vows. marling, and/i"M;> Chi/d. Emblems I'tmned in lively colours. Peaelam.
Stak'Jpeare.
All forts of pcafc love limed or marled land. How of the field fpun, and by
are the glories
Jollier of this ftate
Af:rtimir. what fcneil are they limned in their unaffefied
Than are new bonrfic'd miniftera, he throws.
Li'mekilk. »._/". [lime and iiin.] Kiln bravery ? G:.. ntlille,
Like nets or /i»rr twigs, whercfoe er he goes,
Dome. whrre lUnes are burnt to lime. Li'm N n.f. [corrupted from enlumi'
lilt.
His title of bariiftcr on every wench.
A
ihrulh was taken with a bulh o( lime twigs. The counter gate is as hateful to me, as the reck near, a decorator of books with initial
L' ljh-(jnê^. ofllime-H'n. Shah-J'p. M;rryWiiJes ofVfiiii.fr. pictures.] A painter; a pid>ore-maker.
Then toils for bealis, and timt for biids were They were found in a liir.e kih, and having piifcd That divers limners at a diftonce, without either
the fire, each is a little vitrified. IVocdivard. draw the fame piflure to an
copy or defign,
'
found. fliiuid
And deep-moutb'd dogi did foreft walks furroond. Li'm i:STONE. «.y. [lime And ftone. 1 The undiftinguilhabiecxacinefs, ismorc conceivable tfân
Dryden. Aone of which lime is made. that matter, which is fo diverfiiicd, ihould frame
Orcourt a wifi, fpread out hi* wily parti, Fire (lore and l:mrj}tnc, if broke fmall, and laid itfclf fo uncrriijgly, according to the idra of its
Lik* nets, or limt twigs, for rich widows hearts. on cold lands, mud be of advantage. Miri'mcr. kind. G lan-ville' I Sc-ifjir,
Pep.: Poets are rimners of another kind.
Lime-water, h./.
To copy out ideas in the mind ;
a. Matter of which mortar ij made : fo Limi'iuatrr, made by pouring water npon quick
called becaufe ufed in cement.
Words arc the pain: by which their thonghrs ate
lime, with fome other ingredients to tike oft iti ill
/hown.
There are fo mtiny fp'cics of Imc (lone, that wc flavour, is of grrat fervice internally in a.l cutan:-,:jus
are to unJt-rftHr.d by in gsneral any ft.ne that, And nature is their oUjifl to be drawn. G antiUt, 1
it eruptions, and difeales of the lungs. /////.
upon a proper degree cf heat, becomes a white He tried an experiment on wheat infufed in //«/- Li'movs. adj. [///»«/« J, Latin.] Muddy j
calx, which will make a great ebullition and noife nvater al .ne, and fome in brandy and lirr:e-tv:iUr (limy.
OD being thrown into water, falling into a lonfe mixed, and htA- from each grain gre-^t increnl^.-. That country became a gained ground by the
wiiiu fowdo at tbe Iwttsm. The limt we faav< in Mtrtimtr'i tlvfirandiy. mu3dy and limius matter brought down by the
C t Nil us.
Ik
;
L I N L IN L I N
mial, wliich degree; unta a Ttrm
fettltd by 2. A (lender Bring. A golden bowl
land. Brcvjnî Vt^lâr Errturt* Well fung the Roman bard } all hnmin tilings.
The quMn commanded to be crown'd with wine,
They cdeemed thii natural melancholicic acidity Of dearcft value, hang hn (lender ftrings i The bowl that Bclus us'd, and all the Tyrian lirf,
to be the Imcus or dim) ffrculent part of the blood. O fee 'fotc hopr, and in defign
the then
Drydtn.
flyer. Of hcav'n our joy, fupportcd by a /inc. Waller. The years
Limp. aJj. [limpio, Italian.] A /frr fcldom holds to drain, or draws ftrelght
Ran ffhoothly on, produ£live of a Vua
Of wife heroick kings. PbTpi,
1. Vapid; weaic. Not in ufe. in length, above fifty or fixty feet. Mixor.,
The chub eats waterifli, »nd the flclh of him is 3. A thread extended to direft any ope- 15, A line is one tenth of an inch. Lcckf.
not firm, lirrpy and taAciefi. ffâ/nit'i AigUr. rations. 16. [In the plural.] A letter: as, I read
2. It isufed in fome provinces, and in Wc as by line upon the (^cean go, your lines.
Scotland, for limber, flexile. WhoTe paths Ihall bc'tanjiliar as the land. Drydrn. ly. Lint or flax.
•?eLiMP. [Iimpen,
1/. n. Saxon.] To 4.. The llring that fultaina the angler's To Line. <i>. a. [fuppofed by Junius from
halt; to walk lamely. hook. linam, linings being often made of
An old piôr man. Viftorious with tlieir lines and eyes.
linen.]
Who after me hath many a weary They make the fiihes and the men their prize.
Limf'd in pure love. Shokijfiare

ftep
i Atynu like it,
fValler. 1. To cover on the infide.
Son of fixtccn, Lineaments, or marks in the hand or A box lined wîth paper to receive the mercnry
5.
that might be fpilt. Boyle,
Pluck the lin'd crutch frjm thy old limymg firf. face.
ShakefpiarC' Long is it fince I
,
faw him.
2. To put any in the inilde : a
t)iiag ,
How far fenfe rather ludicrous.

But time hath nothing blurr d thofc lines of favour
The fubltance of my p»aifedoth,wron£ this Shadow Which then be wore. Sbakefpeare.
The charge amounteth very high for any fine
In undcrpridng it ) fo far thi^ madow have good fortune ; go to, here's a fimple
ftiail
man's purfe, except lined beyond ordinary, t<i reach
I
'Doth Imj, behind the fubftancc. Sbaki'pean. line o(\\{t; here's a fmall trifle of wives. ShakeJ'p,
unto. Carer:}.
When Flutus, with his riches, is fent from AHcre, while his canting drone-pipe fcan'd Her women are about her : what if I do line »<ne
Jupiter, he limfi BntI goes flowly ; but when he The myftic figures of her hand, of hands }
their Sbakcfpeare' s Cymhelin;,
"is fent by I'luto, he runs, and is fwift of foot. He tipples palmedry, and dines He, by a gentle bow, divin'd
Baccn. On all her fortune-telling ii^s. Cleaveland. How well a cully's purfe was lin^d. Swift,
hiirpitig dnth, lafh'd on by fate,
6. Delineation ; (ketch. 3. To guard within.
Comes up to Oiorten half our date. T)rydei!,
You have generous thoughts turned to fuch fpe- Notwithdanding they had lined fome hedges with
The limpmt fqiith obferv'd the fadden'd feait. culatlons but this is not enough towards the raif-
:
mufqueteers, they were totally difperfed. Clarenjcn,
And hopping here and there put in his word.
ing fuch buildings as I have drawn you here the lines 4. To ftrengthen by inner works.
Dry den. Line and new, repair our towns of war
of, unlefs the' direflion of all affairs here were
Can fyllogiftn fct things tight ?
wholly in your hands. TempU With men of courage, and with means defendant.
Ko majors foon with minors fight
:
The inventors meant to turn fuch qualifications Sbakifftare,
Or both in friendly confort join'd. into perfons as were agreeable to his character, for To cover with fomething
5. foft.
The confequencc limps falfe behind. Prior.
whom the line was drawn. Pffe. Son of fixteen,
lî'uftT. n./. A kind of ftiell-<i(h.
7. Contour; outline. riuck the lin'd crutch from thy old limping fire.
jiinfiuorth. Oh lading as thofe colours may they Ihlne, Sbaê|pe^lrc,
L-i'm p I d adj. \limpide, french ; limpidus,
. Free as thy ftrokc, yet faultlefs as thy line! Pope. 6. To double ; to ftrengthen with help.
Latin.] Clear; pure; tranfparent. 8. As much as is written from one margin Who lin'd himfeif with hope.
The fprings which wereand limpid.,clear, frefh, to the other ; a weth. Eating the on promife of fupply. Sbakefpeere,
air,
tecome thick and turbid, and impregnated with In the preceding line, UlyfTes fpeaks of Nauficaa,
My brother Mortimer doth ftir
fulphur as long as the earthquake lads. H^todward. yet immediately changes the words into the mafcu-
About his title, and hatli fent for you
The brook that pulls along iine gender. Brocme. To line his enterprife. Shakelpeare's Henry W.
The vocal grove, now fretting o'er a rock, In moving lines thefe few cpidles tell
The two armies were afTigned to the leading of
Gently into a limpid plain. Thcmfon's Sum. two generals, b.it'n of them rather courtiers, and
difl''us'd What fate attends the nymph who loves too well.
ad'ured to the date, than martial men
Li'mpidness. ; yet lined,
n.f. [(tom limpid. \ Clear- Garth.
and adidcd with fubordinale commanders of gr'eat
nefs; purity. 9. Rank of foldicrs.
experience and valour. Saeon,
Li'mpinglv. [from .ad<u. limf.'\ In a They pierce the broken foe's remoted lines,
AJdiJon. 7. lo impregnate : applied to animals

lame halting manner. generating.
Iii'my. adj. [from lime.'] 10. M'ork thrown up ; trench.
Now fnatch an hour that favours thy defigns.
Thus from the Tyrian /;<:'</ with Jove
p.-.dures
1. Vifcouj glutinous. ;
Unite thy forces, and attack their lines, Dryden. He bore Europa, and dill keeps bis love. Creech,
Striving more, the more in laces ftrong
Li'neace. Race;
11. Method ; difpofition. n.f. {lineage, French.]
Himfeif he lied, and wrapt his wingcs twain
Tlie heavens themfclves, the planets, and this progeny ; family, aicending or defcead-
In limy fnates the fubtil loops among. Spenjcr.
center, ing.
e. Containing lime. Obferve degree, priority, and place, Both the lineage and the certain fire
A human with the Ikin, having
(kull covered
Infifture, courfc, proportion, fcafon, form. From which I fprung, from me are bidden yet.
been buried in fome limy foil, was tanned, or Office and cudom, in all /in* of order. Shakefpeare,
turned into a kind of leather. Crevii Muja:um. Spenfer,
12. Extenfion ; limit. Jofeph was of the houfe and lineage of David.
,y« LiK. T. n". [ablinnan, Saxon. j To Eden dretch'd her lint Luke, ii. 4.
yield to give over.
; From Auran caftward to the royal tow'rs The Tirfan cometh forth with all his grncratian
Unto bis foe he came, Of great Scleucia. Milton's Paradije Lofi. or lineage, the males before him, and the females
RefolvM in mind alt fuddenly to win. 13. Equator; equinoflial circle. following him ; and if there be a mother from
Or foon to lofe before he once would lin. Tairy'S^ When the fun below the line defcends. whofe body th whole lineageis defcended, there is a
:
Li'nchpin. «./. An iron pin that keeps Then one long night continued darknefs joins. traverfc where ihe fitteth. Bacon,
the wheel on the axle-tree. DiS. Creeib. Men
of mighty fame.
Progeny; family, afcending or de- And from the immortal gods their lineage came.
Li'nctus. n. /.' [from lingo, Latin.] 14.
Dryden,
Medicine licked up by the tongue. fcending. No longer fliall the widow'd land bemoan
Li'nden. n./. [Iinb, Saxon.] The lime He
chid the fifters
A broken lineage, and a doubtful throne.
See Lime. When fird they put the name of king tipon me. But boad her royal progeny's increafe.
tree.
And bade them fpea'ic to him ; then prophet-like. And count the pledges of her future peace. Addifon.
Hard box, and lindiii of a 'foftcr grsin. Drydrn.
They him father to a line of kings. Sbahjp.
hail'd
This care was infufcd by God himfeif,
Two neighb'ring trees, with walls cncompafs'd
fends you this mod memorable lint.
He
in order
round. to afccrtain the defcent of the Mefliah, and to
In eV'ry branch truly demondrativc. prove that he was, as the prophets had foretold, of
One a hard oak, a foiler rinden ooe> Drydtn.
Willing jrou overlook this pedigree. the tribe of Judah, and of the liiteage of David.
Line. «/. [linea, Latin ] ^hakefptare^s Henry V.
Atterbury,
I. Longitudinal extenfion. Some lines were noted for a ftcrn, rigid virtue, fa-
Even the planets, upon this principle, muft gra- vage, haughty, parfimonious and unpopular j others Ll'NEAL. adj. [linealis, from linea, Lat.l
vitate no more towards the fun ; fo that they would were fwect and affable. Dryden. 1. Compofed of lines ; delineated.
not revolve in curve lines, but fly away in dircA tan- His empire, courage, and bis boaficd line, When any thing is mathematically dcmondratcd
|caU,^ ihcj ftiuck agaioil other p Uaett. BentUy. Weie all frov'd awttal, R^^Jammin. weak, it ii much more mechaoicaU; weak j errors
ever
; ;
L I N LIN- LIN
ever eccnrring more eafily In the management of nertliern counties yet Saeen feems to Lihova'ciovs. a/(;.[lingaa)e, Lat.] Full
;
grofs materials than lineal deligns. ffjiton-
dillinguifh them. of tongue; loquacious; talkative.
t. Defcending in a direft genealogy. Heath, it\i Hag, and fedges. Baccn's Nat.Hifi, Linguade'ntal. adj. [lingua and dens,
To re-cftabli(h, de fadlo, the right of i'weal fuc-
teffion to paternal government, is to put a man in
2. [Linghe, Dutch.] A kind of fea-iifli. Lat.] Uttered by the joint aflion of
poHelTion of that government which his fathers did
When harvcft is ended, take (Tiipping, or ride. the tongue and teeth.
Ling, fait fifli, and herring, for Lent to provide. The lingaadcnlals, f, v, as alfb the linguadcnlats,
tojoy, and he by I'mul fucceiSon had a right to.
Tufflr. th, dh, he will foon learn. Hclder^s Eievi. of Speub,
LKke,
Our Englifh bring from thence good ftore of
3. Hereditary; derived ffem anceftors. fi(h, but effccially our decpell and thickeil ling,
Li'nouist. n.f. [from lingua, Lat.] A
Peace be to France, if France in peace permit which aie therefore called ifland lings. Abbot. man fkilful in languages.
Our juft and lineal entrance to our ownw Sbakefp* Though
a linguiji (liould pride himfelf to have
Ling. The termination notes commonly
4. Allied by direft defcent. all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into,
Queen
diminution ; as, kit/;>|', and isderived yet, if he had not iludied the folid thlnjs in them,
Ifabel, his grandmother.
Was fmal of the lady Ermengere. Shjhlfpeare.
itom klein, German, tittle: fometiraes as well as the words ajid lexicons, he were no-
that your brows my laurel had fuftain'd !
a quality ; as, dviMing, in which fenfe thing fo much to be eftecmed a learned man, as
vVell had I been depos'd if you had rcign'd s Skinner deduces it from langen, old any yeoman or tradefman competently wife in his
The father had defcended for the fon mother dialeifl only. Milton.
; Teutonick, to belong.
For only you are linml to the throne. Dryder.. Our linguiJI received extraordinary rudiments
To Li'ncer, 1). n. [ftom lenj, Saxon, towards a good education. Addijon's SpcBator,
Li KEALLT. adv. [from lineal.'^ In a
diieO. line.
/O/Tf .] Li'ngwort. n.f. An herb.
If he had been ikt perfon upon whom the crown
1. To remain long in languor and pain. Li'niment. »./. [liniment, French lini- ;
Like wretches, that hate linger'd long.
had lineally and rightfully defcended, it wasôod
We'll fnatch the ftrongeft cordial of our love.
mentum, Lat.] Ointment ; balfam ;
law. Clartndyn. unguent.
Dryden.
Li'neament. n. f. [lineament, French; Better to rulh at once to ftiades below, The noftrils, and the jugular arteries, ought to
lineamenlum, Latin.] Feature ; difcri- Than linger life away, and nouriih woe. PoJ>e^s Ody. be anointed every morning with this liniment or bal-
ninating mark in the form. fam. Uar-vey*

2. To hefttate ; to be in fufpenfe.
The
wife author of nature hath provided on the
Noble York Perhaps thou lirg\ejl, in deep thoughts detain'd
Found that the ilTue was not his begot rump two glandules, which the bird catches hold
Of th' enterprizc fo hazardous anJ high. Milton.
Which upon with her bill, and fqueezcs out an oily pap or
well appeared in his lineaments.
3. To remain long. In an ill fenfe. liniment, fit for the inunflion of the feathers. Ray.
Being notliing like the noble duke, my father.
Let order die.
Shakejptare, Li'ning. n.f. [from line.]
And let this world no longer be a ftage
Six wings he wore, to fiiade To feed contention in a ling'ring aft. Sbakcfpeare.
i. The
inner covering of any thing ; the
His nneamenti divine. Mil:;ns Paradife LcJI. Ye brethren of inner double of a garment.
tlie lyre, and tuneful voice.
Man he feems Lament his lot ; but at your own rejoice. Was I deceived, or did a fable cloud
\n all his lineamentt, though in his face
Now Turn forth her filver lining on the night Milton.
live fecure, and linger out your days ;
?
The glimpfes of his father's glory fliine. Milton, The gods are pleas'd alone with Purcel's lays. The fold in the griftle of the nofeis covered with
There are not more differences in men's faces, a lining, which from the facing of the
Dryden. differs
and the outward lineaments of their bodies, than Vour very fear of death (hall make ye try tongue. Greiu's Cojmologia.
there are in tlie makes and tempers of their minds To catch the (hade of immortality ; The gown with ftlfFembroid'ry (hining.
only there is this difference, that the diftinguifh- Wilhing on earth to linger, and to favc Looks charming with a (lighter lining. Prior,
ing chara£tcrs of the face, and the limamenls of Part of its prey from the devouring grave. Prior. z. That which is within.
the body, grow more plain with time, but the pe-
culiar phyfiognoroy of the mind a moft difcernible
4. To remain long -without any action The lining of his coffer (hall make coats
or determination. To deck our foldiers for thefe Iriih wars. Sbakefpt
in children. Lukt.
1 may advance and morals, by tracing
religion We
have lingered about a match between Anne Link. a./, [gelencke, German.]
fome few linramenis in the charafler of a lady, who Page and my couiin Slender, and tliis day we (hall 1. A
fingle ring of a chain.
hath fpent all her lifein the pradiceof both. Stvift. have our aniwer. Shalu-ffcme. The Roman (late, whofe courfe will yet go on
The utmoll force of boiling water is not able to 5. To wait long in expeftation or uncer- The way it takes, cracking ten thoufarid curbs
deftroy the <lru£lure of the tendered plant : the tainty. Of more ilrong links afunder, than can ever
lineaments of a white lily will remain after the I muft follcie
Appear in your impediment. Shakejpeare^s Coriclart.
flrongeft decodion. Arluthni:, All his concerns as mine : The moral of that poetical fiftion, that the up-
Li'near. adj. [linearis, Latin.] Com- And if my eyes have pow'r, he lliould not fae permoft link of all the ferics of fubordinate caiifes,
In vain, nor linger with a long delay. is faftened to Jupiter's chair, figniftes an ufeful
pofed of lines ; having the form of Dryden.
truth.
lines. 6. To be long in producing efFeft.
Hale.
Truths hang together in a chain of mutual do-
' Where-ever it is freed from the fand ftone, it
She doth think, (he has ftrange ling'ring polfons.
. pendance ; you cannot draw one link without at-
is covered with linear ftriae, tending towards fevc- Shaktjpiare.
trafting others. Glan-aille.
tal centers, fo as to compofe Sat ftellar figures. To Lt'itciv.. V. a. Toprotrafl; to draw While (he does her upward flight fuftain.
IVitditiard on f'-JfJi. out to length. Out of ufe. Touching each link of the continued chain,
Line a't ion. n./. [lineatio, from Unea, I can get no remedy againft this confumption .'it length (he is obiig'd and foic'dto fee
Lat.] Draught of a line or lines. of the puife. Borrowing only lingers and lingers A fir.1, a fourcc, a life, a deity. Prior.
There are in the horocy ground*two white line-
it out, but the difcafc is incurable. Sbakejpeare. 2. Any thing doubled and ciofed together.
ations, with two of a pale red. JVood-vard.
She lingers my dedres. Shakejpeare. Make a Iwi of horfc hairvei-y (Irong, and fades
Let your brief plagues be mercy.
Li'ken. n. f. [lirtum, Latin.] Cloth it to the end of the ftick that fprings. Mortimer.
And linger not our fure dellruftions on.
made of hemp or flax.
Sbakcfp.
3. A
chain ; any thing connefting.
Here is a baflcet, he may creep in ; throw foul
Li'ngerer. n. /. [from linger. '\ One Nor airlcfs dungeon, nor ftrong links of iron.
/mrn tipon him, as if going to bucking. Sbake/f.
who lingers. Can be retentive to the ftiength of fpirit. Hhakefp,
Uiifeen, unfelt, tlic fiery ferpent (kims Li'nceringi.y. ad'V. [from lingering.] I feel
Between her linen and her naked limbs. Drydtn. With delay tedioufly.
;
The of nature draw me ; flefh of flefh,
link
hi'titti. adj. [Uncus, Latin.] Of poifons, fome kill more gently and linger-
Bone of my bone thou art. Milton's Ptradife Lo^.
Fire, ficjod and earth, and air, by this were
1, Made of linen. ingly, others more violently and Ipcedily, yet Both
bound.
A inen (lock on one leg, and a kerfey boot hofc kill. Hale.
And love, the common link, the new creation
on the other, gartered with a red and blue lift. Li'ncet. ». /. [from languet ; lingot, crown'd. Dryden s Knight's Tale.
Sbakefpeare. French.] A fmall mafs of metal. 4. Any fingle part of a feries or chain of
2. RrfemTsling linen. Other matter hath been ufed for money, as
Death of thy foul thofe Vmen cheeks of thine
confequences ; a gradation in ratiocina-
!
among
the Lacedemonians, iron lingcts que^^hed
Are counfeUon to fear. What foldiers, whey- tion ; a propofition joined to a forego-
with vinegar, that they may fcrve to no other ufe.
face ? Stakrfpeare. Camden. ing and following propofi:inn.
Linendra'per. n./. [linen »nd dra/er.] LI'NCO.
The thread and train of confequences in intcllcc*
n.f. [Portuguefe.] Language;
He who deals in linen. tongue ; fpeech. A low cant word.
tive ratiocination and chained toge-
is often long,
ther by divers links, which cannot bff done in ima-
LiNC.a./, [//»^, Iflandick.] I havt thoughts to learn fomcwhat of your lingo,
.
ginative ratiocination, by fame attributed to brutes.
I. Heath. This fenfe is retained in the bcfi^re 1 ciol's tlic feas. . i.6ngrive. Jodge Uale.
5. A Series i
.
L IN L I O L IP
5. A i«ries : thi) fcnfe is improper AJ- Whata ridiculons thing it watj that the esnti- For aiding heaven, when giants dar'd to brave
di/cn h3< ufed link {at chain. nucd fiiadow of the earth ihouid be broken by lud- The thrcat'ned liars. Creech's Man'ttait.
Though 1 haw here only chofen (hit 6ng)c hnk dcn miraculoui difv.lufi'jns of light, to prevent Jie
officioufners of the linkixy Muore.
Li'oN SS. «. /. [feminine 0/ liott.'\ A
of m»tiys, I mi^bt find out oiheis among thole !
ftie Iion.
names which are ftill extant, that deliveiej down Though thou art tempted by the linkmtm's call,
Under which bulk's (hade, a /i w/i
tbia account of our Saviour io a luccclTivc tradition. Yet trurt him not along the lonely wall. G.-y.
I.ay couching on ground, with catlike watch.
htrad
In the black form of cinder-wench
Add'ijon m tl't CiriJIian tictigim,
flitcame.
When that the Hecping man (hould liir. Stak^j>.
6. [From \»;^»s(.] A torch maae ofpicch
O may no linkhiy interrupt their love ! Cay'i Triv.
The furious liineJSf
and h;)rds.
Li'nnet. It./, [linot, French, linaria, Forgetting young ones, through die fields dodi roar.
O, thou ait an everlafting bonefire light; thou
Latin.] A fraali Tinging bird. Mjy.
haft faved me a thimfand marks and torches,
in links
The f\«alluws make ufe of celandine, the Imnel The greedy lirnefs the wolf purfuea.
vrailung with thee in the night betwixt uvern and of euphragia, for the repairing of their fight. The wolf tlie kid, the wanton kid the browze.
tavern. Afore's Antidcte. Dryden,
, Shaktlf arc't Henry IV.
Wliereas hiftory (hould be tlx torch of truth, Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Ptpc. If we may believe Pilny, lions do, in a very fevere
he malies her in divers places a fuliginous link of Linse'ed. n.y l/'eaiea liHi, Lit\a.] he '1 manner, punilh theadultcries of thc/»«./i. Ayliffe.
lies- Hvwil. feed of flax, which is much ufed in me- Li'oKtEAr. ti./. [Uoatofetalom, Lilin.] A
Round as a globe, and liquor'd every chink. dicine. plant. Miltir,
Goodly and great he faiis behind his link. Dryden. The joints may be dolitd with a cement of lime, Li'om's-mooth.^
One that bore a link
and cotton,
On a fuddcn clapp'd his flaming cudgel,
linfeed oil, Mortimer's H-ijbandry. Li'on's PAW. / »>y! [from //>« ] The
Like linftock, to the horfe's touch-hole. HuJiiras.
Li'nseywooLsev. adj. [linen and luool.] Li'on's-tail. r name of an herb.
7. Perhaps in the followiog paflage it may
Made of linen and wool mixed. Vile; LTon's-tooth. J
mean lampblack. mean ; of different and unluitable parts. Lip. n.f. [Iippf, Saxon.]
There was no lint to colour Peter's hat.
A lawlefs linfeyvioolfic brother.
1. The outer pare of the mouth, the
Siakeff.
Half of one order, half another. 'Hudibras.
y» Link. -r. [from the noun.]
a.
Peel'd, patch'd and pybald, linfymo'Jfey brothers,
mulcles that ftioot beyond the teeth,
I. To complicate ; as, thelinksof a chain. Grave mummers ! fleevdofs fome, and fliirtlefs which are of fo much ufe in fpeaking,
Defcendjng tread us down. others. Pofe. that they are ufed for all the organs of
Thus drooping ; or with linirj tliundcrbolts Li'nstock. n./. [lunfe or lentf, Teuto- fpeecb.
Transfix us to the bottom of this gulph. Miltcn.
Againll eating cares,
nick ;//»/ and/of,(.] AftafFofwood Thofe happieU fmiles
with a match at the end of it, ufed by That pLiy'd on her ripe feem'd not to know
Lap me in fofc Lydian airs ; /:/>,
What guefts were in he- eyes. Shakeffeare.
Married to immortal verfe. gunners in firing cannon. Hanmer.
Such as the meeting foul may pierce
No falfehood (hall defile my Hft with lies,
The nim'ule gunner
Or with a vail of truth di%'jife. Sandys on y»l>.
In notes, with many a winding bout With lynjiock now the dcviliih cannon touches.
Her lifs blulh deeper fwcets. Tbomfon's Sfring.
Of linked Iweetnefs long drawn out. Milton. And down goci all before him. Sbakcjpetre.
a. To uniteto conjoin in concord. The diHance judg'd for (hot of ev'ry fizc. 2. The edge of any thing.
;
The linftacks touch, the pond'rous ball expires. In many of mountains fome
places is a ridge
They're fo link'd in friend (hip.
diftance from the fea, ajd a plain from their rootl
That young prince Edward marries Warwick's Dryden.
t.) the (Kore which plain v;as fo.mcrly covered by
daughter. Shakcfpeare. Lint. »./. [/inlium, Latin; ///«, Welfli \
the fea, which bounded againil ihofe h:lK as its firll

3. To join; to conneft. and Erie.] ramparts, orasthcledgesor/iîofitsvelTel. Burnet,
Link towns to towns with avenues of oak, 1. The foft fubftance commonly called In wounds, the tips fink and are flaccid j a gleet
liiclofe whole downs in walls, 'tis all a joke. Poft.
flax. followcth, and the flefh within withers. Wiienun,
So from the firft eternal order ran,
And creature iink'd to creature, man to

man. Pypc.
2. Linen fcraped into foft woolly fub- 3. To make a lip. To hang the bp ia
ftance to lay on fores. fullennefs and contempt.
4> To join by confederacy or contrail.
A
They make an offer of tliemfelvcs into the fer- I drefTej tiiem up with ung'ientum bafilici cum letter for me ! It givef me an edate of fcven
*lce of that enemy, with whofe fcrvants they link

vitello ovi, upon pledgits of lint, ffifemun s Sur^. years health ; in which time I will nuke a lif at
Li'ntel. n./. the phylician. Hbakefpeare.
themfeives in fo near a bond. Hooker. French.]
\_linteal, That
Be advifed for the beft, part of the door frame that lies crofs To Lip. V a. [from the noun.] I'o kift.
Ire thou thy daughter link in holy band the door polls over head. Obfolete.
Of wedlock, to that new unknown guefl-. Fairy SK Take a bunch of hyfop, and dip it in the: blood A hand, that kings
-Slood in princes lini'd not in fucli fort, that in the bafon,
Have lift, and trembled kiffing. Staie/fean,"
is and (irtke the
and the liittel
A« that it is of any powr to tye. Daniel's CeJ. War, two fide^polts. Exod.
Oh ! 'tis the fiend s arch mock.
To conned, ss concomitant. When you lay any timber or brick work, as lin- To lip a wanton and fuppofe her chafte. Shahifp,
J.
New hope to fpring tels over windows, lay them in loam, which is a Lipi.a'bcur. n. /. [lip and labour.^
Out of defpair joy, but with fear yet /ini'rf. Milt.
;
great prefervcr of timber. M<ixm. AAion of the lips without concurrence
Ood has linkt our hopes and our duty together. Silver the I'lntah deep projeifling o'er. of the mind ; words without fentiments.
Dicay of Pie'y. And gold the ringlets that command the door. Fafting, when prayer is not dircfled to its own
So gracious hath Cod been to us, as to link toge- Pope's Odyjpy. purpoffs, is but Hplabour. Tayljr's Rule of Living, .
ther our duty and our intereft, and to make thofe

Li'oN. »./. [lion, French; leo, Iâtin.j Lipo'thyiôus. adj. [>.;»« and
»ery things the inlVances of our obedience, which 3wftJ(.] ,
re the natural means and caufcs of our happinefs. I. The fierciil and moll magnanimous Swooning ; funting.
'Tilloijon. of fourfooted bealls. If the pntient be furpcifod with a lyp~thym:iit
6. To unite or concatenate in a regular King Richard's firname was Cor-de-Lion, for linguor, and great opprcfiion about the rtom.ich
his /; alike courage. Camd.n's Remains. and hypochondets, expe3 no relief from c;>rdials.
feries of confeqiiences,
Be /i>«-mettled ; proud, and take no care Harvty on the Plague,
Thefe things are linked, and, as It were, chained -
one to another we labour to cat, and wc eat to live,

Who chafes, whoor where confpirers are
frets,
Lipo'thvmv.
:
Macbeth (hall never vanquilh'd be. Shaieff. Mad.

;
n.f, [AuTitOt/fcia.] Swoon ;
and we live tj do good and the good which we do
; fainting fit.
The fphinx, a famous monrter in Egypt, had
is as feed fown, with reference unto a future har- The fenators falling into a Vipothymy,
the face of a virgin, and the body of a lion. or deep
•t- Hooker. fwooning, made up this pageantry ot death with a
Tell me, which part it dots neceflltate ? Pcacbttm on Drawing. -
They reprefenting of it unto life. Taylor,

rejoice .
ni chufe the other; there I'll link th' efreft; In npothymys or fwoonings, be ufed the fricaiion
Each with their kind, lian with lioncfs
A chain, which foots to catch themfeives projeft !
So filly
;
tliem in pairs thou halt combin'd. Milton. of this finger with faffron and gold. Srtnun.
Dryden. Li'ppED. adj. [from lip.] Having lips.
See /i<jn-heartcd Richard,
By which' chain of ideas thus vifibly linked toge-
ther in train, i. e. e2cti intermediate idea agreeing
PiouBy valiant, 1/k; a torrtit fwell'd Li'ppiTupE. n.f. [lippilude, French;
With wintry tc.npcfts, that difdains all mounds, lippitudo, Lat.] Bleerednefs of eyes.
•n each fide with thofe two it is immediately placed
Breaking away impetuous, and involves
batwcen, the ideas of men and felf determination Uifcjfes that are infeftious are, fuch as are in
Within its (weep trees, houfes, men, he prefs'd,
appear to be connefted, Lo<ke. the fpiriis and not fa much in tile humours, and.
Amidli the thickeft battle. Pbilips.
Li'nkboy. \ n. /. [Hut and ây.] A therefore pafs eafily from body to body fuch ate
Li'nkman. J boy that carries a torch
2. A ftj^n in the zodiack. >
pe.lilenccs and I'lfpitudcs.
j
Bacon,
The ///» for the hunuurs of his (k'n, Li'pwisDOM. ini
to accommodate pafTengers with light. The fijuwaing
n.f. [^lip 'Mifdont.'\ Wif-
crab^ and dinging fcorpign Hoot
dom in talk wichoat praAice.
Ifuid
' ; ; ;
LI (^ L I S LIS'
I find that all is bat /ifmi/Jem, which vasts ex- Li qy i'di T-r. »./ [from liquiJ. ] Subtilty The aetin, overpeering of his Ctfl,
pcfience ; I now, woe is me, da try what love can
Eat» not the
ti.innefs, flats with more impetuous hafle,
do. SiJnfy, Than young
1 he fpirits, for theit /IjuiJity, are more incapable Laertes in a riotous licad
Li'qdable. aajr. [from lijuo, Latin.] than the fluid medium, which is tlie conveyer of O'er-bears your officers. Si-akefpeare's Hamlet.
Such as may be melted. founds, to pcrfevere in the continued repetition of She within liji! my ranging mint! hath brought.
Liqj-'a'tion. x. /. [from Jijuo, Laiin.] vocal airs; G.'amnlU.
That now beyond myfelf I will not go. Daz»es.
1. 1 iie aft of melting. LTojiDNEss. n.f. [from liquii/,] Qtiality 4. [Lyj-can, Saxon.] Deiiie ; willing-
2. Capacity to be meltedt. ot being liquid; fluency. nefs ; choice.
The common opinion hath been, that chryftal Oil of annifeeds, in a cool place, thickened into Alas, fhe has no fpeech I
isnothing but ice and Inow cur.cieted, and, by du the confidence of white butter, which with the —Too much ;
ration of time, congealed be} ond lijumiim, lead heat refumeJ its former liquidrcji. Boyle.
1 find it dill when I have liji to fleep. Shaiefpeare.
Nothing of
Brvwns f^'gar Erreuru LI'QUOR. n. /. [liquor, Latin ; liqueur,
paflion or peeviihnefs, or liji to
contradia, fhall have any bias on my judgment.
STd Li'quate. t;. ». [//;«0, Latin. j To French.]
King Charles,
melt ; to liquefy. 1. Any th.iigliquiJ: it is commonly nfed He faw falfe Reynard wliere he Uy full low
If the faits be not drawn forth before the clay is
of fluids inebriating, or impregnated I need not fwear he had no liJl to crow. Dryden,
baked, they are apt to liquate, ffc-jdward on Fofils.
LlQjjJEFACTiOK.
with fomething, or made by decoftion. .5. [Licium, Lailn; //^.French.] A Itrip
ti
J. [Itquefadio, Latin ; Nor cnvy'd them the grape of cloth.
liqiufaQUn, French.] Ihe ad of melt- Whofe heads that turbulent Itqutr fills with fumes. A
linen dock on one leg; and a kerfey bobt
ing; (he Itate of being melted. , Milton. hofe on the other, gartered with a red and blue
lift.
Heat dilTolveth and melteth bodies that keeji in Sin taken into the foul, is liê a lijaor pour'd Shakfjpâre.
their Ipirits, as in divers Jijuefa^hns ; and fo doth into a vcffcl ; fo much of it as it fills, it alfo fca- Inflead of a l-.Jl of cotton, or the like filtre,
time in hone}', which by age vaieth more liquid. too^* Sourh^s Sermevi. wc made ufe of a fiphon of glafs. Boyle.
Bacini Nasurai Hijhry, 2. Strong drink : in familiar language.
A IJi the coblcr's temples ties.
The burning of tht earth will be a true liqut- To keep the hair out of his eyes.
To LTquoR. -v. a. [from the noun.] To Sivift,
faf::m or diiTulutionof it, as to the txterior region^
drencn or moilien.
6. A border.
Suri:e:, They thought
Cart wheels fqucak not WheH they are Hjuortd.
it better to let them dand as a
Li'tjUEFiABLE.^/iJr. [fvomlijur^ ] Such liJl, or marginal border, unto tire Old ledament.
Baôn,
as may be meked. Hooker,
1 here are three caufes of fixation, tJie even
LtRicoKFA'Ncr. n.f. A flower. Te List. 1;. «. [lypcan, Saxon.] To
fp~: " Ipiritsand tangible p^rcs, theclole- LisNE. n. /. A cavity ; a hulloNV. chufe; to defircj to be difpofed ; to
nci jie parts, and tiiejejuneoels <(r*x- In the of a rock at Kingfcote in GlouCefter-
lijni
incline.
titiii-- 1 .rLiiiiMution of Ipiiit: '---, lirft may fliire, I fiiund a bufhel of petrified cockles, each
near as big as my fid.
To fight in field, or to defend this wall.
Ix joined wi(h a nature Wjr^ ; c not. Ha/i-.
Point what you l:Ji, I nought rcfufe at all.
L . .. ^. hijiory. roI.lSP. ^. a. [tilij-p, Saxon.] Tofpeak
y» LIQUEFY. V. a. [liqiujier, French ; with toolrequent appulfesof the tongue Unto them that add to the word of God what
Fairy Slueer.
lirfue/acie, Liitia.j '1 o melcj to dif- to the teeth or palate, like children. them liftiih, and mike God's will fubmit unto
folve. Come,
cannot cog, and. fay, thou art this and will, and break God's commandments
1 for
That
degree of heat which is in lime andafhes, that, like a many of thefe Ijj/'ing hawthorn buds, their own tradition's fake, unto tliera it
feemeth not
being a fmothering heat, is the mod proper, for it that come like women in men's apparel, and fraell 8°'-'d-
_ Hccker.
doth neither I'lq-.ufy nor rarefy and tliat is true ; like Bucklerfbury in fimpling time. They imagme, that laws which permit them
Sbakefftari.
maturation. Hjicn'i l\'aturql Uijlarj, Scarce had fhe learnt to lijp a name not to do as they would, will endure them to fpeak
To Li'tjjJEFy. v.n. 'I o grow liquid. Of martyr, yet fhe thinks it Ihame as they liJI.
_ Hooker.
The blood of Life Ihould fo long play with that breath, Let other men think of your devices as they
St. Jaftuarios liquifiid at the ap- HJl,
proach of Which fpent can buy lo brave a de^th. in my judgment they be mere fancies. Whitgifte,
ti'.e faint's head. Addjin on Italy. Crajhaiu.
LlQUE'scEKcy.a./. They ramble not to learn the mode, Now by my mother's fon, and that's myfelf,
yiqtte/cenlia.Lina.]
Aptnefs to m:lt.
How to b3 drelt, or how to lijf abroad . CItaveland.
It fliall be moon, or dar, or what 1 lift. Shakefp,
Appulfc partial, giving lome Kings, lords of times, and of occafions, may
p.i(l'age to breatli,
Li(y.E'scBNT. aJj. [lique/ceni, Latin.] ismade to the upper teeth, and caufcs a liffirg Take their advantage wlien, and how, they lift.
fi I citing. found, the breath being drained through the leech. Daniel.
LTquid. aJj. \_liqiade, French ; liquidus, HUderi EUmmti of speech. When they lift, into the womb
As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, That bred them they return ; and howl, and gnaw
L.itin.]
I liff'd in numbers, for the numbers came. Pipe.
My bowels, their repad. Miltini Paradije Lift^
1. Notfolid; not formiag one continuous To List. v.
Lisp. a./, [from the verb.] a. [from a roll.]
fubftSrce; floid. The aft' of lift,
Gently the liquU glafj. lil'ping. 1. To enlift ; to enrol or regifter.

rolls Dr. Daniel,
2. Soft; clear I overheard her anfwer, with a very pretty lifp,
For a man
his name to Chrldianity
to give m
O Strcphon, you ate a dangerous creature. Tatlcr.
thofe days, was
himfelf a martyr, and to bid
to lift
Her breaft, the fug' red neft
!
farewel not only to the pleafures, but alfo to the

[ Of her delicious foul, that there djcs lie. Li'sPER. n. /. [from 'li/p.'\ One who hopes of this life. South.
Bathing in dreams of lijuid melody. Crapiirvi. lifps. They lift with women each degen'rate Dame
3. Pronounced without any jar or harih- List. »./. [lifte, French.] Who dares not hazard life for future fame. Diyden.
nefs. I. A roll ; a catalogue. 2. To retain and enrol foldiers; toeniift.
The many /ftfwir/cor.frtnanti give a pleafing found Hewas the abled emperor of alt the lift. Bacon. The lords would, by lijling their own ferv'ants,
to the words, though they are all of one lyllable. Some fay-the loaddone i? poifon, and therefore perfuade the gentlemen in the town to do tlie like,
Drjdtn'i jf^ncid. in the lijii of poilbns we find it in many authors. Clarendrmm
Let Carolina fmooth the tuneful lay,
Bronvti.
The king who raifed this wall appointed a mil-
Lull with Amelia 5 Jifuid name tlic nine. Bring next the royal lijl of Stuarts forth. lion of foldiers, who
were lifted and paid for tllfc
And fwcctly flow through Ui the royal line. Undaunted minds, that rul'd the rugged north. di^fcnce of againd the 'I artars.
it 7cmple.
Vcpe'i Usrace.
Prior.
Two hundred horfe he (hail command
4. DifToIved, fo as not to be obtainable by Though few, a warlike and wcil-cholen band
z. [Lice, French.] Indofed ground in Thefe in my name are hftU.
;
law. Dryden,
which tilts are run, ana combats [From liJl; encloled
If a creditor Ihould appeal to hinder the burial
fought.
3. ground.] To
of his debtor's corple, his a •peal ought not to be enclofe for combats.
Till now alone the mighty nations drove,
received, finc« tiie bufincls of bui.al requires a How dares your pride prefume againd my laws.
quicic difpatch, though the debt be entirely .i^Hid.
The reft, at gaze, without the lijh did Itar.d
; As in a lifted field to fight youi c.iuie ?
And threat'nlog France, plac'd like a painted Unafk'd the royal grant.
yijiiffei I'cnir^H, Diydcn's Knight's Tale,
Jove,
LrgpiD. n.f. Liquid fubft„uc. ; l.quor: Kept idie tliunder in hit lifted hand. Dryden.
4. [From lift, a (hed or borJer.] To
Be thy choice, when fummer heau annoy.
it few together, in luch a
To fit beneath her leafy canopy. Taria thy fon, and Sparta's king advance. fort as to make
In ipcalur'd lijli to tofs the weighty lance ; a particolouretl fticw.
Quaffing rich liffidi. Philipu And whohis rival fhall in arms fufaduc. Some may wonder at fuch an accumulation of
f» i-.rQûiDATE. -v. a. [from /iqiiiJ.] To His bf the dame, and bis the Ireafute too. Pope. benefits, kind of embroider. ng a. Hftitg of
like a
clear away ; to leiTen debts. 3. Bound ; limit. one favour upon another, ffellon's Li/t of Buiking.
5. [Con-
: J
L I S L I T L I T
f, [Con traced from lifitn.] To hearken Li'$TLESLY. ael'v. [from li/h/t] With- Lj'terart. adj. [literarittt,Latfn.]
to to liften ; to attend.
; out ihooght ; without attention. Refpefting letters ; regarding learning.
Then weigh, what lofs your honour may fuftain, To know this pcrfcflly, watch him at play, and Literary hiftory, is an account of the
If with too credent car you /iff his fongj ; fee whether h: be and aftive, or whether
ftlrring
fiate of learning, and of the lives of
Or lofc your heart, or your cnade tre^fure open he Uzjly and HftUjly dreams away his time. Lceke.
To his unmifter'd importunity. Sbakifp, Hamlet. learned men. Literary converfation, it
Li'sTLtsNESs. «./. [from lijlle/s.'\ In-
i, this found 1 better know talk about queflions of learning. Lit*''
attention want of defire. ;
Lift ! I would I could hear mo. Sen funfm. rary is not properly ufed of miffive let-
Tt may be the palace of the foul is indifpofed by
Li'sTED. adj. Stiiped; particoloured in
lifthfnrji or farrow. Taylor. ters. It may be faid, this epiftolary cor-
long ftreaks. Lit. the preterite of I'ght ; whether lo refpondence was political ofiener thaa
Over hi« head beholds literary.
light fignifies to happen, or to /el oitjy-e,
A de\vy cloud, and in the cloud a bow
Coofpicuous, with three hjitd colours gay, or gui lie ivith light. LITER A'Tl. n.f. [Italian.] The learned.
Eelpk'ning peace from God, and cov'nant new. Believe thyfelf, thy eyes. I (hall confult fome Htirali on the projeft fent
Mihon. That firft inflam'd, and Hi me to thy love, me for the difcovery of the longitude. SpeElaior,
Asthe (how'ry arch Tbofe ftars, that lliU mutt guide me to my joy. Li'terature. n.f. \literatura, Latin.]
With Southtrns.
.W.'f/ colours gay, or, azure, gules, Learning ; (kill in letters.
Delights jnd purjles the beholder's eyes. Pli/ifs. my I Hi pipe with the paper. jidJifon's Spefluior.
This kingdom hath been famous fos; good tiiera-
yi» Li'sTEN. V. a. To hear ; to attend. Li'tany. « y. [xilariia ; /;/«»/*, French.] ture; and if preferment attend defervert, there will
Obfolete. A form of fupplicacory prayer. not Wine fupplies. Batait
• I Jdy, vouchfafe to lifien what I fay. Shaiffmre. Supplications, with folcmnity for the apptafing When men of learning are aftcd by a know,
One cried, God blefs us and, amen the other: ! !
of God's wrath, were, of the Greek church, termed ledge of the wjrid, thsy give a reputation to l-ieita-
As they had feen me with thcfc hangman's hands :
litanies,and rogations of the Latin. Hooker. luic, and convince the world of its ufcfulnefs.
Lijlcnhg their liar I could not fay, amen ! Shiii.
KecoUeft your fins that you have done that week, Ad:iifoni Freeholder*.
He, that no more muft more and all your lifetime ; and recite humbly and de-
fay, is /ijl cued
voutly fome penitential litanies. Taylor.
Li'tharge. n.f. [litharge, i't. lithargy-
Than they whom youth and eale have taught to
rum, Lat.]
glofe. Sbaieffearc. LI'TERAL. <7<j7- {.literal, French; liiera,
Litharge is properly lead alone OC vitrified, either
The wonted roar was up amidft the woods, Latin.] with a mixture of copper. This recrement is of
And fiil'd the air with barbarous dilfonance,
1. According to the primitive meaning ; •two kinds, litharge of gold, and hibarge of filver.
At which 1 ccas'd and lijlcn'd them a while. Mihon.
not figurative. It ia coUe£led from the furnaces where filver is
I'o Li'sTEK. v. n. To hearken ; to give Through all the writings of the ancient fathers, feparated from lead, or from thofe where gold and
attention. we fee that the words which were, do continue ;
filver are purified by means of that metal. The
litharge fold in the fhops is produced in the copper
Liften to me, and if you fpeak rae fair, the only difference is, that whereas before they had
I'll tell you news. Shahjfeare. a Httral, they now have a metaphorical ufe, and works, where lead has been ufed to purify that
Aatigonus ufed often to go difguifed, and liften are as fo many notes of remembrancc-unto us, that metal, or to feparate filver from it. //;//.
at the tents of his foldiers and at a time heard ; what they did fignlfy in the letter, is accompliflied 1 have feen fome parcels of glafs adhering to tha
fome that fpoke very ill of him whereupon he : in the truth. Hooker. teft or cupel as well as the gold or litharge. Boyle.
iaid, If you fpeak ill of me, you /hould go a little Afoundation being primarily of ufe in archi- If the lead be blown off from the filver by the
farther off. Baiont jifophthegms. tefture, hath no other literal notation but what be- bellows, it will, in great part, be colleited in the
Liften, O ifles, unto me, and hearken, ye people. longs to it in relation to an houfe, or other build- form of a darkilh powder; which, becaufc it is
Ifaiab, xlix. ings nor figurative, but what is founded in that, blown off from filver, they call litharge of filver.
Wlien we have occafion to liftmen, and give a more and deduced from thence. Hammond. S'.yle.
particular attention to fome found, the tympanom 2. Following the letter, or exaft words. LITHE, adj. [liê, Saxon.] Limber;
isdrawn to a more than ordinary tenfion. Holder. The fitteft for publick audience arc fuch as, fol- flexible; pliant ; eafily bent.
On the green bank I fat, and Iftin'd long ; lowing a middle courfc between the rigour of literal Th" unwieldy elephant.
Nor till her lay was ended could 1 move, tranflations and the liberty of paraphrafts, do with
i
To make them mirth, us'd all his might, ant
. But wifli'd to dwell for ever in the gro-ê. DryJtn. greater ihortnels and plainuefs deliver the mean- wreath'd
He Ihall be receiv'd with more regard, ing. Hxker. His lithe proboIi;is. Milton^s Paradife Loft^
And liften d to, than modeft truth is heard. Bryd. Confiding of letters : as, the literal
To this humour mod of our late comedies owe
3. Li'theness. ». .f [from litie.] Lim-
notation of numbers was known to Eu- bernefs flexibility.
their fuccefs : the audience liftens after nothing elfe. ;
uiddijon. ropeans before the cyphers. Li'ther. ci^v [from ///it/.] Soft; pliant^
Li'sTNER. ».y [irom l!J}en.'\ One that
Li'teral. «. /. Primitive or literal hou antick death.
'1
meaning. Two Talbots winged through the lilber (ky.

hearkens ; a hearkener.
They are light of belief, great Iftneri after news.
How
dangerous it Is in fenfible things t<r ufe In thy defpight fliall 'fcape mortality. Skaiefpeare.
Hvwcl.
metaphorical cxpreffions unto the people, and what 2. [Ly^p, Saxon.] Bad ; forry; corrupt.
abfurd conceits they will fwallow in their literah,
Viftntrt never hearwell
of themfelves. h'Eftrange. It isthe work of RoSert cf Gloa->
in
an example we have in our profeffion. Brotun.
If ihe conftantly attends the tea, and be a good cefler written /«/vtrr.
(he may make a tolerable figure, which L T E R a'l
I I Ty . «. y". [from literal. ] Ori-
Ttflenir,
Litho'graphy. n.f [xi5o? and yjaipu.]
will fnve to draw in the young chaplain. Swift. ginal meaning.
The hu(h word, when fpoke by any brother in Not attaining the
true deuterofcopy and fccond
The art or pradice of engraving upoa
a lodge, v/as a warning to the reft to have a care of intention of the words, they are fain to omit their ftones.
lijifners. Sivifl. fuperconfequences, coherences, figures, or tropo- Li'thomakcy. n.f. [aiSo« and iMiilia.]
Li'sTLEss. aJJ. [from lijl.] logies, and are not fometimes perfuaJed beyond Predidlion by ftones.
their Broion's Vulgar Errours.
1. Without inclination ; without any de- /i(f /d/irit'j.
As ftrange muft be the llihcmanry, or divination,
termination to one thing' more than Li'terai.ly. adv. [from literal.'] from this ftone, whereby Hcienus the prophet fore-
told the deftruftion of Troy. Brovin,
another. 1. According to tlie primitive import of
Intemferance and fcnfuality clog mcn'a fpirits, words not figuratively.

; LlTHONTRl'pTICK.aj^'. [aISo; and TpîJ
nuke them grofs, liftlefs, and unailive. Titlotf(,/i, That a man and his wife are one flelh, I can litbontriptijue, Fr.] Any medicine pro-
If your care to'wheat alone extend. comprehend; yet //(crtf//)> taken, it i&<a thing. im- per to difTolve the ftone in the kidneys
Let Maji with her Cftcrs firft defccnd, poflible. Simft.
,
or bladder.
Before you truft in earth your future hope. 2. With clofe adherence to words; word
Litho'tomist. ». / [>>;So,- and rsfoa.]
Or elfe otped a IftJff!, lazy crop. Drydcn'i lîrgil. \y word.
La2y lolling fort
'
Endeavouiing to turn his Nifus and Euryalus
A chirurgeon who extrafts the ftone by
Of ever liftl,fi Wt'rers, that attend
as clofe as 1 was able, 1 ha\t performed thatepifode
opening the bladder.
No caufe, no truft. Pope. too literally ; that giving more fcope to Meze^tius Litho'tomy. «. f. [\iSot and r/ftiw.]
I was liftl.Js and de'fponding. Galliver't Trtvels.
and Laufus, that verfion, which has more of the The art or praflice of cutting for the
2, Carelefs ; heedjefs : with of. majeily uf Virgil, lias lefs of his concifencfs.
ftone.
The fick for air before the portal gafp, Drydcn.
Or idle in their empty hives remain,
So \nld ind ungovernable a poet cannot be
Li'ticant. n f. {litigaus, Latin; liti-
Benumb'd with cold, and liftlifi of their gain. tranftated ruerally ; his jjenius is Coo ftiong to bear
gant, French.] One engaged in a fuit
I Dryden. a chain. Prydcn, of law,
II The
; ;
L I T L I T L I V
The caft I'mgmt fits not down with one crofs ver- A birth of animals. Tht poor remnant of human feed which rsmain-
4.
dict, but recommences his fuit. Decay cf Pifry* Fruitful as the fow that cirry'd ed in their mountains, peopled their country âin
The litiga/ns tear one another to pieces for the flowly, by Utile and lilile. Bacon's Neiu Atlaiiiit.
The thirty pigs at one large Utter farrow'd.
benefit of fome third jntercft.L^KJlrangei TctHcs* Dryden's yuven.1l. By freeing the precipitated matter from the re(t
Lj'tigant. adj. Engaged in a juridical by filtration, and diligently grinding the white pre-
5, Any number of things thrown fluttifhly
cipitate with water, the mercury will liitU by little be
conteft. about. gathered into drops. Boyle.
Judicial a£ls are thctfc writings and matters which Strephon, who found the room was void. I gave thee thy matter's houfe, and the houfe of
relate to judicial proceedijus, and are fped in ooLn Stole in, and took a l>ri£t furvcy Ifrael and Judah ; and if that had b;en too Utile, I
court at the inftance of o^ or both of the parties
Of all the litter as it lay. Swift. would have given fuch and fuch things. '
I'uigiir.l. jiyUffe'i Pdnrgon.

To Li'tter. 'V. a. [from the noun.] 2 Sarn. x\\. 9.
Ttf Li'ticate. "v, a. [lit:go, Latin.] To To bring forth: ufed of beafts, or of They have much of the poetry of Ma:cenas;'but
1.
conteli in law; to debate by judicial Utile of his liberality. Dryden.
human beings in abhorrence or con-
Nor grudge I thee the much that Grecians give.
procefs.
tempt. Nor murm'ring take the Utile 1 receive. Dryden.
To Li'ticate. •v.n. To manage a fuic; Then was this iHand, There are many exprclTions, which, carrying with
to carry on a caufe. Save for the fen that (he did litter here, them no clear ideas, are like to remove but little of
The appellant, after the interpolition of an appeal, A freckled whelp, hag-born, not honour'd with my ignorance. Locke,
ftill litigatei in the fame caufe. AyliffciPai ergon. A human (hape. Sheiirffieere' s tempejl.
3. A flight affair.
Litica'tion. n. /. [Jiliâtio, Latin ; My father named me Autolycus, being Utter'd As if 'twere Uitle from their town to chafe,
under Mercury, who, as I am, was likewife a fnap-
from litigate.} Jadicial conteft ; fuit of I through the fea2 puifued their exil'd race. Dryd.
pcr up of unconfidercd trifles. Sbakefptare.
law. I view with anger and difdain,
The whelps of bears are, at firft litteringt with- How Utile gives thee joy or pain :
Never one clergyman had experience of both liii-
out all form or faOuon. Htiewilt on Providence.
gafians, that hath not confclTed, he had rather have
We might conceive that dogs were created blind, A print, a bronze, a flow'r, a root. Prior,
three Alits In Weftminfter-hall, than one in the

becaufe we obferve they were littered (0 with us.
4. Not much.
arches. Chrendcn. Thefe they are fitted for, and little elfe. Ch^ne,
Broivn.
LiTl'oiOUs. aJj. [litigieux, Frepch.] 2. To cover things negligently, or
ivith Li'ttle. ati'V.
1. Inclinable to law-luits ; quarrelfome; fluttilhly fcattered about.

1. In a fmall degree.
wrangling. The received definition of names (hnuld be
They found
and lawyers find out llill changed as little as polfible. fVaitii Logick,
Soldiers find wars, The room with volumes liiier'd round. Swift.
Litlgkus men, who quarrels move. Donne. In a fmall quantity.
3. To cover with ftraw.
2.
His great application to the law had not infefted The poor fleep liltle, Otvvay,
He found a (tall where oxen (lood,
his temper with any thing pofitive or Hl'tgious. But for his eafe well Uttcr'd was the Roor. Dryden. 3. In fome degree, but not great.
Mdifon. Where there is too great a thilmcfs in the fluids,
4. To fnpply cattle with bedding.
2. Difpotable ; controvertible. fubacid fubflances arc proper, though they are a
In kiighui and controverted caufes, the will of Ll'TTLE. adj. comp. le/s, fuperlat. /ir«/?.
Utile aftringent. Arbutbnct.
God is to have them ro do whatfoever the fcntcncc [leitels, Gothick ; lyrel, Saxon.] 4. Not much.
of judicial and final decifion Ihall determine. 1. Small in extent. The tongue of the juft is as choice filver j the
}I:'sker. The coall of Dan went o\it too Utile for them. heart of tlie wicked is little worth. Prov. x. 20.
No fences parted fields, nor marks, nor bounds, Jijbua, xix. Finding him little ftudious, flie chofe rather to
Didingui/b'd acres of litigious grounds. endue him with converfatlve qualities of youth ; »s,
2. Not great ; fmall ; diminutive ; of
Dryden^s Georg. dancing and fencing. JVottcn.
fmall bulk.
LiTi'ciousi.Y. adv. [from litigious.} That poem was Infamoufly bad ; this parallel is
He fought to fee Jefus, but could not for the
Wranglingly. little better. Dryden's Dvfrfjr.oy.
piefs, becaufe hewas/zVi/tof ftature. Luke,x\x. 3.
Several clergymen, otherwife little fond of oblcure
LiTi'ciousNESS, n. /. [from litigious.] His fon, being tiien very little, I confidercd only
terms, yet in their fermons are very liberal of all
A wrangling difpolicion ; inclination to as wax, to be moulded as one pleafes. Locke.
thofe which they find in ecclefiaftical writers.
vexatious fuits.
One wou'd have all things tittle ; hence has try'd
from the egg, in batter fry'd. Sitt\ftu
Turkey poults, frefli
LI'TTER. w./. [litiert, French.] Kivg. Li'ttleness. »./. [from /;V//^.]
1. A kind of vehiculary bed ; a carriage Of fraall dignity, power, or import- 1. Smalnefs of bulk.
3.
capable of containing a bed hung be- ance. All trying, by a love of littlenejs.
tween two hordes. When thou wa(l little in thine own fight, waft To make abridgments, and to draw to lefs
To my litter ilrajt thou not made the head of the tribes ? Even that nothing which at firft we were.- Donnr.
Weaknefs poflefleth mc. Sbakeffeare's King John. I Sam. rv. 17. We may fuppofc a great many degrees of littUncfs
Ke was carried in a rich chariot //Vfjr-wife, with He was a very little gentleman. Clarendon, and lightnefs in thefe earthy particles, fo as many
two horfcs at each end. Bacon's Netv Atlantis. All that is pall ought to fccm little to thee, be- of them might float in the air. Burnet.
The drowfy frighted fteeds, caufe it is fo in itfelf. Taylor's Guide to Devotion. 2. Meannefs ; want of grandeur.
That draw the of dofe curtain'd deep.
litter
4. Not much ; not many. The Englilh and French, in verfc, are forced to
Mitton. raife their language with metaphors, by the pom^.
He mud be loofed a little feafon. Revelatitns.
Here modeft matrons In foft fitters driv'r>,
A little deep, a little (lumber, a Utile folding of oufnefs of the whole phrafe, to wear off any little-
In fjlcmn pomp appear. Dryden^s ^neid.
the hands to fleep fo ih:'-ll poverty come upon thee. nejs that appears in the particular parts. Addijon.
;
hitters thick befiege the donor's gate,
Proverbs. 3. Want of dignity.
And begging lords and teeming ladies vait
And now in little fpace Theangelick grandeur, by being concealed, djcS
T he promis'd dole* Drydtns Jwvetial. not awaken our poierty, nor mortify our littlenejs fo
The confines met. Milton.
2. The ftraw laid under animals, or on By fad expetiinent 1 know much, as if It was always difplayed. Collier.
plants. How little weight my words with thee can find. Li'ttoral. adj. [littoralis, Latin.] Be-
To crouch io litter of your liable planks. Milton. longing to the (hore.
Shakej'peare. A little learning is a dangrous thing
Li'turcy. n.f. [^l1a(l7'Ia; liturgie, Fri}
Take ofFthe/;//fr from year kernel beds. E-vclyn. Drink deep, or tafte not the Pierian fpring. Pofc.
Their littir is not tols'd by fows unclean. Some; not none: in this fenfe it. al-
Form of prayers; formulary of publick.
5.
Dryden^s Virgil. devotions.
ways ftands between the article and the
3. A brood of young. We dare not admit any fuch form of !iturt;y, as
noun. either appointcth no fcripture at
all, or very little to
do here walk before thee like
I a fow that hath
I leave him to reconcile thefe contradiflions,
be read in the church. Hooker,
overwhelmed all her Utter but one. Shakefffeare.
which may plentifully be found in him, by any one
RctleA upon that numerous Utter of ilrangc,
The blefledeft of mortal wights began to be im-
who will but'read with a hitle attention. Locke. portuned, fo that a great part of divine liturgy was
feofekft opinions, that crawl about the world.
South.
Li'ttle. «./. addrcfl'cd folely to her. Hoivcl.
A wolf came to a fow, and very kindly offered to 1. A fmall fpace. It is the greateft folemnity of prayer, the Tnn&
take caie of her Utter. L'EJlrangi. Much in little was writ ; and all convey'd powerful liturgy and means of impctration in this
With cautious care, for fear to be betray'd. Dryden. world. Tiiykr.
Full many a year his hateful head had been
For tr butc paid, nor fmcc in Cambria feen : 2. A fmall part; a fmall proportion." To Live. -v. n. [lypian, lypijan, Saxon.]
The laft of all the litter 'ftap'd by chance, He that defpifeth little things, ihall perifh by little I. Tobe in a ftate of animation ; to be
And from Geneva firft infellcd FianCCi Drydeit. and Utile, Hcilut, not dead.
Vol. II. •
H Is't
;
L O A L O A L O A
bcUy, and one at his tall, dappled with many of mine eyes j (he the overthrow of my defires, With lofty eyes, half loth to kwk fo low.
black or brown fpots ; his mouth, barbel-like, un- and yet the recompcnce of my overthrow. Sidney. She thanked them in her difdainful wife, '
,
der his nofe. This fifli is ufually lull of eggs or My Helicc, the hadfar of my life. Spenjer. Ne other grace vouchfafcd them to (how
fpawn, and by Cerner, and other phyficians, com-
is O happy fair ! Of princcfs worthy. I'airy Siuan,
meoHed for great nourilhment,and to be very Your eyes are loadfars, and your tongue fweet air ! When he heard her tnfwers htl:, he knew
grateful both to the palate and ftomach of fick per- Moretuneable than lark to fliepherd's ear Some fecret forrow did her heart diltrain. VairySi^
fons, and is to be fillied for with a fmall worm, at When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear. To fpcak £;> indirectly, I am loib ;
•tlie bottom, for he feldom rifes above the gravel. Sliahjpiare. I'd fay the truth but to accufe him fo.
;
ffa/ttn'z jingler. That clear inajelly That is your part. Shaltefp. Mtajurefor Meafure^
Load, n /. [jjlabe, Saxon.] Which ftandeth fix'd, yet fprcads her heavenly Long doth (he (lay, as loth to leave the land.
1. A burthen ; a freight ; lading. worth, From whofc foft fide flie firft did ilfue make;
Fair plant with fruit furcharg'd, Lodcftone to hearts, and loadftar to all eyes. Daviet. She taftes all places, turns to ev'ry hand.
Deigns none to «afe thy load, and tafte thy fweet ?
Lo'adstone. a./, [properly lodejlone or Her flow'ry banics unwilling to forfake. Da'A/s^
MUtnti. lirding Jione, See Loadstar.] The Then wilt thou not be loib
Then on back he laid the precious load. To leave this paradife, but (halt poUefs
his magnet ; the (lone on which the mari-
A paradife within thee, happier far
And fought wonted flielter. Dryd. Nun's TaU.
his
ners compafs needle is touched to give
Milton^ !
Let India boaft her groves, nor envy we To pardon willing, and to punilh Uth ;
The weeping amber, and the balmy tree ; it a direfiion north and fouth. You llrike with one hand, but you heal with both :
While by our oaks the precious loads arc born. The loadpone
a peculiar and rich ore of iron,
is Lifting up all that proftrate lie, you grieve
And realms commanded which thefc trees adorn.
found in large malTes, of a deep iron-grey where You cannot make
the dead again to live. Ifalter,
Pope.
frefii broken, and often tinged with a brownilh or When yEneas is forced to kill Laufus, the poet
rcddilh colour J it is very heavy, and confiJcrably (hews him companionate, and to deftroy fuch
2. Weight; preflurc ; encumbrance. is /c/yfc
hard, and its great charaScr is that of afFedling a mafter-piecc of nature. • Drydeu*-
Jove lightcn'd of its had
iron. This oie of iron is found in England, and As fomefaint pilgrim llandinfôn the (hore,
Th' enormous mafs, the labour of a God. Pope.
in moil other places where there are mines of Firftviews the torrent he would venture o'er :
3. Weight, or violence of blows. that metal. Hilfs Materia Medica. And then his inn upon the farther ground.
Like lion raov'd they laid on load. The ufe of the loadjiotic w.is kept as fecret as Loth to wade through, and lotber to go round :
And made a cruel fight. Cbtvy Chace, any of the other myfteries of the art. Siuift. Then dipping in his ftaff does trial make
Far heavier toad thyfelf expeQ to feel How deep it is ; and, fighing, pulls it back. Diy»
Loaf. »./. [from Jjlap or lap, Saxon.]
From my prevailing arm. MJion. know you
And Mncllheus laid hard load upon his helm. 1. Amafs of bread as it is formed by the
And
I (hy to be oblig'd
ftill more toaib to be oblig'd by me. Soutberne.
Drydtn, baker: a loaf is thicker than a cake.
To Loathe, v. a.[from the noun.]
4. Any thing that depre/Tes, Eafy it is
How a man can have a quiet and cheerful mind Of a cut loaf 10 fteal a fliive we know. Sl>ahfpeare, 1. To hate ; to look on with abhorrence.
The bread corn in the town fufficed not tor fix Parthenia had learned both liking and miilik-
under a great burden and load of guilt, I knpw not,
days : hereupon the foldiers entered into propor- ing, loving and loathing. Sidvty.
unlets he be very ignorant. Ray.
tion; and, to give example, the lord Clinton limit- They with their filthinefs
5. As much drink as one can bear. Polluted this fame gentle foil long time.
ed himfelf to a /i»a/"a-day. Hayivard.
There can never fleep without
arc thofe that
That
With equal force you may
break a loaf of bread their own mother hath'd their beaftUnefs.
their load, nor enjoy one eafy thought, till they
into more and lefs parts than a lump of lead of the Sptnfer^
have laid all their cares to reft with a bottle. VEji. How am
fame bignefs. Digby. I caught with an unwary oath.
The thund'ring god, Not which
Ev'n he withdrew to reft, and had his load. Dryden. 2. Any thick mafs into which a body is
to reveal the fecret I Icath I IfalUr^
For thee the lion tcatbs the ufte of blood.
7e Load. t/. a. [preterite, loaded; par.
wrought. And roaring hunts his female througli the wood.
Your wine becomes fo limpid, that you may
leaden or laden, ^laban, Saxon.] Dryden*.
bottle it with a piece of /ca/fugar in each bottle.
1. To burden ; to freight.
Mcrtimer.
Noiv his exalted fpirit loaths
At ladin with honour's fpoils. Incumbrances of food and cloaths. Swift.
lall,
Returns the good Andronicus to Rome. Shakefp.

LOAM, »./
[Iim, laam, Saxon ; limus, 2. To confider with the difgnft of fatiety.
Your cari iagcs were heavy hadtjt ; they are a bur- Latin ; from Ai/a,»r, a fen. Junius.] Fat, Loathing the honey'd cakes, 1 longd for bread.
den to the beail. Ij'a. xlvi. i. unftuous, tenacious earth ; marl. Cov/ley-
2. To encumber; to embarrafs. The pureft treafure Our appeiitels entinguKhed with the fatisfac-
Is fpotlefs reputation that away. tion, and is fucceeded by loathing and fatiety.
He that makes no reflexions on what he reads, ;
only toads his mind with a rhapfody of tales, fit in Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Shaktfp. Rogers,
winter nights for the entertainment of others. Alexander returneth to dult": the dull is earth
;
3. To fee food with diflike.
of earth we make loam ; and why of that bam Loathing is » fymptom known to attend diforders
might they not flop a beer barrel ?
3. To charge a gun. Shaltejpeare. of the ftomach ; the cure muft have regard to the
Amariner having difcharged his gun, and load- TeLoAM. -v. a. [from the noun.] To caufe. Siiiincy.
ing it fudjeniy again, the powder took fire, tytfan. fmear with loam, marl, or clay ; to To Loathe, t/. h.
4. To make heavy by fomething append- clay. 1. To create difgull ; to caufe abhorrence.

ed or annexed. The joirt ends, and girders which be in the walls, Obfolete.
Thy dreadful vow, haden with death, ftill founds muft be kamed all over, to preferve them from the Where 1 was VKont to feek the honey bee,'
my ftunn'd ears.
In corroding of the mortar. Moxcn's Mechanical Exer. The gtiily toadllool grown there miglit I fee,
ytddijn's Caio.
Load. ». /. [more properly lode, as it Lo'amy. adj. [from loam.] Marly. And loathing paddocks lording on the fame. Sptnf.
was anciently written ; from Ixban, The mellow earth
the be!l, between the two
is 2. To feel abhorrence or difgulh
extremes of clay and fand, if it be not loamy and The fi(h in the river (hall die, and the river
Saxon, to lead.] The leading vein in a binding. _ Bacon. (link ; and tiie Egyptians Ihall loath to drink of the
mine. Auricula fecdlings bed like a loamy fand, or water. Excdus*
The tin lay couched at firft in certain ftrakes light moift earth
;
yet rich and (haded. E-velyn. Why do I ftay within this hated place.
•mongft trx rocks, like the veins in a man's body, Loan. Where my loathing eyes ? Xowr.
n./. [)5la:n, Saxon.] Any thing every objcfl ftiocks
from the depth whereof djc main lead fpreaJeth out
lent any thing given to another, on
;
Lo'ather. n. /. [froaikaih.] One that
his branches, until they approach the open air.
condition of return or repayment. '
• loaihs.
. Carcw's Survey of CormvaJl.
Their manner of working in the lead mines, is The better fuch ancient reveaues (hall be paid, 1.o'athfui., adj. [loath iai full. '\
to follow the load as itlieth. Carnv'i Sitrv. of Cor. the need her m:ijc!lY alk lubfidles, fifteens,
lefs
1. Abhorring; hating.
and loans. Bacon.
Lo'auer. tt. /. [from load.'^ He who You're on the fret,
Which lie did with loathful eyes behold.
loads. He would Ik) more endure. Uubbtrd't Tale.

Becaufe, in fo dcbauch'd and vile an age.
2. Abhorred hated.
Lo'adsman. «./. {lode and man.l He Thy friend and old acquaintance dares Jifown ;
Above the reach of loathful finful \uA,

who leads the way a pilot. ; The gold you lent himr and hul'wear the lean.
Wh lie bafe e."}eti, through cowardly diftruft
Lo'adstar. n. /. [more properly as it .
Dryden.
Of his weak wings, date not to heaven flie. Sênftr,
is inMaundcville, lode/lar, from iaban, Loath, adj. [laB, Saxon.] Unwilling ;
dilliking ; not ready ; not inclined.
Lo'athinOi-Y. adv. [from loaii.] In
to lead.] The polcftar ; the cynofure ; a faftidiuus manner.
1 hefe frefh and delightful brooks, how (lowly
the leading or guiding ftar. Lo'athlt. adj. [from loa/h."]
they Aide away, at laib to leave the company of fo Hateful;
She was the hadf.ar of niy life j Out the blelllng
nuay things united in pcrfcttion ! Sidruy. abhorred ; exciting haired.
An
LOB LOG LOG
ejtpeftlng he pafs through a kind of there fevcral inventions in locks, in contriving their
An
huge great dragon, horrible !a fight, till fliould
Moxon.
lothy between that room and the next, where were wards or guards.
Brtd of Tartar/,
in the loathly lakes
With murd'rous ravin. Fairy Sluien. divers attending liim. Wotton. 2. The pan of the gun by which fire is
The people fear me ; for they do obferve Try your backftairs, and let the lohhy wait, ftruck.
Unfathered heirs, and hatkly births of nature. A ftratagem in war is no deceit. King. A gun carries powder and bullets for feven charges
atakeffearcl LoBt. H. /. \lobe, French ; ôQ;.] di- A and difcharges under the breech of the barrel is
:
Sour-ey'd difdain and difcord Ihall bellow yifion ; a diftinft part : ufed commonly one box for the powder ; a little before the lock,
The union of your bed with weeis fo Icath/y, another for the bullets; behind the cock a charger,
for a part of the lungs.
That you &aU hate it. Stttttjfeare'i 'fimftft.
Nor could the Icbts of his rank liver fwell
which carries the powder to t;he further end of the
Lo'athly. <iA/. [from laurJh.^ Unwill- hck. Crew.
To that piodigious mafs, for their eternal meal.
ingly; without likitig or inclination. Dryden. 3. A hug ; a grspple.
The upper ftieams make fuch hafte to have Air bladd'rs form lobuli, which hang upon They muft pruiflifed in a'! the locks and gripes
be
their part of embracing, that the nether, though the bronchia like bunches of grapes ; thefe lobuli of wreilling, as need may often be in fight to
i(,ti/y, muft needs give place unto them.
Sidney. conttitute the hbct, and the laha the lungs. tugg or grapple, and to cble. Mtiion on Education.
Latly oppofite 1 flood Arbullnot on AlirotnU. 4. Any inciolure.
To his unnatural puipofe. Stairjf can't King Lear. FrrnwrhcBce the quick reciprocating breath. Sergefthus, eager with his beak to ptefs
This Ihewi that you from nature I'.atbly ftray, The /(.iitdbefive, and the fweat of death. Siwel. Betwixt the rival gaily and the rock, ,
That fuffer not an artificial day. Donne. Lo'bster. n. /. [lobj-rep, Saxon.] A Shuts up the unwieldy centaur intlie/oc*. Dryden.
Lo'athness. n. /. [from loath.'\ Un- cruflaceous hlh. 5. A quantity of hair or wool hanging
willingnefs. Thofe that caft their fliell, are the lohjlcr, the together.
The fair foul berfelf crab, and craw fi(h. Bacon'i Natural Hijl^ry. Well might he perceive the banging of her hair
Weigh'd between loihrefs and obedience. happeneth often that a Ictjier hath the great
It in locks, fome curled, and fame forgotten. Sidney.
Which end the be,un (hould bow. Skaktfpcare. claw of one fide longer than the other. Brown. A goodly cyprcls, who bowing her fair head
Should we be taking leave, LO'CAL. adj. [local, French ; locus, Lat.] over the water, it fccmeth file looked into it, and
As long a term as yet we have to live. 1. Having the properties of place. dreifed her gieen i'jch.s by that running river.
The loihnifi to depart would grow. Shakiffiarc.
By afccnding, after that the fliarpnefs of death
Sidney,
After they had fat about the fire, there g.ew '
vâs overcome, he took the very heal pofTcffion of

His grizly locks, long growen and unbound,
a general filence and hthnrj' to amcngft W' glory, and that to the ufe of all that are his, even
Difordered hung about hit; ihoulders round. Spenpr*
The bottom was fet againft a lock of wool, and
,
them; and immediattly one of the weakeft fell as himfclf before had witnefled, I go to prepare a
down in a fwoon. BacM. the found wan quite deaded. Bacon.
place for you. Iloiker.
Lo'athsome. aJj. [from loath.'\ They nourifii only a/or/k of hair on the crown of
Ahigher flight the v^nt'ions goddefs tries.
their heads. Sandys's Tra^veh.
1. Abhorred i deteftable. Leaving material world, and local Ikies. Prior.
The frcfh young fly
Relating to place.
A lock ai hair will draw more than a cable rope.
2.
his defire
Greto.
Did much difda'm to fubjeft The circumftance of local neamefs in them unto Behold the locks that are grown white
To loaihfmte (loth, or hours in eafe to wafte. us, mit^ht haply enforce in us a duty of greater
^ Beneath a helmet in your father's battles. Addijm.
Sftnfer.
reparation from them than from thofe other. Two lotks that graceful hung behind
While they pervert pure nature's healthful rules Hcoter.
Milt^n't ParaJife UJi. In equal curls, and well-confpir'd to deck
To hathf.me ficknefs. Where only a local circumftance of wor-
there is
With fiiinlng ringlets her fmooth iv'ry neck. Pope,
If we confider man in fuch a liathjomi and pro-
fliip, the fame thing"would be worfliipped, fup-
Yoking condition, was it not love enough that he pofing that circumftance changed. StiilingJIeet.
6. A tuft.
.was permitted to enjoy a being ? Soulh. I iuppofe this letter will find thee piclting of
3. Being jn a particalar place.
daifics, or fmclling to a lock of hay. Addifin.
2. Caufjng f.itiety or faftidioufnefs. Dream not of their fight,
The fweeteft honey As of a duel, or of the local wounds
To Lock. -v. a [from the noun.]
Is I'aihjotne in its own dcilcioufiief^.
Of head, or heel. Milton 1 Paradifc UJ>. I. To (hut or fallen with locks.
And in the tafte confiunds the appetitt. Sbakc^. The garden, fenirid on the level floor.
How is the change of being fometimes here,
Lo'athsomeness. ti.f. [from loath/ome.] fotnetimes there, made by heal motion in va- She left behind, snd locking ev'ry door.
cuum, without a change in the body moved ? Thought lecute. Dryden.
Quality of railing hatred, difguft, or all
abhorrence. Dighy en Bodit-t. z. To Ihut up or con(ine, as with locks.

Loca'lity. n. /. [from local.] Exift- I am hckt in one of them
The catacombs muft have been full of flench ;
If you do love me, you will find me out. Sbakefp.

and kathj'jminth, if the dead bodies that lay in them ence in place ; relation of place, or
were left to rot in rpei nitches. Addijon. We do hik
diflance.
Our former fample in our firong-barr'd gates.
Loaves, plural oiloaf. That the foul and aagels are devoid of quantity Shaktfpeare.
Demociitui, when he lay a dying, caufed kavti and dimenfioo, and that they have nothing to do
Then feek to know thofe th'mgs which make us
of new bread to be opened, poured a little wine with grolTer locality, is generally opinioned. Glanv. Weft,
into them ; and fo kept himfeif alive with the Lo'cALLY. «//•«. [itotn Itcal-I With re- And tuving fo|Uid them, luk them in thy bread,
odour till a feaft was paft. Bacon,
fpffl to place. Denham.
LoB. n. / Whether things, in their natures fo divers as The frighted dame
1. Any one heavy, clumfy, or (luggifll. body and fpirit, which almoft in nothing commu- The log in fectct lock'd. Dryden's Oi/id.
Fare-.vel, thou hi of fpirits, I'll begone, nicate, are not elTcntially divided, though not /i»c<T//y If the door to a council be kept by armed men,
Our (jucen and ali hja elve« come here anon. diânt, 1 leave to the readers. Glatti/ilk. and all fuch whofe opinions are not liked kept out,
Shaktjfeare.
Loca'tion. «./ Latin.] Situ-
[locatio, the freedom of thofe within int'ringed, and all
is
Probably a their afts are as void as if theywere locked in.

2. Lob's pound; a prifon. ation with refpecl to place ; aft of pla-
Dryden.
prifon for idlers, or fturdy beggars. cing ; (late of being placed. One conduces to the poet's completing of his
CroV'dero, whom in irons bound, To fay that the woild is fomewhere, means no work the other Hackens his pace, and locks him
;
Thou biiely threw'ft into&A's pound. Uudihrai.

more than that does exiil ; this, though a phrafe
ic
up like a knight-errant in an enchanted caftle.
3. A big worm. borrowed from.ptace, figntfying only its exiftence, Dryden s Dedication to the jSneid*
For the trout the dew worm, mhJch fome alfo not loeatien. Locki. The father of the gods
callthe kh worm, and the brandling, are the chief LopH. n /. A lake. Scotiifh. Corifin'd their fury to thofe dark abodes,
Walton I Ar.gltr.
ttL lake or loeb, that has no frelh water run- And lock'd 'em fafe within, opprefs'd with moun-
To Lob "v. a. Tolet fall in a flovenly or ilillg into it, will turn into a (linking pudtlle. tain lads.i Dryden s JEn<id.
lazy minner. Cbeyne's Pbil'-f. Principle:. If one third of the money in trade were kcUei
The horfemen fit like fixed canJlefticks, Lock. » /
[loc, Saxon, in both fenles.] up, muft not the landholders receive one third K-fs }
And their poor jadia Locke.
I. Aninftrument compofed of fprings and
l,oi down their heads, dropping the hide and hips. Always leek up a cat in a clofct where you keep
bolts, ufeii to faften doors or chelis.
Shaie/jxart, your china plates, for fear the mice may fteal in
No gate fo flrong, no lock fo firm and fall.
and break them.
Lo'bbv. ». /. [laui*, German.] An But with that piercing noifc flew open quit or braft.
Sivift.
Your wine hck'd up.
opening belore a room. Fairy Sûcin,
Plain milk will do the feat. Pope's Horace.
Hia IMiei fill with 'tendwce. We have kekt, to fafcguard necefTarlej,
Toclofe f^ll
3.
Rain facrificial whifp'rings in his car. And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves.
Death biafts his bloom, and locks h\t frocen eyes.
Make facred even his ftirrup. Shaktjf, Tim. tfAlh. Sbakefpcare.
G(iy.
Etfore the duke'i rifing from the table, hie fiood As there are locks for lisveral purpoles, io are
T»
;
LO D L O D 1. O F
7'oLoCK. V. n. The dcfp'rit* farage ra(h"d witliin my force, Lo'tJCEMH VT. ft./, [from M^f, loêmem,
I. To become faft by a lock. And bote me headlong with the rock. him down French.]
For not of wood, nor of ensuring b.ifi, Clwity.
1. Difpoiiiion or collocation in a certain
Doubly difpirtcd it did h k and dale, He Mg'J an arrow in a tender bread.
That had lb ol'ten to his own been preit. Atltt'f^n. place.
Idiat when it locktd, none Tnitjht through it pafs.
In viewing aâin the ideas that arc lodge,! in the The curious lodgement and inofculation of th*
memory, tic mind is more than palfive. Ltcke. miditory nerves. VwhJm.
S. To on!te b/ mutual infertion.
Accumulation ; colleîon.
Either they /oci iato each other, or flip one upon 4. To hx ; to fettle. 2.
By wliofe fell working I was firll advanc'd. An oppreflcd diaphragm from a mere lodgment
mother's furfwe ; as much of their furfjces tnirches
And by whofc pow'r 1 well might l:dge a fear of extravafated matter. Sharp's Svrgttyt
as makes tliem cohere. Boyle.
Lo'cKER. To be again dilpUc'd. Shakejpiarc. 3. FofTeflion of the enemy's work.
n. /. [ftorn lock.'] Anything can give no reafon,
I The milit.wy pedant is making lodgtncnit, and
that is clofed with a lock ; a drawer. More than a Ijdg'd hate, and a certain loathing' (ighting battles, from one end of the year to the
1 made loikcri or drawers at the end of the boat. I bear Antonio. Shakrj'f tare's Meritant of ycnUe. other. , Addijot.
RciinfcTt Crujce.
5. To place in the memory. -Lo'dger. n /. [from lodge.]
Lo'cKET. n. /. [Uquet, French.] A 1'his cunning the king would not underftand, 1. One who lives in rooms hired in the
fmall lock ; any catch or fpring to faften though he lodged it, and noted it, in fmS particu-
houfe of another.
« necklace, or other ornament. lars. BiKun's Henry Vjl.
Bafc tyke, call'ft thou me hoft ' now, I fcora
"Where knightji arc kept in narrow lifts, 6. To harbour or cover. th< term ; nor (hall my Nell keep Uge^ s. Skakt'p.
With wooden hiktn bout their wriils. Uudibras. The deer is lodg'd, I've track'd her to her co«ert Iherc wcie in a family, tlie man and his witic,
Lo'cKRAM. n./, A
fort of coarfe linen. Rufti in at once. Addifin'i Cato. three children, and three fervants or lo.tgiri.
Hanmer. 7. To afford place to. GrauKt'i Bills,
The
kitchen malkin pins The memory can lodge a greater (lore of images, Thcfc houfes are fooneft infcfted that are
Wer richeft h^kram about her reeky neck, than all the fenfes can prefcnt at one time. crowded with multiplicity of ledgers, and nafty
Ciamb'ring the walls to eye him. Shakefptare. Ctejne's Phil. Princifhi. families. Hartley.
Lo'cKRON. u. /. A kind of ranun- 8. To lay flat. The gentlewoman begged me to ftop ; for that
Though bladed corn be /odg'd, and trees blown a lodger (he had taiccn in was run mad. Tatkr,
culus.
down, Sylla was reproached by his fellow lodger that
Locomo'tion.w./. \_locussni mo/us, Lit.] Though callles topple on their warders heads. hJger paid eight pounds one (hil-
whilft the fellow
Power of changing place. Sbakc-t'pCijre. and fivepence halfpenny for the uppermoll
ling
All progtefiion, or animal hcomcthn, is perform- We'll make foul weather with defpifed tears ; ftory, he paid for the reft twenty-four pounds four
ed by drawing on, or impelling forward, fome part Our fighs, and they, (haJ lodge the fummer corn, (hillings and fourpence halfpenny. Arhuthnol*
which was before at quiet. £rown's Vulgar Err. And make a dearth in this revolting land. Shaktfjj. 2. One that refides in any place.
LocoMo'TivE.a<jJr. yocuszudmcveo, Lat.] To Lodge, h). n. Look in thatbreaft, moft dirty dear;
Changing place ; having the power of 1. To rcfide ; to keep refidence.
Say, can you find but one fuch lodger there? Pope,
removing or changing place. Care keeps his watch in ev'ry old man's eye. Lo'dging. n./. [from loe/ge.]
1 (ball confider the motion, or locomctive faculty And where cxrclodgeih, fleep wiil never lie. ShakcJ. 1. Temporary habitation ; rooms hired
of animals. Derhatns FkyJliQ-Thsdogy. Something holy lodges in that breaft. in the houfe of another.
In the night too oft he kickt, And with tliefs raptures moves the wocal air I will in CalTio's lodging lofe this
napkin,
Or (hows his locomaive tricks. Pricr. To hidden refidence.
teftify l-.is ATiltcm. And him find it.
let Shahffeare's Otttth,
An animal cannot well be defined from any par- And dweils fuch rage in fofteft bofoms then ? Let him change his
lodging from one end of the
ticular organical part, nor from its hcomclh'n fa- And kdgc fuch daring fouls in little men? Pope. town to another, which is a great adamant of ac-
culty, for fome adhere to rocks. Arbuitmt. 2. To take a temporary habitation. quaintance. Bacon.
Lo'cusT. n. /. [/efa/?a, Latin.] A de- Why commands the kirvg. At night he came
vouring infedl. That bis chief followers lodge in towns about him. To his known lodgings, and his country dame.
The Hebrews had feveral forts of hcufts, which While he himfelf kecpeth in the cold field .Siiii. '
Dryden,
ate not known among us the old hiflorians and
:
I know
not where lie Udges; and for me to de- He defircd his filler to bring her away to tho
modern remark, that hcuji! are very nu-
travellers vife a lodging, and fay, he lies here or he lies /a/g-.-jifi of his friend. AddiJ:«'s Guardian.
merous Africk, and m.rny places of A(ia ; that
in there, were to lie in mine own throat. ^hakejp:jre. Wits take lodgirgs in the found of Bow. Pope,
jbnielimcs they fall like a cloud upon the country, Thy father is a man of w<Jr, and will not lodge 2. Place of relidence.
and eat up every thing they meet with. Mofes dc- with the people. Samuel. Fair bofom fraught with virtue's richeft treofure.
fcribes font forts of locujh. Since there was a pro- 3. To take up refidence at night. The neft of love, tlie Axygi"^ of del ght.
hibition againft ufing Ijcujit, it is not to be qucftion- My lords The bower of blifs, the paradife of pleaf'ire.
jcA but that tfaefe ereatures were commonly eaten in And foldiers, (lay and lodge by me this night. The facred harbour of that heavenly fp right.
yalefînc, and the neighbouring countries. Cahiet. ^h.^kefpeare. Spenfer.
To-morrew will I bring the kcufti into thy coaft. Oh, that I had in the wilderncfs a lodging place 3. Harbour ; covert.
F.xctlus. of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people! The hounds were uncoupled ; and the ftag
Air teplere with the Aeams of animals rotting, yrraniah. thought it better to truft to the nimblenefs of his
hai produced peftilcntial teyi:;-ii ; fuch have likcwlfe Here thou art but a ftranger travelling to thy feet, than to the (lender fortification of his lodging,
been railed by great xjuantitiei of dead i.ci'ft\. country ) it is therefore a huge folly to be alfliSed, Sidney,
jirlutbwt on Air. becaufc thou haft a Icfs convenient inn to lodge in
J^.. Convenience to fleep on.
L0CUST-T«EE. n. /. by th« way. tayhr. Their feathers fcrve to ftuff our beds .ind pillows,
Tlji; Ueufi tree hath a p.ipUionaceous flower, from 4. To lay flat. yielding us foft and warm lodging. Ray on Creation.
whofe calyx aril'js tjic pointal, wiiich aftcrwarcs be- Long cone wheat they reckon in Oxford/hiie
Loft. n.f. [Ihft, Welih ; or from lift.]
comes an unicapfular hard pod, incl'iding roandi(h beft for rank days ; and its ftraw makes it not fub-
hard feeds, which are furrounded » ith a fungous jefl to lodge, or to be mildewed. Afi>limir'i Il-ijb.
1. A floor.
Futychus fell dnwn from the third Ufi. AUs,
(hingy fubftance. Militr. LoncE. ;../. [/iff;V, French.] There is a traverfe placed in a loft above. £a<on»
Lo'destâr. See Loapstar. 1. i\ fmall houfe in a park or foreft.
Lo'destonb. See Loadstone. He brake up his court, and retired himfelf, his
2. The
higheft floor.
To
him in his flumber foft,
lull
To Lodge, v. a. [Ionian, Saxony loger, wife and children, into a certain foreft thereby,
A trickling ftrcam from high rock tumbling down.
which he calleth his defart, wherein he hath btiilt
French.] And ever drizzling rain upon the loft,
two fine Wir«. Sidny.
1. To pl.ice in a temporary habitation. Mixt with a murmurijig wind. Fairy 0ueeii,
I found him as melancholy as a lodge in a war-
when he was cimie to the court of France, the
ren. Stak./pcirc. 3. Rooms on high.
king him by the name of the duke of York ;
ftilcd
Heand his lady both are at the lodg.; PaiTing through the fphcres of watchful fire.
luiged him, and accommodated him, in great ftate.
Upon the north fide of this pleafant cliaie. Shakef. And hilh of fnow, and lofrs of piled thunder. Jlfi/t.
if;!«»'l Henry VIJ.
Thus at their ihady lodge arriv'd, both ftood. A weafel once made (hift to (1 nk
2. To temporary dwelling; to
afford a Both tuin'd, and under open (ky ador'd In at a corn loft, through a chink. Pope,
fupply with harbour for a night. The God tliat made both Iky, air, e*rth. AfiV/su. Lo'ftily. ae/zi. [from lo//y.]
Ev'ry houfe was pr md to /iJj< a knight. DryJ. Wherever 1 am turned out, my liid£i defcends 1. On high ; in an elevated place.
3. To place
to plant.
;
upon a luw-fpirited family. i>v;it't. 2. Proudly; haughtily.
^Vhen on the brink the foam'ng boar I met. 2. Any fmall houfe appendant to a greater: They (peak wickedly concerning opprelSon:
And in his fide thought to have luig'il |ny ficar, as, the porter's lot/^f. tlicy fj^cak loftily, Pfal. Ixxiii. 8.
I
'
3. With
; ; ! !
LOG LOG L OL
3. With elevation of language or fenti- which one of the unlawful garnet enumerated
IS For your fake
ment fub)imely. ;
in the thirty-third ftatute of Henry VIII. It is Am I this patient logman. Shatrfpeare't TeiKpeJf.
the fame which is now called kittle-pins, in which Lo coMACHY.
My lowly verfc may hfti/y arife.
boys often make ufe of bones inftead of wooden
I
n.f. [xoyojA.ixxia.'] A Con-
And lift itlelf unco the higheit ikies. Fairy Slueeti. tention in words; a contention about
pins, throwing at them with another bone inftead
Lo'ft:ness. »./. [from /c/'y,] words.
of bowling. Hanmer.
1. Height; local elevation. Did thefe bones Forced terms of art did much puzzle facrcd'
no more the breeding, but
coft
2. Sublimity; elevation of fentiment. to play at loggali with them ? theology with diftinftions, cavils, quiddities; and
Shakijp. Hamlit.
Three poeta in three diftant aigcs born fo transformed her to a meer kind of fophiftry and
Lo'gcerhead. n./. [logge,'DaiQh,Jiupid,
The firft in hft'mtfi ot thought furpafs'd. logomachy. Hncel.
and head; or rather trom log, a heavy
The next in majeity in bjth the laft. Drydi
;
Lo'gwood. n.f.
3. Pride; haughtinefs.
motionlefs mafs, as bhckhead.\ A dolt; Logwood is of a very denfe and firm texture ; and
Auguftus and Tiberius had a blockhead ; a thickfcul. is the heart only of the tree which produces it. It
hftircfs enough in
their temper, and afield to make a fovcreign
Where hail been, Hal > is very heavy, and remarkably hard, and of a deep,,
figure- C'Mur.
—With three or four loggerheads, amongft three ftrong, red colour. It grows both in the Eaft and
or four fcore huglheads. Shakeffeare's Henry IV. Weft no where fo plentifully as on the
Indies, but
Lo'fty. [from left, or li/t.'[
adj.
Says this luggtrkead, what have we to do to coaft of the bay of Campeachy. Hill's Mat. Med.
1. High hovering ; elevated in place. quench other people's
;
fires ? h'EJirar.ge. To make a light purple, mingle ccrufewith log-
Cities of men with l-ifty gates and tjw'is. Miltm.
To fall !o Loggerheads. ) Tofcuffle; to tvood water. Peacham.
See lefty Lebanon bis head advance,
See nodding forelh on the mountains dance. Pope. To ^0 /o Loggerheads. J fight with- Lo'hock. n.f.
t 2. Elevated
Thus
ii» condition or character.
faith the high and lofty One. Ij'aiah.
out weapons.
A coupleof travellers that took up an afs, fell
Loboci
dicines
is
which
an Arabian
are
lambativcs, or linftufes.
name for thofe forms of me-
now commonly called eclegmas,
to loggerheads which fliould be his matter. Sairry..
3. Sublime; elevated in lentiment. VEfir.
Lohocks and pcflorals were prcfcribed, and vene-
He knew Lo'ggerheaded. adj. [from Itiggerhead.]
feftion repeated. Ifijeman's Surgiry.-
Himfclf to fing, and build the lofty rhime. Milton. Dull; llupid; doltilh. Loi-N. n.f. [llivyn, Welfli,]
4. Proud ; haughty. You loggerheaded and unpolilh'd groom, what
1. The back of an animal carved out by
The eyes of the hfiy (hall be humbled.
no attendance ? Shakejpcare's Taming of the Shrcvj.
Ifaiah.
LO'GICK. the butcher.
Lofty and four to them that lovd him not n.f. [logique, French ; logica,
But to thofe men that fought him, fweet as fummer. Latin, from >,i-/i,;.J The art of reafon- 2. Loins; the reins.
Shakcfpfare. ing. One of the feven fciences. My face I'll grime with fifth,
Man, the tyrant of our fex, I hate,
Logiei the art of ufing reafon well in our en-
is
Blanket my loins. King Lear,-
Shake/peace's
A lowly fervant, but a lofty mate. Drytlen. quiries after truth, and the communication of it
Thon (lander of thy hea-vy mother's womb !
Log. [Ihe original of this word

». /. Thou loathed ilTue of thy father's liins ! Shaiefft-
to others. IVaits\ Logick.
Virgin mother, hail
is not known. Siinaer derives it from Talk kgick with acquaintance.
High in the love of Heav'n yet from my loins^
Jijân, Saxon, to lie Junius from And praSife rhetorick in your common talk. !
; Thou (halt proceed, and from thy womb the Son

Dutch, fluggifli Shakefpeare. Of God tnoft high.
; perhaps the Milton's Paradife Lojl.
'»^^f. By a logick that left no man any thing which he
Latin, lignum, the true original.]
is
might call his own, they no more looked upon it
A
multitude like which the populous north
!
1. A (hapeiefs bulky piece of wood. as the cafe of one man, but the cafe of the king-
Pour'd never from her frozen loins, to pafs
Rhene, or the Danaw, when her b.ubarous ^bns
Would the lightening had •ion'' Clarendon.
Eumt up thofe hgt that thou'rt injoin'd to
Came hke a deluge on the fouth. Milton.
pile. Here foam'd rrbrllious logick, gapg'd and bound,
Shakffpeare. There ftript fair rhetorick iangui/h'd on the ground, To LO'lTER. -v. n. [kteren, Datch.] To
The worms with many feet are bred under logs Pope. linger J to fpend time carelefsly;
, to
of timber, and many times in gardens, where no Lo gical. adj. [from Icgici.] idle.
%' ^'^- Bacon. 1. Pertaining to logick; taught in logick Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you are
Some log, perhaps, upon the waters fwam.
The heretick complained greatly of St. Auguf- to take foldiers up in the countries. Shakejpeare.
An ufelefs drift, which rudely cut within.
And hollowd, firft a floating trough became.
tine, as being coo full of logical fubtilties. Hooker. Whence this long delay ?
Thofe who in a logical difpute keep in general You /oirer, while the fpoils are thrown away. Dryd,
And cr. fs fome riv let paffaj' "i'd begin. Drydcn.
ttrms, would hide a fallacy. Dryden. Mark how he fpends his time, whether he un-
2. An Hebrew nieafure, which held a We ought not to value ourfelves upon our abi- aftivcly loiters it away. '
L6cke~
quarter of a cab, and confequently five- lity, in giving fubtile rules, and finding we have gone wrong, let us redeem the mif-
If
out logical
fixths of a pint. According to Dr. arguments, (ince it would be more pcrfeilion not take ; if we have loitered, ice us quicken our p»te,.
Arbothnot it was a liquid meafure, the to want them. and make the moft of the prefent opportunity.
Bahr.
feventy fecond part of the bath or 2. Skilled in logick J furnilhed with lo.- Rogers.
ephah, and twelfth part of the hin. gick. Lo'iTERER. »./. [fiota loiter.'] linger- A
Aman who fets up for a judge in criticifm, er ; an idler ; a lazy vvrttch ; one who
Calmet. Ihould have a clear and logical head.
A meat offering mingled with Addf.n. lives without bulinefs; one who is flug-
oil, and one hg of
Lo'gically.
oil- ad-v. [from logical.'\ Ac- gi(h and dilatory.
L.-V.
Logarithms. cording to the laws of logick. Give gloves to thy reapers a largcfs to cry,
». / [Ugariihmi, Fr.
How can hir old good man And daily to loiterers have a good eye. .'I'uffcr's Hafb^
[rayci and aV-Sfôf.
] With honour take her back again ? The poor, by idlcntfi orunthriftinefs, are riotous
Lciarhtnu, which are the indexes of the ratios
From hence I logically gather. fpcndcrs, vagabonds, and loiterers. Uayixiar<l.
of numbers one to another, were firft invented by
The woman cannot live with either. Trior. Where haft thou been, thou loiterer ?
Napier lord Merc ifon, a Scottifli baron, and a»-
ferwardi completed by Mr. Briggs, Savilian pro-
LocTciAN. ». / [lagiden. French; lo
Though my eyes clos'd, my arms have ftill been
open'd.
felibr at Oxford. They jre i ferics of artificial gitus, La:in.] A teacher or profeflbr of
To fearch if thou wert come.
rmibcrj contrived for tl:e expedition of calcula- Jogick a man Oiivay.
; verfed in logick. Providence would only enter mankind into the
tion, and proceeding in an arithmetical propor- If a man can play the true logician, and have
as ufeful knowledge of her treafures, leaving the rclt
tion, as the numbers they anlwer to do in a geo- well judgment as invention, he may do great
mat- to employ our induftry, that w; live not like idle
metrical one ; for inftance, «"•
o'»J4S6
I 4.z 32 64 8
7
16
123 256
g 9
5i«
If
guiflied
we may
from
.
believe our logicians,
other creatuies by Jie faculty of
all
man is
Bacon.
diftin-
loiterers and truants.
Ever liftlefs lort'rers, that attend
Mote,
Where the numbers above, beginning with (o),

No caufe, no truft, no duty, and no friend. P pe..
'"£'•'"• AMlijcn.
wn! arithmetically profortional, aie called Ugarithmt. Each (launch polemick ftuhborn as a rock. To LOLL. v. n [Of this word the ety-
T he addition and ("ubtraiîon of logarithms anfwers Each fierce logician ftill expelling Locke, mology is not known. Perhaps it might
to the multiplication au'l divifiun of the numbers Came wiiip and fpur. p^,-, Dunciad. be contemptuoufly derjved from Lllard,
they correfpond with ; and this faves an infinite deal A 1 gician might put a cafe that would fervc for
a name o.f great reproach before the re-
of uouble. In like manner will the extradlion of an exception. Utoift.
roots be performed, by difleOing the logari'tms of The Arabian phyficlans were fubtile men, and formation ; of whom one tenet was,,
inj numbers for the f()uarc root, and trifcfliiig moft of them Icgi. ins ; accordingly they have given thit all trades not ncce(l'<iiy to life are
thtm for the cubf, and fo on. liarrii, method, and died fubtilty upon tlieir author. Baker, unlawful.]
Lo'oOATS. n./, Lo'cMAN. n. f. [leg and man.] One To
I. lean idly ; to reft lazily againft aoy/
Lrg%att is the aacient name of a flay or game, wbofe bufinefs is to carry logs. thing..
S-
;
L O N L O N L O N
So btngs, anil lilli, and v/ttft U(>«o m«j fo He talked a long while, even till break of day. Perfia left for yoa
fliakct anU pulls mc. SLakeffitart't Owillt. jlfli, XX. The realm of Candahar for dow'r I brought.
He is not Ifllmg on < lewd lo\-c bcl, He was delirous to fee him of a long feafon. That /cn^-contended prixc for which you fought.
But on his knees .it medicsitisn. Skaktff, Kieht III> Lute, xxiii. Dryden.
Clofc by i fot'tly murm'ring ftrcam. 2. Not (hort: ufed of fpace. It may help to put an end to that long-t^tx*<ti
Where loll and dream.
lovers usil to Hudibrai- Emp'refs, the way i< ready, and not Icng. and unreafonable (jueliion, whether man't will b:
To on couches, rich with cytron fteds.
lull
Miltcn. free or no .'
Locke,
And Uy your guilty limbs in Tyrian beds. Drydm. Heav'n reftores
3. Having one of geometrical dimen-
iti
Void of care he IJis fupinc in ftatc, To thy fond wilh the long-e.xft&ti fliores. Pope.
And fions in a greater degree than either of
leaves his bufinefs to bedone by t'ate. Diydtn^ 3. In the comparative, it fignifiesfor more
But wanton now, and lolling at our eafe. the other.
time ; and in the fuperlaiive, for moft
We fuffer all the invet'rate ills of peace. DryJen. His branches became hrg becaufe of the waters.
time.
A lazy, lolling fort Kx.ikiel.
Of ever liftlefs lo'.t'rers. DuiKiad. We made the trial in a long neck'd phial left When flie could not Itnger hide him, ihe took
for him an ark of
bullruihes. Exodus, ii. 3.
2. To hatig out. Ufed of the tongue open at the top. Boyle.
EldeA parents fignifies either the eldcft men and
hanging out in wearinefs or play. 4. Of any certain meafure in length.
women that have had children, or thofc who have
The triple porter of the Stygian feat. Women eat their children of a fpan long.
kngejl had ilTue. Locke,
With lolling tongue lay fawning at thy feet. Dryd. Lam. ii. 20.
Thefe, dimenfions drew.
as a line, their long 4. Not foon.
With harmlcfs play amidft the bowls he pafs'd. Not long after there arofe againft it a tcm-
And with his klling t<>ngue alVay'd the talte. Dryd. Streaking the ground with fmuous trace. Milton.
peftuous wind. j1c!s, xxvii. 14.
The fig. tree fpreads her arms.
To LoLi.. 1/. a. To put out : ufed of the
Branching fo broad and l.ng. Milton. 5. At a point of duration far dillant.
tongue exerted. A
ponderous mace. If the world had been eicrnal, thofc would have
All juthors to the'r own defers arc blind j Full twenty cubits long, he fwings around. been found In it, and generally fpfead lottg ago, aad
Poft.
Hadfl thou but, Janus-like, a face behind, beyond the memory of all ages. Tillot/on,
5. Not foon ceafing, or at an end.
To fee the people, when fplay mouths they make. Sav, that you once were virtuous long ago ?
Man goeth to his long home. Ecclef. xii. ^.
To mark their fingers pointed at thy back. A frugal, hardy people. Pbitips's Britm.
Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy
Their tongues IdVd out a foot. Drydeni Ptrjius. 6. [For along; au long. Ft.] All along
days may be hrg upon the land. Exodus, xx. ii. ;
By Strymon's freezing ftreams be fat alone.
They open to therhfelves at length a way throughout : of time.
Trees bent their heads to hear himfing his wrongs,
fierce tygers couch'd around, and AZ/'i/ their fawn-
Up hither, under long obedience try'd. Milton. Them among
Drydi-n's firgil.
Him after long debate of thoughts revolv'd There man
of ripe and pcrfeft age,
<at a
ing tongues.
IrrefoUte, his final fentence chofc. Milton. Who did them meditate all his life long. Fairy S^,
LoMP. »./. A
kind of roundifli fi(h. Long and ceafelefs hifs. Milton. Some fay, th.it ever 'gainft that feafon comas.
Lone. ad)', [contijiied from a/<;»;.]
6. Dilatory. Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated.
1. Solitary ; unfrequented ; having' no Death will not be long in coming, and the cove- The bird of dawning fmgeth all night l^g.
company. nant of the grave is not fliewed unto thee. And then they fay no fpirit walks abroad :
Here the kne hour a blank of life difplays. Ecclus.xiv. 12. The nights are wholefome, then no planets ftiike.
Savage. 7. Tedious in narration. No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm.
Thus vaniHi fceptres, coronets, and balls, So hallow d and I'o gracious is the time. Sl>ak<Jp,
Chief maft'ry to dilTeft,
And leave you in /s^woods, or empty walls. Pofie. With long and tedious hivock, fabled knights. He fed me all my life long to this day.
Gemjis, xlviii. 15.
2. Single; not conjoined or neighbouring Milton.
Forty years long was I grieved with this genera-
to others. Reduce, my mufe, the wand'ring foog,
tion. Pf.ilms.
No Imt houfe in Wales, with a mountain and a A tale fhould never be too long. ' Prior,
rookery, is more contemplative than this court. 3. Continaed by fuccelTion to a great Long, at/'v. [^êlanx, a fault, Saxon ]
Pope. feries. By the fault by the failure. A word
;
Lo'neliness. n.f. [from ienely.] But firft a long fucceflion mull enfue. Milton. now out of ufe, but truly Englifh.
Longing ; Refpeilive and wary men had rather feek quietly
1. Solitude; want of company. 9. [From the verb. To long."]
their own, and wifli that the world may go well,
The huge and fportful affembly grew to him a defirous or perhaps long continued,
:
fo it be not hng of them, than wit!* pains and
tedious htttlwefs, efteeming nobody fincc Daiphan- from the difpofition to continue looking hazard make themfelves advifers for the common
tui was loft. Sidney.
at any thing defired. good. Jiooler.
2. Difpolition to folitude. Praying for him, and calling a long look that Maine, Blois, Poiftiers, and Tours are won
I fee
way, he faw the galley leave the purfuit. Sidney. away.
The myftery of your lonelinefs, and find
By ev'ry circumftance I know he loves ; Long all of Somerfet, and his delay. Shakefftare,
Your fait tears head. Shattjpeart.
Yet he but doubts, and parlies, and cads out Millrefs, all this coil is long of you. Shakejfx.ire.
Lo'nely. a*^'. [from /o»f.] Many a long look for fuccour. Dryden. If we owe it to him that wc know fo much, it
1. Solitary. 10. [in mufick and pronunciation.] Pro- is perhaps long of his fond adorers that we know fo
I go alone. little more. GUn<viltc.
trafted as, a long note ; a long fyllable.
:
Like to a dragon ; that his fen

lonily
To Long. German,
Makes fiar'd and talk'd of more than feen. Sbak.
Long adv. <i/. n. [gelangen, to
1. To a great length in fpace. aflc. Skinner.] 1o delire earneftly to
Why thus clofe up the ftars ;
That nature hung in heav'n, and fill d their lamps The marble brought, ere^s the fpacious dome. wilh with eagernefs continued withyir :
With evcrlafting oil, to give due light Or forms the pillars /i«^-cxtended rows. or after before the thing defired.
To the milled and hnily traveller? Miltin. On which the planted grove and penfile garden Krefti expeftation troubled not the land
Time has made you dote, and vainly tell grows. Prior. With any kngd for change, or better ftate. Shakcf.
Of arms imagin'd, in your h^tely cell. Dryden. 2. Not for a (hort time. And thine eyes ftall look, and fail with longing
2. Addifted to folitude. With mighty barres of /nffg-enduring brafs. for them. D.-ut. xxvlii. 32.
When, faireft princefs,

' Fairfax. If '"erft he wiflied, now he lorged fore. Fairfax.
You thus from the full court retire,
lonely When the trumpet foundeth long, they (hall The great mafter perceived, that Rhodes was
Love and the graces follow to your I'olitade. Rvtve. come up to the mount. Exodus, xix. 13. the place the Turkifli tyrant long<d aft^r. Knolles,
The martial Ancus If the report be good, it caufcth love.
Lo'nekess. n.y. [from /ffw.] Solitude; FurbilhM the rurty fword again, And longing hope, and well alTured joy. Davits,
diflike of company. Rcfum'd the /aBp-forgottcn (hicld. Drydm, His fons, who feek the tyrant to fuftain.
If of court life you knew the good, One of thefe advantages, which Corneille h.is And long for arbitr.iry lords again.
Vou would leave knenifi. Dnne. laid down, is the making choice of fome (ignal and He dooms to death defcrv'd. Dryden"! JEneid.
I can love her who loves knenrfs beft. Donne. whereon the a£lion of the play
tor.g-i:x\-«&ei day, Glad of the gift, the new-made warrior goes.
ho'KESOME, aJJ. [from /oM.] Solitary; is to depend. Dtyden. And arms among the Orecks, and longs for kc^mA
So ftood the pions prince unmov'd, and kng foes. Dry.lin.
difmal.
Su.lain'd the madricfs of the noify throng. Dryden. Elfe whence this plcafing hope, this fond dcfire.
You either tliuft the earth from reft difturb.
The mufe rcfumcs her /i.ni'-forgotten lays. This longing after immortality ? jiJdijon^s Cato,
Or roll around the heavens the folar orb
And love, teftor'd, his ancient realm fuAeys. There's the that binds you ;
tie
Elfc what a dreadful face will nature wear ?
Dryden. You long to call him father : M.rrcla's charms
How horrid will thcfc hncfinte feati appear ? Btackm.
No man has complained that you havedifcourfed W.-rk in your heart unfeen, and plead for C ito.
Long. adj. [long, French; /i>/;^«/, Latin.] tno long on any fubjeft, for you leave us in an j^ddifotis Cato,
t. Not fliorc : ufed of time. eagerncii of learning more. Dryden, Nicomedes longing fr herrings, wa< fupplifd
Wilh
1 ; ? '
L O N L O N LOO
wUh frea OBO by his cook, at i frest diBance
The
from the fea.
.AiuttMot.
2. circumference of the earth mea- Loo. tt./. A game at cards.
Through &ormy feas
fured from any meridian. A fecret indignation, that all thofe affeftions
of
I courted dangers, /w^V/^r death. PbWp!.
and I
Some of Magcllanus's company were the firft the mind (hould be thus vilely thrown away upon a 1
Lokcani'mitv. ». /. {hnganimitas, that did compafs tlie world through all the degrees hand at loo. Addfn.
of hngitiide. jikhot. In the fights of loo.
Latin ; longanimite , French.] Forbear- Pipe.
3. The diftance of any part of the earth Lo'oEiLY. adj. [hoky and like.] Awk-
ance; patience of ofFenfes.
It had overcome the patie^ of
to the eaft or weft of any place. ward cluinfy. ;
Job, as It did the To The
meelcncfs of Mofcs, and fureiy liad mailefcd conclude ;
of tlie farce was a grammar fchool,
plot
any Of hngituda, the mailer fetting his boys their leflbns, and a Lohily
but the longavimilj and lafting fufferance of God. what other way have we.
But to mark when and where the dark eclipfes be ?
country fellow putting in for a part among the
Vulgar Errours.
hr-jWii's
That innocent and holy matron had rather go
Donr.c. fcholars.
V EJlrange.
clad in the fnowy wHite robes of
meeknefs and /««-
His was the method of difcovering the hngiiudi Lo OBY. n.f. [Of this word the deriva-
by bomb veflils. Arbuih. atid Papers Mart. Scrib.
ganhr.ity, than in the purple mantle of
blood. tions is W/HK^r mentions /a//,
unfettled.
Hirjuri Evglir.ts leirs. 4. The pofition of any thing to eaft or German, foolip
, and "Junius, Uabe, 3;
Lo NGBOAT. B./ The largclt boat be-
weft.
clown, Welfli, which fecms to be the
longing to a ftiip. The longitude o{\ ftar is its diftance from tlie
true original, unlefs it come from hb.
firftpoint of numeration toward; the eaft, which
At the firft defwnt on ]
nance the landing in his hrgUiit.

fliore, he did counte- firrtpoint, unto the ancients, was the vernal cqui- A lubber ; a clumfy clown.
tyolton. ""*• The vices trace
They firft betray their mailers, and then, Broivn'i Vulgar Errcun.
when Longitu'dinal. From the father's fcoundrel race.
they find the veffel finking, fave themfcKes [from lorigilude adj.
in the
hngitudittal,
Who could give the k:l>y fuch airs
- ''"Si'O'":
L-Ef.ra„ge. French.] Meafured by Were they mafons, were they butchers
IvONGE viTY. ». /. {Isng.e'vui, the length; running in the longeft di- ? Sttift.
Latin. LocF. «./. That part aloft of the ihio
Length of life. reftion.
which lies juft before the chefs-trees, a's
That thofe are countries fuitable to the naturepf Longitudinal is oppofed to tranfverfe : thefe ve-
man, and convenient to live in, appears far as the bulk hsad of the caftle.
ficulae are diftendeJ,and their hngitudinal diame-
from the
l.nst'vay of the natives. Ry en Crca:,<.«. ters ftraitened, and fo the length
of the whole _ Sea Dia.
I he mftances of Imgmiij are chiefly
amongft mufcle /hortened.
chiyni.
To LooF. ni. a. To bring the (hip cloie
the abftemioui. Arbuthru m Almiatu Lo NCLY. adh. [from long.'] Longingly to a wind.
LONGI MAN0us.a<^\ \longuemttin,V itnc\i ; with great liking.
;
Lo'oFED. adj. [{-com aloof.] Gone to *
(ofigimanus.Laiin.] Longhandcd -Mafter, you look'd fo kngly on the maid. diftance.
; hav-
ing^lorg hands. Perhaps, you mark not what's the pith of all. I She once being hoft, Antony
_
The villainy of thisChriftian erceedcdthe perfe- Shakifpcare. Claps on his fea-wing, like a doating
, , mallard,
cution of heathens, whofe malice was
never fo krgi.
Lo NGSOME. adj. [from long.] Tedious Leaving the fight. Shr.k.fpcarc'i Ant. and Cleopatra.
;
man',u, as to reach the foul of their wearifome by To Look. v.
enemies, or to its length. n. [locan,
Saxon.]
extend unto the exile of tlieir elyfiums. They found
LO N G M E T R y
Bmon. the war fo churlift and lmgf<me, I. To diret^the eye to or from any ob-
I . „. / [lo„g„, and ^,ra^ ;
as theygrew then to a refolution, that, as long as
England ftood in ftate to fuccour thofe countries,
jeft: when
the prefent objeSl is men-
long.metrie, French.] The art or prac-
they fliould but confume themfelvcs tioned, the prepofition after look is ei-
tice of meafuring diftances. in an endlefs
""• ther en or at ; if it is abfent, we
Our two eyes are like two different Bacon I IVar ivitb Stain. \xitfor ;
ftations in When
h7<gmetry, by the affiftance of chiird by adverfe fnows, and beating if diftant, after : to was fometjmes
which the diftance rain, ufed
between two objefls is meafuted. We tread with wearied ftcps the hngfime plain. anciently for at.
Cheyr.t'sPhl Pr
LoNCiNG. n./. [from Icng.] . , Prior. Your queen died, (he was more worth fuch gazes
Earneft Lo NGSUFFERINC. adj. [long and/ufer- Than what you look on now. Sbahj. Winter\ Tale.
dehre; coriinual wifti.
Whenwithin (liort time I came to
ing.] Patient ; not eafily provoked. The gods look down, and tlie unnat'ral fcene
the deeree Th=y laugh at.
of uncertain wirhes, and that "T*^^
^°'^ God, merciful and gracious, long. Shahjpcare's Coryanus.
thofe wilhes grew Abimelcch
to unqu,et A«£;„g,, when I Suffering, and abundant in goodnefs. Exod. xxxiv. 6. looked out ai a window, and faw Ifaac.
would fix my thoughts
upon nothing, but that within
little varying they
Lo'ncsuffering. n. /. Patience of ., ,
Genefii.
ihould end with I'hiloclea.. /' offence Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me,
v ; clemency. fo
have a woman's hurhr. We that I am not able to look up. PJat. xl. n.
infer from the mercy
An
..id longfufferivg of He was ruddy, and of a beautiful countenance!
appetite that I am Cck
withal, Ood, that they were thcmfelves
fufficicntly fecure
Tofee and goodly to hok to.
great Heflor in the weed, of of his favour. 'jj
, Sam. xvi. , 2.
peace. Shoidf. The fathers fliaU not look
Lo KCTAiL. back lo their children.
°f and long
». / [Ung and tail.] Cut IT yerctniab.
hadJ looked
.
thofe uneafinefTes a canting term for one He . , , ,
wWrf;It d«n
*hKh r. i;'"?""'"'^^'
feels m .ts want
of, and longing,
tail : toiiai about on them with anger.
after or another. A
phrafe, I believe, taken
T-L n\ would Mark, iii.
from dogs, which belonging to men T he ftate eaft tlic eye, and Ixk about
Lo'ncinclv. /zô,. [Uca^ Icnghg.-^ Wi!h fee whether there were any head under whom
to
incelTant wifhes. not qualified to hu.nt, had their it
tails
To his firft bias A,^;,^/, he leans.
cut. Une devices of arching water without fpilling,
And radier would be great by
wicked
He maintain you like a gentlewoman.
will be pretty things to look on, but nothing
means.
— Aye, that I will come cut and longtail
under _ ,,
to health.
Bacon's Etjift.
LoNcsH. aJj. [from long.] Somewhat
the degree of a fqui re. Siahf.
Merry fVims of fT. Froth appears white, whether the fun
, .
be in the
long. Lo NOWAYS, ad'v. [This and many other meridian, or any where between it and
the horizon
words fo terminated are corrupted from and from what place foever the
beholders l.ak upon
LO'NGITUDE. „ / [/.,^,w.. French H'yl' on Colour,.
;
' "^'if':], Jn 'he longitudinal dir«aion. "'t. l
longitude, Latin.] >ii
1 hey U
. ,
rather wait the running of the
This idand ftands as a vail mole, which river dry
I. Length; thegreatefttJimenfion. longways, almoft in a
lies than uke pains to Lok about for a bridge.
parallel Unc to Naples.
The ancicnti did determine the
Ungiiudc of all Addijon on Italy. "Thus pond-ring, he hoVd under with
J f
'°"^^' '^- ''-'- '>
^^^^ Lo NGWINDED. adj. [long and w/W.J And
his ey«f'
:r.T:irfi^Lr faw the woman's tears. Dryd.
JCnigbf, Tale.
The variety of Long-breathed ; tedious. Bertran ; if thou dar'ft, look out
the alphabet was ia
r^rf. only; but the tljfa,«l
mere /iTJI" My fimil* you minded. Upon yon ilaughter'd hoft. Dr^/den's Spanijh
partTo^fTu^S Which, I confefs, is too Icngwindcd. cannot, without fomc ind'ignation,
Fryar.
Swift. 1
Lk on an
ot fohd bodies which multiplies all over Lo NGWISE. ad'v. [long and -wi/e.]
lU copy of an excellent original
much lefs can I
i
and over In j
a;a.n and overwhelm, the longitudinal direttion. behold with patience Virgil and
the fancy in a new Homer abufed to
abvf
» unfathomable number.
^ / They make a little crols of a quill,
hvywifc of
their faces, by a botching interpreter.
Drydin.
that p.irt of the quill which Intcllcilual beings, in their caiiftant
^Ztl "^"'l'
uniform aO.on
8"''.'»"°" !« inceffanT'and
by certain and eftablifted
^ hath the piih," and
croffwife of that piece of the quill after true fcilciiy, can fuffcnd
endeavours
this profecution in"-
laws ac witliout pith.
cord-ng to quantity particular cafes, tiil they have looked
J«^ce, that it
of matter and
cannot b. deftro, ed 1,or
Ww/of rt
He was laid upon two beds, the one
t . 1 Bacon* and informed thenitlves, whether
that
before tlicm *
particiiiaj
im joined thing he in their way to the main end.
hng^.fi unio the other, both which he filled /^cv
^""''' with Iheie may be
VoL.il. in his rwch
a book, conta'ining
piitures and difcourfc. capa'ojc to
delight and in-
^
ftrua
; . ; } ;
LOO LOO LOO

imCt him, wbich yet bctaty nerer tike tb< pilns being frugal in her principles, but various In the Lock nam for no enchanting voice, nor fetr
to Itdt incn. X^:kf, elTcfls thence ariGng. Cheyne. The bait of honied words. JUilien,
, Tort-ards thofe who commumcace their thoughts 8. To have any air, mien, or manner. DrownM in deep defpair,
in print, I cannot but Ixk with a friendly regard, look not big, nor (lamp, nor flare, nor fret,
Nay, He dares not oflS:r one repenting prayer •.
provided tlicre is no tendency in their writings to I willbe mailer of what is mine own. Shakeffeart. Amaz'd he lies, and fadly locks for death. Drjdtis,
vice. Addijoni Fmbo/der, What halle looks through his eyes ? mult with patience ail the terms attend.
I
A folid and fublHntial greatnefs of foul /tiks down So {hould \xhik that feems to fpcak things llrange. Till mine is call'd ; and that long lock'dfor day
with generous negled on the cenfuret and ap-
a SbakeJâre, Is Hill encumber'd with fome new delay. DryJeriw
plaufesof the multitude* j^dijon* Give your hand, and truft me you Itok well,
me This limitation of Adam's empire to bik lir.e,
I have nothing left but to gather up the rcliques will fave thofe the labour who would took for one
and bear your years very well. Sbakejf. Herry IV.
of a wreck, and look about me to fee how few Can thefe, or fuch, be any aids to us f heir among the race of brutes, but will very litcfc
friends 1 have left. Pi^ft to Sivi/t. Look they as they were built to /hake the world. contribute to the difcoveiy of one amongll men.
Tlie optick nerves of fuch animals as Ixk the Or be a moment to our enterprize ? Beti yonfon. Locke.
fame way with both eyes, as of men, meet before Though I cannot tell what a man fays ; if he 13. 7e Look /»/«. To examine; tofift;
they come into the brain ; but the optick nerves will be fincere, I may ealily know what be looks. to infpeft clofelyj to obferve narrowly*
of fuch animals as do not lock the fame way with CoJJier. His nephew's levies to him appear'd
bntl) eyes, as of fiflies, do not meet. Navtut't Oft, Angular, in loofe and
It will be his lot to lock To be a preparation 'gainft the Polack
3. To have power of feeing. licentious timet, and to becomeaby-wnrd. Atterk. But better loik'd into, he truly found
Fate kes tliy life lodg'd in a brittle glafs.
9. To form the air in any particular It was againft your highnefs. Sbakefpearc's HjmUt.
And lots it through, but to it cannot pafs. Dryd. The more frequently and naiTowly we took intt
manner, in regarding or beholding.
3. To
direfl the intelleflual eye. I welcome the condition of the lime. the works of nature, the more occafion we Iball
In repaid of our deliverance pad, and our danger Which cannot look more hidcoully on me. have to admire their beauty. Attcrbury,
prcfent and to come, let us Ink up to God, and Than I have drawn it in my fantafy. Shakiffeare. It is very well worth a traveller's while to toott
evcr\' man reform his own ways. Batons Ni^v AtU That which was the worft now leaft afHidls me :
into all that lies in bis way. Addij'on on Italy,
\Ve ate not only to look at the bare action, but at Blindncfs, for had I fight, confus'd with Hiamc, 14. ToLooKcw, Torefpeft; toefieem;
the rcafon of it. &t\lUngfieet. How could I once look up, or heave the head } to regard as good or bad.
The man only faved the pigeon from the hawk, Milton. Ambitious men, if they be checked in their
that h« might cat it bimfelf ; and if we k^k well Thefe took up to you with reverence, and would defiiet, become fecretly difcontent, and look upon
' about us, we fliall find this to be the cafe of moll
be animated by the fight of him at whofe foul they men and matters with an evil eye. Bacons Effays.
mediations. LÊJirangc, have taken fire in his writings. Sicifi to Pope. If a barmlefs maid
Tliey will not look beyond the received notions To
10. To Look about one. be alarmed ; Should ere a wife become a nurfe,
of tlie place and age, nor have fo prefumptuous a Her friends would took on her the worfe. Prior,
to be vigilant.
thought as to be wifcr than their neighbours.
Locke,
It will import thofe men who dwell carelefs to 15. To Look o«. To confider; to con-
look ahoiii them ; to enter into ferious confultation, ceive of; to think.
Every one, if he would took into himfelf, would
find fome defeft of his particular genius. Locke.
how they may avert that ruin. Decay of Piety. I looked on Virgil as a fuccinft, majellick writer
If you find a wailing of your flefli, then look one who weighed not only every thought, but every
Change a man's view (jf things j let hlra hok
about you, c.pecially if troubled with a cough. word and fyllable. Dryden.
into the future ftatc of blifs and mifcry, and fee
Harvey on Conjumptions. He hoked upon it as morally impofiible, for
God, the righteous Judge, ready to render every
man according to bis deeds. Locke. John's caufe was a good milch cow, and many perr>ns infinitely proud to frame their minds to an
a man fubfifted his family out of it however, impartial confideration of a religion that taught
4. To expeft.
John began to tliink it high time to look about
:
nothing but feif denial and the crofs. South,

If he long deferred the march, he mud hok Aibutbnoi's Iliftory of John Bull.
him. Do we not all profefs to be of tliis excellent re-
to fight another battle before he could retch Ox-
ford. Clarendon. 1 1 To Look To attend 5 to take
after. ligion ? but who will believe that we do fo, that
Jhall took upon the a£lions, and confider the lives of
To take care to watch. care of; to obferve with care, anxiety,
5 . ;
the gteatcft part of Chriftians Tdlotfon,
.'
Look that ye bind them fall. Sbakejfeare. or tendernefs.

In the want and ignorance of almoll all things,
He that gathered a hundred bufhels of apples, Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for
they loikid upon themfelves as the bappiell and
bad thereby a property in them : he was only to looking after thofe things which are coming on tlie
wileft people of the univcrlie. Locke.
Icok that he ufed them before they fpoiled, elfe he earth. Luke.
Thofe prayers you make for your recovery are to
robbed others. Locke, Politenefs of manners, and knowledge of the
be looked upon as bell heard by GoJ, if they move
6. To be direfled with regard to any ob- world, fliould principally be looked after in a tutor.
him to a longer continuance of your ficknefs.
Locke on Education.
jeft. ffâke's Preparation for Death,
Let thine eyes lo^k right on, and let thine eye-
A
mother was wont to indulge her daughters,
16. To Look on. To be a mere idle
when any of them defircd dogs, fquirrels, or birds
fids h'.k ftraight before thee. Frrv. iv. 25.
but then they mud
be fure to look diligenily after fpeclator.
7. To have any particular appearance ; to them, that they were not ill ufed. Locke. I'll be a candle-holder, and look en. Shekefpeare,
feera. fubjedl does not oblige me to lock after the
My Some come to meet their friends, and to make
took the wayI water, or point forth the place whereunto it is now merry come only to lock on.
; others Bacon,
Which through a path, but fcarcely printed, lay ; retreated. . JVoodivard.
17. To hooYi over. To examine ; to try
And laok'd as lightly prefs'd by fairy feet. Drydtit. 12. To Look /or. To expett. one by one.
That fpotlefs modefty of private and publick Phalantus's difgrace was cngrievcd, in lieu of Look o'er the prefent and the former t'ime«
tlfe, that generous fpirit which all other Chriftians
comfort, of Artefia, who teUing him ftie never If no example of fo vile a crime
ought to labour after, Oiould kok in us as if they looked for other, bade him feek foroe other millrefs. Appears, then mourn. Drydcn's fuvenal,
were natural. Sfratl. Sidney. A young child, diftrafled with the variety of
Piety, as it is thought a way to the favour of
Being a labour of fo great difficulty, the cxaft his play-games, tired his maid every day to loett
God ; and fortune, as it looks like the cft'eft either performance thereof we may rather wiih than took them truer. Locke,
of that, or at lealt of prudence and courage, birget Hooker.
authority.
for. 18. To Look out. To fearch ; to feek.
Timfle. Thou When the thriving tradefman has got more
Cowards are ofTenfive to my fight Shalt feel our juftlce, in whofe eafiell paffage
Kor they fee me do an a£t that Ixh
Ihall
than he can well employ next thoughts
in trade, his
Look for no lefs than death. Sbakejp. tVir.icr's fate. are to look out f >r a purchafe. Locke.
Below the courage of a Spartan king. Dryitn. If we fin wilfully after that we have received the
To complain of want, and yet refufe all offers Where the b.^dy is affected with pain or fick-
knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more nefs, we aie forwatd enough to look out for reme-
of a fupply, /i»iii very fullcn. Burnet. facrificc for fins,but a certain fearful looking for of dies, to lillcn to every one that fuggefts them, and
Should i publiHi any favours done me by your Heb. x.
judgment. immediately to apply them. Atterbury.
lordfliip, 1 am afraid it would look mote like vanity In dealing" witlj cunning perfons, it is good to
than gratitude. Addt;an.
Whtre a foreign tongue !a elegant, expreflive,
fay lit: e to them, and that which they leaft look
.Something very noble may be difcemcd, but and compa£l, we mud lock out for words as beau-
for. Bacon's EJJiiys.
Uoktih cumberfome. .tiful and cotnprehenfive as can be found.
it Felicn or, the Clajficki.
This millake was not fuch as tliey looked for Felton on the Clafficks,
Late, a faJ fpe£tacle of woe, he trod and, though the error in form feemej to be con-
The defart fands, and now he curious are locking cut, fome for flattery,
The
Pope.
looks a god.
fented yet the fubilance of the accufation
to,
From the vices and follies of others, obfervc how fome for ironies, in that poem ; the four folks
might be ilill infifted on. Clarendoii.
think they have found out fome. Stuft,
fuch a praOlce his in anothrr perlbn, and re-
and unnecelTary fcruples in
Inordinate anxiety,
fneinber that it lo^kt as 111, or worfc, in yourfelf.
confeflion, inftcad of fetting you free, which is 19. To Look cut. To be on the watch.
ffatts. Is a man bound to look tut &arp (0 plague him-
the benefit to be letked for by confeflion, perplex
Thii fflaJus it lotk tbe more like truth, nature felf? Collur.
yoa the more. Taylor.
It ao. Ta
; ; : ;
L O O LOO LOO
To Lo'oKER. »./ [from look.] Make me to fee't, or atleaft fo prow it,
so. To Look /». watch ; to take care
That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop,
of. 1. One that looks. To hang a doubt oh. Shakefpeare'i OthcUot
There not a more fearful wild fowl than your
is 2. Looker on. Speftator, not agent. Bind our crooked legs in hoops
lion living and we ought to hok to it. Shakefpeare,
; Shepherds poor pipe, when his harlfa found tefti-
Made of with
Ihells filver loops, Ben Jonfon.
Who knocks fo loud at door ? fics anguilh, into the fair looker on, paftime not
An old fellow ftiall wear this or that fort of cut
isoi t3 the door there, Francis. Shaitfpiarc. paflion enters. Sidney.
in his cloaths with great integrity, while ail the
htl this fellow be haksd to i l<t fome of my peo- Such labour then more necclTary than plea,
is
red of the world are degenerated into buttons,
ple have a fpccial care of hirt» Shakcjpeare* fant, both to them which undertake it, and for pockets, and loop;. Addison.
Uncleanly fcruples fear not you ; h(,k to't. the lookeri on. Hooker.
Lo'oPED. adj. [from hop.] Full of holes.
Skakefpeare* My bufinefs in this ftate
Poor naked wretches, whcrefo'er you are.
Know the ftate of thy flocks, and hok well to thy Made me a looker on here in Vienna
That 'bide the pelting
of this pitilcfs ftorm !
herds. Provtrbi, xxvii. 33. Where I have (zen corruption boil and bubble
When came once among our people, that the
How your houfclefs heads and unfed fides,
(hall
it Till it Shaktfp. Mei'f. for McaJ.
o'er-run the ftcw.
'i'our hop d and window'd raggednefs, defend yoa
ftate oSered conditions to ftrangers that would ftay, Did not this fatal war affront thy coaft.
From feafons fuch as thefc ? SLakcfp. King tear.
we had work enough to get any of our men to Yet fatteft thou an idle looker on ? Fairfax.
look to our fliip. Bacon. The Spaniard's valour lieth in the eyes of the Lo'oPHOLE. »./. [loop and hole.]
If any took fanfluary for cafe of treafon, the boker en ; but the Englilh valour lieth about the I. Aperture hole to give a paffage.
;
king might appoint him keepers to look to him in foidier's heart : a valour of glory and a valour of The Indian herdfman ihunninghcat.
fanftuafy. £aan> natural courage are two things. Bacon. Shelters in cool, and tends his pafturing herds,
The dog's running away with the flerti, bids the The people love him ;
At loofhoLi cut through thickcit (hade. Milton.
cook lo.k better to it another time. LÊJirar.ge. The Icckers on, and the enquiring vulgar. Ere the blabbing Eaftern fcout.
For the truth of the theory 1 am in no wife con- Will talk tbemfeives to adlion. Denlam's Sophy. The nice morn on the Indian fteep.
cerned ; the compofer of it mud look to that. He wilh'd he had indeed been gone, From her cabin'd Imphole peep. Milton,
Woodward, And only to have flood a lo:ker on. Addljon^s 0-vU. Walk not near yon corner houfe by night ; for
21. To Look to. To behold. Looking-glass a. /. [look and gla/s.] there are biunderbud'es planted in every loophole,
tliat go off at the fqucaking of a fiddle.
To Look. <i>. a. Mirror ; a glafs which Ihews forms re-
Dydeni Spanijh Fryar.
I . To feck to fearch for.
; flefted.
A
Looh'mg my
go from place to place, Command
z. fhift ; an evafion.
love, I a mirror hither ftraight,
Needlefs, or needful, I not now contend.
Like a young fawn that late hatii loll the hind. That it may Ihew me what a face I have.
For ftill you have a loophole for a friend. Drydcn,
And feek each where. Spenfir, —.Go I'omc of you and fetch ilook'wg-gLifs. Shah.
Z. To turn the eye upon. There is none fo homely but Xova nlooking-glap. Lo'oPHOLED. adj. [from loophole.] Full
Let us look one another in tire face. SMb. of holes ; full of openings, or ».jid fpaces.
I fCitigs, xlv. 8. We Ihould make no other ufe of our neighbours This uneafy loophoPd gaol.
than of a looking-glafs to mend our own
3. To influence by looks. faults,
manners by.
In which y' are hamper'd by the fctlocKJ
Such a fpirit mull be left behind L''EJ}range. Cannot but put y' in mind of wedlock. Htidihras,
!
A fpirit The furface of the lake of Nemi is never rulfled

fit to ftart into an empire,
with tile kail breath of wind, which perhaps, to-
LooRD. n. f. [herd, Dutch; lourdant,
And look the world to law. DryJen'i Cltomcnet.
French
gether with the cleamcfs of its waters, gave it lurdan, Erfe
; ; a heavy, llupid,
4. To Look out. To difcover by fearch-
name of Diana's looking-glafs. AJdiJon.
formerly the or witlefs fellow. D. Trevoux de-
ing Loom. [from glomus, a bottom of
n. /. rives lourdant from Lorde or Lourde,
Calling my eye upon fo many of the general bills
as nextcame to hand, I found encouragement from
thread. Minjheiu. Lome is a general a village in Gafcoigny, the inhabitants
them to hoi out all the bills I could. Graunt. name for a tool or inHrument. Juniui.] of which were formerly noted robbers,
Whoever has fuch treatment, when he is a The frame in which the weavers work fay they. But dexterity in robbing,
man, will look out other company, wjtb whom he their cloth. implies lome degree of fubtilty, from
can be at eafe. Locke, He muft leave no uneven thread in his loom, or which the Gafcoigns are fo far removed,
Look, intirj. [properly the imperative by indulging to any one fort of reprovcable dif-
that they are awkward and heavy to a
mood of the verb it is fometimes look : courfe bimfdf, defeat all his endeavours againll
See the rctl. Government of the Tongue.

proverb. The Erfe imports fome de-
ye.'] lo behold ! obferve !
! !
Minerva, ftudious to compofe gree cf knavery,

but in a ludicrous
Lcckt where he comes, and my good man too ;
Her twifted threads, the web ihe ftrung. fenfe, as in Englilh, you pretty rogue ;
he's as far from jealoufy as I am from giving him
taufc. Skakcjptare.
And of marble hung.
o'er a loom Addifon. though in general it denotes reproach-
Look you, he mud fecm thus to the world: A thoufand maidens ply the purple l:':in,
ful heavinefs, or ftupid lazinefs.—
fear not your advancement. Shakrfpiart.
To weave the bed, and deck the regal rootn. Prior.
Spen/er's Scholiaft fays, hord was wont,
Lock, when the world hath fewcft barbarous To Loom. i;. ». [leoman, Saxon. J To
people, but fuch as will not marry, except they appear at fea. Skinner,
among the old Britons, to fignify a lord
know means to live, as it is almoll every where and therefore the Danes, that ufurped
Loom. a./. A bird.
It this day, except Tartary, there is no danger of
A km is as big as a goofe; of a dark colour,
their tyranny here in Britain, were
inundations of people. Bacon' 1 Ejjayi. dappled with white fpots on the neck, back, and called, more dread than dign-ity,
for
Lo-jk you we that pretend to be fubjcft to a
I
wings i each feather marked near the point with lurdani, lord Danes, who.'e info-
i. e.
conllitution, muft not carve out our own quality
two fpots : they breed in Farr Ifland. Grciv'tMuf.
for at this rate a cobler may make liimfclf a lord. lence and pride was fo outrageous in
Loon. »/. [This word, which is now this realm, that if it fortuned a Briton
Cotliir on Pr'ult.
ufed only in Scotland, is the Englifli
Look. /. ». to be going over a bridge, and faw the
I. Air of the face; mien; call of the
word /oTua.] forry fellow ; a fcoun- A Dane fet foot upon the fame, he muft
drei ; a rafcal.
countenance. return back till the Dane was clean
Thou cream-fac'd /oin.'
Thou cream-fac'd loon. over, elfe he muft abide no kfs than
Where got'ft thou that goofe look? Shakcfp. Mac,
Where got'ft thou that goofe Ink f Slakefpcare. prefent death but being afterwards ex-
The fall'c loon, who could not work his will :
Thou wilt fave the affltfied people, but will

By open force, employ'd his flatt'ring (kill pelled, the name of lurdane became fo
bring down high locki. Pjal. xviii. 27.
I hope, my lord, faid he, I not offend odious unto the people whom they had
Them gracious Heav'n for nobler enda d«6gn'd. j
Are you afraid of me

that are your friend ? Dry Jen.
long opprefled, that, even at this day,
Their If.ks at&ti, and their clay refin'd.
This young lord had an old cunning rogue, or,
y. Dryjen, juti.
as the Scots call a falfc Ixit of a grandfather,
it,
they ufe for more reproach to call the,
And though death be the king of terrors, yet
quartan ague the fever lurdane.
pin, difgrace, and poverty, have frightful /mIi, able
that one might call a Jack of all trades. So far
"to difcompofe molt men. Locke.
Arhuthnot's Ilijlory of John Bull. the Scholiaft, but erroncoufly. From
a. The aft of looking or feeing. LOOP. n./. [from kojien, Dutch, to run.] Spenfer'i own words, it fignifies fome-
Then onthe cioud he cad a furious look, A double through which a ftring or thing of ftupid dulncfs rather than ma-
Arii wither'd all their ftrcngth. Drvden. lace is drawn; an ornamental double giftcrial arrogance. Macbean.] drone. A
When they met they made a furly (land, or fringe. Siker, thou's but a lazy hord.
And glar'd, like angry lions, as they pafs'd.
Nor any Hcill'd in loopt of fing'ring fine. And rckes much of thy fwinke,
And wifii'il that cv'ry Uk might be their lail. Might in their diverfc cunning ever daie That with fond terms and witlefs words
Drydcn. With this, tij curious network, to compare. Spcnjcr. To blcer mine eyes do'ft think. Spenfer'sPafiorals,
la To
LOO LOO LOO
Ta Loosr. V. a. [lefan, Saxon.] concern, and to be fo Uoji tji the dofea of power, lyrielci, «s if there were no «onneftion in tb«
ful medicines. Arbulhv.K, world. F.-lton on the Claffickt.
1. To unbind ; to uncie any thing faften-
cd.
8. Not (lri£l; not rigid. 2, Difmiflion from any reftraining force.
Becaufe confcience, and the fear of fwerving Air at large maketh no noife, except it be
The (boes of his feet I am not worthy to /afc.
from that which is right, makcth them diligent fliarply pertulTed ; as in the found of a ftring,
obfervers of circumftances, the loojt regard whereof where air is perculfed by a hard and ~ftiff body, and
Can'ft thou Ixft the bands of Orion ? yoi.
is the nurfe of vulgar folly. Hooter. with a Iharp loofe. Baccitt
Who is worthy to Iccfe the fcals thereof?
iin'. V. ^. 9. Unconneded ; rambling. Lo'osELY. adv. [from /co/e.]
dare venture nothing without a drift eiamina-
This is to cut the knot when wc cannot li»fe it.
I
1. Not fait ; not firmly ; eafily to be dif<
Burtut, tion y and am as much aOiamcd to put a /o'^fe indi-
gclled play upon the publick, as to ofier brat's mo-
engaged.
2. To r^lax.
ney in a payment. Dryden,
I thought your love eternal : was it ty'd
The joints of his loins were letfeJ. Danitl. So that a quarrel could divide I
lofe.'y, DryJtn-
Vario fpends whole mornings in running over
3. To unbind any one bound. loojt and unconnefted pages, and with frelh cu-
2. Without bandage.
lM>ff him, and bring him to me. Luki.
riofity is ever glancing over new words and ideas, Her golden locks for haftc were lotfely Ihed
4. To free from impn'fonment. and yet treafui*es up but little knowledge. About her ears. Fairy Sûeerit
The captive btileneth that lie may be !odJs^. Watti on the Mind, 3. Without union or connedlion.
Ijmah. Lax of body not coilive. Part wing the region, part more wif«
10. ; loofely
He and fet at liberty, four or five kings
loojci,
What hath a great influence upon tlie health, In common, rang'd in figure, wedge their way.
of the people of that country, tliac Berolc kept in is going to ftool regularly : people that are very Milton,
chains. Abbot,
loojt have feldom ftrong thoughts, or flrong bodies. He has within himfelf, all degrees of perfeftion
j;. To free from any obligation. Locke on Education, that exirt loofly and fepurately in all fecond beings.
Art thou hojed from a wif« feek not a wife. Norrilt
?
11. Difengaged ; not enflaved.
1 Connlh'uim* 4. Irregularly.
Their prevailing principle is, to fit as looje from
6. To free from any thing that fliackles plcafures, and be as moderate in the ufe of them, Abifliop, living loofely, was charged that his
converfation was not according to the apoftles lives.
the mind. as they can. Aitabury.
Ay ; there's the man, who, /wtV from lull and 12. Difengaged from obligation : com- CamdcHt
pelt",
monly with /rew in the following line 5. Negligently; carelefsly.
;
Lcfs to the pretor owes than to himfelf. Dry den. Wc have not hofely through filence permitted
with of. things to pafs away as in a dream.
jl To free from any thing painful. Now I (land
Hooter.
Woman, tliou art hcfed from thy infirmity. The chiming of fome particular words in the
Loojtofmy vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts? memory, and making a noife in the head, feldom
Luh. Addifon, happens but when the mind is lazy, or very ioofeiy
8. To difefigage.
13. Free from confinement. and negligently employed.
When heav'n was nam'd, they /oosV their hold Lode.
They did not let prifoners /w/; homeward. 6. Unfolidly meanly without dignity.
again. ; ;
Then fprurg Ihe forth, they foilow'd her amain. Wifli the wildeft tempefts /oofei
J/aiab,
A prince ihould not be fo hefely ftudied, as to
Drydsn. remember fo weak a compofition. Sbakeffeare.
That thrown again upon the coalt,
7*9 Loose, v. n. To fet to depart 7. Unchailely.
fail ; may once more repeat my pain.
1 Prior,
The ftage how loofely does Aftraja tread.
by loofing the anchor. 14. Remils; not attentive.
Ye fhould have hearkened, and not have lotfid
Who fairly puts all charaAers to bed ? Pope,
15. To ireai Loose. To gain liberty. To
from Crete. ACli. If to treat from the condutl of rcafon, and
loofe
Lo'osEN. <i/. a. [from loo/e.l To
The emperor loofing from Barcelona, came to the to want that reftraint of examination which keeps part ; to tend to feparation.
port of Mago, df Minorca.
in the ifland
Knollcs.
as from chufing the worfe, be liberty, madmen and When the polypus appears in the throat, extradV
LoDfng thence by n'tghc, they were driven by fools are only the freemen. Lycke, it that way, it being more ready to Uofen whea
contrary winds back into his port. Raltigk. pulled in that direfiion than by the nole.
Like two black ftorms on either hand.
Loose, adj. [from the verb.] Our Spani/h army and the Indians liand ; Sharps i Surgery.
I. Unbound ; untied. This only fpace betwixt the clouds is clear. To Lo'osEN- v. a. [from loo/e.'\
If he fliould intend his voyage towards my wife, Where you, like day, bnie loofe from both appear. 1. To relax any thing tied.
I would turn her lonje to him ; and what he gets Dry den. 2. To make lefs coherent.
more of her than Aiarp words, let it lie on my 16. To let Loosu. To fet at liberty ; to After a year's rooting, then /baking doth the
held. Stiiii-ffi-are. fet at large to free from any rellraint. tree good, by loofening of the e^rth. Bacon's
,
; Nat. H.
Lo! I fee fourmen Uofe walking. Dan. iii. 25. And the living bird into the open
let leofi field. 3. o feparate a compages.
I
I. Not fart ; not fixed. Lev, xiv. From their foundation loofirg to and fro.
Th tfe few that claihed might rebjund after the Wc ourfelves make our fortunes good or bad j They pluck'd the feated hills with all their load.
coUihcn or if tliey cohered, yet by the next
; and when God Utt loofe a tyrant upon us, or a Milton.
Conflict migiit be fcparatzd again, and fo vOn in an ficknefs, if wc fear to die, or know not to be pa- She breaks her back, the loofn'd fides give way,
eternal viciffitude of faft and Uofe, though without tient, the calamity fits heavy upon us. Toylor, And plunge thc'i'ufcan foldlers in the fea. D'rydnn
ever confociating into the bodies of planets. In addition' and divifion, cither of fpace or dura-
Sin:/iy. 4 To free from reftraint.
tion, it is the number of its repeated additions
It refilves thofe dilBcult!es which the rules be-
3. Not tight as, : a Ue/e robe. or divifions that alone remains dillin^fl, as will
get; it kcf.iii his hands, aud alfil^s his underfland-
Not crowded not clofe. appear to any one who will let liis thoughts h.fe in
4. ; ing. Drydens Dufrefnoy,
With extended wings might ' the vaft cxpanfion of fpace, or divifibiiity of mat-
a hoft pafs.
ter. Locke,
5. To make not coftive.
With borfe and chariots rank'd in locfe array.
Fear loofcnetb the belly becaufe the heat re-
Jlfilton.
If improvement cannot be made a recreation, ;
tiring towards the heart, the guts are relaxed, in

they muft be let kcfe to the chiidirti play they
5. Wanton ; not challe. the fame manner as fear alfo caufcth trembling.
fancy ; which they Ihould be weaned from, by be-
Fair Venus feem'd unto hit bed to bring Btti on's Natural Hificry,
ing made furfeit of it. Locke.
Her, whom lie waking cvcrmo.c did ween
To be the charted flower that ay did fpring Loose. »./. [from the verb.] Lo'osENESS. a./ [from /flu/^.J
On earthly branch, the daughter of a king, I. Liberty; freedom from reftraint. :. State contrary to that of being faft or
Now
When
a /ooyi-
looj'e
leman to vile fcrvice
epiftljs violate challe eyes,
bound. Fairy ^ And
Come, and
all
forfak^tliy cloying ftore.
the bufy pageantry
fixed.
Thecaufe of the carting of (kin and Aell flibuld
She half confents wlio lilently denies. Uryden's Ov. That wife men fcorn, and fools adore : feem of the {km or Ihell, rh»t
to be the loofr.eft
6. Not clofe ; not concife ; lax. Come, givcthy foul a loofe, and tafte the plcafures ftickcth not clofe to the flelh. Bacon': Nat, Hifl,
If an author be lotje and dlftufo in his ftlle, the of the p jor. Dryden's Horace,
2. Latitude; criminal levity.
tranflator needs only regard the proprjet)- of the Lucia, might big fwoln heartmy A general liofrncfs of princ'»es and manners
language. _ Fthon. Vent and give a Irofe to forrow,
all its griefs,
^ hiith feiaed on' us like a pcrtilence, that waiketh
Vague indeterminate Marcia could anfwcr thee in fighs. Addifon's Celt,
7. ; ; not accurate. not in darknefs, but wafteth at noon-day. Atterh.
It is bu( a loott thing to fpeak of poffibilities,
The fiery I'egafus difdains
To mind the rider's voice, or hear the reins; 3. Irregularity; negledl of laws.
without the particular dcfigns ; fo is it to fpeak of
When glorious fields and opening camps he views, He endeavoured to win the common people,
lawfulneb without the particular cafes. Bacon,
He runs with an unbounded loofe. Prior. both by ftrained curtcfy and by hofcnefi of life.
It fucms unai.c^>uniab!e to be fo cxaft in the
Poets Ihould not, under a pretence of imitating Hiiyward.
quantity of liquor wheis a linall error was of little
the ancients, give themfelves fuch a lioft in 4. Lewdnefs ; unchaftity.
Courtly
;; ! ; ; !
L O Q. LOR LOR
Too great kjuaciiy, and too great taciturnity by Though dukes they be, to dukes I fay,
k' Courtly court he made ftill to his dame,
Arbuthmt. That pride will have a fall. Swift.
I'our'd out in Imfinefs on the Brafly ground,
(its.
Both carelefs of his health and of his fame. Sfci'fcr. LORD. n.f. [)3lapopb, Saxon.] Lo'rdling. n.f. A diminutive lord.
Trauhis, of amphibious breed.
r. Diarrhoea; flux of the belly. 1. Monarch; ruler; governour.
By the dam from lordlings fprung,
Taking cold moveth /onfentfi by contrafllon of Man over man
By the fire exhal'd from dung. Swift.
the (kin and outward parts. Baccn^s Nat. Hiftory. He made not hrd. Milton.
In pcftilent difeafes, if they cannot be expeiied Of Athens he was Dryden i Kmgbt's TaU:
lord. Lo'rdlinkss. n.f. [from lordly.}
by fweat, they fall likewife ir\t^hcfcnrfs. Bacon. We have our author's only arguments to prove, 1. Dignity; high ftation.
Fat meats, in phlegmaticlc f.omachs, procure that heirs are lords over their brethren. Locke. Thou vouchfafeft here to vifit me.
tx'nt'fs and hinder recincion. They call'd their lord Aftaeon to the game. Doing the honour of thy hrdlinefs
Lo'osESTRiFE. n.f. \lyfimachia, Latin.] He (hook his head in anfwer to the name. AJd'ifon, To one fo weak. Shakcfpeare's Antony and CleDpat.
Miller. O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, 2. Pride haughtinefs.
An herb. Uncontjuer'd lord of pleafure and of pain.
;
To LOP. 'V. a. derived by Skinner

[It is Lo'rdly. adj. [from lord.}
Carity of Human Wijhei.
from lauie, German, a leaf.] 1. Befitting a lord.
2. Matter ; fupreme perfon. them.
Lordly (ins require lordly eftates to fupport
1. 1/5 cut the branches of trees. But now I was the lord South.
Centlc niece, what ftern ungentle hands Of this manfion, mafler of my fervants.
fair
2. Proud; haughty imperious ; infolent.
Have hffd and hew'd, and made thy body bare Queen o'er myfelf ; and even now, but now. ;
Of her two branches, thofe fweet ornaments This houfe, thefe fervants, and this fame myfelf Bad as yourfelf, my Lord ;
Sbakcjfiare, An't like your lordly lord protcdtorfhip Shakejp.

Are yours, my lord.
!
Sbakcfp. Mcrch. of y'enicc.
Of me as of a common enemy.
Like to pillars.
3. A
tyrant ; an opprelTive ruler.
So dreaded once, may now exafperate them,
Or hollowM bodies, made of oak or fir. Now being alTembled into one company, rather
With branches I'ff'd in wood, or mountain feli'd. I know not : lords are krdl'ieji in their wine.
without a Urd than at liberty to accompliih their Milton.
Milun. H.iyivard.
mifery, they fail to divifion.
The plants, whofc luxury was hpp'd. Expeft ancither me(rage more imperious.
'Tis death to (ight, but kingly to controul
Or age with crutches uaderprop'd. CUavttar.d. More lordly thund'ring than thcu well wilt bear.
Lord-iikt at eafe, with arbitrary pow'r. Milton.
The oak, growing from a plant to a great tree, To peel the chiefs, the people to devour. Dryden.
Lciie. Ev'ry rich and krdly fwain.
and then kffcd, is ftiil the fame oak.
The hook (he boie, inftcad of Cynthia's fpear.
4.' A hiilband. With pride wou'd drag about her chain. Swift.
I oft in bitternefsof foul dcplor'd
To l.f the growth of the luxuriant year. Bife, Lo'rdly. adv. Imperioufly ; defpoti-
My abfcnt daughter, and my dearer lord. Pope.
2. To cut any thing.
5. One who is at the head of any bufineis
cally ; proudly.
The gudecer may /»/> religion as he pleafes. - So when a tyger fucks the bullock's blood,
an ovcrfeer. A familh'd lion, ilTuing from the wood.
So long as there's a head. Grant harveft lord more by a penny or two, Roars IcrJly fierce, and challenges the food. Drya.
Hither will all the mounting fpirits fly To call on his fellows the better to do. Tujcr.
Lo'rdshiP. n. /. [from lord.]
Lof that but off. Dryden't Sfar:!fi Fiyar, 6. A nobleman. 1. Dominion ;
power. .
All that denominated it paraJife was If/ieJ oft' by Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord. Sbahff.
Let me never know that any bafe afFeftlon (hould
the deluge, and that only left which it enjoyed 7. A general name for a peer of England. get any lorjjhip in your thoughts. Sidney.
in common with its neighbour couniries. Nor were the crimes objÔed againft him fo 1 being let upon fuch art infenlible riling of the
1
ffôcdivard'i Natural WJiory, clear, as to give convincing fatisfaflion to the m:i- ground, it gives the eye lordJlAp over a good large
Rhyme fure in needlefs bonds the poet ties, i
jor part of both houfes, efpecially that of the kids. circuit. Sidney.
Procruftus likf, the ax or whccf applies, > King Cbarles. They which arc accounted to rule over the
To lif the mangled fenfe, or ftietch it into fize. J 8. A baron, as dillinguiOied from ihofe of Gentiles, exercife lirdjhip over them, and their
^mitb.
higher title. great ones exercife authority upon them.
Lop. n.f. [from the verb.] Mark, X. 42.
9. An honorary tide applied to officers :
1. That which is cut from trees. Needs muft the lordjhif there from virtue (lide.
as, lord chief jullice, lord mayor, lord
Or (iker thy head very tnttlc is, Fairfax.
So on thy corbe fhoulder it leans amifs chief baron. 2. Seigniory domain.
;
Now thyfelf hath loll both Itf and top. 7«LoRD. v. n. To domineer; to rule How can thcfe grants of the kings be avoided,
As my budding branch thou would'ft crop. Spf/tfrr. defpotically : with over before the fub- without wronging of thofe lords which had thofe
Kor /hould thr b«ughs grow too big, becaufe lands and IcrdJ.ips given them ? Spenfcr on Ireland.
jeft of power.
they give opportunity to the rain to foak into the 'X'here is hdjhip of the fee, wherein the mailer
Unrighteous lord of love what law is ! this.
tree, which will quickly caufe it to decay, fo that doth much joy, when he walketh about his own
That me thou m^kelt thus tormented be ?
you muft cut it down, or elfe both boay and lof pofielUons. IVotton.
The whiles (he hrdetb in licentious blifs
will be of little value. Mfri'mtr. What lands and lordpips for their owner know
Of her free will, fcorning both thee and me.
2. [Lo?PA, Swedifli.] Aflea. Spetiftr. My quondam barber, but his worlhip now. Dryden.
Lope. pret. of /?fl/. Obfoiete. I feethem lording it in London ftreets. Sbahe}'f. 3. Title of honour ufed to a nobleman
With that'fprang forth a naked fwain. Thofe huge tracts af ground they krded ovr^ not a duke.
With fpotted wings like peacock's train. begat wealth, wealth ufliered in pride. Hoivel. I alTure your hrdpip,
And laughing hpe to a tree. Spenfcrî Va^^rah. They had by this polfefs'd the tow'rJ of Gath, The extreme horrour of it aimoft turned me
Lo'pppR. n. /. [from /a/.] One that And lorded 'tver them whom now they ferve. To air, when firft I heard it. Benjcnfon.
Ml/ton. I could not anfwer it to the world, if I gave not
cuu trees.
choofe rather to be tumbled into the
I (hould your lordJlAp my teftlmony of being the beft huf-
Lo'fpered. fl<^". Coagulated: Zi,loppered duft in^>lood, bearing witnefs to any known truth band now living. Dryden.
milk. Ainfworth. Thus it is Hill called of our Lord, than by a denial of truth.j throui;h Titulary compellation of judges, and
4.
in Scotland. blood and perjury, wade to a fceptre, mdlord it In
South.
fome other perfons in authority and
Lociji a'cious, adj. \loquax, Latin.] a throne.
But if thy palSons lord it in thy breafl. ofl]>:e>^
1. FuU of talk ; full of tongue.
Drydin's Pirfus. LonE. a. f. [from Ixpan, to learn.]
Art thou not (till a (lave ?
To whom fad Eve,
Confefling foon yet not before her judge
The valour of one man th' afHifled throne LefTon ; doflrine
inftruftion. ;
;
Imperial, that once lorded o'er the world, And, for the modeft lore of maidenhood
BoU, or lofuaihus, thus abaHi'd reply'd. Atilloa.
Suftaind. Phinps. Bids me not fnjourn with thefe armed men.
In council (he gives licence to her tongue,
Lcjuaioui, brawling, ever in the wrong. Dryden,
The civilizers ! the difturbers fay. Oh whither (hill I Ily ? Fairfax.
The robbers, the corrupters of mankind I
The law of nations, or the lore of war. Fairfax.
2. Speaking. Proud vagabonds who make the world your home,
!
Calm regions once.
Blind Britilh bardi, with vo'ant touch
And lord it where you have no right. Philip's Bit:, And full of peace ; now toft, and turbulent
Travcrfc kâanoui ftrings, whofe folemn notes
Provoke to harm'efs revels. Pbil'ipi. .
Lo'rdikc. n.f. [from /or/] A little For underftanding rul'd not ; and the will
lord ; a lord in contempt or ridicule. Heard not her lore ! but in fubjcdlion now
3. Apt to blab; not fecret.
To fenfual appetite. Mitioa's Paradife Loft.
I'll queftion you
LoQj.A'ciTy. n.f. [kquacitas, Latin.]
Of my lord's tricks, and yours, when you were The fubîle fiend hih- lore
Too much talk. boys. Soon learn'd, now milder, and tiius anfwcr'd
Why Irqua ily is to be avoided, the wife man You were pretty Icrdings then. Shakijp. IVin, Tale. fniooth. Miltcn.
°
g'ves fufiicient leafon, for in the multitude of words To lordings proud Itune my lay^ Lo 1 Rome herfelf, proud miftrcfs now no more
theic wanteth not fin. Ray. Who fcaft in bower or ball Of arts, but thund'ring againft heathen /sn. Poye.
Lore.
. :
LOS LOS LOT

Lore. [leopiD, Saxon.] Loft; deftroyed. When th< mrnd purfue, the Ide* of infinity,
Not in ule. itufe. the Ideas and repetition With the UJir, let It fympathire,
of numbers, which For nothing can feem
LoREL. n.f. [from leojian, Saxon.] An are fo many diftinii ideas, kept bell
by number
. foul to thofe that win.
abandoned (coundrel. Obfolete. ôm running into , confufed heap,

XT Stairfpijrt,
wherein the No man can be provident of hii time that is
,
Siker thou fpejkcft like a lewd Itrell mind lojn itfelf. , , not
But prudent in the choice of his company
Of heaven to dcf men fo : rebel wit deferts thee oft in
vain, ; and if one
ot the fpeaktrs be vain, tedious,
How be I am but rude and bomll, L'fi 111 the maze of words he turns again. and tiifling, lie
Po«e
Yet nearer ways 1 know. 10. 1 o deprive of.
that hears, and he that anlwers,
™"' •"»"=•
are equal of Mn
To Lo RiCATE. plate over.
-v. a. To
Sfe^Jir', Pajlorali.
How ftould you go about to
lofc Jun, a wife
,
it cannot laft, becaufe

r^ylor', Living. my
he loies with that aft fcems to have
Nature hath hrkateJ, or plaftcrtd over, the pallion ? fo much
Temple been carried on rather by the
intereft of particular
fides oi the tympanum in animals with ear-wax, to U. Not to employ ; not to enjoy. countries, than by that of the
The happy have whole days, and ihofe whole, which muft
ftop and enunglc any infefls be a //rr by It.
creep in there
that Jhould attempt to they ufe
Th UBluppy have but hours, and ihcfe they/r/>. ,,. y
Ray
Lo'rimer, I "• f_ [lormier, French.] Shall be the portion of the
conquering chief;
To hje thefe years which worthier though" A fword and
Lo'riker. J Bridlecutter, " helm fliaU che«- the A/Vr's grief.
require,
Lo'riot. tt, /. [âlguluj.J A kind of To UJ, that health r /• J
Drydm.
which Jhould thofe thoughts i-yfj 1
and malecontenu, whofe portion and
bird. infpirc. in-
o horitance is a freedom to fpeak.
""^^^ SautB.
Lorn. pret. . paff. [of lopian, Saxon.] 12. To fquander; to throw away, Loss. n.f. [from Uje.^
Forfaken ,
; loft. I "o more complain.
1. Detriment; privation; diminution of
Who after that he had fair Una lorn. Time, health, and fortune are
not hft in vain. good the contrary to gain.
:
Through light mifJecming of her loyalty. Fairy SK
To ''^' The only gain he purchafed was
to be capable
Tt Lose. -v. a. pret. and part. JoJ.
13. fufter to vanifli from view. ot hjt and detriment for
Like following the good of others.
[leopan, Saxon.] life in creatures we iiSkCt,
" moment we . Hooter.
I. To forfeit by unfuccefsful conteft: the 1 ''. '" ''"' deceft. PcPi ' An evil
.,
natured fon is thed:(hononr of his
Oft in the paffuns' wild
rotation toft,
contrary to ivin. father that beât himj
Our fpring of aflion to curfelves and a foolilh daughter ii
I ijught the battle bravely which
is IJ{. p,p, born to his lijs.
1 hB, 14. lo aeftroy by fhipwreck. The abatementof price of any of the landholder's*
Ecclui.
And 1'^ it but to Macedonians. D'yden.
The lighten'd courfcrs ran ; ,
The coaft commodities, lelTens his income, and is a
Where clear //».
They rnlhy, and tvon by turns, and hji
firft my fliipwreck'd heart was"//. Priir Lxkt,
the day. 15. To throw away , to employ ineffec- z
«••/.
Mils ; privation.
tually.
2. To forfeit as a penalty. In this fenfeis
If he were dead, what would
betlJe of me ?
Paradife
He
has merit, g»od -nature, and
integrity, that
—No i.ther harm but /c/. of
fuch a lord.
Fame- few,
lofi. are
00 often loft upon great men, or at ieait
are not
—The loft of fuch a lord include, all harm.
a'as ! the cafual blefling boaft, aU Oiree a match for flattery.
So hard to gain, fo eafy to be Pop,': Lcneru TN Shake/peere,
3. To be deprived of.
/ojl ! p^pe. 16. lomils; to part with,
fo as not to 3. D .
-privation
.
; forfeiture.
recover. Lofi of Edei, till one greater man
He !^ his right hand with a fliot, and, inftcad Reftore it, and regain.
Thefe /harp encounters, where nfdm.
thireot, ever afte.- ufcd a hand of iron. always many
KnMn. more men are I than are killed or \ Deilriiftion.
Whoconquer'd him, and in what fatal ftrife
ft taken prifoners,
put fuc h a ftop to Middleton-s Her fellow (hips from far her
The youth, without a wound, could loje his
march, that he loft defcry'd;
life. was gljd to retire. ru j But only (he was funk, and all were
~10 /- (f ,. . .
Dryden
^' J". ^l'^,^ ^'°'^ ^'>
fafe bcfide.
4. lufter diminution
of.
His feely back the bunch ,
•
«° ¥' a fever. There fucceeded an abfolute viQory
The fear of the
Lord gocth before obtaining of has got for the
Which Edwin /ft before.
Englilh, with the (laughter
of above tv/o thoufand
•uihont^-i b"t rou^hneli and pride is p^„e/
the hjwr To Lose. of the enemy, with Uie
"''•"''f- :;. ». loft but of one man,
Mulus. X. 21. though not a few hurt.
If fait have lofi his favour, wherewith
rhall it be
1. Not to win. Baioti.
5. Fault ; puzzle : ufed only in ths fol-
IQ'•«•/
^'"''""^ lowing phrafe.
5.
'r
poflefs no longer: contrary , Talk of court news, and we'll
to keep. talk with them too.
They have Uft their trade of woollen drapery.
Who A/,, and who wins; who s in, who's out.
Not the leaft tranfaflion of fenfe and motion in
man, but philofophcrs are at a
''"'^^""'- loft tocomprehend.
No youth ffiall equal hopes of glory give. 2. To decline; to fail. n * . South' s Sermons*
The Trojan honour and the Roman boad, Kealon is always driving, and always
Wifdom in difcourfe with her
at a loft,
while It is exerciied about that
Adniir'd when living, and adr;'d when hji. ^//"difcountenanc'd, and like folly (hews. Mi/icn.
which is not its
proper objeft.
n Drvden. Lose ABLE. êfj. [from /.>.] A man may
^^^.j^^^
We
i.f- .
Aould never hfi Subjeft fometimcs be at a loftwhich fide to
fight of the country, to privation.
though fometimcs entcuinedjivith clofewith.
a diftant pro- Bultero^Learni;,£,
Conlider whether motion, or
luect of it.- /ijJ:,.^
a propenfity to it, 6. Ufelefs application.
t). I o mils, lo It would be loft of time to
as not to £nd. and not /ft:aiU by them. explain any fartlier
Venus wept £oy/e. our fuperiority to the enemy
in numbers of men
the fad difa/h:r Losel. » / [from Joj-ian, to perifh.i and horfe.
Of having her fav-rite dove.
,, ..,
To
IcJI
p„v. A fcoundrel a forry worthlefs fellow. Lost. part,c,p,al adj.
7. feparate or alienate. ;
[from loJe.X No
_A
It is perhaps word now
in this fenfe always nfed paffively, obfolete. longer perceptible.
with SiKh /-/./, ind fcatterlings cannot eafily, In feventccn days appeared your
to before that froaj which by any pleafing coaft.
the feparation S°"". whs, they are chaUenged for Jy And woody mountains, half in vapour,
is made. Z:l%fl Lot. nj.
loft. Pop,.
[blaut. Gothick
But if to honour I 'tis ftiU decreed
ft
A Lfe/ wand'ring by the way. ; );lot, Saxon
j
*
For you my bowl (hall flow, my flocks One that to bounty never Dutch,]
/*/,
Ihall bleed call his mind, I. Fortune; /late aligned.
:
Judge and allert my right, impartial
Jove.
Ne thought of honour ever did
P^pe. alTav
When men are openly abandoned, and His bafer breaft. i. ^ Kala at length conclude my ling'ring •
all ffiame,
they have no reafon to think
their niornory be reproached.
/J? to
it hard if
Be not with work of
/=//. wit defamed,
Ne let fuch verfes poetry be named.
^ Difdain me not, although I be
Who
not fair,
an hrir of many hundred Ihecp,
IS
lo,
Swift. JiM.rd': Tt/c. Doth beauty keep which never fun

8. To ruin ; to fend to perdition. ,„^^-.'!}}""^^' » '»«nc i J" know. can burn,
In fpite of all the virtue we canioaft,
Whole lolTes by UJih doth (hew Norllormsdoturn.
giJ.ey.
Our own h, is beft ; and T,y aiming
The woman that deliberates is Uft. -*«,';,
o bewilder ; fo as that the way is
"
More heerc than is
A
needful to
grofs h:ig
tell. TuJJir', Huft,.
have not, we lofe what we have
at what
already.
4
! L'Mffr.
no And, lofcl, thou
worthy to be hanR'd,
art Prepard 1 (land ; he was but born
to try
longer known. That The lot of man, to fuffer and to die.
wilt not ftay her tongue.
SM.fpea,c. Pepe'iOdiffy.
I will go hf: myfe.'f.
Lo z. A
die, or any thing «fed
And wander up and down to view the city.
Nor
Shal,. fp
SER. „ /
[from /.yi.] One that is
chances.
in determininjt
°
are conftant forms of prayer
more likely deprived of any thing one that forfeits
to flat and hinder the fpirit of prayer
;
Aaron (hall cart h„ „p<,n the
and devotion any thing; one that is two goats; one
than unpremediutcdandconl'ufcd impaired in his lot foe the Lord, and tl,e other
varietvtodiftraft poffeflion or h, for the fcape-
*"" ''> "•
hope : the contrary to -win- goat. r . «
K.ni Charlo. •
•ri. • n Lev, XVI. S,
ne>- or gainer. I heir talks in equal portions
(he divides.
And where unequal, there by
M decides. Dryden.
t'ljlfcj
; .
LOU L O V L O V
Ulynss bids hl» friends to cid lots, to Aew, that
he would not voluntarily ejpofe them to fo immi-
To LOVE. V. a. [lup'an, Saxon.] The enquiry of truth, which is the /cw-making
nent danger. _ Broor,:!.
1. To regard with paflionate afteftion, as
or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, the pre-
ference of it ; and the belief of truth, the enjoying
V It feems in Shake/peare to fignify that of one fex to the other.
a of it, is the fovereign good of human nature.
lucky or vvifhed chance. Good ftcpherd, tell this youth what 'tis to hve.
If you have heard your general talk of Rome,
— It is to be m.ide all of fighs and tears
;
Baton*
It is to be made all of faith and fcrvice 4. Tendernefs parental care.
And ot hii friends there, it is kti to blanks j
;
No religion that ever was, fo fully reprefenta
It is to be all made of
My name hath touchd your cars; it is Menenius.
fantnfy.
the goodnefs of God, and his tender love to man-
All made of palfion, and all made of wiflics ;
SbakfJêare* All adoration, duty, and obedience; kind, which is the moit powerful argument to the
4. .-i portion ; a parcel of goods as being All humblenefs, all patience, all impatience. loveofGod. nilotjon.
drawn by lot : as, what lot of filks had All purity, all trial, all obfervajice. 5. Liking inclination to as, the
Sbaieffmre. ; : lonjt
you at the fale ? I could not /<nie I'm Aire of one's country.
5. Proportion of taxes: One who in love were wife. Cowfcy. In youth, of patrimonial wealth poflcft,
as, to pay fcot
and lot.
The jealous man wiihes himfelfa kind of deity The lo"Ji of fcience faintly warm'd his breaft.
to the perfon^ he lovts he would be the only em-
LoTE tree Or nettle tree. n.f. plant, A ;
ployment of her thoughts.
Penton,
Addijon. 6. Objeft beloved.
he leaves of the hu tree ate like thofe of the
'i
nettle. The fruic of this tree is not fa tempting

2. To regar4, with the afFefllon of a Open the temple gates unto my love. Spenfer,
to us, as it. was to the companions of Ulyfies friend. It that the world and love were young
:
the wocd is durable, and ufcd to make pipes for None but his brethren he, and lifters, knew. And truth in every ftcphctd's tongue;
wind inftruments the root is proper for hafts of
:
Whom the kind youth prefcr'd to mc. Thefe pretty picafures might me move,
knives, and was highly ettecmed by the Romans And much above myfclf I Imi'd them too. To live with thee, and be thy Iwe. Shakcfpeare.
for its beauty and ufe. CvwUy. The banift'd neverhopeshisA'Ot' to fee. Dryden,
Milkr
LOTOS, n.f. [Latin.] See Lote. 3. To regard with parental tendernefs. The lover and the love of human kind. Pope.
The around them all their food produce,
trees He that loveth me ftall be lovid of my father, 7. Lewdnefs.
Lt.t3> the name divine, neftareous juice. and 1 will Iwe him, and will manifeft myfelf to He is not lolling on a lewd lime bed.
Pope.
Lo'tion. n.f him. Jobn. But on his knees at mediution. Skalefpeare.
{lotto, Latin; lotion, Fr.]
A hthn form of medicine compounded of
is a 4. To be pleafed with to delight in.
; 8. Unreafonable liking.
a<)oeous liquids, ufed to waft any part
with.
Fift ufed to fait water delight more in freft :
The kve to fin makes a man fin againft his own
we fee that falmons and fmelts Icrvt to get into reafon. Taylor.
Sluimy. _
I
in M\(mi
; •
m women's
•
cafes, he orders two por-

though agaioft the ftream. Bacon's Nat.
rivers,
Uifi.
Men in live with their opinions may not only
tions of hellebore macerated in twe cotylz of water. Wit, eloquence, and poetry. fuppofe what is in queftion, but allege wrong matter
Arts which I im'd. <>''»«•
Arbutbnot on Coins. Co-wley- Uckc.
Lo'ttery. n.f. [Utierie, ¥t. from lot.] He .Wa'my worthleft rhimcs, and, like a friend, 9. Fondnefs ; concord.
Would find out fomething to commend. Cowley.
A game of chance ; a fortilege diftri Come, kv: and health to all!
5. To regard with reverent unwillingnefs
;
Then I'll fit down give me fome wine :
full,
bution of prizes by chance; a play in ; fill
to offend. Sbakefpeare,
which lots are drawn for prizes. Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love,
Let high-fighted tyranny range on,
Lc-ve the Lord thy Cod with all thine heart.
and in the fpirit of meeknefs f i Cor, iv. It,
Till each man drop by Utiery.
Dtut. vi. 5.
The Ictury that

Shakrffeare. Love. n.f. [from (he verb.] !0. Principle of union.
he hath devifed in thefe three
\. The paflion between the fexes. Love is the great iaflrument of nature, the bond
chefts of gold, filver, and lead, will never be
chofen and cement of fociety, the fpirit
and fpring of the
by any but whom you ftall rightly love. Shakcfp. Hearken to the birds /oi/e. learned fong.
univerfe lofe is fuch an affeaion as cannot fo
Fortune, that with malicious joy The dewie leaves among Sfcnjtr's
!
EfhhaUm.
:
properly be fald to be in the foul, as the foul to be

Does man, her Have, opprefs. While idly 1 ftood looking on,
in that : it is the whole man wrapt up into one
Still vaiiousand unconllant ftill. I found th' eftea oi Ivk in idlenefs. Shakefpeare.
"i^'ife-
Promotes, degrades, delights in ftrife. My of
lr.;i; were wont to weiry you
tales
5
South.
And makes a htury of life. I know youjoy not in a Imt difcourfe. 11. Pidurefque reprefentation of love.
DryJ„U Horace. Shakeff,
The lovely babe was born with cv'ry grace :
Every warriour may be faid to be a foldicr I lookd upon her with a foldier's eye.
of Such was his form as painters, when they ftow
fortune, and the beft commanders to have a Uttrry That lik'd, but had a rougher talk in hand
for their work. Than to drive liking to the name ofUve. 'Shakcfp, Their utmoil art, on naked kvcs beftow. Drydtn,
South.
Lo'vAGE. / What need a vcrmil-tinfturd lip for that, 12. A
word of endearment.
». [le-vipcum, Latin.] A it^'f-dartingeyes, or rrefles like the morn ? Milton. 'Tis no diftonour, truft me, Uve, 'tis none;
plant.
Lo've quarrels oft in pleafing concord end. I would die for thee. Dryden' s Don Sclajlian,
LOUD, adj Not wedlock treacheiy, endang'ring life. Miltcn. 13. Due reverence to God.
1. Noify; llriking the ear with great A love potion woiks more by the ftrength of I know that you have not the love of God in
force. charm than nature. Cdlicr on Popularity. yo"- . John.
Contending on the Lelbian Ihore, You know my pow'r by making U-ve.
y' are in Loveis of two foits, of fricndftip and of de-
His prowefs Philomelides confefs'd. Dryden. fire the one betwiit friends, the otlicr betwixt
;
And /i»^ acclaiming Greeks the viOorblefc'd. Pate. Let mutual joys our mutual truft combine. lovers ; the one a rational, the other a fenfitivo
The numbers foft and clear, And hve, ani/'/yf-born confidence be thine. Pope. love: fo our /oi/f uf God confirt:; of two parts, as
Gep.tly (teal upon the ear Cold is that bread which warm'd the world be- eftceming of God, and defiringoThim. Hammond.
Now l(,u<'.er, and yet hvder rife,
fore, The love of God makes a man chafte without
And fill with fpreading founds the And thefe /ii/f. dirting eyes muft roll no more. Pope. the laborious arts of fafting, and exterior difci-
fk.'es. Tope,
2. Clamoroiis ; turbulent. 2. Kindnefs; goodwill; friendfhip. plines ; he reaches at glory without any other arms
She is /cuj and (lubborn ; her feet abide not in What love, think'ft thou, I fue fo much to get ? but thofe of U.VC, Taylor.
,
,
^ f'""''":-
Lo UDI.V. adv. [from louj.]

Pr^wris. MyUvctin dCHtii, my humble thanks, my prayers
That lo-uc which virtue begs, and virtue grants.
.' 14. A
This
kind ( f thin filk
leaf held near the eye,
Ainfi>jorih,
ftuft".
and obvcrted to the

Shakrfpeare. light, appeared fo full of pores, with fuch a tranf-
*. Noifity ; fo a.? to be heard fir.
;
God brought Daniel into favour and tender love parency as that of a ficve, a piece of cyprcfsj or
The foldier ti.at philofopher well blam'd.
with the prince.
Who long and louMy in the fcbools declaim'd. Damtl, i. 9. loa>iho'xl. Boyle on Colours,
The one preach Chrift of contention, but the Lo'vEAi'PLE. n.f. A
_. Dcntam. plant. Miller.
I
other of /iw. PhU.i. 17.
V2. Clamorotfly; with violence of voice. By
Lo'vEKNOT. n.f. [lo-veand inot.] A
_
this ftall all men know that ye are my dif-
I read above fifty pamphlets, written by as ciples, if ye have lo've one to another.
complicated figure, by which afFadlion
many preftyte.ian divines, huMy difclaiming to- interchanged is figured.
'"''»'• yoio, xiii. 35.
S-uif,. Unwearied have we fpent the nights. Lo'vE LETTER. ». / [/otjg and letter.]
Lo'uDKESs. »./. Noife; force of found Till the Ledc.m ftars, fo fam'd for love,
Letter of courtfhip.
;
turbulence; vehemence or furioufoefs Wondet'd at us from above. Cnulcy. Have I efcaped IcvJeitcrs in the holyday time
of
of clamour. 3. Courtfnip. my beauty, and am 1 now a fubjedl for them '
Had any d falter made room for grief, it would Demetrius Shak fpcare.
have moved according to prudence, Made l.ve to Nedar's daughter Helena, The
children are educated in the different no-
and the prc- And won her
porti ins of the provocation foul, i.hnkcjp. Midf. Night's Dream. tions of their parents
: it would not have
: the fons follow the father,
If you will marry, make vour h-jet to while the d.iughters read lovclitters and romances
taiied out in* coropUiat or Uudmjt. me.
Stutb. My lady is bcfpoke. ihakc/pcareS King Lear. to their mother. Mdijlns Spcaator.
Lo'vBLILY.
; ;
L O V L O V LOU
Lo'viLiLY. adv. [from loveIj.'\ Ami- Lo'vEsoME. adj. [&om leve.'\ Lovely. LOUIS D'OR. n.f. [French.] A goldea
ably; in fuch a manner as lo excite A word not ufed. coin of France, valued at about twenty
love. Nothing new can fpring {hillings.
Thou look'ft Without thy warmth, without thy influence bear, If he is defircd to change a louts d'or, he muft
Liv.-liljf dreidful. Olivay's yenice Prejarv'd. Or beautiful or lovefome can appear. Drydcn. confider of it. SptSator.
Lo'vELiNESs. n.y. [from /oi/^/y.] Ami- Lo'vEsoNG. »./. yove And /ong.l bong To LotJNGE. V. n. [lunderen, Dutch.]
ablenefs ; qualities of mind or body that exprcffing love. To idle ; to live lazily.
Poor Romeo is already dead
excite love.
Stabb'd with a white wench's black eye,
!
Lo'uNGER. ». y. [fro.n lounge.] An
Carrjlng thus in one perfin the only two bands idler.
of good-will, lovdwtji and lovingnefa. S'ldniy.
Run through the ear with a Icvefong. Shakeffeare.
When 1 approach Lovefong weeds and fatyrick thorns are grown. LOUSE, a. /. plural lice, [luf, Saxon ;
Her hvtlimfs, (o abfolute flic Teems, Where feeds of better arts were early fown. Dome. lnys, Dutch.] A fmall animal, of which
That what (he wills to do, or fey, Lo'vEsviv. K-/. [/ovt and/uit.] Court- different fpecies live on the bodies of J
Seems wifcft, virtuoufeft, difcrcetcft, beft. Miltm. fliip.
men, and perhaps of ^
beafts, all living
H there is fuch a native lon'elhitfs in the fex, His lovcfuit hath been to me creatures.
as to make them vidlorious when in the wrong, As fearful as a fiege. Sbakeffeart's Cymhelwt.
There were lice upon man and beaft.
how refidicfs is their power when they arc on the Lo'vETALE. »./. [love &nd tale] Nar-
fide of truth
ExoJ, viiii 18.
? Addijoit.
rative of love. Frogs, lice, and flies, muft all his palace fill
Lo'vELORN. adj. [^Jcve and /ijr».] For- The lovetate With loath'd intrulion. Milton.
faken of one's love. Infefled Sion's daughters with like heat It beyond even an atheift's credulity and im-
is
The h-jc-lcin nightingale Whofe wanton paffions in the facred porch pudence to affirm, that the firft men might pro-
Nightly to thee her fad long mourneth welt. Ezekicl faw. Miltint Faradife hifi. ceed out of the tumours of trees, as maggots and
Mihm, Cato's a proper perfon to entruft flies are fuppofed to do now, or might grow upon
Lo'vELY. adj. [from lo've-l Amiable ;

A Iwctale with ! Add'ijon. trees ; or perhaps might be the lice of fome pro-
exciting love. Lo'vETHOUGHT. «./ {lo'Vt iXld thought.] digious animals, whofe fpecies is now extinA.
The
bread of Hecuba, Amorous fancy. Bentley.
When flie did lucklc Heftor, look'd not Imelier Away to fw?ct beds of flowers, Not that I value the money the fourth part of
Than Heftor's forehead. Shakefptarc'! Coriolanui. hcvethwghti lie rich when canopied with bowers. the fl<ip of a louje. Swift.
Saul and Jonatlian were Icvely and plcafant in Shakifpearc. To LovsE. V. a. [from the noun.] Tff
their lives, and in their death they were not divided. Lo'vETOY. »./ [lo-ve and toy.] Small clean from lice.
2 Samuel. prefents given by lovers. As foe all other good women, that love to do
The flowers which it had prcfs'd
but work, how handfome
Has this amorous gentleman prefentcd himfelf little it isto loufe them-
Appeared to my view. felves in the funfliine, they that have been but a
with any loveloys, fuch as gold fnuft- boxes ?
More frcfli and /cvcly than the reft.
while in Ireland can well witnefs. Spenfrr on Ireland.
jirhuthnct and P^pe.
That in the meadows grew. Denk-m. You fat and lous'd him all the fun-ihine day.
The Chriftian religion gives us a more /ovciy
Lo'vETEicK. «._/ \_love And trick.] Art
Stvift.
charaêr of Cod than any religion ever did. of expreffing love.
TiUoifiti. Other difportsthan dancing jollities ;
Lo'usEWORT. « /. The name of a plant
The fair Otlicr lo-veirUks than glancing with the eyes.
Dome. called alfo rattle and cock's comb.
With cleanly powder dry their hair; LouGH. n. /. a lake.]
[loch, Irilh, A Lo'usiLY. adv. [from lou/e.] In a pal«
And' round their lo-vely breaft and head lake a large inland Handing water. try, mean, and fcurvy way.
;
Ftefh flow rs their mingled odours flied. Prior, A people near the northern pole that won. Lo'usiNEss. n. /. [from loufy.] The
Lo'vEMONGER. ti. /. [loi/e and monger.] Whom from latigtes and forefts hore.
Ireland fent
fiate of abounding with lice.
One who deals in affairs of love. Divided by fea from Europe's /hore. Fairfax.
far
Thou art an old h-vemmgcr, and fpeakeft Lough Nefs never freezes. Plil. Trarf.
Lo'usY. adj. [from lou/e.]
flcil-
1. Swarming with lice; over-run with
fully. SbaUJfearc, ho' V IK G. participial adj. [from love.]
Lo'vER.w./. [from lice.
/«i'/.] 1. Kind; afFedlionate.
One who So loving to my mother, Let him be daub'd with lace, live high and
1. in love.
is
Th.it he would not let ev'n the winds of heav'n whore.
Love is blind, and limen cannot fee
Sometimes be loufy, but be never poor. Drydcn.
The pretty follies that themfelvss commit. ShaktJ. Vifit her face too roughly. Shakejpeare'i Hamlet.
Sweetbriar and goofeberry are only Ittufy in dry
Let it be never faid, that he whofe breaft This earl was of great courage, and much loved
of his foldiers, to whom he was no
times, or very hot places. Mrtimcr's HijbanJiy.
Is fili'd with love, ihould break a Uver's reft. Dry J. lefs living
2. A friend ; one who regards with kind- again. Hayward, 2. Mean; low born, bred on the dung-
oefs. 2. Expreffing kinjnefs. hill.
Your brother and his loverb»ve embrac'd. The king took her in his arms till flie came to I pray you now remembrance on the loujy knave
Shttkejpeart.
herfclf, and comforted her with loving words. mine holt.
Efther, xv. 8. A loufy knave, to have his gibes and his mockeries.
I tell
Thy general is my It/vtr 'ffiSVebeen

thee, fellnvy
:
^ Lo'viNCKiNDNESs. n. /. Tendernefs; Shakefpeare.
The book of his good a6t, whence men have read favour ; mercy. A fcriptoral word. Lour. H./ [loete, old Dutch. Mr. Lye.]
His fame unparallel'd haply amplified. Shakefpcare. Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies, and A mean aukward fellow; a bumpkin]
3. One who likes any thing. thy lovingkindneffes. Pfilrn, xxv. 6. a clown.
To be good and gracious, and a lover of know- He has adapted the arguments of obedience to the Pamela, whofe noble heart doth difdain, that
ledge, are amiable things. Burnet's Tl. of the Earth. imperfcition of our underftanding, requiring us to the truft of her virtueis repofed in fuch a lout's
confider him only under the amiable attributes of hands, had yet, to Ihew an obedience, taken on
Lo'uvER. [from I'owvert, French,
»._/".
goodnefs and lovingkindnejs, and to adore him as {hepherdifh apparel. Sidney.
an opening.] An opening for the our friend and patron. w Rogers. * This he exceeds our lords, the odds
lotor, as
fmoke to go out at in the roof of a
Lo'vtuGLY. adv. [from lovixg.] Affec- Is, that we fcarce are men, and you are gods.
cottage. Spen/er. Sbakfpeare.
tionately ; with kindnefs.
Lo'vESECRET. [lovt «. /. and /ecret.] The new king, having no lefs /oi/iwf/y performed have need of fuch a youth.
I
Secret between lovers. That can with fome difcretioii do my bufinefs ;

allduties to him dead than alive, purfueid on the
What danger, Arimant, is this you fear ? For 'tis no truiling to yon foolilh lou:. Shakefpeare.
liege of his unnatural brotlier, as much for the
Or what kvefeiret whi»h I muft not hear Dryden. .> revenge of his father, as for the eltablifliing of
Thus waii'd xhi louts in melancholy drain. Cay,
Lo'vEsiCK. adj. [hue and Jici.] Dif- his own quiet. Sidney. To Lout. v. » [Jjlutan, to bend. Sax,]
ordered with love ; languifhing with It is no great matter to with good- live lovingly To pay obeifance ; to bend; to bow;
naturcd and meek perfons ; but he that can do fo
amorous delire. to Hoop, Obfolete. It was ufed in a
with the froward and pervcrfe, he only hath true
Sec, on t)ic Ihoar inhabits purple fpring,
charity. Taylor.
good fenfe.
Where nightingales their htjejiei ditty fing. Dryd, He fair the knight faluted, touting low.
To the dear miftrefsof my /off/ffi mind, Lo'viNGNESS. «f.y". [from loving.] Kind- Who fair him quitted, as that courteous war.
,
Her fwain a pretty ptefent has defign'd. Dryien. nefs ; affeftion. Sfenfer.
Of the reliefs to eafe a kvifick mind, Carrying thus in one
perfoft the only two bands Under the faad bag he was feen,
FUria prefcribes defp air. Granville. of gosd-wUl, ItYCliaefs and Imingnijs, Hidnty. touting low, like a for'fttr grc«n. Sen "Jonforc.
6 The
; .
LOW LOW LOW

The palmer, grey with agf, with count'nance Though he before had gall and rage, brought, and thoroughly fubjefled, they afterwards
Uui'ing low. Which death or conqueft muft affuage ;
lifted up themfelves fo ftrongly again >
Sfrnfer.
His head ev'n to the earth before the king did bow. He grows difpirited and loiv, To Low. tj. a. [from the adjeftive.]
He hates the tight, and fliuns the foe. Prior.
To fink to make low. Probably mif-
To Loot -v. a. This word feems in iz. Impotent; fubdued.
printed for lotuer.
;
Shakifpeare to fignify, to overpower. To be worft.

The value of guineas was lowed from one-and-
I am lonvtrd by a traitor villain, The moft dejcfted thing of fortune,
loioefi,
twenty (hillings and lixfence to onc-and-twen'y
And cannot help the noble chl^'aljer. Shakefttare. Stands ftili in efpcrance. ShakeffMri. (liillings.
Why but to awe. Swift.
Lo'xjriiH. aJj. [frcm /»»/.] Clownifh To Low.
bumpkinly.
j
Why but to keep ye lotv and ignorant > Miltcn. -v. n, [)jlopan, Saxon. The
To keep them all quiet, he muft keep them in adjeftive lonu, not high, is pronounced
clown is fuch, that you never faw
'Diis haiijh
greater awe and lefs fplendor; which power he lo, and would rhyme to no: the verb
fo iU-tavoored avi/ar; his behaviour fuch, that
will ufe to keep them as low as he pieafcs, and at
he is beyond the degiee of ridiculous. Sidney. ; and is by Dryden
loy:, to hdlomj, lou
no mure coft than makes for his own pleafure.
Lo'uriSHLY. adv. [from /»»/ ] With rightly rhymed to noiu.'\ 'lo bellow
Graunt.
the air of a down ; with the gjic of a as a cow.
13. Not elevated in rank or ftation ; ab-
bumpkia. Doth the wild afs bray when he has grafs ? or
jcft.
luweth the ox over his fodder
Low. at/j. He wooes both high and tow, both rich and poor. Job, vi. 5.
The maids of Argos, who, with frantick cries.
.'
t. Not high. Shahffeai e. And imitated hwings, (ill'd the (kies. Rofcommont-
Their wand"ring courfe now high, now /mv, Try in mzt\ cf Icut and mean education, who Fair lo grac'd his (hield, but 16 now.
then hid, have never elevated their tlôughts above the Ipade.
With horns exalted ftands, and feems to low.
Progreflivc, retrograde. Milton.
DrydtWi.
2. ISot riiing far upwards. 14. Dilhonourable; betokening meannefs Had he been born fome fimple (hepherd's heii?.
It became a fpreading vine of Uta ftature. of mind as, lo<w tricks.
: The loaning herd, or fleecy (heap his care. Pfioi
£xci. xvii. 6. Yet fomctimes nations will decline io louj Lo'wBELL. n. /. [laeye, Dutch; leg,
3. Not elevated in place, or local fitua- From virtue, which is reafon, that no wrong Ssxon or log, IHandick, a flamej and
;
But juftice, and fome fatal courfe annexed.
tion.
Deprives them of their outward liberty.
iell.} A
kind of fowling in the n'.ght,
O mighty C«far! doft thou lye fo /ow f
in which the birds are" wakened
Are all thy conquefts, glories, triumphs, fpoils. Their inward loft. Mihon. by a
15. Notfublime; not exalted in thought bell, and lured by a flame intc
Shrunk to this little meafurc ' Sbakij. Julius Ctrf. a net.
Equal and nights, except to tliofe
in days or diAion. Lo-we denotes a âme in Scotla'.id;
and
Beyond the polar circles ; to them day He has not fo many thoughts that are low and to loiKe, to flame.
Had unbenighted (h')ne, while the Lw fun. vulgar, but, at the fame time, has not fo many Lowe. The termination of local names.
To recompcnfe his diflaiice, io their fight thoughts that are fublime and noble. Addijor.. Lome, lot, comes from the Siito'.j pleap, a hill,
Had rounded ftill th' horizon, and not known In comparifon of thefe divine writers, the noblcft heap, or barrow and fo the aorJnick bhiw
Orea» or weft. Mi/nn. wits of the heathen world are low and dull. Fclton. monument
; is a'
Whatfoever waihed away from them is carried

or barrow. ml r„.,
is 16. Submiflive ; humble; reverent. lo Lo wer. nj. a. [frsnx htu.']
down into the lavji-r grounds, and into the fea, and bring them
noth'uig is brought tack. Burmt'sTh.
of thcEanb.
I
From thee their names, and pay their
to receive
1. To bring low; to brir.ig down by way
fealty '
Dei'ceDding far downwards ; deep. With loiv fubjedtion. of fu^miffion.
4. Milton.
The Utuifl bottom (hook of Erebus. From the tree her ftep (he turn'd. As our high veffcls pafs their wat'ry way,
Milim.
So high But firft k-w reverence done, Let the naval world d.,e homage
all
as heiv'd the tumid hills, fo Zero, as to the pow'r pay
Down funk a hollow bottom, broad and deep, That dwelt within. With hafty reverence t'.,eir
top-honours lotuer,
Mi'ton.
t.ontc(ring the afTcrte'j power.
Capacious bed of waters. Milien. Low. adv. Prior.
His volant touch . 1. Not aloft; not on high.
2. To fuifer to fink down.
Inftind through all proportions Irw and high When water KTues out of the apertures
with
There under Ebon (hades and loiv-htov'd rocks
Fled and purfu'd Cranfverfe the refooant fugue. more than ordinary rapidity, it bears along
As ragged as thy locks. with it
fuch particles of loofe matter as it met
MJtcn. In dark Cimmerian deiert ever dwell. Mihca. with in its
pafTage through the ftone, and
5. Not deep; not fwelling high; (hal- My eyes no objeft met particles
it fuftains thofe
But /ow-hnng
till its motion begins to remit, when by
low ufed of water.
:
clouds, that dipt thcmfeltes in rail.
degrees it loioen them, and
To (hake their fleeces on ihe earth again. Uryden. lets them fall.
A3 two men were walking by the fea-fide at /.w
No luxury found room JVoodwardt
water, they 6w an oyfter, and both pointed at it
3. To leflen to make
toittivr. ' In loiu-raoft houfes, and bate walls of lome. DryJ. ; lefs in price or va-
VF.frantê. lue.
\\ is /cw ebb fure with his accufer, when fach
Vaft yellow offsprings are the German's pride
;
feccadillo's are put in to fwell the charge. Aittrh.

But hotter climates narrower frames obtain, The kingdom will lofe by this Itmming of in-
6. Not of high price as, corn And /nv-built bodies are the growth of Spain. tereft, if it makes foreigners withdraw any of their
: is /cm. """"'/•
Creifb. Locke.
7. Not loud; not noify. We wand'ring go through dreary waftcs, .)Ome people know it is for their advantage to
As when open air we blow,
in W here round fome mould'rmg tow'r pak ivy creeps, lo-wer their intereft. Child en Trade.
The breath, though Drain d, founds and And /cw-btow'd To Lo'wER. f.
But if a trumpet take the Wafk,
flat loiv : rocks hang nodding o'er th« ». To grow lels ; to-
deeps. Pope. fall ; to fink.
It lifts it high, .md makes it lad. Wallir. 2. Not a high price; meanly.
at It is The prcfcnt pleafurc.
The theatre i;. fo well ccnir.ved, that, from the
wry deep of the chiefly ufed in compofition. By revolution tow'ring, docs become
found may be
ftage, the Ittvrft
heard diftiRflly to the fartheft part of the audience Proud of their numbers and fecure in foul, The oppoCte of itfelf. SMcf. Ant. and Clrepnlra.
axl yet, if you raife your voice .is high as you
;
The con(ident and over-lufty French To Lo'wER. t;. ». [Jt is doubtful what
âle, there is nothing like an echo to caufc con- Do the low rated Engli(h play at dice. Sbahfpeare.
This is the prettieft /oro-born lals, that ever
was the primitive meaning of this word:
'"fion- J^ddijin
_ <,n Italy.
Ran the greenford nothing (he does or fcems. if it wa» originally applied to the ap-
8. In latitudes near to the line. ;
But fmacks of fomething greater than hcrfelf, pearance of the (ky, it is no more thxre
They take their ccurfe either high to the north,
Too noble for this place. 10 grow loiv, as the Iky feems to dcm
« /»«; to the fouth. /iittt'i Dejriif.
cf the tVtrld. Whenever
Sbakrf. }Vinl:r's Talc.
am
turned out, my lodge dcfccnds
I
dark weather: if it was firll ufed of the
9. Not rifing to fo great a fom as fome upon a /oK/.fpiritcd creeping family. Swift.
other accumulation of particulars. Corruption, like a general Hood, countenance, it may be derived from
Who can imagine, that in ftireen or fe»enfeen Shall deluge all ; and av'rice creeping on, the Dutch Iceren, to look alkarice the :
hundred je.irs time, taking the Itnvtr chronology, Spread like a /^w-born mift, and blot the lun. P',j>f. ew founds as «« in hour; in the word
that the earth had then ftood, mankind fliould be 3. In times approaching towards our own. h-wer, when it means 10 grow, or make
f«opagated no fartlicr thin Judaa ? Bumii. In that part of Hie world which was inha-
(irft the oiju founds as
Ion.'},
in more
bited, even as /«« down as .'Vbraham's time, they ]
10.Late in time as, the Itmatr empire. :
wandered with their flocks and herds.
I. To appear dark, llormy, and gloomy
;
Lo.ki.
U, Drjefted ; deprefTed. to be clouded.
His 4. With a deprelfion of the voice.
fpirits aie fo hie, his voice is drown'd,
Lucia, f(i(;ak Irw, he
Now is the winter of our difeontcnt
He hears as fri,m afar, or in a fwoon. is rctir'd to reft. Addifin. Made glorious fummer by this fun of York
Like the deaf miinour of a dilbnt found. D'ydtn. 5. In a ftate of fubjeftion. ;
And all the clouds that Icwcr'd upon our hou(«.
How come: it that, having bc:n once fo Uw In the deep bofora of the ocean buriei.
. Vot.ir. SMtf.
^ The
] , ! : ! ;
LOW LOW L O Z
The Ino'ring fpring, with Lviih r»in, He did bend to us a little, and put hii irmi which a kingdom may be fubjcA, ai well at a par<
Bcati down the flcndcr Hem and bearded grain. abroad : we of our parts faluted him in a very ticuUr perfon. Stvifit
Dryden. and fubminive manner, as looking that from
li-wly
LowTHo'ucHTED.aflJf [louu 3ni t/jou^ht .]
When the heavens are filled with clouds, and all him we dipuid receive Icntence of life or death.
nature wears a k-wcrlrg countenince, I withdraw
Having the thoughts withheld front
Bttten.
myfdC from thefe uiiconifortable fcenes. Mdijon. "With cries they fiU'd the holy fane fublime or heavenly meditations; mean
;
The dawn is oveicaft, the morning lotv'ri. Then thus with lowly voice llioncus began. of fentiment; narrow-minded.
And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Mdifon, Dryden. Above tlie fmoak and
Itir of this dim fpot.
If on Swithln's iTcuft the wciUin Uurt, The heavens are not pure in his fight, and he Which men and with iKviko'j^^h.d
call earth, an
And ev'ry peiUhoufc* Itreams with hafty (howVs, charges even his angels with folly ; with how Strive to keep up a frail and feverilh being- MilnH.
Twice twenty dayt ihall clouds their fleeces drain. lîvly a reverence mull we bow down our fouls be- Oh grace Icrene ! Oh virtue hcjv'niy fair
Gay. fore fo excellent a Being, and adore a Nature fo Divine oblation of lenothcugbt-d caie !
2. To frown to pout ; to look fullen.

;
much fuperior to cut own R'.gers. Frcfh blooming hope, gay daug'ntcr of the (ky,
There was Diana when Aflaon fa* her, and z. Mean; wanting dignity ; not great. And faith our early immortality Pope. !
one of her foolifli nymnhs, who weeping, and witlial For from the natal hour dillinîve names. Lowspi'rited. sins' /pi rit-l
adj. [low
Itnuering, one might fee the workman meant to fet One common right the great and lotvly claims. Dcjefted ; depreflitd ; not lively ; not
forth tears of anger. Sidney Fife, vivacious ; not fprightly.
He mounts the throne, and Juno toolc her place, 3. Not lofty; not fublime. Severity carried to the highell pitch breaks the
But fuUcn difcontent fat lvw''nttg on her face j For all who read, and reading not difdain, mind and then, in the place of a difordeily young
Then impotent of tongue, her filence broke, Thefe rural poem^, and their iow!y drain.
;
fellow, you have a Imifpiritcd moped creature.

Thus turbulent in rattling tone flic fpoice. Drydtu. The name of Varu: oft infcrib'd fliallfec. Dryden, Locke,
Lo'wER. n.f. [from the verb.] Lo'wLY. adv. [from /oiv.]
I. Cloudioefs gloominefs.
Loxodro'mick. n.f. [v^cc and Jjxifio,-.]
; 1. Not highly; meanly; withoat gran-
Lox3drom't:k is the art of oblique filling by the
«. Cloudinefs of" look. deur; without dignity. rhomb, which always makes an cûal angle with
Philoclea wis jealuus for Zelmane, not with- I will (hew myfcif highly fed, and lowly every meridian ; that is, when you fail neither di-
out fo mighty a iovitr as thiit face could yield. taught I know my bufmefs is but to the court.
J redlly under the equator, nor under one and the
S\dr.fy. Sbakefpeare, fame meridian, but acrofs them hence the table :
Lo'w E R I N c L Y adv . . [ frOHi Uiver.'X With 'Tis better to be /mi/y born, of rhombs, or the tranfverfe tables of miles, with
cloudinefs ; gloomily. And range with humble livers in content, the table of longitudes and latitudes, by which the
Lo'wf «,MosT.a^. [from loio, Imuer, and Than to be perk'd up in a glift'ring grief. failoT may pradlicatly find his courfe, didance, lati-
And wear a golden forrow. Sbakef. Henry VIII. tude, or longitude, is called loxodromick. Hlrriu
mofi.^ Lowell.
Plants have their feminal nppermoft, living p'irts
2. Humbly; meekly; modellly.
LO'YAL. adj. [loyal, French.]
creatures have them loiuerni'.Ji, Bacon's Nat, liifi.
Heav'n is for thee too high
To know what palTcs there ; be lively wife 1. Obedient true to the prince.
;
It will alfo happen, that the fame part of the Of Gloller's treachery.
jjipe which was now Ivwirmojl, will prefcntly be-
Think only what concerns thee, and thy being.
Miiton. And of the loyal fervice o( his fon,
come higher, fo that the water does afcend by de- When I inform'd bira, then he call'd me fot.
fccnding ; afcending in comparifon to the whole
Another crowd
Preferr'd the fame rc<jue(l, and /tw/ybow'd. Sbakefpeare.
Pofie.
'inftrument, and defcenJing in refpeft of its fevcral The regard of duty in that moft loyal nation
farts. K-'iikiri. LowN. ti.y. [/iun, Irifh ; loot, Dutch, a
overcame all other di(ficulties. KnoHes.
Lo'WLAND. ». y. [/eiv and IaitJ.'\ fhe Itupid drone.] A fcoundrel ; a rafcal. Loyal fubje£ls often feiie their prince.
country that is low in refpeft of neigh- Not in ufe. Yet mean his facted perlbn not the leaft ofTence.
bouring bills; the marfli. King Stephen was a worthy peer. Drydcti.
What a devil's he ?
His breeches coH him but a crown. 2. Faithful in love; true to a lady, or
Hiserrand was to draw the Ivwiand damps, He thought them fixpence all too dear.
lover.
And noifome vapours, from the foggy fens. And therefore call'd the taylor lc<u». Shakefptart.
Hail, wedded love by thee !
Then breathe the baleful flench with all his force. Lo'wNESS. n.f. [from low.] Founded in reafon loyal, juH, and pure. Milton,
Dry den. 1. Contrariety to height ; imall diftance There Laodamia with Evadne moves.
No nat'ral caufe (he found fr^m brooks or bogs. from the ground. Unhappy both ! but loyal in their loves. Dryden.
Or marfliy lo-w/atids, to produce the fogs. Dryden. They know Lo'yalist. n.f. [from loyal.] One who
Lo'wLiLY. adv, [from /ow/y.] By th' height, the lizvTt:fs, or the mean, if dearth profefl'es uncommon adherence to his
1. Humbly; without pride. Or foizcn follow. Shakefp. Ant, and Cleopatra.
king.
2. Meanly; without dignity. The of the bough where the fruit
lo^.vnejs
The cedar, by the inftlgation of the hyaliJIs,
Cometh, maketh the fruit greater, and to ripen
Lo'wuNESS. n.f, [from loivly."] better j for you (hall even fee, in apricots upon a
fell out with the homcbians. Hotels Vocal Forrjl,
J. Humility; freedom from pride. wall, the greatcft fruits towards the bottom. Bacon.
Lo'yally. a/i/. [from loyal.] With fide-
young ambition's ladder,
Loivlirtfji is In Gothick cathedrals, the narrownefs of the lity: with true adherence to a king
Whereto the climb r upward turns his face. Sbuk. arch makes it life in height, the lotuKjs opens it with fidelity to a lover.
The king -becoming graces. in breadth. Addif.r. The circling year I wait, with ampler (lores.
As juftice, verity, temp'rance, ftablencfs.
2. Meannefs of charafter or condition, And fitter pomp, to hail my native (hores ;
Bounty, perfev'rancc, mercy, kivlimfi, Then by my realms due homage would be paid.
D^^/otion, patience, courage, fortitude;
whether mental or external.
For wealthy kings are loyally obey'd. Pope's Odyjfy,
Mmltth, Nothing could have fubdu'd nature
I have no reiifli of them. Stekifpcait's
To fuch a kivnejs but his unkind daughter. Shak. Lo'yalty. n /. \_loiauie, French.]
Eve,
With Invlimfs majeftick, from her feat.
Now I muft 1. Firm and faithful adherence to a
And grace, that won who faw to wilh her fiay,
To the young man fend humble treaties. prince.
Rofe. MUrm'sParadifiLcJf,
And palter in the flilft of Awinf/i. Shakefptarc. Though loyahf, well held, to fools does make
If with a true Chriftian luiulineji of heart, and 3. Want of rank; want of dignity. Our faith mere folly yet he that can endure ;
a devout fervency of foul, we perform them, we The name of fervants has of old been reckoned 'I'o follow with allegiance a fall'n lord,
fiiall 6nd, that they will turn to a greater account to imply a certain meannefs of mind, as well as Does conquer him that did his mailer conquer.
to us, than all tlie warlike preparations in which we Imvncji of condition. South. Sbakefpeare.
trull. A'Atrbury,
4. Want of fubliraity contrary tolofti-
;
He had never had any veneration for the court,
2, Meannefs want of dignity abjefl but only fuch loyally to the king as the law re-
; ; nefs of ftile or feniiment.
quired. Ciarendcn.
depreflion. His llile is accommodated to his fubjeft, either
Abdiel faithful found
Theycontinued in that Invl'wtfs until the divi- high or low ; if his fault be too much hivnefs, that
Unlhaken, unfeduc'd, unterrify'd.
fion between the two houfes of i<aoca(ler and V'ork of Pcrfius is the haidncfs of his metaphors.
His loyalty he kept. Mi/ltn,
arofc. Spinjer. DryJen,
For loyalty is dill the fame,
The lyu'Iinefs of my fortune has not brought me 5. Submifllvenefs. Whether it win or lofc the game ;
to flatter vice is my duty to give tellimony to
j it
The people were in fuch Inonefi of obedience True as the dial to the fun.
virtue. Dryden, as fubjefts were like to yield, who had lived almuil Although it be not (hone upon. HuJiirai,
Lo'wLY. adj. [from /ew. four-and-twenty years under fo politick a king as
2. Fidelity to a lady or lover.
I. Humble; meek; mild. his father. Bacon,
Lo'zENCE. n. /. [lo/engt, French. Of
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me ; for 6. Depreflion ; dejeAion.
X«m meek and Irwiy in heart. Matt, xi, 29. iience that poverty and Uwnefi of fpitlt to unknown etymology.]
1 I. A rhomb.
; ; j ; ;.
LU B LUC LUC
1. A rhomb. He that enjoyed crowns, and knew their worth, that part of the glafs where it is moft in motloli,
upon reflangular excepted ihem not out of the charge oi univerfal the eleftrick vapour, which is excited by the fric-
The bed builders refolve
vanity j and yet the politician is not dilcouraged tion of tlie glafs againft the hand, will, by dafhing
fquarcs, as a mean between too few and coo many
at the iiicanltancy of human alfairs, and the lubri- againft the white paper, cloth, or finger, be put into
angles ; and through the equal inclination of tlie
fides, they are llrunger than the rhomb or Isjcvge, city of his fubjeit. Glanvillc^s Apolo^. fuch an agitation as to emit light, and make the
Woaar.'s A<ch'itctiur!. A Hate of tranquillity is never to be attained, white paper, cloth, or finger, appear lucid like a
but by keeping perpetually in our tlioughts the glow-worm. NcwtîL.
2. Lozenge is a form of a medicine made
certainty of deatli, and the luirici/y of fortune. The pearly (hell its lucid globe uqfold.
into imall pieces, to bt held or chewed r L'Ejharge. And Phccbus warm the rip'ning ore to gold. Pep;.
in the mouth till melted or waited. 4. Wantonnefs ; lewdnefs. 2, Fellucid tranfparenr.
;
3. A cake c£ prelerved fruit both thefe : From tlie letclicry of thefe fauns, he thinks' that On the fertile banks
are io denominated from the original fatyr is derived from them, wantonnefs and
as if Of Abbaiia and r'harpar, lucid ilreams. Milton.
form, which was rhomboidal. lubricity were eflential to that poem whicli ought On the tranfparent fiJe of a globe, half lilver
in all to be avoided. Diytien. and half of a tranfparent metal, we faw certain
Lp. a contraftion for Icrdjhip.
Lu'brick. flr.inge figures cirCtHarly drawn, and thought we
adj. [lubricus, Latin.]
Lu'bbard. n.f. [from lubber.^ A lazy cou'd touch them, till wc found ouvfingcrs flopped
I. Slippery; Imooih on the furface.
llurdy fellow. by tnat lucid fubftance. Gulliver's Travels,
Yet their wine and their viQuals thofe curmud-
A throng
Of fhort thick fobs, whofe thund'rirg volleys float 3. B.'-ight with the radiance of intellect;
geon lubhardi
And roul themfelves over her lubrick throat not darkened with madnefs.
Lock up from my fight, in cellau and cupboards. In panting murmurs. Crrjhcrtv. The long difTentions of the two houfes, which,
Z. Uncert.iin unl'teady.;
alrhougli they had had lucid intervals and happy
LU'BBER. n.f. [Of
word the bellthis I will deduce him from Iiis cradle, through the paufcs, yet they did ever hang over the kingdom,
derivation feems to be from lubbed, faid deep and luhruk wavci of lUtc, till he. is fwailowed ready to break forth. Bacart.
by "Junius to fignify in Danish yi;. 3 A in the gulph of fatality. fVottcn. Some beams of wit on other fouls may fall;
fturdy drone ; an idle, fat, buiky lofel ; 3. Wan on ; lewd. Juhrique, French.] Strike through and make a lucid interval
Why were we hurry d down

But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray.
a booby. His riling fogs piev.tii upon the day. Drydeih
This luLr'.ck and aduirate aê;
For terapeft and Ihowers deceiveth a many, I believed him in a lutid interval, and defh-ed hfe
Nay, added fat pollutions of our own,
And lingering tubhcrs loole many a penie. TuJJ'er. would pleale M let me fee his book. Taller.
from the
ihoals of filh
i" encreafe the Iteaming ordures of the ftage ?
Thefe chafe the fmalier A few fenfual and voluptuous perfons may, for
Drydeji.
main fea into the havens, leaping up and down, a feafon, ecliple this native liglit of the foul ; but
puffing like a fat lubber out of breath. Carew, Lv'uKicovs. adj. [lubricus, Latin.]
can never fo wholly fmother and extinguifh it, but
They clap the lubber Ajax on the Ihoulder, I. -Slippery; (niootn. that, at fome lucid intervals, it will recover itfelf
As if his feet were on brave Heftor's brcaft, The parts of water being voluble and lubricous again, and ihine forth to the conviction of their
And great Troy Ihrinking. Shakrfp. Treiil. and Cr, as well as fine, it eafily inlinuates itfclf into the conlcience. Bcvtliy.
A notable lubber thou reporteft him to be. tubes of vegetables, and by that means introduces
Luci'Dxry. n.f. [from lucid.] Splen-
i:kaJtej'feare. into them tne matter it bears along with it.
Tell how the drudging goblin fweat j
dour ; brightnefs. DicS.
Wobdivard'i Natural Hijlory.
His (hadowy flail hath tbrefh'd the com, z. Uncertain. Lv ci'fs. ov s. 9. Lztin ] Giv-
eidj. [luci/er,
That ten day labourers could not end The judgment being the leading power, if it be ing light ; affording means of difcovery.
Then lies him down the lubber fend. Miiltbjt. ftoredwith lub'icoui opinions inftead of clearly con- The expeiiinent is not ignoble, and luciferous
Venetians do not more uncourhiy ride. ceived truth/, and peremptor.ly rcfolved in them, enough, as (hewing a new way to produce a vola.
Than did your lubbtr Hate mankind bcAride. the pradice will be as irregular as the conceptions. tile fait. Biyle.
DryJn. Gi:n-t';y/-'j Scepjiz. Luci'fick adj. [lux and facio, Lat.]
How can you name that fuperannuated lubber >
Lubrifica'tion. Making light; producinc light.
Car.grcvr,
ti.f. [lubricus and Jio,
Lat ] The atl of fmoothing. When made to converge, and fomixcd together)
Lu'bberly. adj. [from lubber.^ Lazy A twofold liquor
is prepared fjr the inunction though their lucijick motion be continued, yet by
and bulky. and of the heads of tlie bones 5 an oily
lubriji:ation interfering, that equal motion, v^hich is the colori-
I came to Eaton to mairy Mrs. Anne Page one, furniftied by the niauowj a mucilaginous, fick, is inccrrupccd. Greîv.
and (he's a great lubberly boy. Stakeffeare. Luck.
fupplied by certain glandules ka.ed in the articula- n.f. [geluck, Dutch.]
Lu'bberly. flz/i'. Awkwardly; clumfily. tions. Ray on CreatiOr. 1. Chance; accident; fortune; hap;
Merry Andrew on the low rope copies lubberly Lubrifa'ction. «. /. [lubricus and cnfual event.
the fame tricks which his maliei is fo dexterouOy
performing on the high.
facio, Latin.] The ail cf luoricatuig He f-jrc'd his neck into a nooze.
Dyden.
or fmoothing To ihcw his play at f.;Il and looti:
Lu. n.f. A
gatne at cards,
I'he caufc And; v.'hen he chjnc'd t' ei'capc, miflook.
is tubrifoBion and relaxation, as in me-
£v'n mighty pam who kings and queess o'er- For ait and fubtlcty, his hck. Hudibras.
dicines emollient ; fuch as milk, honey, and mal-
threw,
lows. Baccn. Some fuch method may be found by human in-
And mow'd down armies in the fights of lu. Pipe.
duftry or luck, by which compound bodies may be
To Lu'bRicate. -v. a. [from lubricus, Luce. n.f. [perhaps from /,i</«.f, Latin.
lefolved into other fubftances than they are divided
Latin.] To make fmooth or flippery ; A pike hill grown.
into by t'ne fire. Boyle.
They "give the doien white lucts in their coat.
to fmoothe. 2. Fortune, good or bad.
K>hakejpeare.
There arc aliments which, befides this lubri- Glad of fuch luck, the lucklefs lucky maid
ftimulate in a degree.
Lu'cHNT. adj. [lucens, Latin.] bhin- A lung time with th.'t favage people (laid,
ttting quality, fnn.all
ArluibnLt on Al'imtnU. ing bright ; fpltiioid.

; To gatiitr breath in many mileries. Spenfcr.
I meant the day-ftar IhO'ild not brighter rife.
The patient is relieved by the mucilaginous and good luck go with thee.
l-arewel, Shakefficare.
the faponaccous remedies, tome of which lubrUuu, Nor lend like influence from his lucent teat. I d d (kmand what news from Shrewfbury,
and others both lubricate and ftimuiate. Sia^p. £trj jlcrjhn. He told rr.e, that rebellion had ill luck,
A fpot like which perhaps And tliat young Ilairy Percy's fpur was cold.
7tf LuBR I'ciTATE. v, a. [frotn liibricui,
Ai>ronoraer in the fun's Itijer.t orb,
.
SbiiUfpeare.
Latin.] To
fmoothe; to make flippery. Through his glaz'd cptick tube, yet never faw. That part of mankind who have had thejuftice,
LvBRr'ciTV. »/. [from lubricus, Latin; M.lion. or the lu k, to pafs, in comm m opinion, for the
luhrtcite, French.] LU'CID. adj. [lucidus, Latin ; lucide, wifciV,have followed a very different fcent. Temple.
fmoothnefs of furface. French.] Suchj how highly foever they may h'avc the luck
1. Slippertnefs ;
to be thouglit of, aie far from being nracliles in-

2. Aptnef» tc glide over any part, or to I. Shining; bright; glittering.
deed. -S utb.
faciliiate motion. Over his lurid aims ^
1 he Quirts are- found too num'rous for the treat.

Both the ingredients of a lubricating nature ;
are A military veft of purple How d j But all, it feems, ho
had the luck to eat.
Livelier than Meiibrcan. Miltcn.
the mucilage ajd< tj the lubricity of the oil, and Swear they ne :r rafted more delicious meat. Tate.
the oil ptefeivcs the mucilage fiom infpifTation. It contrails preferving the eye from being
it,
Ri.y en Creati&it. injured by too vehement and lu.iJ an objeit, and Ltj'cKiLY. adv. [from luclty.\ Fortu-
Uncertainty; flipperine fs ; inltabiliiy.
again dilutes it for the apprehending objcfls more nately ; by good hap.
3.
remote in a fainter light. R,iy. It ij the pencil thrown luckily full upon the horfe's
The manif.'ld impofTibilities and lubricitiei of
If a piece of white paper, or a white doth, or mouth, to cxprefs the foam, which tlie painter
matter cannot have the fame coDveniencies in any
the end of one's finger, be held at the didancc of with all his (kill c luld not form. Dryden's Dufref.
ikodificatioB, Mire.
k
aksut a quartet of aa inch, or half an inch, fium Jt happens luckily for the citablifhtnent of a new
K 2 race
; ;
/
LUC LUG L U L
JewT, the moft luculeat tefllmonies that Chiii>ljn
ta'nty among the ruffling winds of piiCon ani
race of klcgj upon the Britilb throne, thit the
religion hath. Hooker. opinion ; and if the luggage be prized equally with
fiitl of this royal line has sU high qualificiuons.
the jewels, none will be call out till all be fliip-
AUtjon. LU'DICRuUS. ad}, [ludicer, Latin.]
wrccked. GlanvilU.
Lu'cKiNESS. [from lucky.']
«. /. Good Burlefque ; merry ; fportive f exciting
A
lively faith will bear aloft the mind.
. fortune ; good hap ; cafual happinefs. laughter. And leave the luggage of gotid works behind.
i He who fometimcs lights on truth, is in the right Plutarch quotes this inftance of Homcr"» judg- Drydef.
but by chance ; and I know not whether the Imki- ment, in clofing a ludkrcui fcene with decency and I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for
ri-fi of the accident will cxcufe the inegularity
of inftruftion. Brwme. rty jourriey. Sviji la Ptfe.
hi« proceeding. Lcxke. Lu'dicrously. ad-v. [from ludicrouj.] Lugu'brious. at^. [luguire, French;
Lu'cKLESs. a/lj. [from luck ] Unfor- Sportively; in burlefque; in a manner lugubris, Lat.] Mournful ; forrowfu).
lunace ; unhappy. that may excite laughter. A demure, or rather a lugubri'.us look, a whin-
Glad of fuoh luck, the lucUrf! lucky maid Lu'IncROus^fES.s. »./. [from ludicrout] ing tone, maket up the fum of many men's humi-
A lorg time with that lavage people rtaid,
merry call or
liations. Decay of FieiJ.
Burlefque ; fportivenefs ;
To gather breath in many miferics. Fiiirj Slreen.
LU'KEWARM. adj. [The original of
Never iTiall my thoughts be bafe, manner ridiculoufnefs. ;
Though hckltfi, yet without dilgrace. Suchliitg. LuDiFic a'tion. «./. [ludificor, Latin ] this word is doubted. l-rarm/i>, iti
What but his immoderate luft of pow'r,

clfe The aft of mocking, or making fport Saxon, is };l.:ob ; in old Frifick blij ; in
Pray'rs made and granted in iluck/tj's hour ? Dryil.
with another. DiSl. Dutch ; whence probably our
licwie
Lv'cKY. {from iui:k geluckig, Dut.]
aJJ. The palm luke, which luarm may be added, to
to
Fortunate; happy by chance.
;
Luff. «. / [In Scotland.]
determine, by the firft word, the force
of the hand.
But I more fearful, or more lucky wight, of the fecond ; as we fay, boiling bol.]
Difmay'd with that deformed, difmal fight.
To Luff. -v. n. [or leof.'\ To keep clofe
Sea term. 1. Moderately or mildly warm ; io warm
Fled faft away. fairy Sl^€in. to the wind.
Contraci your fwelling fails, and luffxa wind. as to give only a pieafing fenfation.
Perhaps fome arm more hckf than the relt
May reach his heart, and free the world from Diydtn. A dreary corfe, whofe life away did pafs.
bondage. îlJiJo>:'s Cato. To Lug. v. a. [aluccan, Saxon, to pull All wallow d in his own yet luke-.oarm blood.
That from his wound yet welled frelh alas
Lu'cRATiVE. fl<^\ [/afrfl/»y, French ; /«- hga, Swedifh, the hollow of the hand.]
!
Fairy £(ueeM.
erati'vus, Lat.] Gainful; profitable; 1. 'I'd hale or drag to pull with rugged ;
May you a better fead never beho!d,
bringing money. violence. You knot of mouth-friends fmoke and lukiwarm :
Tlie trade of merchandiac, being the moft lu- You gods ! why this water
ciat'rvt, may bear ufury at a good rate : other con- Will lug vour prlells and fcrvants from your fides. Is your perfeftion. Siak/feare's Timin of Athens.
trafls not lb. S.ucn. Sbakejpcure. Bathing the body in luk tvaim water is of great
The difpofition of Ulyfles inclined him to pur- Thy bear is fafe, and out of peril. advantage to coniemperate hot and (harp humours.
fue the more dangerous way of living by war, than Though luggd indeed, and wounded very ill. Huiib. kVifnians Surgery*
the more lucrathvc method of life by agriculture. When favage bears agree with bears. "Whence is it but from this attratlive power,
Brcjmt. Shall fccret ones lug faints by th' ears .' Hud'ihrai. that water, which alone dilMls with a gentle luke-
Lu'cRE. n. /. [^lucrum, Latin.] Gain; See him drag his feeble legs about warm heat, will not diftjl from fait of tartar with-
profit pecuniary advantage. In an ill Like hounds ill coupled : Jowler higi him ftill out a great heat .'
Ni'.cton's Opticks.
;
Througii hedges. Dryden. 2. indifferent; not ardent ; not zealous.
lenfe.
Whofe pleafure is to fee a (trumpet tear If fome few continue ftedfaft, it is an obedience
Malice and lucre in them
Have laid this woe here. Shakcjptare's Cymkliuc.
A cynick's beard, and lug him bj !..c hair. fo lukewarm and languilhing, that it merits not
Drydert. name of
They all the facred myfteries of Heav'n
the palTion. Drydau
Either every fingle animal muft convey a fpirit This fober condud is a mighty virtue
To their own vile advantages Ihall turn whole reprefentation, or clfe they mu'l divide the In luki-warm patriots. Addifm's Cato,
Of lucreand ambition. Mil(ov's Parailife Left.
image amongft them, and fo lug off every one his
A foul
fupreme in each hard inftance trj'd, Lu'kewar.mCy. adv. [from the adjec-
(hare. Collier.
Above all paiji, all anger, and all pride. tive.]
The rage of pow'r, the blaft of publick breath. 2. To Luc out. To draw a fword, in
I. With moderate warmth.
The luft of lucre, and the dread of death. Pofe. burlefque language.
But buff and beltmen never know thefc cares.
2 With indiflerence.
Lucri'ferous. adj. [lucrum and /im,
No time, nor trick of law, their aflion bars Lu'kewarmness. n.f. [ftom lukewarm.']
Lat ] Gainful profitable.
;
They will be heard, or they lug cut an* cut. Dryd. 1. Moderate or pieafing heat.
Silver was aftenvards fcparated from the gold,
ToLuG. f. «. To drag ; to come hcavi. 2. Indifference; want of ardour.
but in fo fmall a quantity, that the experiment,
the coll and pains confidered, was not lucriferoui. ly : perhaps only mifprinted for lags. Some kind of zeal ccunts all merciful mode-
Boyle. My under her own pitch,
flagging foul flies ration luktuarmnfi. King Ctarlet.
Like fowl in air, too damp, and lugs along. 1 he defcdl of zeal is luk.".v/rrmmfs, or coldnefs
Luc.ri'fick. ailj. [lucrum and facio, in religion ; the exccfs inordinate heat and/pi-
As if (he were a body in a body. Vrydei:. is
Latin.] Producing gain. ritual fury. SfraiA
Lug. n./.
Luc ta'tion. »./. [Iu3er, Lat.] Strug-
A kind of fmall 6(h.
Codry your chaff and (lubble, give ^rc to
I.
gle ; effort ; con tell. the zeil of your faction, and reproach them with
'I hey feed on fait unmerchantable pilchards, tag
lukcivarmnefs.
7"e Lu'cuBR ATE. -v. a. [lucitbror, Lat.] worms, lugs, and little crabs. . Canv/.
Iîcift.
y To watch to fludy by night. [In Scotland.] An ear. To Lull. -v. a. [lulu, Danifh ; la/lo,
; 2
Latin.]
LucuBR a'tjon. It./, [lucutratio, Lat.] 3. Lug, a land meafure ; a pole or perch.
1. To corapofe to deep by a pieafing
Study by candle-light ; nofturnal ftudy ; That ample pit, yet far renown'd
For the large leap which Debon did comp'^l found.
any thing compofed by night. *•
Ccaulin to make, being eight lugs of ground. There down

trickled f jftly
Thy htuhrathns have been perufcd by fevcral of
our friends. Taller. Sfenjcr. A gentle (ircam, whofe murmuring wave did play
Lu'ggage. Any Amongd the pumy (lones, and madâ found

Lucubra'tory. atlj. [lueuhratcrius, from n.f. [from lug thing ]
To lill him foft afleep, that by it lay. Fairy Sûecn.
lucubror, Latin.] Compofed by candle- cumbrous and unwieldy that is to be Such fweet compuliion doth in inuf^ck lie,
light. carried away; any thing of more weight To lull the d.iughters of necetlity. Milton.
You miift have a d!A of coffee, and a folitary than value. Thefe lull'd by nightingales embracing (lept.
candle at your fide, to write an cpiftle lucuhratLry Come, bring your luggage nobjjr 00 your back. MilntH
to your friend. Tofê. i:b.-kffcjrc. 2. To compofe ; to quiet ; to put to reW.
Lu'cu;.ENT. «fljr. [lucuUmui, Latin.] What do you mean To And a foe it (hall not be his hap.
1, Clear; tranfparent ; lucid. This word To doat thus on futh luggage f SI akrffrare's 7tm. And peace (hall lull him in her flow'ry lap. AfJtcn.
'1 hink not thou to find me.llack, or need
perhaps not oftd in this fenfe by any No more thefe fcenes my meditations aid.
is
Thy politick maxims, or that cumberfome Or lull to red the vilionary maid. P^pe.
other writer. Luggage of war there (hewn me. Milton s Par. Reg. By the vccal woods and waters lulfd.
And lucMltm along How durft thou with that fullen luggage And mufmg in a dre.im.
loft in lonely Tiemfm,
The purer rivers flow. Thmjem's Homier. O' th' felf, old ir'n, and other baggage,
2, Certain ; evident. 1' oppofc thy lumber againlt Ui ? Hudihras.
Lu'llaby. n /. [lallus, Latin. Quem
Tbcy arc againS the ohAinate incredulity of the The mind of mxi is too light to bear much ccr- nutricum fuifie dcum conicndit Turtte-
5 bus.
: ; .
L U M L U M L U N
How came the fun to be luwareusf Not t'rnm Litrle terreftrial particles fwimming in it t>fter
bus, from luU : it isobfervable, that the Benfley. the grofleft weie funk down, which, by th^-ir
the neceflity of natural caufes.
nurfes call fleep by, by; lullaby iy heavinefs and lumpijh figure, made their way more
2. Enlightened.
therefore lull 10 Jleep.] fong to ftill A Earth may, induftrious of herfelf, fetch day.
fpccdily. Burnt.
babes.
How dull and bow infenfible a beaft
Travelling eaft ; and with her part averfe
Is man, who yet wou'd brd it o'er the reft ?
Only that noife heav'n's rolling circles keft, From the fun's beam, meet night ; her other part Philofoph.crs ajid poets vainly ftrove
Sung lullahy, to faring the world to reft. Fairfax. Still luminoui by his ray. Milton i Faradlje L'.Ji.
In every age the Iwrpijh mafs to move. DryJe^.
Philomel, with melody. Shining ; bright.
3. Lu'mpishly. atlv. [from lumpijb.'} With
Sing in your fwcet lullaby ; The moft luminous of the prlfmatick colours are
tulla, lulla, lullaby ; hlla, lullj, lullaby. ShaMf. heavinefs; with ftupidity.
the vellow and orange ; thefe atfcft the fenfes
If you will let your lady know I am here to more' ftrongly than all the reft together. Ne^vton. Lu'mpishness. n. y". [from the adje;-
fpeak with her, and bring her along with you, it Stupid heavinefs.
tive.]
may make my bounty further. LUMP. n. /. Dutch.]
[lomfe,
—
Many, Sir, lullaby to your bounty till I come 1. A fraall mafs of any matter. Lu'mpy.. eidj. [from lump.]
lumps; full of compafl maires.
Full of
again. Sfftakcfftare. The weed kal is by the Egyptians ufed firft for
Drinking the lullaby ufed by nurfes to ftill
is fuel, and then they crafli the afhes into lumfs like One of thi beft fpades ?o dig hard lumpy clay.s,
crying children. 1.7ckt on Education. a ftone, and fo fell them to the Venetians. Bacon. but too fniall for light garden mnulJ. Mirtiirer.
Lumba'co. «./. [lumbi, Lat. the loins.] Without this various agitation of the water, how Lu'nacy. [from /«»«, the moon.],
it./,
Lumbago's are piins very troublefome about the could lumps of fugaf or fait caft into it be i\> pcr- A kind of madnefs influenced by the
and fmall of the back, fuch as precede ague fedly diflblved in it, that the lumps thcmfelves
loins,
totally difappeai B.yle.
m .'On ; madnefs in genrral.
fits and fevers they are moft commonly from
:
?
Love is merely madnefs, and defetves as well a
fulliKfs and acrimony, in common with a difpo- A wretch is pris'ner made ;
dark houfe and a whip as madmen do ; and th«
fition to yawnings, fliudderings, and crratick pains Whofe fleih torn off by lumfs, the rav'nous foe
reafon why they are not fo punilhed and cured is,
In morfels cut. Tare.
in other parts, and go off with evacuation, gene- that the lunacy is fo ordinary, that t'ue whippersate
rally by fweat, and other critical difcharges of
Ev'ry fragrant flow'r, and oj'rous green.
,
in love too. Shakefpeares Ai you tike it.
fevers. Sumcy. Were forted well, with lumps of amber laid be-
Dryden.
Your kindred Ihun your houfe.
tween.
LU'MBER. n.f. [loma, jeloma, Saxon,
To conceive thus of the foul's intimate union
As beaten hence by your ftrange lunacy. Sbakcfpârt
houfehold-llufF; lommering, the dirt of with ar. infinite being, and by that union receiving
There is diffcicnce of lur,acy ; 1 had ratiier be
an houfe, Dutch.] Any thing ufelefs or mad with him, that, when he had nothing, thought,
of ideas, leads one into as grofs thoughts, as a
all the ftiips that came into the haven his, than
cumberfome ; any thing of more bulk country-maid would have of an infinite butter-
with you, who, when you have fo much Coming
print, the feveral parts whereof being applied to her
than value. in, think you have nothing. Su.kiirg.
The very bed was violated lump of butter, left on it the figure or idea there
-
was prefent need of. Locke. Lu'nar. ) adj. [lunaire, Fr. lunaris,
By the coarfe hands of filthy dungeon villains,
Ar«i thrown amongft the common lumbtr. Oitvay. 2. A fhapelels mafs. Lu'nary. 1 Latin.]
One fon at home Hence, heap of wrath, foul indigefted limp ; 1. Relating to the moon.
Concenu thee more than many guefts to come. As crooked in thy manners as thy ftiape. Ukakefp. thefe years were
They that have refolvcd that
• If to fome ufeful art he be not bred, Why might there not have been, in this great but lunary years, I'iz. of a month, or Egyptian
. He grows mere lumber, and is worfe than dead. mafs, huge lumps of folid matter, which, without years, are eafily confuted. Raleigij.
Dry den. any form or order, might be jumbled together ? Then we upon our globe's laft verge (hall go,
Thy neighbour has remov'd his wretched ftoie, Keil againji Burnt t. And view the ocean leaning on the flcy
Few hands will rid tlie lunbttr of the poor.
3. Mafs undiAinguifhed. From thence our rolling neigiibours we (hall
Dry den. All men's honours know.
If Cod
intended not the precife ufe of every Lie like one lump before him, to be faftiion'd And on the lunar world fecurely pry. Dryden.
fingle atom, that atom had been no better thin a Into what pinch he pleafe. Sbakefp. Henry VIII. 2. Being under the dominion of the moon.
piece of /jiTO^fr. Grrzp. It is rare to find any of thefe metals pure : but They have denc-minated fome h-'rbs folar aid
poring fcholiafts mark ;
The copper, iron, gold, filvcr, Icjd, and tin, all promif- fome lunar, and fuch like toys rut into g-cat
Win, who, like owls, fee only in the dark; cuoully in ontlump. Hôodtuartfs Natural Uijiory. words. Bacon s Natural Hij*&iy.
A lumbtr boak of books in ev'ry head. Pofe.
4. The whole together ; the grofs. The figure of its fcei much
rcfemblcs a horlc-
7ii Lu'mber. -v. a. [from the noun.] If my rea'jers will not go to the price of buying
•
(hoe, which Baptilla Porta hath thought too low a
To ufelefs goods irregularly.

heap like my papers by retail, they may buy them in the fignification, und raifcd the fame untt> a lui.iry rc-
prelentation. Br:-un's i^nlgjr Erroun.
In Rollo we muft have fo much ftuflf lumbered lump. A.idifon.
together, that not the leart beauty of tragedy can Other tpidemical vices are rife and predominant Lu'naxy. n.f. [lunaria, Laiin ; lunaire,
appear. Rymer. only lor a feafon, and muft not be afcribed to hu- French.] «4oonwort.
7'fl Lu'mber. -v. n. To move heavily, man nature in the lump. BentUy. Then fprinklcs (he the juice of rue
burthened with his own bulk. The principal gentlemen of feveral counties arc With nine drops of the midnight dc-w,
as
ftigmatiied in a tump, under the notion of being From lunary diftilling. Dr,.yton's Nyirplid.
Firft let ihem run at large,
Nor lumber o'er the meadi, nor crofs the wood.
pipiftb. Stvift.
Lu'nat.p. adj. [from luna.] Forined
DryJin. To Lump. -m. a. To take in the grofs, like a'half n con.
Lu'mihary. n.f. [lumirtare, Lat. liimi without attention to particulars. Lu'kaTick. adj. [lunaficut, Lat.] Mad ;
The cxpences ought to be lumped together.
naire, Fr.] having the imagination influenced by
Ayliffes Parergon.
J. Any body which f;ives light.
Boccalini, in his political balance, after laving the moon.
The great lumira^y
France in one fcaie, throws Spain into the o:her, EcJIam bcgg.irs, from low firms.
Difpenfes light from far. Milten. Sometimes with liinatkk tans, fometimes with
which wanted but very little of being a counter-
X. Any thing which gives intelligence. poife the Spani.u-ds upon this reckoned, that if
:
prayers,
^
Sir John Graham, I know not upon what lumi- Spain of itfelf weighed fo well, they could not f.iil Enforce their charity. Shaktfprari.
nar'iti he cfpicd in his face, difliiadcd him from of fuccefs wlien the feveral parts of the monarchy Lu'natick. «. J'. A madman.
martiag[;. ff'ottcn. were lumped in the fame fcalc. Adcifn. The lunatiek, the lover, and the poet,
3. Any one that inftrufts mankind. Li;'mpf«sh. ». /. [lumf and ^Ji ] A Are of imaînaticn all compact
The circoiation of the biood, and the weight
lort of iifh. One fees more devils than vaft hell can hold ;
and fpring of the air, had been rclerved for a late The madman. Hhakejp. Midpmm.r Niglt's Dream.
iiappy difcovcry by v»o great luminariei M this Lu'mpikc. ael/. [from lump-] Large ^ I dare enfure any men well in h'\ wits, i'jT one
ifl.ind. * Brntley. heavy ;
great. A low word. in the thoufand that he (hall not die a h.vatick in
LuMiN' a'tiox. n. /. [from lumen, Lat.] Nick, thou {halt have a lumping pennyworth. Bedlam within thi-fe fi;vcn years; beraufe not
yi/ luthnot. above one in about cne thoufand five hundred b.ive
Emifljon of light. Di3.
Luminous, atlj. [luviiniux, French.] Lv'mpish. aelj. [fom lump.] Heavy ;
done fo. Graunt's Bilist
bulky. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple fing.
I. Shining; enri'iing light. grofs; dull; unaftive ;
The fot a hero, lunatiek a king. Popf>
Hre burneth wood, making it firft lumineux, Out of the earth was formed the fleih of man,
The refidue of the yearly profits (hall be laid
then blick and biiicle, and laftty, broken and in- and therefore heavy and lumpijh. Kaleigb.
out in purchafing a piece of land, and in building
Batvn. Sylvia is iumpipi, heavy, meiancholy. Shakejpeare.
<tner::e. theicon an hofpltal for the receptioa of ideots and
Love is ail fairies fooner may
fpirit :
Jt< fiift coovex divides lunaticks. Sluift.
The luKinout taUitQs oibt mcioi'd. Be taker tardy, when they night-tricks play.
From chaos. Mitnn. Than we J

we oic too <WU aod lumpijb. imckling. Luna'tion. n. f. [lunai/iin, French;
luta.
! .; ;
' ; ;
L U P L U R L U S
tuna, Latin.] I'he revolution of tlie p'tr.ei, tliat his invention might be quick and re- A great eflate to an heir, is a lure to a!^ the
fined. Piarhiim on Droviing. birds of prey round about to feize Sacon- on him.
moon. pride, nor art
nor force can
If th« /unilims be obferved for a cycle of nineteen
Where ftalks of luf'mci grew, 'i'his (lifl'ncck'd
Th' enfuing feafon, in return, may bear bend.

years, which is the cycle of the moon, the fame
The bearded produfl of the golden year. Dryden. Nor high-flown hopes to reafon's /uredefcend.
obfervationi will be verified for fucceeding cycles
Lurch, [This word is derived
n. f. Dfnbami
for ever. HMer on TiiKf
A falc'ner Henry is, when Emma hawks
Lunch. ? [Mip/ifiv derives it
"• /• by Skinner from Vourche, a game of With her of tarfels and ofluret he talkn. Pricr,
Lu'ncheon.J Jcuj'a, from
Spanifh draughts, much ufed, as he fays, among 2. Any enticement; any thing that pro-
Skinner from kleinkett, a fn.all piece, the Dutch ourche he derives from area ;
;
mifes advantage.
Teuionick. It probably comes from fo that, fuppofe, thofe that are loft
1 How many have with a fmile made fmall account
clutch or cluKch.'\ As much food at are left in lorche, in the lurch or box; Of beauty, and her /f/rî, eafily fcom'd
one's hand can hold. whence the ufe of the word.] All her alTaults, on worthier things intent ? Milltn.
Luxury
When hungry thou ftood'ft ftaring, like an oaf, To leave in the Lurch. To leave in a
from the barley loaf
1 flic'd the /uriiheofi
Held out her lure to hU fuperiour eye.
forlorn or deferted condition ; to leave
With crumbled bread I thicken'd well the mefs. And griev'd to fee him pafs contemptuous by.
Cay.
without help. ludicrous phrafe. A Afaddrn*
Will you now to peace incline,
LvNF. n./. [luna, Latin.] And languilh in -the main defign,
TijLure. •». «. [from the noun.] Td
call hawks.
1. Any thing in the flupe of an half And itave us in tht lurch f Derham.
Standing near one that lured loud and flirill, I
moon. But though thou'rt of a different church,
had fuddenly an offence, as if fomewhat had bro-
A Irooji of Janii.iries ftrew'd the field, I will not leave thee in the lurch. liudihreis.
ken, or been dlHocated in my car, and immediate-
FalVn in juft ranks or wedges, luresy or ftjuares, Have a care how you keep company with thofe
ly after a loud ringing. Jiaccn.
Firm as they ilood. HÂtti* that, when they find thcmfelves upon a pinch,
2. Fits (if lunacy or frenzy ; mad freaks.

will leave their friends in the lurih. VFJiratige. To Lure. v. a. To attrafl ; to entice ;
Can you your word with three of the
bre::k to draw.
The French fay of a man fantaftical or honelleli belt meaning pcrf jns in the world ? It is As when a flock
whimlical, 11 a des luna. Hantner. bafc to take advantage of their fimplicity and cre- Of ravenous fowl, though many a league remote,
Beftrew them dulity, and leave them in the lurch atlafti Arhuth. Againft the day of battle, to a field
Thefe dangerous, unfafe /kmi, i' ih' king; Flirts about town bad a defign to cail us out of Where armies lie encampd, come f?ying, lur'd
He muft be told on't, and he fliall : the i,ffice the falhionable world, and lea-ve us in the lurch, by With fcent 0^ living carcafTes. Milt-.n'i Par. DcJ!,- J
Becomes a woman beft. Sbiikcfpearis fVijitirî 'Tale* forae of their late refiKcmonts. Addijonî Guardian. A man fpeift one day in labour, that he might
\, A laifh : as, the lune of a hawk, To Lurch, -v. n. [leeren, Dutch; or ra- pafj the other at cafe ; and lured on by the plea,
A fuie of this bait, when he was in vigour he would
LUNETTE, n. /. [French.] fmall ther from the noun.]
provide for as many days as he could. 1'tmfk,
half moon. 1. To (hift; to play tricks.
Should you lure
Lurern is a covered place made before the cour- Imyfeif, fometimes leaving goodnefs on my left
From his dark haunt, beneath the tangled roots
tinc, which confifts of two faces that form an angle hand, and hiding mine honour in my neceility,
Of pendant trees, the monarch of the brook,
inwards, and is commonly raifed in fofies full of am fain to fhuifle, to hedge, and to lurch. Shakef.
Behoves you then to ply your fined art. Tbcmfin,
water, to lerve inllead of a faufle braye, and to dif- 2. To lie in wait : we row rather ufe Volumes on ihelicr d flails expanded lie.
pute the enemy's palTage : it is fix toifes in exteJit,
lurk. And various Icicnce lures the learned eye. Cay*
of which the parapet is four. Trcvoux. While the one was upon wing, the other ftood Lu'rid. acl/. [luriduj. Lit.] Gloomy;
Lungs, n. J~. [lunjen, Saxon; long. lurching upon the ground, and llcw away with the
difmal. Not ufed.
Dutch.] The lights the p irt by ; filli. L'EJirange. Slow fettling o'er the lurid grove,
which breath i» infpired and expired. To Lurch, v. a. [lurcor, Latin.] Unufual darknefs broods. ThmfonU Summer,
Moic would I, but my ittrgs are wailed To, I. To devour; to fwallow gicedily. To Lurk. [probably lurch and lurk
nj. n.
That ftrength of fpeech i* utterly denied me. Too far off from great cities may hinder bufi-
are the fame word. See LURCH.]
Shakcfptart. nefs ; or too near lurihilh all provlfions, and makctli
The bellows of his hings begin to fwell, 'J'o lie in wait; to lie hidden; to He
every thing dear. Bacon.
Kor can the good receive, nor bad expel. DrydeK.
z. To defeat; to difsppoint. A word clofe.
Had 1 a hundred mouths a hundred tongues, Far in land a favage nation dwelt.
now ufed only in burlefque. [from the
That never tailed grace, nor goodnefs felt
And throats of bral's infpir'd wiih iron lungi
;
I could inic half thofe horrid crimes repeat,

game lurch."] But like wild bealls, lurking in loathfume den.
Mor half the punifliments thofe crimes have met. He waxed like a fea ; And flying fall as roebuck through the fen.
Dry den, And, in the brunt of fcventeen battles fince. All naked. Fairy Slueeti^
Lu'nced. adj. [from lungs. ^ Having He lurcbt all fwjrds o' th' garland. Sbakefpeare. Milbrook lurhth between two hills, a village
God never defi^neJ the ule of them to be con- of fome eighty houfes, and borrowing his name
lungs having the nature of lungs
;
tinual by putting luch an cmptlncfs in them, as
; from a mill and little brook running there through.
drawing in and emitting air, as the fliould fo qu.ckly fail and /.ur.-irthcexpeQation. Carfw's Survey of Ctrmeall.
lungs in an animal body. South. They lay not to live by their worke.
The fmith prepares his hammer for thft ftroke. This is a fure rule, that will never deceive or But theeviflily loiter and lurke. TuJJir's Hujhandry,
While the luog'd bellows hilling fire provoke. lurch the fincere communicant. Scutb. If finners entice thee, confent not ; if they fay,
Dryden. 3. To fteal privily ; to filch ; to pilfer. let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for
LuNO-GROWN. adj. {lung and grmun.\ L/u'rcher. n /. [from /ttrrA.j the innocent. Prcv. i. 11.
The lurgs fomet'mes grow fail to the (kin that 1. One that watches to fteal, or to betray The wife, when danger or diihonour lurks,
lines the breail wic'i-n j whepcc fuch a: are de- Safell, and feemliefl by her hufband flays. Milton,
or entrap. See
rained with that accidL-nt are lurg-groiun. Hart-ey.
His thefts fomc tradcfman fpies.
Lu'ngwort. n. /. [ûlmonaria, Latin.] The lurking gold upon the fatal tree. DryJen's £».
Swift from his play the fcudding lurcher flies ;
The king unfcen
A plant. Miller. Whi.it evry honcli tongue Stop thief refounds. Lurk'd in her hand, a.id mourn d his captive queen
Xuniso'laR. adj. [luni/claire, Freiich ; Gay. He fprings to vengeance. Pcfe,
;
luna and /o/aris, Latir!.] Compounded 2. Adog that watches for his game. 1 do not lurk in the dark ; I am not wholly
I cannot reprcfcnt thofe worthies more natur.t]ly unknown to the world : I have fet my name ac
of the revolution of fun and moon.
than under the IhaJow df a pack of dogs, made up
Lu»<T. ft-/ [lonie, Dutch.] The match- length. Sv/ifi,
of finders, lurchtrif and
cord with which guns are lired.
fetters.
A glutton;
'I'aiUr.
a gor-
Lu'rker. n./. [from /»ri.] A thief that
3. [Lurco, Latin.]
Lu'piNE. » /. [/«//'«, French; lufinus, mandizer. Not ufed.
lies in wait.
Latin.] A kind of pulfc. Lure. n./. [leurre, French; y<»«, Dut.]

Lu'ricincplace. n./, [lurk iad /'lace.]
It has a papilionaceous flower, out of whofe cm- Hiding place; fecret place.
palement rifes the pale, which afterwards turns ii;to I. Something held out to call a hawk.
My faulcon now is iharp ajid paifinj^ empty.
Take knowlcdjje of all the lurkingplaces where
a pcd filled with either plain or fpherical feeds :
he bideth himiclf. Sam.
And, ihe itoop, the muH nut lull gotg'd. i xxiii. 23.
the leaves grow like fingers upon the fjot (lalks.
till L<e
Mi-llr. For then /lie never looks upon hei iurt. fihaieifcare. Lu'snous. adj. [from delicious, fay fome ;
When Protogenes would undertake any excellent This lure (he call abroad, thinking that this but Skinner more probably derives it
fame and belief would draw, at one time cr other,
fiece, he uled to diet bimfelf with jicas and lu- itQia luxurious, corruptly pronounced.]
fomc biids to Srikc upoo it, Maitn'i Jicnrj Vll.
1. Sweet,
; !
L U S L U S L U T
t. Sweet, fo as to na'ufeate. To Lust. v. n. Job's religious care
His fons alTembles, whofc united prayer.
2.' Swept in a great degree. 1. To defire carnally.
Like fwcct perfumes, "from golden cenfers rife;
The food that to him now is as Tufckui as loches, Inconftant man, that loved all he faw.
And He with diviac lufirations fan£lifies. Sandys.
/hall fhortly be as bitter as coloquintida. Shakejpeare. hfted after all that he did love. Rofcnimoii.
That fpirits are corporeal leems a conceit deroga-
With brandilh'd blade rulh on him, break bis 2. To deiire vehemently.
tive unto himfelf, and (uch as he (hould ratker la-
glafs, Giving fometlmes prodigally ; not becaufc he bour to overthrow ; yet thereby he e{tabli(heth the
And flied the lufckui liquor on the ground. Milton. loved them to whom he gave, but becaufe he lujled
iodxisit oi lufl rations, amulets, and charms.
Blown rofcs hold their rweetusfs to the laft, to give. Sidney.
Brmun^s Vulgar Errours.
And railins keep their lujihus OMive tailc. Drydcn. The Chriftian captives in chains could no way Should lo's prieft command
3, Pleafing; detightful. move themfelves, if they fliould unadvifedly Itijl
A pilgrimage to Meroe's burning fand ;
He will bait him in with the lujihui propofal of after liberty. Kniltes.
Through deferts they wou'd feek the fecret fpring.
fome gainful purchal'e. South. 3. To lilt; to like. Outofufe. And holy water for luflraiion bring. Dry,!en's Ju-u.
Lu'sciousLY. aJ'v. [from /u/cious.] Their eyes fwell witli fatnefs ; and they do even What were all their lufiratVns but fo many fo-
Sweet to a great degree. what they luji. PJal. Ixxiii. 7. lemn purifyings, to render both themfelves and
Lu'sciousNEss. a./, [from Ju/cioui.'] 4. To have irregular difpofitions, or de- their facrificcs acceptable to their gods South, .'
fires. By ardent pray'r, and clear lufira'ion.

Immoderate fweetnefs.
The mixed multitude a lujiing and the
Purge the contagious fpots of human weaknefs ;
Can there be a greater indulgence in Cod, than fell \
children of Ifracl alio wept, and faid, Who Ihall

Impure no mortal can behold Apollo. Prior,
to embitter fenfualities vihoi't lift ioufnefs intoxicates
us, and to clip wings which carry us from him ? give us flcfli to cat ? JJumhcn. Lt;'sTRE. n.f. \lujire, French.]
Decay 0/ Piety. The fpirit that dwelleth in us lujliit to envy. 1. Brightnefs ; fplendour; glitter.
Peas breed worms by reafon of the lufcuwjneft and James, iv. 5. You have one eye left to fee fome mifchief on
iwectnefs of the grain. Mcrthner'i Hujhan^ry. Lu'sTFUL. adj. [/»/? and/a//.] him.
Lu'sERN. n. J. \lupus cer'varius, Latin.] 1. Libidinous; having irrtgular defires. — Le(J it fee more, prevent it ; out, vile gelly
where thy now King Lear.
A lynx. Turning wtatliful fire to hjlful heat.
To the
is lufire
foul time doth perfeftion give,
I Shakefpeare's
With beaftly fin thought her to have defil'd.
Lush. adj. Of a dark, deep, full colour, And adds frelh hifirc to her beauty (liU. Davics.
Fairy Sûeen.
oppofite to pale and faint; from loufche. There is no man that intemperate or hijiful,
is
The fcorching fon was mounted high.
Hanmer. but facfides the guilt likewife llains and oblcures In to the noonday (ky. Addifon's 0-vid.
all irs lujlre,
How hjh and lufty the grafs looks .'

how green ? his foul. ^
•
Tillotjon.
Pafj but lomc fleeting years, and thefe poor eyes.
Sbake^Veai'C. 2. Provoking Where now without a boaft fome lujlie lies.
to fenfuality ; inciting to
LvsK. adj. \lufche, French.] Idle; Jazy No longer (hall their little honours keep.
; luft.
But only be of ufe to read or weep. Prior,
worthlei's, Dia. Thence his lupfu! orgies he enhrg'd. MiUen, All nature laughs, the groves are frelJi and fair.
Lu'sKiSH. adj. [from lujk.^ Somewhat Lu'sTFULLY. aa'z/. [from/«/iya/.] With The fun's mild lufire warms the vital air. Pcpe,
inclinable to lazinefs or indolence. fenlual concupifcence. 2. A fconce with lights.
Lu'sKisHLY. adv. [from lujiijh.'] Lazily; Lu sTFULNEss. ». /. [ffom /«/?/»/.] Li- Ridotta fips, and dances till (he fee
indolently. bid in oufnefs. The doubling luflres dance as quick as (he. Pope,
Lu'sKisHNESS. n. /. [from lufiijh "]
A Lu'sTiHED. J n.f. [from /«/?>.] Vi- 3. Eminence ; renown.
His anceftors continued about four hundred
difpofition to lazinefs. Spenfer. Lu'sTiHOOD. J gour; fprightlinefs
years, rather without obfcurity than with any great
Luso'mous. adj. \luforius, Latin.] Ufed corporal ability. Not now in ufe. '"fl'-'- mttcn.
in play fponive.
; A goodly perfonage. ufed to wonder how a man of birth and fpirit
I
Things more open to exception, yet unjuftly Now in his flower of luftyhed.
freflieft
could endure to be wholly infii;nificant and ob-
condemned as unlawful ; fuch as the lufariiui lots, Fit to inflame fair lady with love's rage. Spenfer. fcure in a foreign country, when he might live v^'ith
dancing, and ftagc plays. Bijhcp Savderjm. Reafon and refped lufire in his own. Sivift.
Ltj'soRY. adj. \luJ'orius, Latin.] Ufed in Make livers pale, and luflihtod dejefled. Sbniefp.
4. [From /tt/?r^ French ; lujirum, Latin.]
I'll prove it on his body j
play. The fpace of five years.
Defpight his nice fence, ani his aftivc ptaiSice,
There might be many entertaining contrivances
for the irrtruSion of children in geometry and
His May of youth and bloom of lujiyhood. Shakifp. Lu'sTRiNG. n. f [froii luJJre.'] A
geography, in fuch alluring and Ivj.ry methods,
Lu'sTiLY. adv. [from lujlj.] Stoutly; Hiining filk ; commonly pronounced
which would make a moll agreeable and lafting im- with vigour; with mettle. luttjiring.
preflion. Watts m the Mind. determine to fight tujiuy for him. Shakrfpeare.
I Lu'sTRous. adj. [from lujire."] Bright;
LUST. n.f. [lofr, Saxon ; luji, Dutch.]
Now, gentlemen. (hining luminnus.
;
Let's tune, and to it lujUly a while. Stukffpeare.
1. Carnal defire. Noble heroes, my fword and yours are kin,
Barbarolia took upon him that painful journey,
This our court, infe£led with their manners, good ("parks and luflrous. Shakefpeare,
which the old king /ajii/y performed. Knol/et.
Shews like a riotous inn j cpicurifm and tuft The more luflrous tlie imagination is, it filleth
He has fougiit /i/7;/y for her, and deferves her.
Make it more like a tavern or a brothel, and fixeth the better. Bacon's N.nur.-il Ufiory.
Scutberne.
Than a grac'd palace. Siakijftare't King Lear, Lu'sTwoRT. n. f. [luf and iMort.} An
and rank thoughts. S he'tcfpearc' s Cfmieline.
L-ifi,
Lu'sTiNESs. n. / [from //'/y.] Stout- herb.
rhe>
are immoderately given to the /Jj} of the nefs ; fturdinefs ; ftrength ; vigour of
flclh, making no confcirnce to get ballards. Ahhot.
Lu'sTY. adj. [luflg, Dutch.] Stout;
body.
When a temptation oi luji aiTaul:s thee, do not Frelh Clarion being ready dight.
vigorous; healthy; able of body.
refili it by difputing with it, but Ay from it, tjiat He with good fpeed began to take his flight This. /a/Ty lady came from Pcrlia late,
is, think not at all of it. TayLr s ll:ly L.ving. She with theChriftianshad enountcr'd oft. Spenfer,
Over the fields in Jiis frank lujiiritfi. Spenfer.
If lufy love (hould go in quelt of beauty.
2. Any violent or irregular deftre. Where there is fo great a pieveiition of the ordi-
Where (hould he find it fairer than in Blanch ?
1 will divide (hall be fatisfied
tlie fôil ; my hjl nary time, it is the hjlinefi of the child ; but when
tipon them. Extdui, xv. g it is lels, it is fome indifpofition of the mother. ,„ . Sbakefpearu
The
ungodly, for his own /ujl, doth perfecute Bjcm's Natural Hificry.
We ,
yet may fee the old man in a morning,
Lufly as health, come ruddy to the field.
the poor let them be taken in the crafty wilinels
: Cappadocian flaves were famous for their lufii-'
they imagined. nifi, and being in good liking, were let on a Itall
And there purfue the chace. Olwav.
. Pfalir.i.
Virtue war reprcfented by Hecculet ; he is drawn to (hew the good habit of their body, and made to Lu'rANisT. n.f [from /«/<;.] One who
offering to ftrike a dragon
by the dragon are ;
play tricks before the buyers, to (hew their aftivity plays upon the lute.
meant all manner of en Draiuing.
L-ftt. Peacham and ftrength. Dryden's Pcrfius. Luta'rious. adj. [lutarius, Latin.]
All weigh our afts, and whate'er feems unjull, Lu'sTLEjs. adj. [from /a/?.] Not vigor- I. Living in mud.
Impute not to neceflity, but /ii/J. Dryden. ous weak.
'i\\t luji of \u^n. Pipe.
; Spenfer. z. Of the colour of mud.
Lu'sTRAL. adj. [lujlrale, French; luf A fcaly tortoife-ikell, of the lutaraus kind.
3. Vigour; adlive power; luftinefs. Not trails, Latin.] Ufed
in purification.
ufed.
Trees will grow greater, and bear better fruit,
His better parts by
waves refin'd.
luflral LUTE. n. f. .{luih, lut, French.}-
More pure, and nearer to sethercal mind. Garth. I. A llringed inftrument of mufick.
if you put fait, or lees of wine, or blood, to the
root : the caule may b«, lb« iocreaQng the lufl or
Lustra'tion. n.f. [lujlralion, French ;
Orpheus with his lute made trees.
fpitit of the rooti lufiratic, Latin.] Purification by water.
And the mountain tops that freeze,
£aton.
Eow themfelves when b« did ling. Shakefpmre.
Mvf
LUX L YI L Y R
^fay mud
b« diawn with a fwctt countenance, Thofe whom laft thou faw'ft wilt have me whipt for lying, and fometimes I am
upon his head a gailand oi lofes, iu «i>c hand a In triumph, and luxurim wealth, are they whipt for holding my peace. Shakelf. Kmg Lear,
in**- ftjclxim. Firft fscn in aQs of prowefs eminent. Many and temputiont
tears befal me by the ly.
Id a fadly pleafing (train And great exploits ; but of true virtue void. ing in wait of the Jews. ASs, xx. 19.
Let the warbling Imi compUin. Fof'r's Si. Catilia. MJtm. Lymph. »./. [lymphe, French; lympha,
A wiU bear a hundred weight without
Jute ftring The luxurious board* Anon. Latin.] Water; tranfparentcolourlels
rufiuiCi but at the l<uue time cannut exeit ita 3. Lultful ; libidinous.
liquor.
eUltiviiy. AriiiihMt. She knows the heat of a luxuries bed :
l.aads ol finging, or of dancing (laves,
Whenthe chyle paHeth through the mefentery,
Her blulh is guiltinefs, notjnodelly. Sbakeffeare. mixed with the lymfh, the moft fpirituous and
it is
Love-Mnlufp'ting wuod>, aoid /a/e-icluucding waves. I grant him bloody.
elaborated part of the blood. ArbuthtiA on AHments.
Duit<iad. Luxurious, avaricious, falfe, deceitful. Sbakeffeare.-
2. [From lut, lutum, Lat.]
Fr. com- A Ly'MPHATEn. adj. [lympbatus, Latin.]
4. Voluptuous; enflaved to pleafure.
pofiiion like clay, with which chemiiis Luxurious cities, wheic the noife
Mad. Dia.
dole up their veflels. Of riot afcends above their lofcieft tow'ra. Itfi.'ton.
Ly'mphatick. ». / [lympiatijue, Fr.
Seme temper lute, fome fpacious vefTels move, 5. Softening by pleafure. from lymjha, Latin]
Thefe furnaces eredt, and thofe approve. Garth. Repel the Tufcan foes, their city feize, The lynifhaii, ks are fienderpellucid tube!, whofe
ToLvTE. -v. a. [Irom the noun.] To Proteft the Latia.'is in luxurious eafe. DryJen. cavities contraficd at fmall and unequal di-
are
6. Luxuriant; exuberant. (lances they are carried into the glands of tiie
:
clofe with lute, or chemifts clay.
mefentery, receiving (irft a fine thin lymph from
Take a vcflel cf iron, and let it have a cover Till mure hands
the lymphatiii dudts, which dilutes the chylous
t>f iron well liiitJ, after themanner of the chemifts. Aid us, the work under our labour grows
fluid. Ct/yiie.
hac^ni Natural Hijlory. Luxurious by rcftraint. Milton's Paradfe Loft.
Upon the death of an animal, the fpirirs may
Inn may be fo heated, that, being dofely Ijted Luxu'riously. ad-v. [from /uxurioui.] (ink into the veins, or tymfbaiicks, and glaudulet.
in a glafs, it ihail condantly retain the Hre. Delicioufly ; voluptuoufly. Fhycr.
ffîHini's Malh. MagUk. Hotter hours you have
Lu'tl'Lent.
Ly'mpheduct. n./. [lympha and ductus,
ndj. llulu/intus, Latin.] Luxuriouf.y pick'd out. Sbakefpeare.
Muddy; turbid. Where mice and rats devour'd poetick bread,
Latin.] A veffel which conveys the
And with lieroick verfc luxurkujly were fed. lymph.
7'a Lux. I v. a. [/tixer, French; Ixxo,
Dryden. The glands.
7(» Lu'.XATE. J Latin] To put out of He never fupt in folemn ftate ; All artful knots, of various Iwllow threads.
joint ; to disjoint. Nor day to night luxurioujly did join. Dryden. Which lymfheduSIs, an art'ry, nerve, and vein,
Conlider well the luxated joint, which way it Involv'd and clofe together wound, contain.
flipped out ; it requircth to be returned in the fame
LU'XURY. n. /. lluxure, old French Blaikmore*
manner. luxuria, Lat.] Ly'nden TREE.
Ucfcending carelefs from his couch, the fall
fVifimiin.
« /. [/;/;•«, Latin.] A
1. Voluptuoufnefs; addiftednefs to plea- plant.
Lux'd his joint neck, and I'pinal marrow bruis'd.
fure. LYNX. n.f. [Latin.] A fpotted beaft,
Itgypt with Afljria ftrove remarkable for fpeed and fharp fight.
Luxa'tion. «./. [from luxo, Latin.] In wealth and luxury. Milton. He that has an idea of a beaft with fpots, has but
i: The aft of disjointing. Riches expofe a man to pride and luxury, and a a confufed idea of a leopard, it not being thereby
2. Any thing disjointed. fooli/h elation of heart. Addijon's HfcSator. fufficiently diftinguiftied from a lynx. Locke.
The undue lltuacion, or connexion of parts, 2. Lull ; lewdnefs. What modes of fight betwixt each wide extreme.
in fractures and luxatms, arc to be redlified by Urge his hateful luxury. The mole's dim curtain, and the/)i«('s beam. Pope.
chirurgical means. Flayer. His beftial appetite in change of luft-. Lyre. n.f. [lyre, French; /yra, Latin.]
LUXE. n. /. [French, luxus, Lat.] Which ftretch'd unto their fervants, daughters.
A harp
; a mufical inilrumeni to which
Luxury; voluptuoufnefs. wives.
Not ufed. Shakiffcare.
poetry is, by poetical writers, fuppofed
The povv'r oi wealth I try'd. 3. Luxuriance; exuberance.
Voung to be fung.
And all the various litxe of coltly pride. Prkr. trees of fcveral kinds fet contiguous in a
ground, with the luxury of the trees will
fruitful With other notes thin to th' Orphean lyre. Milt.
Luxu'ri ANCE. ) «. y". [from luxurians,
My fofteft verfe, my ^rling
incorporate. lyre.
Baejn.
Luxu'riancy. Latin.] Exuberance;
J Upon Euphelia 8 toilet lay. Prur.
4. Delicious fare.
abundant or wanton plenty or growth. He never touched his lyre in fuch a truly chro-
He cut the fide of the rock for a garden, and
A fungus prevents heaiing only by its luxariamy.
by laying on it earth, fumilhed out a kind of luxury
matick manner as upon that occafion. Aihuthnol.
IVijeman.
for a hermit. MJijon-
Ly^rical. ) adj. [lyricus, Latin; lyriqut,
Flowers grow up in the garden in the greateft Ly'rick.
Ly. A
very frequent termination both French.]1 Pertaining to
I-^xur'tatuy and profufion. SfeBatcr.
of names of places and of adjeftives an harp, or to odes or poetry fung to
While through the parting robe th' alternate
bread and adverbs ; when Jy terminates the an harp; fmging to an harp.
In full luxuriance rofe. All his trophies hung and afls enroU'd
7h>mfcn's Suntmer, name of a place, it uerived from is
In copious legend, or Iweet lyriik fong.
Luxu'riant. flrf/. [luxurians, Latin.] kaj, S;.x(jn, afield. Gih/cn. When it
Milton,
Somewhat of the purity of Englifh, fomewbat
Exuberant ; fuperfluoufly plenteous. ends an adjeftive or adverb, it is con of more equal thoughts, fomewhat of fwcetnefs
A tluent and luxuriant fpecch becomes youth
traded from in the numbers ; in one word, fomewhat of »
lich, like : as, brujHy, beajl-
Well, but net age. Bacon's EJiiys.
finer turn, and more lyrical vcrfe, is yet wanting.
The mantling vine gently creeps luxuriant. like ;
plainly, plainlike.
Drydtti.
Milton. Lyca'nthropy. ». /. [Ijcantrofie, Fr. The lute ncglefled, and the lyri.k mufe,
If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his cha-
rafler to be Co. Drydcn's Pref. ti Ovid's EfiJUa.
hvxm and aiSfwTro?.] A kind of mad- Love taught my tears in fadder notes to flow.
nefs, in which men have the qualities And tun'd my heart to elegies of woe. Pope,
Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine.
But (how no mercy to an empty line. Pefe. of wild beads. l.YRicK. n.f. A poet who writes fongs
To Luxu'rjaTE. i;. ar. \_luxurior, Latin.] He fees like a man in his and grows as
(Itcp, to the harp.
much th? wifcr as tlie man that dreamt ot a lycan. The greateft conqueror in this nation, after the
To grow exuberantly ; to Ihoot with ihrofy, and was for ever wary not manner of the old Grecian lyri ks, did not miy
alter to eomc
fuperfluous plenty. near a river. compo(<! the words of his divine odes, but fet them
'lay lor.
I.uxu'rioos. adj. [liixuritux, French, Ly HE. adj. for lite. Spenjer. ^
to mufick himlelf. Adilij'on.
luxurio/ui, Latin.] Lv'lNC. participial noun, from he, whe- Lyrist, n.f. [lyrifttt, Latin.] A muf»-
i. Delighting in the p'eafures of the ther fignifies to be recumbent, cian who plays upon the harp.
it or to
table. His tender theme the charming lirifl chofe
/peak fal/ely or otherwife.
,
Mlneiva s anger, and the direful woes
J. Adminiflring to luxury. They will Iiave me whipt for fpeaking true, thou
Which v^yaîng from I'roy tlie vidlors bore. Pcpe.
M.
M.
MAC MAC MAC
MHas, found,
Englifli, one unvaried
in
by compreffion of the
1 To make lean ; to wear away.
Recurrent pains of the ftomach, megrims, and
Derive their fecondary pow'r
From that which fimply pointJ the hour. Pi lor.
lips; as, mine, tame, camp: it other recurrent head-aches, macerate the parts, and 2. An engine.
render the looks of patients confumptive and pin- In the hollow fide,
is never route.
ing, llaf'vey on Confumpriom. Seleflednumbers of their foldiers hide
Macaro'on. n.f. [macarone, Italian.] 2. To mortify to harafs with corporal With inward arms the dire machine they load.
1. A rude, low fellow; whence
coarfe,
hardfhips.
;
And iron bowels ftuft' the dark abode. Drydcn.
macaroaick poetry, in which tlie language Covetous men are all fools for what greater
:
3. Supernatural agency in poems.
is purpofely corrupted. folly can there be, or madnefs, than for fuoji a The marvellous fable includes whatever is fu-
Like a big wIk, at fight of lotheJ meat. man to macerate himfelf when he need not i'
pernatural, and efpecially the machines of the gods.
Ready to travail j fo I figh and fweat. Burton en Melancholy. Pofe,
To hear this macaman talk on in vain. Donne* Out of an cxcefs of zeal they praftift mortifi- Machinery, n.f. [trota machine.]
2. [Macarcrt, Frefich.] A kind of fweet cations i they macerate their bodies, and impair 1. Enginery; complicated workmanlliip ;
their health. FidJes,
bifcuit, made of flour, almonds, eggs, felf-moved engines.
and fugar. 3. To fteep almoft to folution.
2. The machinery Signifies that part which
In lotions in women's cafes, he orders two por-
Maca'w. »./. A bird in the Weft In- twocotyte of water.
tions of hellebore iraceraled in
the deities, angels, or demons, aft in a
dies, the largeft fpecies of parrot. Arbuthnot. poem. Pope.
Macaw-tree. n.f. MACERA'riON.B.y. [maceration, French
M a'c H I NIsT
n.f, [tnachinefe, French ;
.
A fpecies of the palm-frfe, very common in the from machina, Latin.] conftruftor A
Caribbee iJIands, where the negroes pierce the ren- from macerate.]
1. The aft of watting, or making lean. of engines or machines.
der fruit, whence ifiues a pleafant liquor ; and the
body of the tree affords a foiid timber, fuppolcd by 2. Mortification
corporal hardlhip.
;
M.i'ciLENCY. n. f. [from macilent.]
fome to be a fort of ebony. Milltr. Leannefs. Did.
3. Maceration is an infulion either with or
IWace. «. / [raagja, Saxon ; mafa, without hear, wherein the ingredients MA'CILENT. flrt>-. [macilentut, Latin.]
Spanifh.] are intended to be almoft wholly dif- Lean.
1. An enfign of authority borne before folved. încy. Ma'ckerel. n.f. [mackereel, Dutch;
magiftrates. The faliva ferves for a maceration and diftblution maquertau, French.] A fea-ii(h.
He mightily upheld that royal mace of the meat into a chyle. Ray on Creation. Some fifh are gutted, fplit, and kept in pick!e ;
Which now thou bcar'ft. Shun. as whiting and mc.ci.erd. Careiu's Surt.y cfCorntu.
Fi'iry
Mace-reed. a./, [typha.] An herb. Law ordered that the Sunday fliould have reft
2. [Majfue, French; maja, Latin.] A Ma'chinal. adj. [from machina, Lat.] And that no nymph her noify food fiiould fell.
j
heavy blunt weapon ; a club of metal.

Relating to machines. DiSl. Except it were new milk or mackerel. King's Cooi.
O murth'rous flumbcr
To MA'CHINATE. -v. a. [machinor,
!
Sooner fiiall cats difport in water clear,

tay'ft thou thy leaden mjce upon my boy
That plays thee mufick ? Lat. machiner, Fr.] To plan ; to con-
And fpeckled wackrels graze the meadows fair.
Shakff. Julius Cafar.
The Turkifh troops breaking in with their fcy- Than 1 forget my (hepherd's wonted love. Gay.
trive.
mitars and heavy iron maca, made a moft bloody Mackerel- GALE feems to be, in Dry.
execution.
Machi ka'tion. n.f. [macl>ina/io. Lax. dens cant, a ftrong breeze; fuch, I
Kmlln.
_
Death with his maci
__
machination, Fr. from machinate.] Arti-

pctrifick fmote. Mihcn. fuppofe, as is defired to bring mackerel
With his m.irr tlieir monarch ftruck the ground fice ; contrivance; malicious fchenie.
j frefii to market.
With inward trembling enrth icceiv'd the wound, If you mifcarr)',
Vour They put up every fail, ..,
And dreams a ready palfage found. Drydctt.
cifing bufinefs of the world hath fo an end.
The wind was tair, but blew a ma. krel-gaJe. Drfd.
1 he mighty mjrti with fuch hafte defcend, And machifiatron ceafes. Shakefpeare^s lîng Lear,
They break the bones, and make the armour bend. O front tiieir machinations free. Ma'crocosm. ».y". [macroccfme, French ;
Dryden. That would my guiltlefs foul betray yMKflt^ and xariôc.] The whole world,
3. [Macis, Latin.] kind of fpice. A From thofe who in my wrongs agfca, or vifible fyttem, in oppofuion to the
The nutmeg is indofcd in a threefold covering, And for my engines lay
life their Sandys. !
microcofm, or world of man.
of which the fecond is maee : it is thin and mem- Be ftrata^ms of helt.
fruftrate all ye
And devilifh macbinatiom come to nought. Mi/ton.
Macta'tion. ». / [maSlalus, .Latin.]
branaceous, of an ole.iginous and a yelJowifh co-
How were they zealous in refpc^l to their tem- The aft of killing for facrifice.
lour it has an e«remely fragrant, aromatick, and
:
agreeable fmell, and a pleafant, but acrid and

poral governors ? Kot by open rebellion, not by MA'CVLA. n.f. [Latin.]
oleaginous tafte. Hi'li Materia Midica.
private machinations ; but in bleflingand fubmitting 1 A fpot.
to their emperors, and obeying them in all things And
Water, vinegar, and honey, is a moft excellent laftly, the body of the fun may contraft
fudorifick : it is more effectual with a little maic
but their idolatry. Uprait. fome fpots or maculce greater than ufual, and by
added to it. Arbulhrt^t. MACHINE. »./. [maehiiia, Latin i ma- that means be darkened. Buniet's Th. of the Earth.
Macea'le. «. /. [mact and ale.] Ale chine, Fr. This word is pronounced 2. [In phyfick.] Any fpots upon the
fpiced with mace. majhetn.] Ikin, whether thofe in fevers or fcorbu-
I prefcribeJ him a draught of m:!cea/f, with I. Any complicated work in which one tick habits.
hopes to dilpofc him to reft. yriftmati'i Surgery. To Ma'culate. a. [macule, Latin.]
part contributes to tlie motion of an- 1;.
Ma'cebearer. n. /. [mace and bear.] other. To ftain ; to fpot..
One who carries the mace before per* We are led to conceive thi« great machine of the Macula'tiok. ». /. [from maculate.]
Tons in authority. world to have been oXce in a Itate of greater fim- Stain fpnt ; taint.
;
I was placed at a quadrangular taWe, oppofit« to plicity, as to conceive a watch to have been once 1 will throw my glove to death liimfcif.
the mace-hcarer. Sp.-flalor. in its firft materials. Burnet, That there's no matulaiion in thy heart. Shakefp,
To MA'CERATE. -v. a. [macero, Lat.
\n a watch's fine machine.
Ma'cule.s./. [macula, l.AUn.] A fpot
The added movements which declare, ;
macerer, Fr.] a ftain.
Hov; full tht moon, how old the year,
• Vol. 11. L MAD.
MAD MAD MAG
adj. [jemaad, Saxon ; matto, I give my hand oppos'd againll my heart. There are degrees of madnefi as of folly, the dif.
Unto a madirain rudefby, full of fpleen. Shakejf. orderly jumbling ideas together, in fome more,
Italian.]
He let fall his book. fomc lefs. _ Locke.
1. Difordered in the minJ ; broken in And a« he (loop'd again to take it up. 2. Fury J wildnefs of pafTion ; rage.
the underftanding; diilradledj delirious This madbrain'd bridegroom took him fuch a cuff, The power of God bounds to
fets tlie raging of
without a fever. That down fell prieft and book. Shakejfean. the fea, and rcllrains the madnef of the people.
he mai. Ma'dcap. n. /. \_mad and cap; cither King Claries,
— Ala>.lc, Sir,
'Tis the time's plague
is
when madnirn lead the taking the cap for the head, or alluding He rav'd with all the madnefi of delpair.
blind. Shakrjjieart.
to the caps put upon diftrafled perfons
He roar'd, he beat his breaft, and tore his hair.
This mufick mads me, let it found no more ; O^ydenm
For though it have he'p'd madmen to their wits. by way of diftindHon.] A madman j
Madri'er. n. /.
In me, it fixms, it will make wife men mad. a wild hotbrained fellnw. Madiiei; in war, is a thick plank armed with
Shakifftart. That laft is Biron, the merry madcap lord iron plates, having a canity fufficient to receive
Cupid, of thee the poets fung. Not a word with him but a jell. Shakcfpeare. the mouth of the petard when charged, with which
Thy mother from the fea was fprung The nimble-footed madcap prince of Wales, it is applied again* a gate, or other tiling intended
But they were iraJto make thee young. Dcnham. And his comrades, that daft the world afide. to be broken down. Bailey.
We mu{l kind our paflioas in chains, left like And bid it pafi. Shakef Henry IV. Ma'drigal. n./ [madrigal, Spanifh and
mad folks they break their locks and bolu, and do To JVIa'dden, 1/. ». [from mad.'\ To French, from mandra, Latin ; whence it
an the mifchicf they can. become mad to a£l as mad.
;
Tdy/cr'i Worfhy Communicant, was written anciently mandriale, Ital.]
The dog-ftar rages, nay 'tis paft a doubt.
A
bear, enraged at the flinging of a bee, ran
All Bedlam or ParnalTus is let out; A palloral fong ; any iight airy fliort
like mad into the bee-garden, and overturned all fong.
Fire in each eye, and papers in eacjt^ hand.
the hives. L'Efirange. A madrigal
They rave, recite, and madden round the land. is a little amorous piece, which
Madmen ought not to b^ rrad\ Pope. contains a certain number of unequal verfes, not
But who can help his freniy ? Drydcr'i ^panip Fr.
But fomc ftrsnge graces and odd flights /he had, Tfl Ma'dden. <:;. <i. To make mad. tied to the ftrupulous regularity of a fonnet, or
Such mad^ring draughts of beauty. fubtilty of an epigram it confilts of one fi.igte
:
Was juft not ugly, and was juft not mad. Pifc, rank of verfes, and in that dilf'ers from a canzonet,
" As for a while erwhelm'd his raptur'd thought.
i. ExpreiSng diforder of mind. which confifts of feveral ftrophes, which return in
Tbomfon.
His geiVures fierce the lame order and number. Bailey.
He mark'd, and mad demeanour when alone.
Ma'd-der. »./. [mabepe, Saxon.]
Waters, by whoft falls
Mi/ton.
The flower of the madder confitts of one fingle
Birds fing melodious madrigals. Siakrfpeare.
leaf,which is cut into four or iive fegmcnts, and
3. Over-run with any violent Or unrea- expanded at the top ; the flower -cup afterwards be-
His artt'ul Itrains have o;t delay'd
fonablc de/ire with m, after, per- The huddling brook to hear his m.:drigai. Milton.
:
tf, comes a fruit, composed of two juicy berries clol'ely
Their tongue is light and trifling in comparifon
haps betterycr, before the object of de-^ joined together, containing feed for the mod part
of the Englifli ; more proper tor fcnnets, madri-
lire. hollowed like a navel ; the leaves iic rough, a/id
gals, and eieîes, than heroick poetry. Dryden.
It is the land of graven Images, and they are forrounJ the ftalks in wSorics. Miller.
Madder is cultivated in vaft quantities in Hol-
Ma'dwort. n.f. [/wn</atid w^r/. j An
mad upon their idols. yer. 1. 38.
The world is tunning mad afar land what the Dutch fend over for medicinal herb.
farce, the cx- :
trrmity of bad poetry, or rather the judgment tliat ufe is the root, which is only dried ; but the M/ERE. ad'v. It is derived from the
is fallen upon dramatlck wrking. Dryden. greateft quantity is ufed by the dyers, who have it Saxon mep, famous, great, noted fo :
The people arc not fo very mad of acorns, but fent in coarfe powder. Hill.
lelmere is all famous j atbelmere, famous
that they could be content to ejt the bread of civil Made, participle preterite oi make. for nobility. Gili/on'i Camden.
perfons. Rymer. Neither hath this man finned, nor his parents ;
bnt that the worlcs of God Ihould be made manifed. To MA'FFLE. v. n. To Itammer.
4. Enraged ; furious.
Holy writ rcprefents St. Paul as making havock John, ix. 3. Ain/iuortb.
of the church, and perfecuting that way unto th.e Madefa'ction. n. /. \madefacio, Lat J
Ma'ffler. n.f. [from the verb.] A
death, and being exceedingly -.Xiid againft them. 1 he ail of making wet. ftammerer. Jinfiuorih.
Decay of I'Lty. To all m>^y<u7ui> there is required an imbibi- Magazi'ne. n.f. [magazine, French;
To Mad. v. a. [from the adjcftive.] ,
To tion. Baccr.. from the Arabick macbfan, a trea-
make mad ; to make furious ; to en- To Ma'defy. v, a. [madejtt, Latin.] fure.]
rage. To moiften to make ; wet. 1. A Itorehoufe, commonly an arfenal
O villain ! cried out Zcimane, madded with find- Ma'dcehowlet. n./. {^hubo."] An owl. or armoury, or
ing an unlooked for rival. Sidney.
repofitory of provi-
A jiinfiuorth. iions.
^ This will witnefs outwardly,
As ftrongly as the confcience docs within,
Ma'dhouse. n, f. [mad and iou/e.] A If it (hould appear fit to bellow (hipping in
To the madding of her lord. Sb^kefp, Cymheline. houfe where madmen are cured or con- thofe harbours, it (hall be very needful that there
This muds me, that perhaps ignoble hands fined. be a nagaxine of all nccelTary provifions and am-
Have overbid him, A munitions. Raleigh's EJays.
for they cou'd not conquer. fellow in a madhchf being a/ked how he came
Pliin heroick magnitude of mind
\ Dryden^ there ? Why, fays he, the mad folks abroad arc too
Their armories and magazines contemns. Milton.
Va KfAD. V. It. To be mad ; to be fu- many and fo they have maftered all the fjber
for us,
Some o'er the publick magazines prefide.
people, and cooped them up here. h'Efravge.
rious. And fomc are lent new forage to provide. Dryden.
The madding wheels Ma'dly. adv. [from mad.\ Without Ufeful arms in magaziais we place.
Of brazen chariots rag'd : dire was the noift underilanding ; furioufly. All rang'd in order, and difpos'd with grace. Pope.
Of confiiAs I Milion's Varjuiije Loji. He wav'd a torch aloft, and madly vain. His head was fo well ftored a magazine, that
She, mixing with a throng Sought godlike worlhip from a fervile train. Dryd. nothing could be propofed which he vras not mailer
Of maddlag matrons, bears the bride along. of-
Drydir..
Ma'dman. n. f. [mad and man ] A .
Locke.
man deprived of his underftanding. 2. Of late this word has fignified a mif-
M.\D. n. /. [maû, Saxon.] An earth-
Tliey fliaU be like madmen, Ipaiing none, but celianeous pamphlet, from a periodical
Hill
worm. Jinfxu'orth. fporting. » Efdr. xvi. 71, mifcellany called the Gentleman' t Maga-
Ma'dam. \ma dame, French, my
h. /. He that eagerly purfues any thing, is no better zine, and publifhed under the name of
. dame.] I'he term of compliment ufed than a madman. V Eftrar.ge. Syl'uanui Urban, by Ed-Txard Caw,
in addrefs to Jad'es of every degree. He who ties a madman's hands, or takes away
It
his fword, loves his pcifon while he difarms his
Mage. n. J. [magtu, Latin.] magi- A
was anciently fjjoken as in French, cian. Spen/er.
fieiizy. South.
with the accent upon the lall fyllable.
Ma'dness. h./. [from mad.] MA'GGO I', n f [magrod, Welch ; mjj.
Certes, madam, ye have great caufe of plaint.
Speiijer.
I. Dillraftion ; lofs of underftanding; Itpeda, Latin ; maOu, Saxon.]
Madam, once mote you look and move a queen. perturbation of the faculties. I. A Jmall grub, which turns into a fly.
Pbilift. Why, woman, your hufband is in his old lunes Out ot the fides and back of the common cater-
again : he fo buffets himfelf on the forehead, that pillar we have i"een creep out linall maggtn.
Ma'dbrain. } aJ/ [maJ and irain.]
.
any madnejs I ever yet beheld feemed but tame- Ray « Crealioih
Ma'dbrainkd. J Difordered in the nels wd Civility t» this diftemper. From the fore although the infcft flics.
mind ; hotheaded. Sbaief}icart't Mtrrj ffwei offKmdfir. It leave: a brood otma^goti in difguife. Cant.
2. Whimfey j
MAG MAG MAG
2. Whimfey ; caprice ; odd fancy. A Maci'cian. « / [)tMf/V«r, Latin.] One Some have difputed even againft magijlraiy itfelf.
low word. fkilled in magick; an enchanter; a Aiferbiiry,
TaiFata phrafes, fliken terms prcclfe, Duelling
not only an ufurpation of the divine
is
necromancer.
Three-pUd hyperboles, fpruce aff'eftation. prerogative, but,
it is an infult upon magiftracy and
What black magician conjures up this fiend,
Figure? pedantical, thefe fummcr flies, good government. Clarip.
To ftop devoted charitable deeds ? Sbaktjfrare,
Have blown me full of maggot oflencation : An old magiijtiTiy that did keep
Ma'gistrali.v. ai/'v. {magiftralis, low
Ido forfwear them. Th' Hefperian fruit, and made the dragon fleep ; Latin.] Defpotically authoritatively
; ;
Henceforth my wooing mind Aall be expreft Her potent charms do troubled fouls relieve. magifterially.
In ruir^t yeas, and honcft kerfy noes. Slaiefptare. And, where CUe lifts, makes calmed fouls to grieve. What a prefumption is this for one, who will
To reconcile our late diflenters. Pf'aUir. not a.low liberty to others, to afTume to himfelf
Our brethren though by other venters, There are millions of truths that a man is not fuch a licence to controul fo magiftrally f
Unite them and their difTrent rragg'As, concerned to know ; as whether Roger Bacon was Bramhall againR Hobhei.
As long and (hort Hicks are in faggots. Hujibrai.
She pricked his rraggct, and touched him in the
a mathematician or a magician. La:kc, MA'GISTRATE. n.f. [magi^ralu^,Lit.]
Magiste'ri AL. ac(/. [from magijler, A man publickly inverted with autho-
tender point j then be broke out into a violent
Latin.] rity a governor
paflion. Arbuihr.ot. ; ; an executor of the
Ma'gcottiness. n./. [from maggotty.'\ 1. Such as fuirs a mailer. laws.
Such a government is paternal, not magijler:a!.
The ftate of abounding with maggots. They chufe their magijlrate !
King Charles. And fuch a one as he, who puts his
Ma'cgott Y. [from maggot ]
aJj. He bids him attend as if he had the rod over
/hall.
His popular (hall, againft a graver bench
1. Full of maggots. him and ufea a magifterial authority while he in-
;
Than ever frown'd in Greece. ShakeJfeare'sCorioh
2. Capricious; whimfical. A low word. ftruils him. Dry den. I treat here of thofe legal punilhments which
To
pretend to work out a neat fcheme of 2. Lolty; arrogant; proud; infolent magiflratti inflia upon their dilobedient fubjefls.
thoughts with a tnjggody unfettled head, is as ridi- dei'potick. Decay cf Piety.
culous as to think to write llrait :n a jumbling We aie not magifierial in opinions, nor, didator- Macna'lity. n.f. [magnalia, Latin.]
coach. Norris.
Ma'gical.
,Jike, obtrude our notions on any man. A great thing ; fomething above the
aJj. [from wa^rVif.] Ading, Brvwni Vulgar Erroun,
Pretences go a great way with men that take
common rate. Not ufed.
or performed by fecret and invifible Too greedy of magnalities, we make but favour,
fair words and magijiaial looks for current pay-
powers, either of nature, or the agency of able experiments concerning welcome truths.
ment. L'EJirangt.
Jpirits.
Thofe men are but trepanned who are called to Brc<uirtt
humbly MAC^fANI'MlTY.
I'll what, in his name.
fignify
That i>M^.\-,i/ word of war, we have efteSed. Sbak.
govern, being invefted with authority, but be- [magnanimife,
». /
reaved of power; which is nothing elfe but to French magnanimus, Latin.]
; Great-
They beheld unveiled the magirjl fiiield of your mock and betray them into a fplendid and ma- nefs of mind ; bravery ; elevation of
Ariofto, which dazzled the beholderswith too much
gijicrial way of beinj ridiculous. Siutb. foul.
brightnefs j they can no longer hold up their arms.
3. Chemically prepared, after the manner With deadly hue, an armed corfe did lye.
Drydm.
By the ofc of a looking-glafs, and certain attire of a magiltery. In whofc dead face he read great magnanimity. '
made of cambrick, upon her head, flic attained to Of corals are chiefly prepared the powder ground Spenfcr*
an evil art and mjgical force in the motion of her upon a marlile, and the magijierial fait, to good Let but the afts o{ the ancient Jews be but in-
eyes. Tmlir. purpofe in lome fevers : the tindure is no more difterentlyweighed, from whofe magnanimity, in
than a folution of the magifterial I'alt. Grcm, caufes of moft extreme hazard, thofe ftrange and
Ma'gically. ai/i; [frora magical.'] Ac-
cording to the
Magiste'ri ALLY. ej-v. [from magifte- unwonted refolutions have grown, which, for all
rites of magick ; by en- circumUances, no people under the roof of heaven
chantmenc.
rial.] Arrogantly ; with an air of
did ever hitherto match. Hoohr,
In the time of Valeni, divers curious men, by the authority.
They had enough reveng'J, having reduc'd
falling of a ring,
magicaHy prepared, judged that one A downright advice may be miftaken, as if it Their foe to mifcry beneath their fears;
were (fokcnmagifterially. Bacon't Adiiice to ViiHers.
~ TheodoruJ (hould fucceed in the empire. Camden. The rell was magranimity to remit,
Over their pots and pipes, they claim and cn-
MA'GICK. <!./ [magia, Latin.] grofs all wholly to themfelves, magijitrinlly ccn-
If fome convenient ranfom was propos'd. Milien»
Exploding many things under the name of trifles
1. The of putting in adion the power
art furing the wifdom of all antiquity, fcomng at
is a very falfe proof eitiitr of wifdom or magnani-
of fpirils it was fuppofed that both
:
all piety, and new-modelling the world. Scutb. mity, and a great check to virtuous adions with
good and bad fpirits were fubjeft to Magiste'rialness. n.f. [from magifte- regi.d to fame.
Sivifr.
magick ; yet magick wfs in general rial.] H ughtinefs; airs of a malter. Magna'nimowt. [mag«amm«s,Lzt..'l
a/(/.
held unlawful : forcery ; enchantment. Peremptorinefs is of two forts : the one a tnagi- Great of mind ; elevated in fentimentj
She once being looft, jierialneji in
matters of opinion, the other a pofitive- brave.
The noble ruin of her maghk, Antony, ncfs in relating matters of fail In the one we :
To give a kingdom hath been thought
Claps on his fea-wing. SBahfptan's Ait. and Cho. impofc upon men's underftandings, in the other Greater and nobler done, and to lay down
What charm, what magick, can over-rule the on their faith. Ccucrnment of the Tongue. Far more maguanimous, than to alTume. Mi/totit
force of all thefe motives t Rogen. Ma'gistery. n.f. \magifterium, Latin.] In llrcngth
2, ThefecretoperStionsof natural powers. Magifleny Is a term made ul'e of by chcmilh to All mortals I cxccU'd, and great in hopes,
The writers of natural magick attribute much to fignify fomctimes a very fi.ie powder, made by fo- With youthful courage and magnanimoui thoughts
the virtues that come from tlu; parti of living crea- lution and precipitation ; as of bifmuth, lead, &c. Of birth from heaven foretold, and high exploits.
tures, as if they did infufe immaterial virtue into and fometimes refin and rcfinous fubilances : as Milton,
the part fevered. thofe of jalap, fcamony, Uc. but the moft ge. Magnar.imoui indullry is a refolved afliduity and
Bacm.
nuine acceptation is to exprefs that preparation of care, anfwcrable to
Ma'cjck. atij. any weighty work. Grew': Cof,
any body, wherein the whole, or mort part, is, by Maona'nimously.
1. Ading or doing
by powers fuperior a-d-v. [from magna-
the addition of fomcwhat, changed into a body of
to the known power of nature; en- nimous.] Bravely ; with greatnefs of
quite another kind; as when iron or copper 's
chanted; necromantick. turned into cryftals of Mars or Venus.
mind.
Sîncy.
Upon the comer of the moon I'aracelfus extrafteth the magijlcry
of wine, cx-
A complete and generous education fits a man
to perform jultly, (kilfully,and magnanmoyly, all
There hangs a vap'rous drop profound pofing unto the extremity of cold ; whereby the
it
; the offices of peace aad war. Milton on Eduiation,
I'll catch it ere it come to ground aqueous parts will freeze, but the fpirit be uncon-
And that diftill'd by magi, k (lights
:
gealed in the centre. Brcivn. MA'GNET. »./. [magnes, Latin.] The

Shall raife fuch artificial fprights, The p:agifiery of vegetables confiUs but of the loadftone; the ftone that attrafts iron.
As fcy the ftrength of their illufion. more fuluble and coloured parts of the plants that Two magnets, hcuv'n and earth, allure to blifs.
Shall draw him on to his confufion.
Sbakefpiari,
alFord it. Boyle. The larger loadltonc that, the nearer this. Dryden.
Like by magick art in air,
caftlc: built
Ma'cistracy. Itmay be rcafonable to a/k, Whether obeying
n /. \magiftratus, Lat.]
That vanifli at approach, fuch thoughu appear. the magnet be cUcritial to iron ? Locke.
Office or dignity of a magillrate.
Granville. You (hare the world, her m.jg'Jlracies, pricfthoods, MaCNe'tICAL. } , rr ,
z. Done or produced by magick. Wealth, and felicity, amongd you, friends. Macne'tick. "'v- Uôm magnet.]
f
And the brute earth would lend lier nerves, and Ben yonfon. I. Relating to the magnet.
fliake.
He
had no other intention but to difTuade men Review this whole magneiick fcheme, Shckmirei
Till aU thy magirk llrudures rt*t'd fo high,
from magijlraiy, or undertaking the public offices Water is nineteen times lighter, and by con-
Were ftatter'd into heaps. Miltiti. of ftaU. Briivn. fequence nineteen times rarer, than gold and gold
j
L 2 i,
MAG MAG M A I
U to me, at \ttj readily, and without tlie leaft 2. Fond of fplendoor; fetting greatnefs Anatom, with the firmament cpmpar'd. Milton, .
oppoficisn, to tranfmit tht megruiick effluvia, and Convince the world that you're devout and true {
to (hew.
taiily to admit quicldilver into its poifs, and to Whatever be your birth, you're futc to be
If he were magnificent ^ he fpent with an afpiring
kt water pafs thtouglj it. Nnaton'i Of tick:.
intent t if he fpared, he heaped with an afpiring
A peer of the firft magrirude to me. Drydin.
2. Having powers correfpondent to thofe intent. Sidney,
Conceive thefe particles of bodies to be fo dif-
of the magnet. pofed amongft themfclvcs, that the intervals of
Magni'ficentlv. adv. [from magni- empty fpac^ between them may be equal in magni~
The magnet afts upon iron through all denfe
/cent.] Pompoufly ; fplendidly. tude to them all ; and that thefe particles may be
bodies not martin) i, nor red hot, without any di-
Beauty a monarch is, compofed of other particles much fmaller, which
minution of Its virtnc as through gold, filver,
j
Which kingly power magriftctntly proves, have as much empty fpace between them as equals
lead, gUfs, water. NmiKn's Oft'uku
By crowds of (laves and peopled empires loves. all the magnitude! of thefe fmaller particles. Newton,
3. Attraflive; having the power to draw Dry den.
things dillant.
Ma'gpie. n.f. [from pie, pica, Latin,
'Wecan never conceive too highly of God ; fo
The moon is magnaictl of heat, as the fun is of neither too magnificently of nature, his handy work.
and mag, contracted from Margaret, as
cold and mojfture. ,Bacon's Natural Hijiory, Grcvt's Cofmil. f>/jil is ufed to a //arroiv, and pell to a
She Oiould all parts to reunion bow j MA'GNIFICO. n.f. [Italian.] A gran- parrot] A
bird fometimes taught to
She, that had all n-.agr.tt'hk force alone. tayc.
dee of Venice.
To draw and fallen hundred parts in one. Domi.
The duke himfelf, and the magmficots /ûgurs,'that underftood relations, have
They, as. they move tow'rds his all-cheating By and by choughs, and rooks brought
lamp,
Of greateft port, have all proceeded with him. mag/-ies
Sbakefp. forth
Turn fwift their various motions, or are tum'd The
fecret'ft man of blood.
By his n-.iignetkk beam. Mi/ten's Pamdije hnjl.
Ma'gnifier. «./. [hom magnify .] Shakefpeare's Macbeth.
Diflimulation is exprefled by a lady wearing a
4. Magtitikk is oiice ufed by Milton for 1. One that praifes ; an encomiall ; an vizard of two faces, in her right hand a magpie,
magtiet. extoller. which Spenfer defcribed looking through a lattice.
Praw out with credulous delire, and lead 1 he primitive magnifiers of this ftar were the Peacham on Drawing,
At will the manlieft, refoluteft breaft. Egyptians, who notwithflanding chiefly regarded it So have I feen in black and white,
As the magKrtlk hardeft iion draws. Millan,
in relation to their river Nilus. Brtnoh. A prating thing, a magpie hight,
Ma'gnetism. n.f. [from magnet."] 2. A glafs that encreafe$ the bulk of any Majeftically ftalk;
1. Power of the loadltone. objefl. A ftately worthlefs animal.

That plies the tongue, and wags the tail.
Many other nagmtijm!, and the like attraAions TiMA'GNIFY. -v. a. [magnifcD, Latin.] All flutter, pride, and talk. Swift.
through all tha creatures of nature. Brtnon. 1. To make great; to exaggerate; to
Ma'gydare.
Power of attraftion. /. Imagudaris, Latin.] ji.
2. amplify to exto!.
By the magneiifm of intereft our alfedions are ir-
;
The ambaffador, making his oration, did fo mag-
An herb. Jin/tvorth.
refiftibly attracted. GlanvilU't Scepfii. nify the king and queen, as was enough to glut the
MAID. ? «• / [msben, maejfcien,
Magnifi'able. adj. [from magnify.'] hearers. Baeon. M A'JDEN. J Saxon ; maegd, Dutch.]
Worthy to be extolled or praifed. Un- 2. To exalt; to elevate ; to raife in efti- 1. An unmarried woman ; a virgin.
ufual. mation. Your wives, your daughters,
Number, though wonderful in itfelf, and fuffi- Greater now in thy return. your matrons, and your maids, could not fill up
ciently magnijiable from
dcmonftrable aficftion,
its Than from the giant- angels : thee that day The ciftern of my luft. Shakefpeare's Macbeth,
hath yet received adjeflions from the multiplying Thy thunders ntagnify'd \ but to create This is a man old, wrinkled, faded, wither'd.
conceits of men. Bro'wns Vulgar Errours. Is greater than created to deftroy. Milton. And not a maiden, as thou fay'ft he is. Sbakefpeare^
I am not folely led
Magni'fical. I adj. [magnificus, Lat.J 3. To raife in pride or pretenfion.
By nice direîon of a maiden's eyes. Shakefpeare,
Magni'fick. llluilrious grand; He fiiall exalt and magnify himfelf above every
J ; She employed the refidue of her life to repair,
god. Daniel.
great ; noble. Proper, but little ofed. ing of highways, building of bridges, and endow,
If ye will magnify yourfclves againfrTIIe, know
The houfe that is to be builded for the Lord ing of maidens, Carew,
now that God hath overthrown me. Johf^t'tx. 5.
mud be exceeding magmjicaly of fame and glory Your deluded wife had been a maid ;
He Ihall magnify himfelf in his heart. Down on the bridal bed a maid /he lay,
throughout all countries. i Chron. xxii. .5.
Dan.y'm. 25.
Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues. A maid Ihe rofe at the approaching day. Dryden,
pow rs 4. Toencreafe the bulk of any objeft to Let me die, Oie faid.
Jf thefe magv'ifick titles yet remain. the eye. Rather than lofe the fpotlefs name of maid, Dryden,
Not merely titular. MilionU Pamdije L'Ji. How thefe red globules would appear, if glafles 2. A woman fervant.
O parent thefe are thy magnifick deeds ;
!
couid be found that could magnify them a thoufand My maid NerilTa and myfelf, mean time.
Thy trophies Milton's Parajije Lift. times more, is uncertain. Locke. Will live as maids and widows^ Shakefpeare,
By true refleftion I would fee my face
MacnTficence. n. f. [magnif.centia,
Why brings the fool a magnifying glafs ? Granville.
Old Tancred vifired his daughter's bow'r ;
Her cheek, for fuch his cuftom was, he kifs'd,
Lat.] Grandeur of appearance ; fplen- The greateft magnifying glafles in the world are Then bicfs'd her kneeling, and her maids difmifs'd.
dour. a man's eyes, when they look upon his own per- Dryden,
This defert foil fon. Pope. Her dofet and the gods (hare all her time,
Wants not her hidden luflie, gems, and gold, As things feem large which we through mifts Except when, only by fome maids attended.
"Nor wantwe flcill or art, from whence to raife defcry. She feeks fome (hady folitary grove. Rotve,
Magmfittnce. Milton's Paradiji Lift. Dulnefs is ever apt to magnify. Pope's Effay on Ci it.
A thoufand maidens ply the purple loom,
Not Babylon, 5. A cant word for te hatie iffe^. To weave the bed, and deck the regal room. Prior,
Nor great Alcairo, fuch magr.ijicince My governefs aflured my father had wanted
I
3. Female.
EquaiI'd in all her glories to inlhrine for nothing that I was almoft eaten up with the
;
If (he bear a maid child. Lev. xii. 5.
Rclus or Serapis, their gods ; or feat green ITckncfs ; but this magnifietf but little witli
Their kings, when Egypt with Aflyria ftrove my father. SpeHator. Maid. [raia vel /quatina minor.]
n. /.
In wealth and luxury. Milicn's ParaJi'e Lift.
Ma'cnitude. n. f. \magnitudo, Latin.] A fpecies of Ikate fi(h.
One may obferve more fplendour and magnift- Ma'iiien. adj.
tenci in particular pcrfons houfes in Genoa, than
1. Greatnefs ;
grandeur.
He with plain heroick magnitude <ii mind, 1. Confifting of virgins.
in thofc that belong to the publick. AJdiJon en Italy.
:
And celcftial vigour arm'd, Nor was there one of all the nymphs that rov'd
MaCN I'riCENT. adj. \magHificHS, Lat.] Their armories and magazines contemns. Milttn. O'er Masnalus, amid the maiden throng
1. Grand in appearance; fplendid; |<i:>mp- 2. Comparative bulk. More favour'd once. Addifons Ofid,
0!)S. This tree harh no extraordinary magnitude, 2. Frelh ; new; unufed ; unpolluted.
Man he made, and for him built touching ttte trunk or 11:em ; it is hard to find any He flcihed his m.iid.'n fword. Shakefpeare,
Magmfi'tnt this world. Milton's Paradijt Lift. one bigger than tlie reft. Raleigh. When I am dead, ftrew me o'er
it is fuitable-to the magr.iftcent harmony of the Never repofe fo much uf on any man's fmgle With maiden flowers, that all the world may know
iinivarfe, that the fpocics of creatures fhnuld, by counlel, fidelity, and difcretion, in managing affairs I was wife to my grave.
a chafte Shakefpeare,
gentle t'l-jirccs, afcend upward from us toward his of the firft magnitude, that is, mat;prs of religion By this mnidrn blo(Tom in my hand
f'vitftin, as we fee th»y gradually defcend from and juftice, as to create in youtfelf, or others, a dif- I fcorn thee and thy falhion. Shai/fp. Henry "Vl^
u; downwards. L'jcke. fidence of your own judgm.!nt. f^^"S Charles. Ma'idenhair. n.f. [maiden hdA hair \
Imnwtal glories in my mind revive. Whcnl behold this go^)dly frame, this world,
When Rome's exalted beauties 1 defcry, Of hcav'n and earth confilling; and compute aJiantum.] This plant is a native of the
Mtpiifcent in piles of ruin lie. Mdijon. Their mttgmiities^ this earth, a fpot, a grain, fouthern parts of France and in the
5 McditcR-
M A J MAI M A I
Mediterranean, where it grows on rocks, A

royal robe he wore with graceful- pride, •To Mail. <v. a. [from the noun.]
Erabtoider'd fandals glitter'd as he trod,
and old ruins, from whence it is brought
And forth he mov'd, majejltd as s god.
1. To arm defenfively ; to cover, as with
lor medicinal u'e. armour.
PcftS OJypy.
June is drawn in a mantle of dark grafs grten, The mai'cd Mars (hall on his altar fit
2, Stately; pompous ; fplendid.
upon his head a garland of bents, king's cup, and T.fp to the ears in blood. Sbakejfeare's Hmry IV,
It was no mean thing which he purpofed ; to
viatdcnhijir, Pei;cbnm,
perform a woik fo miJJeJiical and (lately was no 2. To bundle in a wrapper.
Ma'j DEN HEAD. 1 fmall charge. llecter. I am thy married wife,
*
Ma'idenhode. > n. f. [frtkn maiden.'\

3. Sublime; elevated; lofty. Anrf thou a prince, protedlor of this land
j
Ma'i DEN HOOD. Methinks I (hould not thus be led along,

J Which paffage doth not only argue an Infinite
Mail'd up in (hame, with papers on my back.
1. Virginity; virginal purity; freedom abundance, both of artizans and materials, but like-
wife of magnificent and majtftical defires in every Shakefpeare.
from contamination.
And, for the modeft lore of Kaidjtt^-ooJ, common perfon. kfoiton. To MAIM. [maitan, Gothick, to
'V. a.
Bids me
not fojourn with thcfe arraî men.
The leaft portions muft be of the epick kind ; cutoff; mehaigner, to maimTold French
;
Oh
whither fliall 1 fly ; what facred wood all muft be' grave, majcjlical, and fublimc. Dry den,
mehaina, hxwiQxIzk; mancus, Lztin.]
Shall hide me from the tyrant or what den Maje'stically. ad-v. [from majefiicaL] Ta
.'
? deprive of any-neceffary part ; to cripple
Fairfax. With dignity with grandeur. ;
by lofs of a limb : originally written
She hated chambers, clofets, fecret mewes, From Italy a wand'rjng ray
And in broad 6elds preferv'd het mgdcnhtad. Of moving from the French mayhem.
light iluminaies the day;
Fa: fax. i'ou wrought to be a legate by which power
Northward (he bends, majcjiically bright, ;
Example, that h terrible ihews in the wrecJc of -And here (he fixes her imperial light. CmnvilU.
YoUCTdM'i/thejurifdiaion of all bLfhops. Sbakcf,
maidenbcod, cannot for all that diffuade fucceflion, So have I feen in black and white, The multitude wondered wl-.en they faw the-
but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten A prating thing, a magpie hight,
dumb to fpeak, the maimed to be whole, and the-
tlicm. Hhakijpr^r:. lame to walk ; and they glorified God.
Maj(Ji\;aUy ftalk .:^
MaiJenhectf (he loves, and will be fwift A (lately worthlefs animal, Mattheio, xv. ^T,
To aid a virgin. M':lton. That plies the tongue, and wags the tail^""
Maim. [from the verb.]
ti.f.
2. Newnefs ; frefhnefs unconcaminated ;
All flutter, pride, and talk. Sttiift. 1. Privationof fome eflential part ; lame-
ftate. This is now become a low word. MA'JESTY. n. f. [majefias, Latin.] nefs, produced by a wound or amputa-
The devil and mifchance look big 1 . Dignity ; grandeur ; greatnefs of ap- tion.
Upon the maiJcnbcaJ of our affairs. Sbahefpcarc. pearance an appearance awful and fo- Surely there is more caufe to fear,
; left tlie
Some who attended with much expeftation, at want thereof be a maim, than the ufe a blemifli.
lemo. *
their appearing have ftained the KMidtnbiad of

firft
their credit with fome negligent performance.

The voice of the Lord is full of majcjiy. r. . . -1
Hooker
Humphry, duke of Olo'fter, fcarce himfelf.
PJalm xxix. 4.
The Lord That bears fo fhrewd a maim ; two pulls a( once •
reigneth ; he is clothed with majcjly.
Hope's cliafte kifs wrongs no joy's maiilnbeeJ,
Pfalm xciii.
A lady baniih't, and a linjb lopt ofl' ? Shakefb,.
Then fpoufal rites prejudge the marriage-bed.
2. Injury; mifchief.
Amidft
Crajhanv.
Thick clouds and dark, doth Heav'n's all-ruling Not fo deep a maim.
Ma'idenlip. »./ [lapfago.'\ An herb. Sire As to be caft forth in the common air.
Chufe to refide, his glory unobfcur'd. Have I defcrved. Sbakfpeare's Richarel II..
Ma'idenly adj. [maiden and /He.] Like And with the majefy of darknefs round 3. Eflential defedl.
a maid ; genile, modeit, timorous, de- Covers his throne. Milton's Paradife L'ji. A
noble author eftiiems it to be a maim in
hifto-
Great, without pride, in fober majefy, Pofe. ry, that the afls of parliament
cent. (hould not be re-
'Tis not maiJcrly 2. Power ; foverelgnty. '^'t^'''
Hayward.
.
Our fcx, as well as I, may chide you for it. Sbak.

;
Thine, O Lord, is the power and majefty, Main. adj. [magne, old French j magnu:,
You virtuous afs, and ba/hful fool muft you be ;
I Cbnn, xxix. Latin.]
blulhing iiiatimaidinlj man at arms are you he- To the only wife God be glory and majefty,
.'
I. Principal; chief; leading.
cnme ? Sbahffeare. "Jtide, 15. In every grand or main publick duty which God;
Ma'idhood. »./. [from maid.]
He gave Nebuchadncxzar thy father majefty,
requircth of his church, there is, befides that
Virgi- mat-
nity.
Dan, v. 18. ter and form wherein the eflirnce thereof confifteth,
3. Dignity; elevation of manner. a certain outward fafhion, whereby the fame is in.
By maiJbceJ, honour, and e\ery thing,
I love thee.
The firft in loftinefs of thought furpafs'd. decent manner adminiftered.
Skakffearei Ttuelfrb Night. llookei .
The next in majefty. Dryden. There
Ma'idmarian. »./ [puer ludiuj, LatJ is a hiftory in all men's lives.
ly. The title of kings and queens. Figuring the nature of the times dcceafcd
A kind of dance, fo called from a buf-
Moft royal majefty, The which obferv'd a man may pruphefy,
;
foon drefTed like a man, who plays I crave no more than what your highnefs ofler'd, Withj near aim, of the main chance of things
tricks to the populace. Nor will you tender lefs. Shakrffeare'i King Lear. h% yet not come to life. Shakefpcare's Henry IV..
A fet of morrice-danceis danced a maiJmarlin I have garden opens to the fea.
a He is fuperftitious grown of late,
v,\x\\ a tabor and pijie. 7empU. From whence I can vour majefty convey Quite from the main opinion he had once
Ma'idpale. «i^. [maid znA pale.] To fomc nigh friend. Waller. Of fcntalV, of dreams, and ceremonies.
Pale
He, who Jiad been always believed a creature of
like a fick virgin. Shakefpeare-,-
the (juecn, vifited her majefty but once in fix weeks. There arofe three notorious and main rebellions,,
Change the compleflion of h« maiJfalt peace
To fcarlet indignation. Clerendf^ti. which drew fevera] armies out of J;n2l.md.
Skaliefpetirc.
I walk in awful ftate above D.i'ui,
Maidse'rvant. «./ A fsmaie fervant. The majefty of heaven. Drydm.
J on Xrelar.d,
nether flood. The
It is what you fay of the
perfeftly right indiffe- Mail. «._/'. [maille, French; vsaglia, Which now divided into four main ftreams.
rence in common friends, whether we are
fick or Runs divcrfe.
well the very mait/fcrvanls in a family have the
;
Italian ; from mailli, the mefli of a net. Milton i Paradife Lift..
I (hould be much for open war,
fame notion. S'wif!.
SkittHer. ] peers, O
If what was urg'd
Maje'stICAL. ) J. rr „ •
1. A coat of lleel network worn for de- Main reafon to pcrfuade immediate war.
Majs'st.ck. \"i;-Ufo^^j'fy-] fence. Did not difliiade me moft. Mi/ton'! Paradife Left.
I. Aiiguft; ha«/ing dignity; grand; im- Being advlfed to wear a privy coat, the duke All cieatures look to the main chance, that '
is,.
gave this anfwer, That againft any popular fury, a food and ptop-igatlon.
perial; reâl ; great of appearance. L'Eftrange,
ihirt of mail would be but a filly defence. Witt^n. Our main interell is to be as happy as we can,,
They made a doubt
Prcfencc m-yrSicel would put him out 2. Any armour. andâs long as poflible.
Tilhtjen..
For, (juoth the king, an angel (halt thou fce, We ftrip the lobftcr of his fcarlet mail. Gay. Nor tell me
dying father's tone.
in a
y et fear not thou, but fpcak audacjoufly. Some (hirts of mail, fnme coati of plate put on. Be careful ftiU of the main chance, my fon
ihak ff. Tut out the principal in trufty hands
Get the ftart of the mjjeflick world. Some don'd a curace, fome a corflet bright. ;
Live on the ufe, and never dip thy lands. Dryden.
And bear the palm aloi:e. Ukakefoeari's Julius CaJ. Fairfax,
We do it wrijng, being fo majejlicat, Some wore a coat-armour, imitating fcalc. WJiilft they have buficd themfeWes in various
'I a oftir it the (hew of violence.

And next their Ikin were ftubborn Ihirti of mail learning, they have been wanting in the one metin-
Sbakrff, Hemhi.
In his face
Some wore a breail-plate. Dryden Kmgbfz Tale. s
'"'"g-
.
Baker.
Sit« mecknef", beightea'd with majrjiiik grace, 3. A poflman's bundle; a bag. [male;
Nor IS it only m the main defign, but they have
f-illowed him in every cpifodc. Eope,
Dtibam. mallttte, Y:.\
s. Mighty; huge; overpowering; vaft.
Thiak^
M A t M A I M A I
Think, you ûeft'ion wUh a Jew, Thofe whom Tyber's holy forefti hide. Lord Roberts wis full ef contradiSion In Wi
Ton mty «s well go itind upon the bewh, Or Circe's hills from the main/and divide. Drydtn. temper, and of parts fo much fuperior to any in
Anl bid the maiii flood bate his ufuil height. Ma'inly. aitv. [from /»«/'« ]
the company, that he could too well maintain and
Sbaki^ftare. juftify thofe contradidioot. Clarendon.
I. Chiefly; principally.
what rageSeeft thou Maintain
A brutifh vice,
'
Tranfporti our adverfiry, whom no bound?, InduSive mainly to the fm of Eve. MiU(,».
My rights nor think the name of mother vain.
Kor yet the wuan abj fs, They are mainly reducible to three. M;>ri. Dryden,
Wide interrupt, can hold ? Milnn. The metallick matter now found !n the per- if. To continue ; to keep up ; hot to fuf-
3. Grofs ; containing the chief part. pendicular intervals of the ftr.-ita, was originally fer to ceafe.
We ourfalf will follow lodged in the bodies of thofe ftrata, being inter- Maintain talk with the duke, that my charity
In the main battle, which on either Tide fpsrfed amongft the matter, whereof the faid ftrata be not of him perceived. Hhak.fpearc's Kirg Ltar%
£hall be well winged with our chieiieft horfe. Stdk. mainly confift. Wcodiiard's Natural Hi/lory. Some did the fong, and fome the choir maintain.
All abrcait z. Greatly hugely. Beneath a laurel (hade. Drydtn,
;
Charg'd our main battle's front. Shakrfftare.
It was obferved by one, that himfelf came hardly 5 . To keep up to fnpport the exrence of,
;
4. Important forcible.; to a little riches, and very eaftly to great riches I f^ck not to wax
great by others waining ;
This young prince, w^th a train of young noble- for when a man's ftock is come to that, that he Sufliceth, that 1 have mainiaim my ftate.
men and gentlemen, but not with any main army, can expedt the prime of markets, and overcome And fends the poor well pleated from my gate.
came over to take pbllefiion of his new patrimony. thofe bargains, which, for their gieatncfs, are few Siaitffttre.
Daviei on JreJami- men's money, and be partner in the induftrics of Wha« concerns it you if I wear pearl and gold ?
That, which thou aright younger men, he cannot but increafe mainly. Bacon. I thank my good Cither 1 am able to maimain it.
Beiiev'ft fo main to our fuccefs, I bring. Miltcn. Ma'inmast. and ma/l.] The Shak<Jj>eare»
/I./. [»»az"a
Main. n. J'. chief or middle mall. 6. To fupport with the conveniences of
1. The grofs; the bulk; the greater part. One dire fliot life.
The main of them may be reduced to language, Clofe by the board the prince's mainmajl bore. Dryd. It was St. Ptul's choice to maintain himfelf by
and an improvement in wifdom, by feeing men. A Dutchman, upon breaking his leg by a fall his own labour. Hooker,
from a mainmtiji, told the lUnders-by, it was a If a woman maintain her hu(band, (he it full of
2. The fum ; the whole ; the general. mercy it was not his neck. SfeBator. anger and much reproach. Ectluf. xxv. it*
They allowed the liturjjy and government of the Ma'inpernable. aJj. Bailable; that It is hard to maintain the tnith, but much harder
church of Er.gland as to the main. King Charles. may be admitted to give lurety. to be maintained by it. Could it ever yet feed, cloatfa,
I Thefe notions concerning coinage have, for the

JMM, been put into writing above twelve months.
M a'inpernor. n./. Surety; bail.
7.
or defend
To
its alTertors
preferve from failure.

.>
South,
hocki.
He
enforced the earl himfelf to lly, till twenty-
fix noblemen became mainfrrnors for his appear-
Here ten thoufani images remain
3. The ocean ; the great fea, as dillin-
ance at a certain day ; but he making default, the
Without coiifufion, and their rank maintain,
guiftied from bays or rivers. uttermoft advantage was taken againft his ftireties. Blacimcre,
A fubftitute (hines brightly as a king. David en Inliind. T'o Mainta'in. "v. n. To fupport by
Until king be by ; and then his ftate
a Ma'inprise. [main and pris, Fr.]
n. /. argument to afTert as a tenet.
;
Empties itfelf, as doth an inbnd brook Delivery into the cuftody of a friend, In tragedy and fatire I maintain againft fome of
Into tlic main of wateis. Staiejfcart, our modern criticks, that this .ige and the laft have
Where's the king ? upon fecurity given for appearance excelled the ancients. Dryden s fuvenal,
Bids the wind blow the earth into the fca ; bail.
William Brcmingham was executed
M A I N I a' I Njv B L e ^<^'. [ from maintain.
.
]
Or fwell the curled waters "bove the main. Sir for trea-
Defenfible ; juflifiable.
That Shatejf, King L<ar.
things might change. fon, though the earl of Defmond was left to main-
Being made lord-lieutenant of Bulloine, the walls
He fell, and llruggling in the main, prixe. Davits.
fore beaten and Ihaken, and fcarce maintainable, he
Cry'd out for helping hands, but cty'd in vain. / Give its poor entertainer (juarter
defended the place againft the Dauphin. Hayivard,
Drydtn. And, by difcharge or mainfrije, grant
Say, why (honld the coUefted main Deliv'ry from this bafe reftraint. Uudihras. Mainta'iner. n. /, [from maintain.']
Itfelf within itfelf contain ? To Ma'inprise. -v a. To bail. Supporter; cheriiher.
Why to its caverns (honld it fometlmes creep, Ma'insail. n./. [main znd /ail.l The He dedicated the work to Sir Philip Sidney, t
And
On
with delightful iilcncc (Icep
the lov'd bofom of its patent deep ?
} fail of the main-malt.
fpecial mainiairer
The
of all learning. S/>cnJ'er's Pajhrels,
maintjincrs and cherilhers of a regular devo-
They committed themfelves unto tlie fea, and
Frior. tion, a true and decent piety. Soutb's Sermons,
hoifted up the mainfail to the wind, and made toward
4. Violence ; force. fliore. ABs.
Ma'inten AKCE. a /. [maintenant, Fr.]
He 'gan advance
Ma'insheet. «._/".[main and Jheet.'l The 1 Supply of the neceflaries of life ; fufte-
"With huge force, and importable main. nance ; fuftentation.
And towards him with dreadful fury prance. fticet or fail of the mainmall.
It w3i St. Paul's choice to maintain himfelf,
Hftnftr. Strike, ftrike the top-fail ; let the mairjhea fly,
wliereas in living by the churches maintenance, as
With might and niain And furl your lails. Dryden.
others did, there had been no ofli:nce committed.
He hailed to get up again. HuMras. Ma'inyard. «./. [/»«/» and _yar^.] The
Hocker,
With might and main they chac'd themurd'rous yard of the mainmall. God alTigncd Adam maintenantt of life, and then
fox. With (harp hooks they took hold of the tackling appointed him a law to obferve. Hooktr.
With brazen tmmpets, and inflated box. Dn-dcn. which held the mainyard to the maft, then rowing Thofe of better fortune not maicing learning their
5. [From manus, Lat.] hard at dice. A they cut the tackling, and brought the mainyard by mainlinancc, take degrees with iictle improvement.
good. Were it the board. /Iibutbnti. Stviji,
To fct the cxift wealth of all our ftates ro MAINTAIN, v. a. [mainunir, Fr.] 2. Support; proteftion ; defence.
All at one caft ; to fct fo rich a main
1 To preferve ; to keep ; not to fuffier to They knew that no man might in reafon take
In the nice hazard or' one doubtful hour ? Shehjf. own right, and according
change. upon him to determine his
To pafs our tedious hours away. to his own determination proceed in mainttnanct
ingredients being prefcribed in their fub-
'I'he
We throw a netry mi:in. Earl Dtrjefi Song,
ftance, mainO'tn the blood in a gentle fermenta- thereof. Hooker,
Writing is but jult like dice.
tion, reclude oppilations, and munJify it. liaivcy. The beginning and caufe of this ordinance amongft
And lucky maim make people wife : was for the defence and of
That jumbled words, if foitune throw 'em, 2. To defend; to hold out; tomakegooo; the Irilh tnain.-enance
their lands in their pofterity. Sfinftr en Ireland.
Shall, well as Dryden, form a poem. Friar. not to refign.
3. Continuance; fecurity from failure.
6. The continent. This place, thefe pledge! of your love, mainfair.
Whatfoever is granted to the church for God's
/ In 1589 we turned challengers, and invaded the Drjdfn.
hrnnur, and the ffi;i<n(nuii<» of his lervice, is granted
main of Spain. Baccni War iviib Sfain. God values no man more or Icfs, in placing him
high or low, but every one as he nunnraim his to God. Souib.
7. A hamper. Ain/iuorth. port.
Ma'intop. [main and
n. /. /»/.] The
Crew's Co/molcgia.
Ma'inland. « / [main and lanJ.'] Con-
3. To vindicate ; to juftify ; to luppori. top of the mainmaft.
tinent. Sptn/er an-' Dryden feem to ac- From their Wiiimce joyful news they hear
If any man of quality will maintain upon Edward
cent this word differently. earl of Glo fter, that he i<i a manifold traitor, let Of (hips, which by their mould bring new fupplies.
Ne was it ifland then, him appear. ShakfffKare. Drydint
But was all defolate, and of fome thought Thefe poflcflions being unlawfully gotten, could Diftys could the ».ii»fo/>-maft beftride.
By fea to have been from the Ccltick mainland not be mamtained by the juft and honourable law of And down the rofcs with a£Uve vigour Aide.
brought. Sftujir, England. Davits. yiJJifen,
Ma'jo*,
M A K M A K MAK
Ma'jor. «<^'. [^majtr, Latin.] Let ra make maa in our image. Ci«' >. t.6. While merchants make long voyages by fea
The J.ord hath made all things for himfelf. To get eftates, he cuts a fliorter way. DrjJtiU
1. Greater in number, quantity, or ex- Pr(.nj. xvi. 4. To what end did UlyflTes a.^ke that >
journey
tent. Remember 'ft thou JEntii undertook it by the commandment of hit
They bind noae, no not though they be many, Thy maH*£, while the Maker gave thee being } father's ghoft.
'
Drydeti.
Civing only when they arc the triajcr part ot a gene- Milion. . He that will make a good ufe of any part of hit
ral atfembiy, and then their voices being m.ne in
number, muft ©verlway their judgments who a:^'
z. To form of materials. Jife, muft allow a large portion of it to recteatioo.
" He falhioncd it with a graving tool, after he had Locktt
ftwer. hosier. Make fome
/Bade it a moicen calf. ExcJ. xxxii. 4. requeft, and I,
The true meridian is a ntij'r circle pafling through Goa hath nuJe of one blood all nations of men. Whate'er be, with that requcft comply. AJdifon.
it
the poles of the world and the zenith of any place, Were permitted, he (hould make the tour ot
it
exactly dividing the eaft from the weft. Jirîvn.
Wchave no other meafure, faveone of the moon, the whole fyftera of the fun. Arbutbnot^
In common difcourie we denommateperfcjnjand
but are arciliciaily made out ot ibefc by compound- 8. Jo caule to have any quality.
things according tolhemaj'^r part of their charaêr ;
ing or dividing them. HdJer. She may give fo much credit to her own laws,
he is to be calted a wife man who has but tew fol-
lies. JVaiiiî Logkk- 3. To conipofe : as, parts, materials, oj as to make their fentcncc weightier than any bare and
ingredients. naked conceit to the contrary. Hoiker,

2. Greater in dignity. 1 will mjke your cities wafte. Lev. xxvi. 31.
Fall Greek, fall fame, honour, cr go, or Say,
Onz of my fellows had the fpecd of him ;
Who, almoll dead fur breath, had fcarcely more Her huiband hath utterly made them void on the'
My rrujor VOW li{s het«. i>hatejfearc.
Than would make up his .'nell'age. iiha^tjpeare.
day he heard them. Numh. xxx. 12.
Ma'jor. ». /.
1 he heav'n, the and boundiei's fea,
air, the eartJi,
When he had made a convenient rxjom, he fet
1. The officer above the captain; the i!i kc but one temple for the deity. Waller. it in a wail, and made it £«ft with iron. Wif. xiii.
1 5..
loweft field officer, Apint of fait of tartar, expoled unto a moift air,
He made t!ie water wine. hn, iv. 46. J
He was the more inflamed with the deli« aS
2. A mayor or head ofiicer of a town. will wake more iiijuor than the fuimer meafure will
battle wiih Wallet, to mi.ke even all accounts.
contain. Bro^vn,
Obfolete. Clarendon^
The fitft propofition of a fyilogifm, 4. To form by art what is not natural.
bred you up to arms, rais'd you to power,
3. I
There laviJli nature, in l.er belt attire,
containing feme generality. Peimitted you to fight for this ufurper j .
Pours forth i-.veet odours, and allurmg lights ;

The major of our author's argument is to be un- All to niaki furc the vengeance of this day,
And with her contend;ng, doth aipire
art
Which even this day has ruin'd.
derftood of tiie material ingredients of bodies. B'jyle. DryJeni
T' excel the natural with rr..ide delights. Sj-enjtr.
In refpeft of a&ions within the reach of fuch »
4. lA„]ff.-gtneraL The general officer
5. To produce or etfetl as the agent. power in him, a nvan feeais as free as it is polTible
of the frcond ran';. If i fufpe£l without caufe, why then make fport for freedom to tr.oke him. Locke.
/Ife'or-îiwrfl/Ravignan returned with the French at me then let me be joui jeil. Sh,.ie£ear<
;
9 I'o bring inu any ftate or condition.
king's aniwer; TaiUr. When were merry they faid, caJl tor
their heaits
I have made thee a^ god to PharatA. Exod. vii. rv
c. MAjOR-j/ewe. n.f. \majeur dome, Fr.] Sampfon, that he may make us fjort. Juilga. jofeph made ready his chariot, and went up to
One who holds occafionally tbepiai.e of Give unto holontun a perfect iieart to build the meet Ifracl. Gevefti,
palace for the which I have m.ide provilton.
Who
mailer of the houfe. made thee a prince and a judge over us.'
Chron. xxix. 19. I
Majora'tion. n f. [from majiir.\ En- Thou hall fet figns and wonders in the land of
Exoelus, ii>
creafr ; enlargement.
ye have troubled me to xiake me to ftink among,
£gypt, and haft iradt thee a name. Jer. xxxii. 20. the inhabitants. Gen. xxiv. 30^
There be five ways of mitjorathn of founds : en- Jcihua made peace, and made a league with tnem.
dofure fimple enclofu.c with dilatation cjmmu- He madr
himfelf of no reputation, and took
i ;
Jfiua. upon him the form of afervant. Phil. ii. 7»
fiication ; reflexion concurrent j and approach to Both combine
Bacon Natural btjiory,
He Ihould be made manifeft to Ifrael.
the fenfory. i
To make their greatnels by the fall of man. Vryden.
John, i. 31,
Majo'rity. f. [from major.^ If Fgypt, mad with luperilition ûwn, Tiiough I be free from all men, yet have I
1. The ftate of being greater. Mjkci gods of mroftets. Tale's Juvenal, maile myfelf fervant unto all, that I might gain the
It is not plurality of parts without majority of 6. To produce as a caufe. more. j Cor. ix. 15..
parts that maketh the tital Crew's (. j.greater. Wealth itaketl inany friends; bat the poor is He hath made me a by-word of the people.
2. 1 he greater number \majorite. Fr. feparated from his iieigliboar. Prtjv. xix. 4. Joli, xvii. 6»
]t was highly probable the txjjortfy would be fo A man s gift muketb room for him, and bringeth Mak! yt him drunken ; for he magnified him-
wife as to efpoufe that caufe which was muH agree- him before gicat men. Prov. xviii. i6. felf againll the Lord. Jer, xlviii. 2^.
able to the publiclc weal, and by (hat means hinder The child taught to believe any occurrence to Joleph was not willing to make her a publick ex>
a iiedition. jiddijon. be a good or evil omen, cr any day oi ^be week anaplc. Mjitheiv, i. 19.
As in fcnatet fo in fcboolt, lucky, bath a wide inroad male upon the fuundneu By the adiftance of this faculty wc have all
Majorily of voices rules. Prior. of his underilandiiig. Warti* thofe ideas in our underftandings, which, though
Pfccnt executions keep the world in awe; for we do not .rduslly contemplate, yet we can bring.
that reafon the mnjoriiy of mankind oupl-.t to be
7. To do ; to perform ; to pradlife ; to
in fight, and make appear again, and be the objedt»
ule in action. of our thoughts. Locke.-
hanged every year. jirhuikr.ct.
1 hough Ihe appear honcfl to me, yet in other
The Lacedemonians trained up
3. [From majores, Latin.] Anceftry.
places flie cnlargcth her mirth fo far, that there is
their chiidrcr>
Of evil parents an evil generation, apofteritynot to hare diunkennefs by bringing a drunken maa
Ihrewd conftruftlon mûie of her. Shak<jpeart.
them what a bealt
into their comp,iny, and ihcwing
unlike their mfljorhy \ of milchievous prugenirors,
bhe mdê'halle, and let down her pitcher. he m^de of himfelf. Watt^*
a venomous and deftruAive progeny. Brtnon.
(Jeiu xxiv. 46.
4. Foliage; end of minority. We made prayer unto our God. Ntb, iv. 9.
10. To form ; to fettle; to ellablifh.
During the infancy of Henry the lUd, the barons Thofe who are wife in courts
He Ihall make a Ipeedy riddance of all in the land.
were troubleu in cxpeUing the French: but this Make friendlhips with the minifters of ftate.
Zefhanlah.
prince was no fooner come to his majority, but the
Nor feek the ruins of a wretched exile. Rows*
They alt began to rrake excufe. Luke, xiv. 18.
barons raifed a cruel war againlV him. Va-uiti. It hath pleal'ed tl-.cm of Macedonia and Achaia
11. To hold ; to keep.
Firftrank. Obfolete. to maki a certain conttibution for the p:>or.
Deep in a cave the fybil mains abode. Dryden.^
5.
Douglas, whofe high deeds, Rrjm. XV. 26. 12. To fiicare from dillrefs ; to eftablifh
Whofe hot incurlions, and great name in arms. The Venetians, provoked by the Turk with divers in riches or happinefs.
Holds from al loldicrs chief majority, injuries, both by fea ajid land, refolved, without He hath given her this monumental ring, atd
And military title capital. Shakfjfiare's Henry IV. delay, to trakc war likewife upon him. Kr.Jlei.
tliinks himfelf m;3ii«' ia the unchafte compofition.
6.The office of a m-ijor. Such mutick as before was never made. Hhakejpeare^
But wbfn of old the fons of rooming lung. Milion.
Maize, cr Indian Wheat, n.f. This is tlic night.
All the anions of his life were ripped up and That either maka me, or f iredi.cs me quite.
The whole maixx plant has the appearance of a Sbakefm.
fiirveycJ, ;ind all malicious gbifi'es maê upon all
Each clement his dread coinmand obeys.
re^d. This plant is propagated in England only as
he had faid, and all he had done. Clarendon. Who makes or ruins vtfith a fmik or frown.
a curiofity, but m America it is the principal Sup-
Says Ciineade., fincc neither you nor I love re Who as by one he did our nation raiie,
port of the inhabitants, and t.onfet}uently propag:ited
petitions, I ihali not now make any of what elle So n he with anotlier
with grfat care. MJkr. )v; pi:!'s us down. Dry4en»
was urged againft Themillius. Boyle.
Maixe affords a very ffrong nouriihment, but 13. TofufFcr; to incur.
1 he Phanicians made claim to this man as theirs,
more vifcous than wheat, ylrlwthnot on Al.menji,
The lofs was private tliat I made
and attributed to hint the invention at letters. Hale. ;
la Make. a». «. [macan, S.:xon } mache/i, What hope, O Pantheus whither can we run ! .' 'Twas but myfelf 1 loft ; I loft no legions. Bryden^
German ; maktn, Dutch.] Where meie a ftand i and what may yet be done .' He accufeth Neptune unjuftly, wba makes ihip-
I, To create. Prydent wieck a lecond time* Bacon,
1 14. T<>
M A K '^ A L MAL /
e, Te Make tpwey tuiib. To deftroy The power of reafoning wm given us by our wealth ) y«u
have no male child ; yov daughtrt*
Maker to purfue truths. H'at:t't Logiek. are all married to wealthy patricians. Swift'
to kill ; to make away. This pbrafe
improper. 2, One who makes any thing. Male. ». /. The he of any fpecies.
is
Every man in Turkey is of fome trade ; Sultan In R>oll the mall is the greater, and in fome few
The women of Greece with an un-
«-ere feiied
Achmet was a maker of ivory rings. the female. Bacon,
accountable melancholy, which dirpoled feveral of
ibeOJyffy. tictei en There be more males than females, but in differ-
them to make away 'u'itb tbenifelves. jUM/srr*
I dare promife her boldly what few of her makers ent proportions. Grauni's Bills of Morialifj,
6. TtMAKi/or. To advantage ; to fa- of vifits and compliments dare to do. Pope's Letters. Male, in compofilion, figniiics ;'//; from
vour. One who any thing proper
3. fets iii its male, Latin ; male, old French.
Compare with indiflcrtncy thefe difparitles of
times, and we ihall plainly perceive, thst they maii
flate. Maleadministra'tion. n.f. Bad ma-
You
be indeed mahrs or marrers of all men's
nagement of affairs.
Jcr the advantage of England at this prefent time.
manners within the realm. j^Jcham's Scboolmajler.
Baccn't War initi Spain- From tiic praAice of the wifeft nations, when a
None deny there is God, but thnkfar whom
a
Ma'kepe/^ce. «. /. [mah and feace.] prince was laid afide for maleadawiJiratKn, the
it maieib that there were no God. Bucin's Bjj'ajs, Peacemaker ; reconciler. nobles and people did rcfume the adroinillration
I Wis allur'd, that nothing was dclign'd To be a mahrp.ace fliall become my age. Shak. of the fupreme power. Swift.
Againft thee but fafc cullody and hold Ma'keweight. n,/. [make âi ixieight.^ A general canonical denunciation, is th.it which
That matltfir me, 1 knew that liberty Any fmall thing thrown in (0 make np is made touching fuch a matter as properly belongs
Would draw thee forth to perilous entcrptizes. that a fubjecl de-
to the ecclefiaftical court, for
Miltoti.
weight. nounces his fuperior for m.aleadmiriftrarson, or a
Me lonely fitting, nor the glimmering light
7. 7» Make a//«r. To compenfate ; to
Of make^veight candle, nor the joyous talk
wicked life. jiyliffe's Parcrgon,
be in (lead. Of loving friend delights. - PliUps.

Maleconte'nt. 1 adj . [male &nd coit'
Have you got a fupply of friends to make up Malachi'te. n.f.
MALECONTE'NTEn. \ tent.] Difcoa-
for thofe who are gone? Snvifi 10 Pofc, This (lone fometimes intirely green, but
is tented; diflatisfied.
S. To Make
luiti. concur. To lighter than that of the nephritick (lone, fo as in Brother Clarence, how like you our choice,
Antiquity, cuftom, and confcnt, in the cliurch colour to referable the leaf of the mallow, nnXi^r., That you (land penfive, as half maletonrmt ?
of God, making tviih that which law doth eftablifli, from which it h.is its name; though foAietimes it SbakefpearCt
are thcmfelvcs moft fuflicient reafons to uphold is veined with white, or fpottcd with blue or black. Poor Clarancc ! Is it for a wife
the fame, uniefs fome notable' publick inconve- H'oodivard. That thou art malecontent f I will provide thee.
nience enforce the contraiy. Hooker.

Ma'lady. n.f. [maladii, French.] A Sbakefpearem
'
Make. /. [from the verb.]

«. Form; of The
king, for fecuring his ftate againft muti-
difeafe; a dillemper; a diforder - nous and maltontenttd fubjeils, who might have
ilruflure ; nature. body ficknefs.
;
refuge in Scotland, fent a folcmn ambalfage to
Thofe mercurial fpirits, which were only lent Better it is to be private Bacon,
conclude a peace.
the earth to Ihew men their folly In admiring it, In forrow's torments, than ty'd to the pomp of a They cannot fignalize themfelves as malceontcnts,
podefs delights of a nobler make and nature, which palace, without breaking through all the fofter virtues.
antedate immortality. GlatnilU.
Nurfe inward maladies, ^hich have not fcope to jiJdiJcn's Freeholder.
Upon the deceafe of a Hon the beafts met to
be breath'd out. Sidney. The ufual way in defpotick governments is to
chule a king : feveral put up, but one was not of Phyficians firft require, that tht malady be known confine the maleeontent to fome caftle. Addijon,
maks for a king ; another wanted brains or ftrength. thoroughly, afterwards teach how to cure and re-
L'EJIrange. Spenjir^
Maleconte'ntedly. adnj. [from male-
drefs it.
Is our pcrfeftion of fo frail a makf. Say, can you fall ? your ftomachs are too young
content.] With difcontent.
As ev'ry plot can undermine and Ihake ? DryJen. And abllinence engenders maladies. Sbakefpcare. Maleconte'ntedness. n.f. [Uoxamale-
Several lies are produced in the loyal ward of An accidental violence of motion has removed content.] Difcontentednefs ; want of af-
Portfoken of fo feeble a make, as not to bear car-
that malady that has baffled the fluU of phyficians. feftion to government.
riage to the Royal Exchange. Adtiifin'i Fretholdtr. Soutb.
They would afcribe the laying down my paper
It may be with fuperior fouls as with gigantick, Love's a malady without a cure to a fpirit of malecontentednejs. SpcEiatoT*
which exceed the due proportion of parts, and, like Fierce love has pierc'd me with his fiery dart
the old heroes of that mitki, commit fometliing
MaledTcted. adj. \maledi3ut, Latin.]
He fires within, and hill'cs at my heart. Dryden.
near extravagance. Vope. Accurfed. DiSl,
Mai, a'nders. n. /. [from ma/ andare,
Make, n /. [maca, jemaca, Saxon.]
Italian, to go ill.] A dry fcab on the Maledi'ction. n.f. [malediilion, Frv
Companion ; favourite friend. malediaio, Latin.] Curie j execration}^
pattern of horfes.
The elf therewith aftonied, denunciation of evil.
Upftarted lightly from his loofer make,
MA'LAFERT. [mal and pert.]
aeij.
Then let my life long time on earth maintained be.
And his unfteady weapons 'gan in hand to take. Saucy ; quick with impudence ; fpright- To wretched me, thelart, worft»!«/.</;.9ij)i. Sidney,
Fairy Queen- ly without refpeft or decency. The true original caufe, divine malediSion, laid
Bid her therefore Iieffelf foon ready make. Peace, mafter marquis, you arc nalapert; by the fin of man upon thcfe creatures which God
To w.iit on love amongft his lovely crew Your fire new ftarop of honour is fcarce current. hath made for the ufe of man, was above the reach
When every one that mifleth then her make, Shakefpeare. of natural capacity. Hooker.
Shall be by him ainearft with penance due. If thou dar'ft tempt me further, draw thy In Spain they ftaid near eight months, during
Sftvfer. fword. which Buckingham lay under millions of male-
For fince th» wife town —What, what? nay, then, I muft have an dinions; «hich, upon the prince's arrival in the
Has the fports down,
let ounce or two of this malapert blood from you. weft, did vanifli into praifes. IVotton*
Of May games artd morrisi Skakef. riuclftb Nlgbt. Malefa'ction. n.f. [male and facia,
The maids and their makis. Are you growing malapert f Will you force me
At dances and wakes. make ufe of my authority ? Dryden's Span. Fryar.
Latin.] A crime ; an offence.
Guilty creatures at a play
Had their napkins and pofies. Ma'lapertness. n.f. [from malapert.]
BenJ(inJim''sOtvh- Have, by the very cunning of the fcene.
And the wipcn for their nofcs.
Livelinefs of reply without decency Been flruck fo to the foul, that prefently
Ma'kebatf. n. /. [make a.adi debate.]
quick impodence; faucinefs. They have prodaim'd their malefaUicns. Stakeff,
Breeder of quarrels. Ma'lapertly. adv. [from malapert.] Malefa'ctor. ». /. [male and /acie,
Love in her paflions, like a right makebate, Latin.] An offender againft law; a
Impudently ; faucily.
whifpered to both fides arguments of quarrel.
Sidney- To Mala'xate. v. a. [^taXaxl*.] To criminal ; a guilty perfon.
Ootrageotts party-writers are like a couple of foften, or knead to foftnefs, any body. A jaylor to bring forth
Some monftrous makfaSor. Shakef. Ant. and Clccf,
nakthaiK, who inflame fmall qnarrels by a thou- Malaxa'tion. n. / [(torn malaxate.]
S"»'/'' Fear his word.
Cird (lories.
The aft of foftening. As much as maiefaClors do your fword. Rofecwtmon,
Ma'keii n./ \itommake.'\ Male. adj. [male, French ;
ma/culus, It is a fad thing when men fliall repair to the
I .The Creator.- Latin.] Of the fex that begets, not miniftry, not for preferment but refuge ; like male-
Both him, in all things, as is mset,
in
bears young ; not female. faflors Hying to the altar, only to fave their lives.
The univerfal Maker we may pralfe. Milton. Soutb,
Which be heir of the two male twins, who
fliall
This the divine Cecilia found. If thSr barking dog difturb her eafe,
by the diflcaion of the mother, were laid open to
And t-i her Mjker't praile confin'd the found. Pope. Locke. Th' unmanner'd malefuflor is arraign'd. Drydin,
the world ?
Such plain roofs as piety could raifc. The malefaBcr goat was laid
only vacal with the Mtkir't fsuCe, Pcpt. YuH are tb< tichcft perfon in the cosunoa- Dryden.
And On Bacchys' altar, and his forfeit paid.
Malk'fick.
M A L M.KV MA L
Ma tE'FiCK. 7 aJj. [mahfcus, Latin.] I. Unfavourable; iU-difpofed to any one; Mali'onamtiy. adv. [from nutlignant.^
Ma le'fiqj.'E. J Mifchievous; hurtful. malicious.
j
Wjth inteniion
ill maliciouily ; mif-
;
Dia. Witchcraft may be Uy opention of ma/Zfir fpirlts. hievoully.

Malepra'ctice. n./. [male and prac- Bacon. arriving Now
If in the conftcUations war were fprung.
tice.] Pradice contrary to rules. At place of potency, and fway o' t!i' ftatc.
.
Two planets, rufhing from afpeil malign If he jhould Itili malignantly remain
Male'volence. n.f. [tna/cvo/entia.Lzt.'} Of ficrceft oppofition, in mid Iky Faft foe to the plebeians, your voices might
Ill will; inclination -to hurt others; Should combat, and dieir jarring fphcres confound. Be curfes to yourlelves. Shakejfcarci CcriUaniu,
malignity. Milton.
Of Mali'gner. n.f. [i^ ova malign.]
The fon of Duncan contempt, and the malign hoftile influence
Lives it has upon government, every roan's experience 1. One who regards another with ill will.
court; and is receivM
in the Enelifli
Of the moft pious Edward with fuch grace, will inform him. I thought it ncceflary to juftify my charafler
S.uth.
That the matfvclcnce of fortune nothing in point of deanlinefs, which my malignos call in
2. Infedious; fatal ,ta. the body; peflilen-
Tilces from his high refpefl. qucltion. S'ji'ft,
Shtiit^f. Machelb. tial.
Male'volent. adj. 2. Sarcaftical cenfurer.
[malevoluf, Latin.]' Hethat tumetli the humours back, and maketh
Such as tjiefe are philofophy's marigmrs, who
Ill-difpofed towards others; unfavour- the vvound. bleed inwards, endangercth iralign ulcers
^pronounce the moft generous contemplations, need-
able; malignant. and pernicious impofthumationS'. B.rcc'tt's F(piys.
lefs' unprofitable fubtlcties. Glarville.
I have thee !n my arms. To Ma.li'gn. v. a. [from- the adjedive.j'
M.vn'cNiTY. n.f. [malignity, French.]
Though our maUiKltrt (lars have ftruggled hard. I. To regard with envy or malice.
1. Malice; maliciouinefs.
And held us long afunder. Dry den' i King Arthur. The people praftifed what mifchiefs and vilbnies
Deeds are done which man might charge aright
Male'volently. adv. [from maU'vo- they will againll private men, whom they malign,
On ft'jbborn fare, or undifcerning
by ftealing their goods, or murdering them. might.
Jenee.] Malignly; laalignantly ; with ' Had not their guilt the lawlefs foldiers known,
Sfcnjer on Ireland.
ill-will, And made the whole m'liligniiy their own. TichK
It is hardly to be thought that any governor
The oak did not only refent his fall, but v!n-| 2. Contrariety to life; deftruftive ten-
ihould fo malign his fuccefTor, as to fuffer an evil
dicate him from afperfions malevohittly caft upon to grow u^ which he might timely have kept dency.
him. //muc/J '•
unJcr. • •
Sfcnfer on Irelar.dl Whither any tokens of poifon did appear, re-
Ma'lice. n./. [malice, Vx.iHalitia, Lat.| Strangers confpired together againft him, ani pCfrts are various his ph'yiicians difcfrned an in-
;
I. Badnefs of deCgn ; deliberate mifchief. malignid him in the wilrferncfs. Ecclus. xiv.- li. vincibly malignity in his difeafe. Hayivctrd.
God hath forgiven rae many fins of malice, anJ If it is a pleafure to be envied and (hot at, to be No redrefs coold be obtained with any vigour jiro-
therefore furely he will pity my infirmities. '
maligned (landing, and to be dcfpifcd falling ; then porlionable to the malignity of that far-fpread dif.
Taylor' i U'Jy Vt'Stngi is it a pleafure to be great, and to be able to dlfpole c-'le. King Charles.
_
s. Ill intention to any one ; deCre oi of men's fortunes. iiouth. '
3. Evilnefs of nature.
hurting. '
2: To mifc-hief; to hurt ; to harm* This flieVi's the \i\zh malignity of-fraud, that in
Duncan is !a hit grave ;
N*tAi.i'cxANcv. K.f. [ftommalignaif.] I
the natural courfe of it tends to the deftruflion of
SHatjtt domeflick, foreign levy, nothing common life, by deftroying truft a^d mutual con-
Can touch him further ! Sbakeffeare's Machcibi
1. Malevolence; malice; unfavo'urable-
Dff). '.'
'
fidence.' V •
.ri' .- .- J ,'. South,
When Satan, who late fled before the threats j
My flats /hine darkly over me
.
n
Mali'gnly. adv .. [(tarn malign ]. Eb-
Of Gabriel out of Eden, now improv'd the malignariey of ;
.j my fate might, perhaps, dlAempcr yours 5 thefefore vioufly ; with ill will; mifchievoufly.
In meditated fraud and ma/ice, bent
Left you think I.raiHy more than teach.
i
I crave your leave that I may l|caj my es'ils alone.

On man^s dcftrudlion, maugre what might hap Or prsii'e maVigid^ mK I cannot reach
Of heavier on himfelf, fearlefs retum'd. Milun.
Sh'ak'e^lpejr}i
Let me for once prefume
;
2. Deftruftive tendency. ' ' t" inftruft the times.

To Ma'i.ice. 1/. a. [from the noun.] To ^
/ Pope.
The infcftion doth product, a <«Ao, whictr, ac- 1 . , . . ,
'
regard with ill-will. Obfolete. cording to Ma'lkin. «./ [from mal, of Mary, and
the degree of its impl'rgittncy, either
The caufe why he this fly fo malked.
Was that his mother which him bore and bred,
proves ealily curable, or elfe it proceeds in its ve- iiu, the diminutive termination.] A
nom. H'y'eman'i Surgery. kind of mop made of clouts for fweep-
The moft fine-fingered workman on the ground,
Arachne, by his ineans, was vanquidicd. Sjiinfir,
MsLi'cK AST. ad/, [malignetnt, French.] ing ovens; thence a frightful figure of
Mali'cious. adj. [malicieux, Fr. mali- I. Malign; envious; unpropitious ; ma- clouts dreHed up; thence a dirty wench.
tio/ui, Latin.] Ill difpofed to any one; licious ; mifchievous ; intending or ef- Hanmer,
intending ill ; malignant. fcding ill. The kitchen malkie pins
We mud not (lint O malignant and iU-boading (tars iHer lockram 'bout her recchy neck,
richeft
Our necedary aftions in the fear Now art thou come unto a fcaft of death. Shalejp, Clamb'ringthe walls to eye him. Shakijp. Coriolanuu
To cope rrtaJkhus cenfurers ; which ever Not friended by his wiih to your high perfon, Mall. ».y. [malleus, haxin, a hammer.J
As rav'nous do a
fiflies velTel follow
Hii will is mo.1 malignant, and it ftretches 1. A kind of beater' or hammer.
That it new-trimm'di Sbakefpeare't Henry VIII. Beyond you to your friends. Shakefp. Henry VIII, He took a mall, an'd after having hollowed the
I grant him bloody. To good malignant, to bad men benign. MUton. handle, and that part which ftrikes the ball, he
Sadden, malicious, fmacking of ev'ry fin
They have feen all other notions befides their endofed in them feveral drugs. yUdijoni SpcSaitr,
That own reprefented in .a falfe and malignant
has a name. Shalcjfcare' t Macbelb,
whereupon they judge and condemn at once.
light j 2, A ftroke ; a blow. Not irt ufe.
Thou know'ft what malicitius foe, With miglity mall.
Envying our happinefs, and of his own IVatts'i Impnmemcnt of the Mind, The monfter raercilefs him made to fall. Fairy !^,
Uefpairing, fecks to work 119 woe and Ihame. Z. Hoftile to life: as, malignant fevers. Give that rcv'ernd head a mall
Milrcti, They hold, that the caufe of the gout is a ma- Or two, or three againft a wall. Hudiiras,
The air appearing fo malicimn in tliis morbifick iignanl vapour tliat falls upon the joint; that the
A walk where they formerly played
coofpiracy, cxafis a more particular regard. fwelling is a kindnefs in nature, that calls down
Harvey on Cinfumpti-inu humours to damp the malignity of the vapours, with malls and balls. Mollis, in Iflan-
Mali'ciously. adv. [from malicious.'] and thereby afluage the pain. TapflA dick, 3n area or walk fpread with ftiells.
Let the learn'd begin This the beau monde <h»ll from the tnall furvey,
With malignity; with intention of mif- And
hait with mufick its propitious ray.
Th' enquiry, where difcafc could enter in ' '
Pope.
chief.
An intrigue betvreen hit majeHy and a junto of
How thofe malignant atoms forc'd their way. To Mall. v. a. [from the noun]. To
What in the faultlels frame they found to make beat or flrike with a mall.
minifters malicioujij bent againit me, broke out, ^
their prey ? DryJcti,
and had like to have coded in my utter delliuflion. Ma'llard. n.f. [malart, French,] The
Mali'onant. n /.
'
Swift, drake of the wild'Auck.

1. A man of ill intention, malevolently Antony
MAi.t'ciousNEss. ft./, [horn maliciout.] '
clips oh liis fcaiwingi like a doatingmÂ.
Malice; intention of mifchief (0 an- difpofed. lard.
Occafioii was taken, by fcveral nal'ign<intt,'~k- Leaving the light in height. Shek. Ant.andCleof.
other.
ctetly to undermine his great authority The birds that are moft eafy to be drawn ar«
Not out of enry or malicioufrtefi. in the
church of Chrift. mallard, Ihoveler, and goofc. Peacham on Dcawing.
Do I forbear to crave your fpecial aid., H^rlertf Hooker.
Arm y»ur hook with the line, and cut fo much
Mali'cn. adj. [maligne, French malig-
2. It was a word ufed of the defenders
; of a brown mallard's feather as will make the
nut, Latin of the church and monarchy by the
: the g is mute or liqucfr i
wings. tfâlton's Anglerm
CCBt.J rebel fcdaries in the civil ware. Mallkabi'hty, [ftom malleatle.]

.
- , «./.
M » Quality
MA L MAN MAN
Quality of enduring the hammer; qoa- Vou peafant fwatn. you whoribg, y«ii mtlthsrfe I had aot fo much of mtn in met
Jity of fpreading under the hammer. dxiidê. Shakejpeare't Tomi/tgoftbe Utrrzv. But all my mother came into mine eyeJ,
Suppafing the noniicil cfTence ot gold to be a Movne, malibsrft, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch. And gave me up to tea.s. Hhtkefftar.'s Hnrj V.
body ot' I'uch a peculiar colour and weight, with ainkejp.jre. Every man child Ihail be circumcjfrd.
the nalleaiiliiy and tuHbility, the real eflence is Ma'ltman. 7 »./. [from »ia//.] One Gen. xvii. io«
that conllicution oa which thefe qualities and their Ma'i TSTER. ( who makes malt. Cercus, a woman once, and once a man.
union depend. Lmkc. But ending in the lex Ihc Ant began. DrjA. Mneii.
Sir Arthur the malfficr! how fine it will found
Ma'lleablb
!
Along time fince the cultoin began, among

French;
itJj. [malleable, A'wi/'r.
people of quality, to Iteep men coo]^ of the French
{torn malleus, Latin, a hammer.] Ca- Tom came home in the chariot by his lady s
nation. ^ S-:vift.
fide; but he unfortunately taught her to drink
pable of being fpread by beating this : fNot a boy.
brandy, of which flie died; and is now a Tom 3
is a quality pofTelTed in the moft emi- journeyman maltjler. Swift. The nurfe s legends are for truth rectiv'd.
nent degree by gold, it being more Malva'ceous, ad/, [mal-va, Latin.]
And the man dreams but what the boy believ'd.
dufUle than any other metal ; and is Dry den,
Relating to mallows.
oppofite to friability or brittlenefs. Malversa'tion. n.f. [French.] Bad 4
. A fervant ; an attendant ; a deêik-
dant.
ihifts ; mean artifices ; wicked and Now
thanked be the great god Pan,
Make it more ftrrng for falls, though it come fraudulent tricks.
not to the degree to be m.tJiabU.
Which thus prcferves my loved life.
Bact/n,
The beaten Toidier proves rooft manful,
Mam. ) n.f. [mamma, Latin: this Thanked be I that keep a man.
That Tword endures the anvil
like his ',
Mamma'. ) word is faid to be found Who ended hath this bloody ftrife:
And jultly's held more formidable, for the compellation of mother in all
For if my m„-n mult pralfes have.
1'hc more his valour's tm^lUakU* Hujihrai*
What then mult I that keep the kna*e.> Sldniym
languages ; and is therefore fuppofed .My brother's lervants
If the body is compaii, and bends or yields
to be the fit!! fyllables that a child pro- Were then my fellows, now they are my men. Shakcf.
inward to prdlion without any Hiding of its part;,
it is liaid and eblUcIc, returning to its figure with
nounces.] The fond word for mother. Such gentlemen as are his majefty's own fwora
Poor Cupid fobbing fcarce could fpeak; fervants Ihould be preferred to' the clurge of his
4 force lifing from the mutual attraftion of its
Indeed, tKoir.mci, I did not know ye m.ijeity'? ihips ; ciioice being made of men of
parts :if the parts Aide upon one another, the body
Alas! how cafy my miftake, valour and capacity, rather than to empby other
is mul/iiii/i or fol't. A'cwron'; Opikis.
I took you for your Ukencl's Clue. Prl^r, men's mm. Raleigh's EJfays.
MA'I,L£ABI.EÊSS. [ffom malle-
71. /. I and my mati will prefcntly go ride
Little mailers and miffcs arc great impediments
aiJe.] Quality of enduring the ham- to fctvaats^ the remedy is to biibe them, that they Far as the Corniih ihount. C.wlty,
mer; malleability; du£\i!ity. may not tell tales to pappa and maiwruiw Sivift, J.
A word of fiimiliar addrefs, bordering
The b'idics of moil ufc that are fought for out Mam me' E tree. n.f. on contempt.
cf the earth are the mccali, which are JiftingulQied The hatharofaccous flower, which
ma/nmet: trtt you may partake of any thing we fay :
Iroouicber bodies by their weight, fufibility, and afterwardi becomes an almolt fpherical flelhy fruit, We fpeak no trcafon, men Sttktfpeare's Rich. III.
r:al'eai/U/iefu •,.,,. ^^ Locke* containing two or three feeds indoled in hard rough 6. Itisufed in a io.ife fignification like
To Ma'lleate.' v. 'a, [from malleus, /hells. MilUr.
the French on, one, any one.
Lat] To hammer; 'xo forge or Ihape Ma'mmet. n.f. [frota mam or mamma.] This fame young fober-bloodcd boy doth not
by the hammer. / < :'
A puppet, a figure drefled up. Hanmer. love mc, nor a man cannot make him laugh.
He firrt found out the art of melting and mal- Kate ; this is no world Sbakcjp.ares Her.ryW.
lejting metals, and making them uleful for tools. - To play with mamnut!, and to tilt with lips. Stak. A man in may diic^ver the afl'ertioa
an inilant
Dertam* be impoflible. Mores Dhine Duiogues.
Ma'mmiform. adj. [mammiforme, Fr. to
Ma'llet. »./ [malleus, Lat.] A wooden
mamma i^nA forma, Lat.] Hating the
He is a good-natured man, and will give as mixh
hammer. as a man would dcfire. Sfiflin^Jleet,
fhape of paps or dugs. By ten thoufand of them a man fliall not be able
The veffel foddered up was warily ftruck with a
wooden maiUt, and thereby c >nip^fred. B'jyU, Mammi'i. LARY. adj mammillaire, Fr. . to advance one ftep ip. knowledge. Tiliotfon's S rm.
Their left-lund dês ti^ calking iron guide, mammillaris, Lîn.^ Belonging to the Ourthoughts will not Be direfled what objeA*
The:rattling m'ilht with the right they lift. Dryd< to purfue, nor be taken off from thofe they haw
paps or dugs.
once fixed on ; but run away with a man, in purfuit
Ma'llows. n./. [mai-va,'LA\sa i maetepe, MA'MMOCK. n.f. A large Ihapclefs of ihofc ideas they have in view. Locke*
Saxon.] A plant. piece. A man would expeiS to find fome antiquities }
Shards or malts^vs for the pot. The ice was broken into hrge mammocks. but all they have to ihow of this nature is an old
That kc^p the loofen'd body found. Drydtn. Jamst'i t'cyage. rolirum of a Roman fliip. Aidifon,
Ma'lmsey. n.f. To Ma'mmock. f. a. [from the noun.] A man might make a pretty landfcapc of his uwo
1. A fort of grape. To tear ; to break ; to pull to pieces. plantation. Aitiifin,
2. A kind of *ine. I faw him run after a gilded butterfly ; and he J. One cf uncommon qualifications.
Metbeglin, w«rt, and ma'.rjey. Sbaiejpcart* did fo fet hi'i ti-eth, and did tear it Oh, warrant, ! 1 Manners makith man, William of Wsckham,
MALT. ». /. [mealt, Saxon ; mout, how he mjminockt it Sbakejjxare's Cerioianus* I dare do all that may become a man ;
Dutch.] Grain tteeped in water and MAMMON, n. /. [Syriack.] Riches.

Who dares dj more is none.
—What bead was't then
fermented, then dried on a kiln. MAN. n.f. [man, mon, Saxon.] That made you break this enterprize to me '
Beer hath ma't iirft infufed in the liquor, and is 1. Human being. When you durft do it, th»n you were a man;
afterwards boiled with the hop. Bacon's Nat. Hiji, The king is but a man as I arn ; the violet And, to be more than what you were, you wouli
Ma'ltdust. n.f. [malt 3n6 dufi.] fmells to him as it doth to me; the element Ihcws Be fo much more the man. ShakefpcarSs Macbeth*
Mah-iuf. is an enricher of barren land, and a to him ai it doth to me ; all his fenfcs have but He tiipt me behind, being down, infulted, rail'd,
Mirumr's Uufliandry,
great improver of barley. '
human conditions. Sbukt/pcare. A.nd put upon him fuch a deal oi man.
Ma'i-tfloor. n.f. [malt andjfwr.] 4 Air the wed bank of Nilui is puirelTcd by an That worthied him. SLik-fpeare's King Lear,
floor to dry malt. ' idolatrous, ^.'ijff eating nation. Brertivood% Will reckons he Ibûld not have been the moit
.
Empty the corn from the ciftern into the vtaUr A creature of a more exalted kind he is, had not he broke windows, and knocked
Jlotr. Mirt'mer'i Hujbandry.
Was wanted yet, and then was man defign'd, doivn confiables, when he was a young fellow.
Confcious of thought. Dryjcns Oiid, Addifin's Spe3ator,
To Malt, f, ». j
I. To make malt,
Nature in man capacious fouU hath wrought. 8. A human beltig qualified in any par-
And given them voice expreffive of their thought; ticular manner
a. To be made msk. In man the god defcends, ai.d j'>y^ to find
Thou art but a yuutb, and he a man of war from
To houfe it grc«n it w;l! mow-burn, which The narrow image of his great;; m.nd. Cr,-!ch.
his youth. i Samuel, xvii, 33,
will make it muh worfe. Monnur'i liujhandrj, A combination of the ideas of a certain nj;ure,
9. Individual.
Ma'lturikk. n.f. [mall inA drink.} with the powers of motion and rcafoning joined to
In matters of equity between man and man,
rtU niaitdnnks may be boiled into the confirteace fubltance, make the ordinary idea of a matt LocU,
our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbour
of •"Uimy fyrup. Fhyrr en :he Humcurs. On human actions reafon thoujh you can.
in the place of mylelf, and myfelf in tlic place of
It may be reafon, but it is not man. Poft't Ejijilet.
Ma'lthorse. »./. [malf aod ii/rje.] It my ne:i;hbour. ifatts's Legick.
fecms to have been, in Shakefpeare\ 2. Not a woman.
Bring forth men children only !
10. No- a beaft.
tim£, a term of reproach for a dull 1 hy face, bright Centaur, autuoin's heats retain.
For thy undaunted metal ihould compofe
doit. Nothing but males. Sia^cffcart't MacUth.
The foftcr feafon fuiting to the man, Cnecb,
II. Wealthy
MAN MAN MAN
Jl. or independent perfon : to
'V^'ealthy Ta MA'wACLf. f. a. [from the tioun.] M^'nageable. adj. [from mortage^
thi') fenP fome refer the following pai- To chain the nands ; 10 (hackle. ». Ea(y in the ufe; not difficult to be
fage of Skakejpeare, others to the feme We'll bait thy bears to death, wielded or movrd.
next forepui ig. And manacle the bcarw.ud in iheii chains. Shaleff The conditions of weapons and their improve-
I'll manacle thy neck and feit ti^t'thcr. Shakejp.
There wouU this monfter make a m-ji ; any ment are, that tliey may ferve in all weather s ; and
Is it thus you ufe this mo.iarch, to manacle
ftrange bead there makes uman. Shakjf- Tunj-.J}. tiiat -.lie carriage maj be ight and managcallc.
and Ihackle hiju ha.d and foot > Arhuth. and Pcfe.
What poor man would not caw a great buithcii Bacon*t t.jjayu
of gold to be made a mjr. for cvwf Tilhi/iti.
7» M A'NAOt. -y. c [^menager, irencti.] Very long tube J n-.. by reafon of their Itngtli,
12. Wnen a perlon
not in his fenfcs,is I. To conuufl ; to Carrv on. apt to bend, a:id (h.ilcc by benuing fo as to caufe a
we fay, he is not his own man. AinJ^vu. The fathers had managed the charge of ido- continual trernbiing In the objedts, whereas by con-
latry againll the heatSiens. Stiilingjleet. trivance the glalfes arc readily nsaiiageai le. Atwtcn,
13. A moveable piece at chefs or draugnts. Let her at GoVi-rnabie
leaft the vocal brafs infpire. 2. ; tradable.
14. Man ofiL-ar. A (hip of war. And tell the nations in ncf vulgar llrain.
A Flemiih man of war lighted ujion them, What wars I n:an:ige, and what^reaths I gain.
^ ^
and ovennailercd them. Carnvi Surn-ty of Cornvj*
abk.\
Pricir.
To Man. <v. a. [from the noun. t. To train a horfe to graceful aflion.
I. Accommodition to eafy ufe.
This dilagieement may he imputed to the greater
J. To furnifh with men. Herode up and down gallantly mounted, me^.
or lefs cxailnels or managiahlencjs of the inllru-
Ydur Alios are not well mar.n'd ; naging his horfe, and charijing and dii'charging liis
nu-nts employed. Both.
Your mariners are mulitcers, or reapers. SlaUJp. lance. KnolLs.
There Hands by yond tuft-of trees,
tJie cartle They vault from hunters to the manag'd ftced.
2 fraitai lenefs ; eafinefs to be governed.
hianrd with three hundred men. Kkak* Rich' II. y':,ung, Ma'nagememt n.f {menagement, Fr.]
A navy, to fccure the ftas, is marn'd; 3. To govern to make traftable.
;
1. <JonMii(:t; sdoi niltrat;on.
And forces fent. Daniel's Cknt ffar. Let us ftick to our point, and we will maragc An ill argument with dererencc,
introduced
hath been agreed, that cither o£ them fhould
It Bull I'll warrant you. Ariutbmi'i John Bull. will procure more
than the profjundeft
credit
fcnd certain (hips to fea well manr.fd, and apparel-
4. To wield ; to move or ufe eafily. fcience with a rough, infolent, and noify luaiuge-
led to fight. HayiLarJ. Long tubes are cumberfomc, and fcarce mcnf. Locke f.n Educatun.
to be
Thcii ihips go as long voyages as any, and are tor calily managed. Nnvtoit.
The wrong managcmcrt of tire carl of Godol-
their burdens as well mnvinrd. RnU'igh's EJjUys. phin was the only cuufc of the union.
He had mar.Ktd it with a great number of taJl 5. To huftand ; to make the objeft of
Hivft*
2. Prudence; cunning pradice.
foldiers, more than for the proportion of the caftle.
caution.
Mark with what manag-ment their tribes divide
Baccn* There is no more to manage ! If I fJI, ;
Some ftick to you, and fome to t'other lidc. Dryd.

It (hall be like myfelf a fetting fun
They ntm their boats, and all their young men ;
Should leave a tra(ft of glory in the (kies. Drydeu. 3. Fradice ; tranfadion ; dealing.
arm. Waller.
The lefs he had to lo»t, the lefs he car'd He had great m.inagemenfs with ecclefinfticks in
TheVenetian? could fet out thirty men of war,
To manage loathlbme life, when love was the reward. the view of being advanced to the pontificate.
3 hundred gallies, and ten galeafes ; though I can-
Dryden. Addijon on Italy*
rot conceive how they could man a fleet of half
the number. Addijin on Italy. 6. To treat with caution or decency ; this Ma'nacer. n./. [from manage]
Timoleon forced the Carthaginians out, though is a phrafe merely Gailick, not to be 1 One who
. has the condud or diredion
they had manned out a fleet of two hundred men of cf any thing.
imitated.
war. Arhullnot.
Notwithdanding it was fo much his interell to Afkilful manager of the rabble, fo long as they
2. To guard with men. manage his proteftant lubjefts in the country, he have but ears to hear, needs never enquire whether
See, how the furly Warwick mam the wall. made over his principality to France.
they have any underftanding. Sout/'.
Addijon.
'i'hc manager o^ciis his lluice every night, and
Shokefftari, To Ma'nage. "v. n. To fuperintend
The fummons uke of the fame trumpet's tall. diHributes the water into the town. AddHcrt,
affairs ; to tranfadl. An artful maragtr, that crept between
To fally from one port, or man one publick wall.
Leave them to manage for thee, and to grant His friend and lliamc, and wai a kind of fcrcen.
tate.
What their unerring wifdom fees thee want. Dryd.
3. To fortify ; to (Irengthen. Pope.
Advife how war may be beft upheld,
Ma'kaCB. n. /. \mrjnage, mtnage, Fr.] 2. A man of frugality ; a good hufband.
Mann d by her rwa main nerves, iron and gold, 1. Condufl; adminillraiion. A prince of great afpiring tlioughts : in the
In all her equipage. Milton. To him put main, manager of his treaf.ire, and vet bountiful,
a
Thcodofiui having manned his foul with proper The man:tgc of my date. ShakefpeareU tempefi. Irom his own motion, wherever he difccrns merit.
reflexions, exerted hirofelf in the beft manner he This might have been prevented. Temple.
could, to animate hii penitent. Mdijons Sfell.
With very eafy arguments of love. The mod feverr cenfor cannot but be piejfed
To tame
a hawic. Which now the mumiê of two kingdoms mull with the prodigality of Ovid's wit; thorrg'r he
4.
Another way I have to man my haggard, With fearful, bloody TlTue arbitrate. Sbakeffeare. could have wifhed, that the mailer of it had been
To make her come, and know her keeper's call For the lebels which Hand out in Ireland,' a better manager. Dryden*
Expedient manage muft be made, my liege. "Ma'nagfry. n.f. [mtnagerie, French.]
That 19, to watch her. Sbakeffeare.
Ere further Icifure yield them further means.
5. To attend ; to ferve ; to wait on as a I, Condud; ditedion adminiltration. ; .
Shakifpeare. They who mill

man or fervant. /oung mfn, conduit and manage of
in the
exailtly deferibe that battle,
give fo ill an account of any condndl or difcretion
Thou wb'îefon mandrake, thou art fitter to be aftions, embrace more than they can hold, and ftir
worn my
cap than to wait at my heels maragery of that ali'alr, that pofteritv would
in the
in I was : more than tliey can quiet. Bacon. receive little benefit in the moll particular relation
never manned with agate till now. Hhakefpeare* The plea of a good intention will ferve to
They diftil their hulbands land of it. Clarcf.dan.
fanftify the worrt actions the proof of which is
In decjîons, and are manned
j
but too manifclt from that fci)ndalous doftrine of 2 Hufbandry ; frugality.

With ten empiricks in their chamber. the jefuits concerning the diredlion of the inten- The
court of Rome has, in other inftances, fo
Lying for the fpirit of amber. Ben Jtnftnt Ftriji. well auerted its good manjgery, that it is not cre-
tion, and likewile from the whole manjge of the
lo dible crowns are conferred gra:is. Di..ty of }'i.tf. '
6. liireft in hoftility ; to point; to late rebellion. Siuih.

aim. An obfolete word. 2. Ule; inltrumentality. 3. Manner of ufiiig.
Man but a rufli againft Othello's breaft, To think to make gold of quirklilver is not to No expert genera! will bring a company 'if taw,
nhtrained men inro the f.cld, but will, by littU l.loody
And he retiret. Shakrffeart'i Othello. be hoped ; for quickfilver will not endure the ma-
nage of tne fire. Ikirmilhes, inliruftthem in the manner of tire fi{.h\,
MA'NACLES. n.f. [manidtj, Frencii ; Bacin.
and teach them the ready manageiy of their weapon^.
manicte, from manui, Lat.J 3 Government of a hocfe.
Chain for Decay of Piety>.
In thy (lumbers
, the ha^d^ ; fhaikles.
I heard thee murmur rales of iron wars.
Mana'tion. n.f. [matiatio, Lat.] The
» It
For
is
my fake wear this glove
a manacle of love. ishakcfpeari'i Cymbclhe,
Speak terms o{ manage to the bounding deed.
Shakefpeare,
ad of ifluing from fomething elfe.
AU'NCHE. n.f. [i'Venrh.] A (leevc.
Thou
The
horfe you muft draw in his career with his M//nchf. r. »./ [miibet, Fr. Skinnir.]
Mull, as a foreign recreant, be ted
manage and turn, doing the curvctto. Pea^ham.
With manacle: along our Dreets. Shakiff. Corhlanui. .\ fmall loaf of fine bread.
DoOiine unto ffjols is as fetters on the feet, and 4. Difcipline; j>overnan(e. Take a finall toail of manclel, dipped In oil of
Whenever we take a ftrong bias, it Is not out of fwect almonds.
like mena les on the right-hand. EccUi. xxi. 19. Bacon.
a moral incapacity to do belter, but for want
Tie law good men court their ornament and 01 a I luvc to entertain my friends with a frugal eri-
careful mantge and difcipline to fi t us riglu at lation a cup
prote£tionj oihers, lhf.\i manadet ati nypeffvm. firft.
; of wine, a dlih of fruit, and .r man.
King Cttrltt. L'F.fi range. chet. Muie'i Dialogues.
|
Manchine'el
MAN MAN MAN
"MANcniNE'Et irtt. n. /. [maneauilla, Mandi'i iok. »./. \mandigliont, Ttalian.] MA'NrvMY. adv. [from manful.] Bold*
Latin.] A foldier's coat. Skinner. loofe gar- A ]y ; ftootly.
The numbineel Ira i native of the Weft In-
is ment a fleevelefs jacket. Ain/iuprth. ArtimeCa behaved hcrfelf manfully in a great
;
fight at fea, when Xerxes ftood by as a coward.
dies, and grows to the an oak ; its wood is
fize ol'
Ma'ndrbl. »./ [wtiWr/n, French.] An Abbti.
. ol • beautiful grain, will polifli well and lall long, indrument to hold in the lathe the fub- I fiew him manfully in fight.
and is therci'ute much efteemed : in cutting down
llance to be turned. Without falfe 'vantage, or b«fe treaclwry. Shalefp.
thofc trees, the juice of the bark mud be burnt out
bclove the work is begun ; for it will raife blifters
Mandrill are made with a long wooden Aiai.k, He that with armour manfully
this Chtiftian
to fit ftift" into a round hole that is made in the fights againft, and the temptations and
repels,
on the Ikin, and burn holes in linen j and if it
work that is to be turned this mand.el is a (hank, alTaults of his fpiritual enemies; he that keeps hii
fliould riy into the e) es of the labourers, they are ;
or în-mandrcl. M'.x-.n. confclence void of ofiiEace, fliall enjoy peace herct

in danger of lofing their fight : the fruit is of the
colour and fiae of the golden pippcB ; many Euro- Ma'n DRAKE. »./, [mandragoras, Latin ;
and for ever. Ray on Creatica.
peans have faftcred, and others loft their lives by mandragore, French.] Ma'nfui-wess. n. f. [from manfnl.]
eating it : the leaves abound with juice of the fame The tiower of the mandrake confiftj of one leaf Stoutnefs ; boldnefs.
nature ; cattle never ftelter themfelves, and fcarce- in the fliape of a bell, and is divided at the top Mangco'rn. n.f. [metrgen, Dutch, to
ly will any vegetable grow under their ihade ; yet into feveral parU j the root is faid to bear a refem-
mingle.] Corn of feveral kinds mixed ;
"
goats eat this fruit witliout injury. Miller. blance to the human form. The reports of tying
as, wheat and rye. It is generally pro-
To MA'NCIPATE. v. a. [mancifo, Lat.] a dog to this plant, in order to root it up, and
to bind to prevent the certain death of the perfon who dares nounced mung c*ru.
1"o enflavs ; ; tie.
Although the regular part of nature is feldom
to attempt fuch a deed, and of the groans emitted Ma'nganese. n. f. \manganefia, low
varied, yet the meteors, which are in themfeivcs
by it when the violence is oA'ered, are equally fabu- Latin.]
wancipaitd to ftated mo- lous. Milkr. name many
more unftable, and lefs Manganfc is a the glalTmen ufc for
tioD^, are oftentimes employed to various ends.
Among other virtues, mandrake has been falfely diftcrent fubllances, that have the fame efteft in
Hah: celebrated for rendering barren women fruitful
clearing th« foul colour of their glal's > it is properly
it has a foporlfick quality, and the ancients ufed
Mancipa'tion. n,/. [from mancifate.] an iron ore of a poorer fort. Hill.
it when they wanted a narcotick of the moft power-
Manganese is rarely found but in an iron vein.
Slavery ; involuntary obligation. ful kind. Hill'i Materia Metiica. IVood'wari.
JVIa'nciple. »./. [manceps, Latin.] The Would corfes kill, as doth the mandrake'i groan,
MANGE, f
[demangeaifna, French.]
n.
fleward of a community ; the purveyor : I would invent as bitter learching terms.
As and horrible to hear. Shakrfp.
cuift, as harfl),
The itch or fcab in cattle.
it is particularly ufed of the purveyor The (heep died of the rot, and tlie fwine of tbfe
Not poppy,
nor mandrogora.
of a college. Nor all the drowfy fyrups of the world, mange. Bin JtnfoB,
Their manciple fell dangeroufly ill, Shall ever med'clnc tliee to that fweet fieep. Tell what crlfis does divine
Bread muft be had, their grift went to the mill: Shakefpcare. The mange in fwine ?
rot in (heep, or Hudikras.
This fimkin moderately ftole before, And mandraket, torn out of the earth.
fiarieks like Ma'ncer. n.f. \mangtire, French.] The
Their fteward fick, he robb'd them ten times more. living mortals, hearing them, run mad.
That place or veiTel in which animals are fed
Bellertcn'i Miller cfTromfivglin.
Siakefpeare,
A with corn.
MJNDJ'MUS. n. /. writ [Latin.] Go, and catch a falling ftar, A churlilh cur got into a manger, and there lay
granted by the king, fo called from the Get with child a mandrake root. Donne.
growling to keep the horfes from tlieir provender.
initial word. To Ma'n Due ate. v. a. [matiduco, Lat.] L'Efirar.ge.
Mandari'n. »./. A Chinefe nobleman To chew ; to eat. Ma'nciness. n.f. [from mangy.] Scao-
or magiftrate, MANDUCA'TiON.n.y; [manducatio, Lat. binefs ; infeflion with the mange.
Ma'n d at a r y. It./, [maitdatdire, French ; Eating. TcMA'NGLE. i/. a. [mangehn, Dutch,
from mando, Latin.] He to whom the Manducation is the action of the lower jaw in to be wanting mancus, Latin.]
; To
chewing the food, and preparing it in the mouth
pope has, by his prerogative, and pro- received into the ftomach. Sûincy.
lacerate ; to cut or tear piecemeal
before it is
•
ptr right, given a mandate for his be- As he who not a holy perfon does not feed
is to butcher.
nefice. Ayliffe. upon Chrift, it is apparent that our manducation Caflio, may you fufpeS
Ma'ndate. »._/". [manJaium, Latin.] muft be fpiritual, and therefore fo muft the food, Who they fliould be, that thus liave mangled you ?
and confcquently it cannot be natural (icih. Sbakejp.
J. Command. Your difljonour
Taylorî Worthy Communicant.
Her forceis not any where fo apparent as in
Mangles true judgment, and bereaves the Aate
exprefs manJata or prohibitions, el'pecially upon Mane. n.f. \maene, Dutch.] 'I"he hair
Of that integrity which Jhould become it. Shake/.
advice and confultation going before. Hooker. which hangs down on the neck of Thoughts, my tormeatots atm'd with deadly
The necelTuy of the times caft the power of horfes, or other animals. ftings,
the three eftates upon.himfelf, that his manJates Dametas was tofTeJ from the fad die to the mane Margie my apprchenfive tendereft parts,
fliould pafs for laws, whereby he laid what taxes
of the horfe, and thence to the grbund. Sidnty. Exafperatc, exukciate, and raife
he thivel's Vocal Forejt.
plcafed.
A
currie comb, maitie comb, and whip for a Dire inflammation, which no cooling herb, ^
2. Precept; charge; commiffion, fentor jade. TaJJcr. Or medicinal liquor can afiiiage. Mi'ton^s Agomfet.
tranfmitied. The weak wanton Cupid Mangle milchicf. Don Sehajtian.
who knows. Shall from your neck unloofe his ara'rous fold; The triple porter of the Stygian feat.
If the fcarce bearded Caefar have not fent And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mam. With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet,
His powerful mandate to you. Shakcjpeare.
This Moor,
Be Ihook to air. Stak^jp. Troil. ar.d CrcffiJa.
The horfes breaking loofe, ran up and down with
And, fciz'd with fear, forgot bis mangled meat.
DrydeM,
i
Your fpecialmandate, for the ftate affairs. their tales and manct on a light fire. Knolies. What could fwords or polfons, racks or flame, »
Hath hither brought. Sbak'Jpeare'i Otbelli. A lion fiiakes his dreadful mane, But m.ing.'eand disjoint this brittle frame >
/
He thought the mandate forg'd, your death con- And angry grows. Waller. More fatal Henry's words ; tliey murder Em- f
ccml'd. Orydtn. For quitting both their fwords and reins. ma's fame. 3
This dream all powerful Juno fends, I bear They grafp'd with all their ftrength the manes. Prior.
Her mighty mandaiet, and her word:! you hear. HuSbrts. It is hard, that not one gentleman's daughter
Dr\din. Ma'neater. n. /. \man and m/.] A ihould read her own tongue ; as any one may
MANDA'rOR.ti.f. [Latin.] find, who can hear them when they are dilpofed to
Direft'or. an anthropophagite ; one
cannibal ;
A pcrfon is faid to be a client to his advocate, mangle a play or a novel, where the leaft word out
upon human flelh.
that feeds
but a mafter and mandator to his proftor. Ayliffe. of the common road difconcerts them. Sivift.
Ma'ked. adj. [from the noun.] Hav- They have joined the moft obdurate confonants
•Ma^ndatorV. adj. [mM/tdart, Latin.]
ing a ihane. without one intervening vowel, only to ihorten a
Preceptive; direftory
MA'NES. n. /. [Latin.] Ghoft ; (hade ; fyliable ; fo that moft of the books we fee now-
Ma'ndiele.*./ [/Ba«yiW<i,Lat.] The that which remains of man after death. a-days, are full o( thofe manglings and abbrevia-
jaw ; the inftrument of manducation. Hail, O ye holyiawm .' hail again.
tions. Svft.
He «nly the crocodile movcth the upper
faith,
Paternal alhes ! Drydu'i Vtrgil.
Inextricable difKcultin occur -by margling the
jaw, 9S if the upper mandiiie did make an articula- fenfe, and curtailing authors. Baker o* Learning.
tion with the cranium. Grew,
MA'NFUL. adj. [man and/a/Aj Bold ;
llout ; daring. Ma'ncler. n. f. [from mang/t.] A
MandTbular. adj. [from mandiiula,
A handful hacker; one that deAroys bangling-
- l,ai.] Belonging to the jaw. It had dcTOtir'd, 'twas fa manful, Huiihrat. !/•
Since
MAN MAN MAN
since ifter thee may rife in impious line, to make publick; to (hew plainly; Manifo'lded. adj. [many and fold:']
Coarfe manglen of the humaî face divine j to difcover. Having many complications or doables.
Paint on, till fate diflblve thy mortal part, Thy life did mamfefi thou lov'dft me not j
His puilTant arms about his noble brcaft,
And live and die the monarch of thy art. Tickil.
And thou wilt have me die affured of it. Sbahjji. And manifolded Ihicld, he bound about his wr'A.
JWa'nco. n.f. [maiigoftan, French.] A He that loveth me 1 will love him, arid mamfefi Fairy iêen*
fruit of the ille of Java, brought to myfelftohim. j'tAn, xiv. 21. Ma'nifoldly. adv. [from manifold.']
Europe pickled. Hewas pleafed himfel£ to alTume, and martiffi In a manifold manner.
his will In our flelh, and fo not only as God from They were manifoldly acknowledged the favers of
The fruit with the hulk, <feen very young,
'
heaven, but God viiible on earth, to preach re- that country. Sidney.
makes a good p:tferve, and is ufed to piclcie lilie
formation among us. Hammand. Mani'glioss. Two
-
wungM. Mirrimer. n.f. [in gunnery.]
wou'd bid his cook prepare
_
This pervcrfe commotion
V/hat lord of old handles on the back of a piece of ord-
Kkg. Muft manifefi thee worthieft to be heir
MargM, potargo, champignons, cavaie?
nance, cad after the German form.
Of all things. Milton' t Paradije Lofi.
MA'NT.y. aJj. [from mange^ Infeded
Were he not by law withftood, Bailey,.
wiih the mange ; fcabby. He'd manifefi his own inhuman blood. Drydcn. MA'NiKtN. A
n.f. [mannihn, Dutch.]
Away, thou iiTue of a mar.gy dog !
It may be part of our employment in eternity, to
Sbaktjp. Tmcn of Atbcm.
little man.
I fwoon to fee thee. contemplate the works of God, and give him the
Thisis a dear manikin to you. Sir Toby.
Manha'ter. n. /. [man and hater.] glory of bis wifd^m maniffied in the creation.
— have been dear to him, lad, fume two thott.
1
Mifanihrope ; one that hates mankind. Ray on Creation.

fand ftrong. Shakefpeare's T-.tielfih Night.
Ma'nhood, n.f. [from man.'\ Manifesta'tion. n.f. \ntanifeJiation,
Ma'niple. n f. [manipului, Laiin.]
1. Human nature.
French; from Difcovery
manifefi.'] ;
1. A
handful.
In Seth was the church of God eftabllflicd ; publication ; clear evidence.
2. A
fmall band of foldiers.
from whom Chtift defcended, as touching his Though there be a kind of natural right in the
munhtwl. Rakigh. noble, wife, and virtuous, to govern them which
Mani'pular. tidj. [from manifulus, Lat.]
Not
_ _
therefore joins the Son are of fcrvlle difpofition ; nevcrthelefs, for mani- Relating to a maniple.
Manltid to Godhead, with more rtrcngth to foil fcfiatian of this their right, the affent of them who Manki'ller. a. /. [man and iiller.Ji
Thy enemy. Milion's Paratl'ije LeJ}. are to be governed feeroeth neceliaiy. Hooker. Murderer.
2. Virility ; not womanhood. As the nature of God is excellent, fo likewife is
To kill mankillers man has lawful pov»'r.
'Tis in my
pow'r to be a fovereign now, it toknow him in thofe glorious manifefiations of But not th' extended licence to devour. Dryden*-
And, knowing more, tg make his manhood bow. himfelf in the works of creation and providence.
Tilhtfan.
Manki'nd. n.f. [man a.nA kind.]
Dijdcn.
manner which afls of mercy ought 1. The race or fpecies of human beings.
The fecret in
3. Virility ; not childhood. From them I will not hide
to be performed, requires this publick mamfefiaiiin
Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy ; My judgments, how with mankind I proceed ;
of them at the great day. Atterbury.
Thy fchool-Jays frightful, defp'ratc, wild, and fu- As how with peccant angels late they faw. Miltmit.
rious Manife'stible. adj. [properly mani-
; Erewhile perplex'd with thoughts what wauld>
Thy prime af manbc^ daring, bold, and venturous. feJlabU.] Eafy to be made evident. become
Sbakejftare* This is manifefiible in long and thin plates of Of me and all mankind ; but now I fee
By fraud or force tlie fuitor train deftroy. fteel perforated in the middle, and equilibrated. His day, in whom all nations fliall be bled. Milton-
And ftarting into manhaaJ, fcorn the boy. Pope, Brjivn. Plato witneffeth, that foon after mankind began
4. Courage ; bravery ; refolution ; forti- Ma'nifestly. adv. [from manifefi.'] to increafe, they built many cities. RaUigbm
tude. Clearly ; evidently ;
plainly. All mankind alike require their grace.
Nothing fo hard but his valour overcame which ; We fee manifefily, that founds are carried with All born to want ; a miferable race. Pope's Odyffiy,
he fo guided with virtue, that although no man wind. Baton. 2. Refembling man, not woman, in fornx-
was fpoken of but he for manheej, he was called Sefls in a (late feem to be tolerated becaufe or nature.
the courteous Arophialus. Sidney. they aie already fpread, while they do not mani- A mankind witch ! hence witl\ her, out o' door 1,
Mani'ack. 1 adj. [maniacus, Latin.] fefily endanger the conftitution. Swift. A mod intcUigency bawd ! Shakefp. IVinler'sTale.
Mani'acal. J Raging with madnefs J Ma'kifestness. ». /. [from manifefi.] Ma'nlike. adj. [man and Hie.] Having
mad to rage. Perfpicuity ; clear evidence. the complexion and proper qualities of
Epileplis and maniacal lunacies ufually conform MyjMFE'STO. n.f. [Italian.] Publick man.
to the age of the moon. Crnv^t Cojmo!. proteftation ; declaration. Such a right manlike man, as nature often err-
Ma'nifest. fli^'. [manifejlus, Latin.] It was propofod 'o draw up a manifcfio, fettlng ing, yet ihews Ihe would fain make.
1, Plain; open; not concealed; not forth the grounds and motives of our taking arms. Sidney.
doubtful ; apparent. Mdijon. M.\'nless. adj. [man and /{/i.]j With»-

They all concur a; principles, they all have their Ma'nifold. «<^". [many inA fold.] out men ; net manlied.
forcible operations therein, although not all in like 1 Of different kinds ; many in number ; Walter Raleigh was wont to fay, the Spa-
Sir
apparent and mamftjl manner. lio'.kir.
multiplied complicated. niards were fuddenlydriven away with fquibs
;
That which may be known of God is manififi in When his eyes did her behold, for it was no more but a ,ftrataêin of fit-e-boats
them for God hath ihcwed it unto them.
i Her heart did feem to melt in pleafures manifld. manlefi, and fent upon the Armada at Calais by the
R'M. i. 19. Spenfer. favour of the wind in the night, that put tliero in
He was fore-crdained before the foundation of Terror of the torments manifold. fuch terror, as they cut their cables. Bacon*
the world, but was manififi in thefe laft times for In which the damned fouls he did behold. Sfcnfir. Ma'nliness. »./. [(rom mr.nlj.] Dig-
vou. I Pet, i. zo.
If that the king nity ; bravery ; ftoutnefs.
He full
Have any way your good dcferti forgot. Young matter, willing to fticw himfelf a ifiarr,
Refplenênt his father manififi
all
Which he confeffcth to be manifUdf lets himfelf loofe to all irregularities
and thus ;
kiprefs'd. Militm't Paradije Lfl,
He bids you name your griefs. Shakejpeare. courts credit and manlinfs in the calling off Wie
Thus tnanifrfi to fight the God appcar'd. Drjdcn. If any man of quality will maintain upon Ldward modefty be has till then been kept in. Loike*
I faw, I fjw him manxfffi in view. earl of Glo'fter, that he is a manifold traitor, let
His voice, his figure, and his gellure knew. Dryd.
Ma'nly. adj, [from man.]
him appear. Sbakejpeart.
Detcfled with 1. Manlike; becoming a man; firm;.
2. : o/". » They receive manifold more in this prefent
Calidho there flood man'ftfi s/'lhame. time, and in the world to come life everlaliing.
brave;;ftout; undaunted; undifmayed.
And, tuin'd a bear, the northern ftar became. Luke, xviii. 30. As .^neas old Anchifes bear.
did
Uryden. To reprefent to the life the manifold ufe of So upon my manly flioulders. Shakefpm
I bear thee
friendfliip, fee how many things a man cannot do Let's briefly put on m^mly rcadincfs.
Manife'st. n.f. [manifefie, Fr. mani-
himfelf. Bacon'i'Effayt. And meet i' th' hall together. Sbakffpeare'iMact,
fejlo, Iialian.] Declaration ; publick Serene and manly, harden'd to fufiain
protedation.
My
fccpe in this experiment is manifld. Bnyle.
We
arc not got further than the borders of the The load of life, and exercis'd in pain. Dtyden*
Yon authcntick witneiTes I bring See great Marcellus how inur'd in toils, "
mineral kingdom, fo very ample is it, fo various !
Of this my maniffi : that never more He moves with manly grace. Dryden's
and manifold its produflions. Woodivard. j^htid,.
This hand (hall combat on the crooked Ihore.
2. Milton has an uncommon ufe of it. 2, Not womAnilh not childilh. ;
Drydtn,
They not obeying I'll fpeak between the change of man and boy
To Manife'st. nj. a. [mani/ejltr, Fr.
Incurr'd, what cou'd they lefs ? the penalty With a reed vuice j and turn twi mincing fteps
;
mani/ifto, Latin.] To make appear j AbA manifold in &tt deferv'd ta fall. Miliiin. ' Into » manly lltide. Sbukefp, Mtrclum -tf y,m,t,
5 Ma'wljx
;
MAN MAN MAN

Ma'kly./i/v. [from man.] Wiih cou- mannen 1 at, to make tiiem warlike ; to make them Major Cim6ej, in eommon Isw, t rule or ga-
foft and effeminate. Bacon. vcrnment which a man hath over fuch as hold
rage like a man.
Every fool carries more or lefs in his face the land within his fee. Touching the original of
Ma'nna. a./ fignature of his manneri, more legible in fnme than thcle manors, it feems, that, in the beginning,
Manna is propcriy i gjn, and is honey-Uke L'F.flrange. there was compafs of ground granted by
a certain
others.
juice concretcJ into a folij form, feldoni fii dry the king to fîme man of worth, for h.m and hit
but ic adlxru to the fingers
We bring our manneri to the bleft abodu,
its colour is whitifti, :
heirs to dwell upon, and to exercifc fome jurifdic-
And think what pleifts us muff pleafe the gods.
or brownifti, and it has fwettncls, and with it a tion, more or Icfs, within that compafs, as he
' Drydtn.
ihirpnrfs that renders it agrcc.ble : mtmnj is tiie thought good to grant ; i>erlbrming him fuch fcr-
produfl of two different 10. [In the plural.] Ceremonious beha-
trees, both varieties of tl i vices, and paying fuch yearly rent for the fame,
nth : when the heats are free from rain, thffe tiei's
viour; (ludied civility. as he by his grant required : and that afterward
exfudate a white juice. It is but lately that the The time will not allo.v the compliment,
this great man parcelled his land toother meaner
wjrU were convinced of the miltajce of mi-.r.nj be- Which very manners urge. Sbakejprart't King Lear.
men, injoining them again fuch fervices and renta
ing in aiHrial produce, by covering a tf«c with flieets Thefe bloody accidents muft excufe my mannirt. as he thought good ; and by that means, as he be-
in the marnj fcafon, and the linding as much That fo neglcded you. Siakejpeare't Othel'o.
came tenant tJ the king, (b the inieriors became
mama on it as on thofe which were ojên to tie Our griefs and not our mannen reafon now. tenants to him but thofe great men, or their
:
»ir. //;//. Slakejftare.

pofterity, hare alienated thefe manfions and lands
It would be well inquncJ, whether maiwa doth Ungracious wretch.
fo given them by their prince, and many fur capital
fall but tipon certain licrbs, or leaves only. Bacm. Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves.
offences have forfeited tiiem to the king ; and there-
The manna in heaven will fuit every maji's palate. Where manneri ne'er were pteach'd. k'iakefpeare. by they ftiU remain in the crown, or are beftowci)
Lxke. Dear ICate, you and I cannot i)e confined within again upon others. But whofoever poilcffes thefe
MANNER. »./. [manJere, French,] the we;ik lift of a country's faihion ; we aie the
makers ot manners, Kate. Shakejp,
n:ar.trSf the liberty belonging to them is real and
•*. Form ; method. Good manners btûnd her to invite

predial, and therefore remains, though the owners
In my divine EmHIa make me bicft. be changed. In thefe days, a vsar.or rather fignifics
The ftranger dame to be her gueft that night.
tile jurifdiAion and royalty incorporeal, than the
find thou the m<innrr, and the means prepare j Dryicn.
mere than conquert, is my care. Dryjiri.
roilelTion, land or Gtc for a man may have a manor in grofs,
:
None but
the carelcfs and the confident would
as the law terms it, tliat is, the right and intereft
2. Cultom ; habit ; fafliion. rufh rudely into the pt«fence of a great man : and
of a court-baroB, with the perquiiitcs thereto be-
As the tmir.ner of feme is. New tefianunt. fliall we, in our applications to the great Cod,
Certain degree.
1 )i!glng. Chv^.
_3 •
take that to te religion, which the common rcal'on
.My paiks, my walks, my manors that I had,
It is in a mînnr done already of mankind will not allow to be mannen * South,
; Ef'n now forfakc me ; and of all my lands
For many carriages he hath difpatch'4 Your patVion bends
Is nothing left me. Staiefpeare't Henry VI.
To the fea fide. Shakefptarc's King J.in. Its fercc againft your neareft friends.
Kinfmcn of mine.
The bread is in a manner common. Which wanners, decency, and pride,
By this fo fickcn'd their eftatcs, that never
Sam, xxi. c.
1 Have ta-jght you from the world to hide. Si»i/t.
1'licy Ihallabound as formerly. O many
If th> envy be general in a mar.iter upon all the 11. To lake in /;&; Manner. catch Te Have broke their backs with laying »WBorj on tiieni
minillers of an etlatc, it is truly upon the fiate
in the aftu il commiffion of a crime. For this great journey. Sbakefpean'i Richard II.
itlelf. Baccn'i EJj'ayi.
This univerfe \ve have poffeft, and rul'd
If I melt into melancholy while I write, I Oiall Manque'ller. n. / [man and cpellan,
In a m.irntr at our will, th' affairs of earth- MUlon,

be taken in ite v-anncr ; and I fit by one too tender
to thefe impreflions. Donne.
Saxon.] A murderer; amankiller; a
Augullimis does in a manner confefs the charge. fnanllayer.
Ma'nnerlines. a. /. [from mannerlj,]
This waf not Kayne the manjiuV.tr, but one of
. Sort ; kind. Civility ; ceremonious complaifance. a gentler fpirit and milder fex, to wit, a woman.
- Others out of manner/inefs and refpe^l to God, Carcwt
All m/ttirtr of men affcmblcd here in arms againft
God's peace and the king's : we charge you to re-
• though they deny this univerfal foul of the uni-
Masse, a./, \manfio, Latin.]
verfe, yet have dcyifed fcvcral fyllems of the uni-
pair to your dwelling places. Shak ]j>. Henry VI. I. Farm and land,
JfaWs Origin of Mankind.
X love that make-i breath pour, and fpeech un-
verfe.
;'
z. A parfonage houfe.
able Ma'nnerL'Y. ee^'. [from mtznner.'] Civil
Beyond all
;
trutmcr of fn much I love you . Shakcfp. ceremonious ; complaifant. Ma'ksion. n f. Sjiianjio, Latin.]
What manner of mar were tliey whom ye flew ? T-uti tirt; here's a mannerly forbearance. 1. The lord's houfe in a manor.
Jut/gis. Stakefpcjre. 2. Place of refidence ; abode; hou(c.
The city m^^* Bourilh in tiadc, and all mjnner Let me howe All thefe are but ornaments of that divine fpark
of outward aJvantajjcs. jfiurt/tiry. What thou think'ft meet, and is moft mannerly. within you, which being dcfccnded from heaven,
5- Mien ; call ol the look. Shakefpiiire. could not elfewhere pick out fo fweet a manfon.
Air and manner are more exptelTive than words. Fools make a mock at /m, affront the Cod Sidney,
Ciarilfa. whom we ferve, and vilify religion : not to oppofc A~fault no lefs grievous, if fo be it were true,
'
Some men have a native dignity in their manner, them, by whatever mannerly names we may pal- than if fomc king ftiould build his manJscn-hQ\i(c
which will procure them more regard by a look, liate the oft'ence, not raodefty but cowardice,
is by the model of Solomon's palace. Hooker,
than others can obtain by the moll imperious com- and a traiterous defertion o( our allegiance to Chrift. To leave his wife, to leave his babes.
mands. Rittariifon i CUnjJ'a, Rogers. His mavf'in, and his titles, in a place
6. way ; diftinft mode of perfoii.
Peculiar Ma'nnerlv. ad-v. Civilly; withoQC From whence hi mfclf does tly! helovesuinot. Sbakt
cin hardiy he imagined how great a difference
It rudeaefs. 'Vhy manfion wants thee, Adam ; rife,
was in the humour, difpofition, and manner, of When
we've fupp'J,
Flrft man, of men innumerable ondain'd ;
Firft father called by thee, I come thy guide
the army undfcr HITcx, and the other under Waller.
I
We'll mannerly demand thee of thy ftnry. Shaiefp.
To the garden of bl'ifs, thy feat prcpar'd. Milton,
Cfttrtnr'on. Ma'nnikin. at.y^ [wan and ikin, Ger- A more
Sorac few touches of your fordfhip, which I have manfiun is provided thee ; fair
endeavoured to cxprefs after your miinner, have made

man.] A little man ; a dwarf. Than and worthy Heav'n's peculiar care.
this,
whole poems of mine to pifs witii approbation. Ma'nnish. ae/J. [from man.] Having Not frara'd of common earth. Drjien,
Drydt^n^^ 'JwuevaU the appearance of a man ; bold ; maf- 3. Kefidence ; abode.
As man is known .by his company, fo a man's culine ; impudent. Thefe poets near our princes deep.
company may be known by \u%mitriner of mprclfing Nature had proportioned her without any fault And in one grave their manjiini keep. Denbam,
himl'elf. Stvift. yet altogether feemed not to make up that har- Mansla'bghter.. n./. {man MiA Jleiugb'
7. Way; mode: of things. mony that Cupid delights in ; the reafon whereof ter.]
The
temptations of profperity infinuate the.m- might fecm a mannijh countenance, which over-
felves alter a gentle, but very powerful, manner. threw that lovely fwcetncfs, the noblcft power of 1. Murder; deftruAion of the human
îcrbury. womankind, far fitter to prevail by parley than by fpecies.
S. Manners !n the plural : charafler of the battle. Sidney, The whole pleafurc of that book ftandeth in
mind. A >raman, impudent and mannijh grown, open manjlaugiter and bold bawdry. jljcham.
Is not more loath 'd than an effeminate man. To overcome in battle, and fubdue
His princes are as much dillinguilhcj by their N.itions, and bring home fpoils with infinite
Shakefpeare.
manner! as by their dominions ; and even thofe
Whenmannijh Mcvia, that two-handed wnure, Manjlaugklcr, (hall be held the higheft pitch
among them, whofc charaêrs fcem wholly Qiade
Aftride on horlcback hunts the Tufcanbo.ir. Dryd. Of human glory. Milton's I'aradije Lofim
up of courage, differ from one another as to tlie
particular kinds. A-litipn. Ma'nor. ». /. [maneir, old French; 2. [In law.] The aft of killing a man
General way of life ; morals ; habits. manirium, low Latin ; manir, Armo- not wholly without fault, though with-
<f.
1'hc kinds of muiick have mv& op eratlco upon rick.] out malice ; punilhed by forfeiture.
When
; .
MAN MAN M AN
Wten a man, throwing at a cock, killed a bye- A filken web ; «i>d ne'er fliall fade 1 . Performed by the hand.
ftandcr, I ruled it nanjianghter. Fificr, Its colours : gently has he iaid Ihe fpeculative part of painting, without the
The mjnile o'er thy fad diftrcfs. afififtance of manual operation, can never attain ttj
Mansla'yer. »./. [»/«» andyZajf.] One Pricr.
And Venus (hall the texture b.efs. that perfeftion which is its objcft. Dryden's Dufr.
that has killed another.
Numben.
* A fpacious veil from his broad (boulders flew. 2. L'lfQ by the hand.
Cities tor refuge for the mavjlayer.
That fetthe unhappy Phaeton to view ; The treafurer obliged himfelf to procure fome
Mansu'ete. adj. [man/uetus, Lalin.] The flaminj; chariot and the ftecds it (hew'd. declaration under his majeily's fign manual.
Tame; gentle; not ferocious; not And the whole fable in the man'le glow'd. Addifan. Clarendon,
wild. To M A'^TLE. 1/. a. [from the noun.] To Ma'nual. A
fmall book, fuch as
«.yi
This holds not only in domsftick and manfuett cloke ; to cover ; to difguife. may be carried in the hand.
birds ; for then it might be thought the effcfl of As the morning deals upon the night. This manual of laws, ftiled the confelTor's laws,
cicuration or inilitution, but alfo in the wild. Melting tlie dsirkncfs ; fo the rifing fenfes contains but few heads. Hale's Com. Lniv of Eng,
Ray o» the Crfakr. Begin to chace the ign'rant fumes, that mantle In thofe prayers which are recommended to the
M a'n suetud e. a./, {manfuetude, French ; Their clearer reafon.
them
Shakeffeare'i Temfejl. ufe of the devout perfons of your church, in the
man/uetudo, Latin.] Tamenefs ; gen- I left manuals and offices allowed them in our own lan-
tlenefs. r mantled pool beyond your cell,
th' filthy guage, they would be careful to have nothing they
The angry lion did prefent his paw. There dancing up to th' chins. Skak-ffieare's Temp. thought fcandalous. Stdlingjieetm
Which by confent was given to viartfuetude ; To Ma'ntle. v. original of the

n. [The Manu'bial. [manubite, liSun-l Be-
fli//.
The fearful hare her ears, which by their law fignificalion of is not plain.
this word longing taken in war.
to fpoil ; Diil.
Humility did reach to fortitude. Herbert,
Skinner confiders it as relative to the MJNU'BRlUM.n.f. [Latin.] A handle.
Ma'ntel. n. /. [mantel, old French.] expanfion of a mantle: as, the haiui Though the fucker move eafily enough up and
Work raifed before a chimney to con- mantleth ; Ihe fpreads her wings like a down in the cylinder by the help of the manubrium,
ceal it, whence the name, which ori- yet if the manubrium be taken o(F, it will require a
mantle. ] conliderable ftrength to move it. B.ylc»
ginally fignifies a cloak. 1. To fpread the wings as a hawk in
From the Italians we may learn how to raife Manudu'ction. ».y^ [mattttdu3ia, Lat.J
pleafure.
fair mmtthwithin the rooms, and how to difguife
arched neck.
Guidance by the hand.
The fwan with We
the Ihafts of chimnies. IValtiin. find no open tra6l, or conllant manuduîon^
Between her white wings mantling, rows
If you break any china on the mantletree or cain this labyrinth. Brotons Vulgar Erroursm
Her (late with oary feet. Millon'i Paradife Loft.
binet, gather up the fragments. Sw-ft. That they are carried by the manuduSiion of 3
Mantele't. «./. [mantelet, French.]
2. To joy ; to revel. rule, is evident from the conftant regularity of tneir
My frail fancy fed with full delight
motion.
I. A fmall cloak worn by women. Doth bathe and mantUih moft at eafc ;
in blifs, This is manuduBion to all kind of fin,
a direft
Glan'-./ille,
3. [In fortiiication.] A kind of move- Ne thinks of other heaven, but how it might by abufing the confcience with undervaluing per-
able penthoufe, made of pieces of tim- Her heart's dclire with mod contentment pleafe. fuafions concerning the malignity and guilt even
Spenjer.
ber fawed into planks, which being of the fouled. South,
about three inches thick, are nailed one 3. To be expanded ; to fpread luxuriantly. Manufa'cture. n. f. [manus in^faciot
The pair that clad
Latin
over another to the height of almoll fix manufaQure, French.]
;
Each Ihoulder broad, came mantling o'er his brcaft
feet ; they are generally cafed with tin, With regal Milton 1 Paradip Loft.
ornament. 1 The praftice of making any piece of
and fet upon little wheels; fo that in a The mantling vine workmanfhip.
Cege they may be driven before the pio- Lays forth her purple grapej and gently creeps 2. Any thing made by. art.
Luxuriant. Milton's Paradife Lrfi. Heav'n's pow'r earth, air, and fea,
neers, and ferve as blinds to fhelter is infinite :
I faw them under a green mantling vine, The m.»»tt/i7^wrtfmafs the making pow'r obey. Drydm
them from the enemy's fmall-lhot : That crawls along the fide of yon linall hill, The peafants are cloathed in a coarCe kind of
there are other mantelets covered on the Plucking ripe clufters. Milton. canvas, the manufaSlure of the country. Addifon*
top, whereof the miners make ufe to You'll fomctimes meet a fop, of niceft tread, To Manufa'cture. v. a, [manufailurert
approach the walls of a town or caltle. Whofe mantling peruke veils his empty head. Gay.
French.]
Harris. And where his mazy waters flow.
He gave the mantling vine to grow 1. To make by art and labour; to form
Manti'geii. [man and
ti, / //j-rr.] A A trophy to his love. Fcntons Ode to Lord Gc/iver, by workmanfhip.
large monkey or baboon. To gather any thing on the furface 2. To employ in work; to work up : as,
4. ;
Near thefe was placed, by the black prince of
to froth. •we manufaflure our ivool.
Monomotapa^s fide, the glaring cat-a-mountain,
There are a fort of men, whofe vifagcs M.anufa'cturer. n./. [manufaliuritr,
and the man-mimicking mantiger.
Arhuthn'it and Pope,
Do cream and mantle like a (landing pond French manitfaSiurus , Latin. ]
; A work-
And do a wilful ftlllnefs entertain,
Ma'ntle. n. /. [manlell, Welfti.J A With purpofe to be dreft 'in an opinion man ; an artificer.
kind of cloak or garment thrown over Of wifdom, gravity, profound conceit. Shahefp, In the praflices of artificers and the manufa&uren
of various kinds, the end being propofed, we fin<^
the reft of the drefs. It drinkcth frelh, flowereth, and mantleth exceed-
Bacon. out ways of compofing things for the feveral ufes
We, well-cover"d with the night's black mantli. ingly.
of human life. fVatts*
At unawares may beat down Edward's guard, From plate to plate your eye-balls roll.
And feize himfelf. ' Shakefpeare^s HenryVl. And the brain dances to the tnanlling bowl. Pope. To Manumi'se. t. a. [manumitto, Lat.J
Poor Tom drinks
the green mamle of the ftand- 5. Toferment; to be in fprightly agitation. To fet free ; to difmifs from flavery.
ing pool. Skakejlfiareî King Lear, When mantling blood A conftant report of a d.inger fo imminent run
The day begins to break, and night is fledj Flow'd in his lovely cheeks j when his bright eyes through the whole cadle, even into the deep dun-
Wbofe pitchy mantle over-veil'd the earth. Sbaiff. Sparkl'd with youthful fires ; when ev'ry grace geons, by the compalTion of certain manumifd
Their anions were difguifcd with mantles, very Shone in the father, which now crowns the fon. Haves. Kndles.
ofual in times of diforder, of religion and jullice. Smith. He prefents
Hayward. Ma'ntua. ». / [this Is perhaps corrupt-
To thee, renown'd for piety and force.
The herald and children are doathed with mantUi
A lady's Poor captives tnanuKis'd, and matchlefs horfe.
ed from manteau, French.]
of fattin ; but the herald's mantle is ftreajncdwith frailer.
gold. Bacon. gown. Manumi'ssion. '». /. [manumijjton, Fr.
By which the beauty of the earth appears, Not Cynthia, when her mantua'i pinn'd awry.
E'er felt (uch rage, refcntment, and defpair.
manumijfio, Lat.] The aft of giving
The divers-colour'd mantle which {be wear:.
As thou, fad virgin! for thy ravilh'd hair. Pope. liberty to Haves.
Sandyt.
Before the fun. How naturally do you apply your hands to each Slaves wore iron rings until their maiiumijjton or
other's lappets, ruflfles, and martuas. Snvift. preferment. Brctvn's Vulgar Errours,
Be/ore (he heav'ns thou wcrt, and at the voice
Of God, as with a mar:lt didft invert Ma'ntuamaker. n. /. [mantua an) The pileus was fomewlut
like a night-cap, as
the fymbol of liberty, given to (laves at their ma-
The rifing world of waters dark and deep, maker.'\ One who makes gowns for
Kumijfion, Arbutlnot.
t
Won from the void and formlcfs infinite. Milton. women.
Upon loofening of his mantle the eggs fell from To Manumi't. 1/. a. [manumitto, Lat.]
By mantuamaker : I am employed
profeflion a
I hlra at unaware:, and the eagle was a third time
by the moft fa(hionabIc ladie^ Addijons Cuardiun.
To releafe from flavery.
dticated. L'EJIrange, Marumit and releafe him from
!
Dan Pope for thy misfortune griev'd, M a'n UAL. adj. [manualis, Latin ; maniiel, to vice, under which thofe remain who
thofe drudgeries
live without
L With kind coocetn and Ikill hat weav'd French.] Cod. Cwernmcnt nf ike 7>ngur,
k Vol.. II. N Thou
II
; ; ;
MAN MAN MAR

Thoo wilt beneath the burthen bow. They come to vie power and expcnce with thofe Mantc a'ncuaced. /J<^'. [manj and /ail'
And gUd receive the marumiiiing blow that are too high and loo many for them. L'Eftrange. guage."] Having many languages.
On thy ihiv'd llivifli head. Drydn'i "Juvtr.at. Ma'ny. n.f. [This word is remarkable Seek Atrides on the Spartan fhore;
, Manu'rable. adj. [from maaurt.\ Ca- in the Saxon for its frequent ufe, being He, wand'ring long, a wider circle made.
pable of cultivation. written with twenty variations m:e- :
And manylanguagd nations has furvey'd. Pipt,
, This book gives an accoDnt of the mafturahU
nejeo, mxne30, manijeo, ma^nijo, Man ype'opled. adj. [many aod J>ec/>le.]
lands in every manor. Half s Oi igin of Mankind.
macniju, mxnio, mzniu, mzn^'jeo, ma- Numeroufly populous.
MANv'nAtice.n./. [(rommanure.] Agri- He from the manypeopled city flies
nejêo, maniju, manije, manijo, mc-
culture ; caltivacion. Ad obfolete word,
nejeo, menejo, meneju, menijeo,
Contemns their lalMurs, and the drivers cries.
worthy of revival. Sandys*
menijo, meniju, menio, meniu. Ljie.'\ Manyti'mes, an
Although there none of them fall by the
fliould adverbial phrafe. Of-
fword, yet they being kept from tranuramej and I. A multitude; a company ; a great ten ; frequently.
their cattle from running abroad, by this hard re- number ; people. They are Roman catholick in the device and
ftraint they would quickly devour one another. After him the rafcal many ran. legend, which are both manyiimes taken out of the
Spfnfer on Ireland, Heaped together in rude rabblement. F.riry Sêen. Scriptures. Aildifin.
•Vo MANU'RE. t/. a. [mancwvrer, Fr.] O thou fond many I with what loud applaufe Map. n./. [mafpa, low Latin.] geo- A
. I. To calcivate by manual labour. Djd'll thou beat hcav'n with blefCng Bolingbroke.
graphical picture on which' lands aiid
They mock our fcant maTturingy and require Sbak/Jftarc.
I had a pnrpofe now feas are delineated according to the
More hands than oura to lop their wanton growth.
Ml.'lon.
To lead our many to the holy land ;
longitude and latitude.
Left reft and lying might make them look Zclmanc earneftly entreated Dorus, that he
3. To dung ; to faten with compofls.
Too near into
ftill
my ftate. Shakiffeart's Hinry IV. would beftow a map of his little world upon her,
Fragments of reduced by the agitation of
fliclls,
the fea to powder, are ufed for the manuring of

A care-craz'd mother of a many children. that (he might fee whether it were troubled with
Shakefpeare. fuch unhabitable climes of cold defpairs, and hot
land. • ff^sodviard,
The
vulgar and the many are fit only to be led rages, as hers was. Sidney,
3. To fatten as a compoft. or driven, but by no means fit to guide themlclves. 1 will take the map of Ireland, and lay it before
Revenge her (liiughter'd citizens, Soutt, me, and make mine eyes my fcboolmafters, to give
Or : tlie corps of half her fenate
(hare their fate There parting from the king, the chiefs divide. my underftanding to judge of your plot. Spenjrr,
Mtrnurt the of Thefl'aly, while we
fields And wheeling Eaft and Weft, before their many Old coins are like fo many maps for explaining
Sit here, deliberating in cold debates. Addijtn. ride. Drydin. the ancient geography. jiddifon on Ancient Coins,
Manu're. n.f. [from the verb.] Soil He is liable to a great ma»jr inconveniencies every O'er the map my finger taught to flray,
to be laid on lands ; dung or compoA moment of his life. Tilhtfon. Crofs many marks the winding way j
a region
to fatten land. Seeing a great many in rich gowns, he was From from realm to realm I rove,
fea to fea,
When the Nile from Pharian fields is fled. amaied to find that perfons of quality were up fo And grow a mere geographer by love. Tickef,
The fat m(«ff«re with heav'niy fire is warm'd. Dryd. early. Addijon's Freeholder. To Map. v. a. [from the noun.] To
Mud makes an extraordinary manun for land
2. Many, when ofed before a fingular
it is delineate ; to fet down.
that is fandy. Mortimer's Hujhartdry. noun, feems to be a fubftantive. In I am near to the place where they fliould meet,
Manu'rement. [from manurt.'\
n. f, converfation, for many a man they fay if Pifanio have map'd it right. Shakejpeare' s Cym»
Cultivation ; improvement. a many men. MxTht tree. n.f. [acer.]
The manurtrr.cnt of wits is like that of foils, Thou of my fle/h.
art a collop The maple-tree hath jigged or angular leaves
where before the pains of tilling or fowing, men And for thy fake have I fhed many a tear. Shaktfp. the feeds grow twjp togetlier in hard-winged velTels :
confiderwh^t the mould will bear. WoitononZduc, He is befet with enemies, the mcaneft of which there are fcveral fpecies : the greater mapli is falfly
the fycimore tree the common maple i*
Manu'rer. n. f. [from the verb.] He is not without many and many a way to the wreak- called :
ing of a malice. VEJIrange. frequent in hedge-rows. Miller*

who manures land a hulbandman. ;
The platane round.
Broad were their collars too, and every one
Ma'nuscript. n.f. [w«««/?r/V, French ; Was fet about with many a coftly ftone. Drydin. The carver holme, the mapple feldom inwatd found.
OTfl»i(/ZT»//a«, Latin,] book written, A Mary a child can have the diftin£t clear ideas Sptnjer,
not printed. of two and three long before he has any idea of in- Of the rotteneft maple wood burnt to aflics they
A coUe£lion of rsrcmanuftripfs, exquiCtely writ- finite. Locke. make a Ifrong lye. Mortimer's Hujhandry,
ten in Arabick, and fought in the moft remote 3. Many is ufed much in composition. Ma'ppery. n.f. [from map.] The art
.
parts by the diligence of Erpenius, the moft excel-
Manyco'loured. adj. [many and co- of planning and defigning. Hanmer,
lent linguift, were upon fale to the jefuits. ffôtlon. The fliU and mental parts.
Her majefty has perufed the manujcript of this
lour. 1 Having various colours. ,
Hail manycolour'd meffenger, that ne'er That do contrive how many hands fliall ftrike
opera, and given it her approbation. Drydin. When fitnefs calls them on
Do'ft difobcy the voice of Jupiter. Sbaktjftare.
Ma'ny. adj. comp. more, fuperl. moji. He hears not me, but on the other fide, They call this bcdwork, mapp'ry, clofet war.
[maeni^. Sax.] A manycohur'd peacock having fpy'd. Shakefpeare*
1. Confining of a great number; nume- Leaves him and me. Donne. To Mar. 1/. a. [amyppan, Saxon.] To
rous ; more than few. The hoary majcfty of fpades appears ; injure; to fpoil ; to hurt ; to mifchief;
Our enemy, and the deftroyers of our Puts forth one manly leg, to fight revcal'd.
country, to damage. Obfolete.
flew many of us. Judges, xvi. 24.
The reft his manycolour'd robe conceal'd. Pope.
Lofs is no fhame, nor to be lefs than foe.
When many atoms defcend in the air, the fame Manyco'rnered. adj. [many and cor- But to be Icffer tlian himfrlf, doth mar
caufe which makes them be many, makes them ner.] Polygonal; having corners more Botli lofer's lot, and viftor's praife alfo.
be light in proportion to their multitude. Dighy. than twelve the geometricidns have
: Sperjcr'i Fciry îen„
Sufficient that thy prayers are heard, and death. mafter may. here only Humble, and per-
The
particular names for angular figures up
Thus due by fentence, when thou didft tranfgrefs. chance fall in teaching, to the marring and maim-
Defeated of his feizurc many days to thofe of twelve corners.
ing of the fcholar in learning. AJ:ham's Scbiolmajler*
Giv'n thee of grace, wherein thou roay'ft repent. Search thofe manyiornir'd minds.
When prieih are more in words than matter.
And one bad aft with many deeds well done Where woman's crooked fancy turns and winds.
When brewers marr their malt with water.
May'ft cover. Milton. Drydm. Sbakefpearew
The apoftles never give the leaft direftions to Makyhe'aded. adj. [many and head.] I pray you mar no mote trees with writing fong«
Chriftians to appeal to the bifliop of Rome for a Having many heads. in their barks.
determination of the many differences which, in Some of the wifcr feeing that a popular licence —I mar no more of my verfes witK
pray you
thofe times, happened among them. Ttllaijon. is indeed the manyhiaded tyranny, prevailed with them illfavouredly.
reading Shnktjpeare,
2. Marking number indefinite, or com- the reft to make Mufidorus their chief. Beware thine honour be not then difgrac d.
parative. Sidney, Take care thou mar not when thou ihink'fl to
Both men and women, The proud DuelTa came mend. Fairfax,
aj many at were wiUing-
hcartel, brought bracelets.
High mounted on her manyheaded beaft. Fairy Sû. Aumarle became the man that all did mar.
Exodus, xxxv. 22.
The manybeaded beaft- hath broke, Whether through indifcretion, chance, or worfe.
This apprehend not, why to thofe
yet 1
Anr.ong whom God will deign to dwell on earth.

Or fliaken from his head, the royal yoke. Denham. Dar.iil,
,
Thofe were the preludes of his fate, Thf
ambition to prevail in great things is lefs
So many and fo various laws arc given j
That foim'd his manhood to fubdue harmful than that other, to appear in every thing ;
So many hws argue fo many fins. Miltcn.
The hydra of the menyh edcd biffing crew. for that breeds confuGon, and txarrs bufineli
3. Powerful : with /m, in low language. DrjJtn. when great in dependcacies. liaccn's Ejjiy:,
5 O! could
!
MAR MAR MAR

O ! could we fee how caufc from caufe doth The appendix fliall be printed by Itfelf, ftitch- Like thee, great fon of Jove, like thee.
fpring !
ed, and with a miirble cover. When clad in rifing maje(?y.
S-tvift.
How mutually they llnk'd and folded are :
T* Ma'rble. 'v. a. [marbrer, Vrtnch, Thou marchejl down o'er Delos' hills. 7rior,
And hear how oft one diftgreeing firing The power of wifdom march'd before.
The harmony doth rather make than marr. Davia,
from the noun.] To variegate, or vein P::pe.
envy, and defpair,

Ire,
like marble. To March, v. a.
Afarr'J all his borrow'd vifage, and betray'd Very well flecked marbled paper did not call any 1. To put in military movement.
Him counterfeit. Mjitot'i Paradife Lcjl. of its diftinfl colours upon the wall with an equal Cyrus marching his army for divers days over
Had flie been there, untimely joy through all difltiiion. EcyU. mountains of fnow, the djzzling fpicndor of its
Mens hearts diffus'd, had marr'd the funeral. Marian whitenefs prejudiced the fight of very many of his
fyalkr.
Marbled with fage the hard'ning chcefe (he prefs'd, foldiers. Boyle on Colours,
Mother And yellow butter Marian's (kill profefs'd. Gay. 2. To bring in regular proceffion.
'Tis much unfafe my fire to difobey :
Marblbhe'arted. adj. [marble and March them again in fair array.
Not only you provoke him to your coft, heart.] Cruel infenfible; hard-hearted.
;
And bid them form the happy day j
But mirth is marrV, and the good cheer is loft. Ingratitude I thou marhUhearted fiend. The happy day defign'd to wait
DryJen, More hideou5, when thou fhew'ft thee in a child.
On William's fame, and Europe's fate. Prior,
MARANATHA. [Syriack.] It n. f. Than the fea monrter. Shakeffeare'i King Lear. March, n.f. [marcher, French.]
fignifies, the Lord comes, or, the Lord Ma'rcasite. n. /. 1. Military movement; journey of fol-
is come it was a form of the de-
:
The term marcajite has
been very improperly diers.
ufed by fome for bifmuth, and by others for zink 1 Thefe troops came to the army haralTed with a
nouncing or anathematizing among the
the more accurate writers however always exprefs long and wearifome march, and caft away tlieit
Jews. St. Paul pronounces, If any love
a fubftance different from either of thefe by it, arms and garments, and fought in their (hirts.
not the Lord Jefus Chrift, let him be fulphureoos and metallick. The rr.arcajite is a Bacon i War loiih Spain.
anathema maranatha, which is as much folid hard foffil, naturally found among the veins Who ihould command, by his Almighty nod,
as to fay, May'lt thou be devoted to of ores, or in the filTures of ftone the variety of : Thefe chofen troops, unconfcious of the road,
forms this mineral puts on isalmoft endlefs. There And unacquainted with th' appointed end,
the greatcft of evils, and to the utmoft
are however only three diftinft fpeciesofit; one Their marches to begin, and thither tend.
feverity of God's judgments ; may the of a bright gold colour, another of a bright fil-
Blackmtre,
Lord come quickly to take vengeance ver, and a third of a dead white : the lilvery one
2, Grave and folemn walk.
of thy crimes. Calnet. feems to be peculiarly meant by the writers on
Waller was fmooth, but Dryden taught to join '
the Materia Mtdua. Mar cape is very frequent in

Mara'smus. n. /. Itâêurfilc, from pa- The varying verfe, the full refounding line.
faiiu.] A confumption, in which per-
ibns wade much of their fubfiance.
the mines of Cornwall, where the workmen call it
mundick, but more in Germany, where they ex-
The long majeftick marcht and energy divine.
I
Pope,
trafl vitriol and fulphor from it. Hill.
The writers of minerals give the name pyrites J. Deliberate or laborious walk.
Pinmg atrophy, and marcajite! indifferently to the fame fort of We came to tlie roots of the mountain, and had
a very troublefome march to gain the top of it.
Marafmut, and wide-wafting Militn. peftllence. body : I reftrain the name of pyrites wifclly to the
Amartijmut imports a confumption following a nodules, or thofe that are found lodged in ftrata Addijon on Italy,
fever J a confumption or withering of the body, by that are feparate : the marcafiie is part of the mat- 4. Signals to move.
reafon of a natural extinflion of the native heat, ter that either conftitutes the ftratum, or is lodged The drums prefently ftriking up a march, they
and an extenuation of the body, caufed through an in the perpendicular fifTures. ffocdxoard. make no longer ftay, but forward they go direflly.
immoderate heat. Harvey. The acid fait diflblvwj in water is the fame Knolles,
Ma'rbi.e. «r.
/ \marbrt, French; mar- with of fulphur per campanam, and abounding
oil 5. Marrow, without Angular, [marcu. Go-
mor, Latin.] much in the bowels of the earth, and particularly thick; meajic, Saxon ; marche, French,
in marcajites, unites itfelf to the other ingredients
j
I. Stone ufed in ftatues and elegant build- Borders; limits; confines.
of the ir.arcafue, which are bitumen, iron, copper,
ings, capable of a bright polifh, and in They of thofe marches
and earth, and with them compounds alum, vi-
Shall be a wall fufficient to defend
a llrong heat calcining into lime. triol, and fulphur : with the earth alone it com-
He Our inland from the pilfering borderers. Shakefp,
pliei her hard, and much rain wears the pounds aJum ; with the metal alone, and metal
The Englilh
murhtt.
colonies were enforced to keep
Shahffeare. and earth together, it compounds vitriol and with ;
continual guards upon the borders and marches
Thou marble hew'ft, ere long to part with breath. the bitumen and earth it compounds fvlphur :
round them. Da-virs.
And boufcs rear'ft, unmindful of thy death. whence it comes to pafs, that marcaf.iei abound It is not fit that a king of an ifland (hould have
Sa»fiyi. with thofe three minerals. Newton's Opticks.
any marches or borders but the four leas.
Some dry their corn infcfted with the brine. Here marcafites in various figures wait,
D.i'ures on Ireland,
Then grind with marbles, and prepare to dine. To ripen to a true metallick ftate. Garth's D'ljpenf,
March, Ma'rcher. ti. /, [from marcheur, Fr.]
Dryden, n. f. \iioxn Mars.] The third
The two flat fides of two pieces of mariU Prefident of thi- marches or borders.
will month of the year.
more approach each other, between which
eafily Manyof our Englilh lords made war upon the
March drawn in tawny, with a fierce afpefl,
is
there is nothing but water or air, than if there be Wellhmen at their own charge ; the lands whicli
a helmet upon his head, to (hew this month was
a diamond between them not that the parts of ;
they gained they held to their own u(e; they were
dedicated to Mars. Peacham.
the diamond are more folid, but becaufe the parts ca.led lords marchers, and had royal liberties.
of water, being more eafily feparable, give way to
To MarcHs f. »•[marcher, French, for Davits, -.
the approach of the two pieces of marhU, Li>tie,

•varieare. Menage; {torn Mars, Junius.] Ma'rchioness. [feminine, formed
tt.y.
2. Little balls, fuppofed to be of marble, I. To move in military form. by adding the Englilh female termina-
with which children play. Well march we on,
tion to the Latin marchiv.] The wife
Afarhlet taught them percuffion, and the laws
To give obedience where 'tis trulv ow'd. Shakffp.
He marched in battle array with his power againft of a marquis.
of motion ; nuurackcri the ufe of the leaver. The
Arphaxad. king's majefty
jirbiithmt and Po{.e.
Judges, i. 13.
Maccabeus marched forth, and (lew fivc-and- Does purpofe honour to you, no lefs flowing
3. A
ftone remarkable for the fculpture
twenty thoufand perfons. iMac. xii. 26. Than nurchicnrft of t*embroke. Shak. Henry VIII-
or infcription : as, the Oxford marbles. My father, when fome days before his death From a private gentlewoman he made me a mar-
Ma'rble adj. chicnefs, and from a marchionefs a queen, and now
He ordered me to marcb for Utica,
1. Made of marble. Wept o'er me. Addifon's Cats.
he intends to crown my innocency with tlie glory
of martyrdom. Bacon's jipofth.
Pigmalion's fate reverft is mine, z. To walk in a grave, deliberate, or The lady marchionefs, his wife, folHcited very
Hia marble love took Hcfti and blood.
llately manner. diligently the timely prcfervation of her hulband.
All that I worlhippd as divine,
Plexlrtus finding that if nothing elfe, famine Clarendon,
That beauty, now 'tis underftood.
would at laft bring him to deftrudion,
thought
Ma'rchpane.
Appears to have no mojc of life. fi./. [ma^/ane, French.]
bctttr by humblenefs to creep where by pride he
Than that whereof he fram'd his wife. fValkr. could not march. Sidney.
A kind of fwcet bread, or bifcuit.
2. Variegated, or llained like marble. Doth York intend no harm to us, Along whofc ridge fuch bones are, met.
Shall I f:e far-fetched inventions' fliall I la- That thus he marcbeib with thee arm in arm ? Like comfits round in marchpane fet. Sidney.
bour to lay nurble colours over my ruinous Shakeffêare. Ma'rcii) adj. [marcidus,Lmin.] Lean;
thongl.ti > r,r rather, though the porenefs of my Our bodies, ev'ry footftcp that they make, pining; withered.
virgin mind lie ftained, let me keep the true fim- March towards death, until at laft they die. Aburning colliquative fever, the foftcr parts
plitity of my woid. Sidny. Devies. being melted away, the heat continuing its aduf-
a N tlnn
; ; J
MAR MAR MAR

tion upon tbe dtler and Bellijr F*tt<, changes bto We cannot better interpret the meaning of thefe When they bad avenged the blood of their bro>
a jnarc'ut fever. Harvey* words than pope Leo kimfelf cxpoundeth them, thcr, they turned again to the marijh of Jordan.
He on his own filh pours the noblell oil whofe fpeech concerning our Lord's afcenfion may I AJc' ix. 4B.
That to your marcid dying herbs aHign'd, fcrve inftead of a margin,t! glofs. Hooker. Lodronius, carried away with the breaking in
By tbe rank fmcU and tjfte betr3y> its kind. What remarks you find tvorthy of your riper ob- of the hurfemcn, was driven into a mari/h ; wherr,
Drydtn. fervation note with a marginal liar, as being worthy being fore wounded, and fad in the mud, he hid
Ma'rcour.w /. [OTarcar, Lat.] Leannefs; of your fecond year's review. fVatti. done the uttermod. Kacllts.
the {late of withering ; wafteofflcfti. Ma'rcinated. eidj. [margivatus, Latin, His limbs he coucheth In the cooler Ihades
Oft, whenheav'ns burning eye the fields invades.
Confidering the exolution and languor cnfuing from «rar^/«.] Having a margin.
To marijhes reforts. Sardys's Paraphraje,
the a£lion of venery in fome, the extenuation and Ma'rcrave. n./. [marei and ^ra^, Ger- From the other hill
vtarcour in others, it much abridgeth our days.
man.] A title of fovereignty in Ger- To their fix'd dation, all in bright array,
Srtrwn'i yulgar Erroun*
A
marcnr is either imperfeft, tending to a
many ; in its original import, keeper The cherubim on the ground
de<i:endcd ;
of the marches or borders. Gliding meteotous, at ev'ning itiid

lefTer "withering, which is curable \ or perfect, that
Ris'n from a river, o'er the mar'ijh glides,
is, an entire walling of the body, excluding all Ma'riets. ». /. ['violet marianee.] A And gathers ground fad at tlie labourer's heel. MJtt,
means of cure. Hsrvey. kind of violet. Z)/<f7.
Mare. h./. [mape, Saxon.] Ma'rish. /i<^'. Moorifh ; fenny ; boggy ;,
Ma'rigold. n /. [Mary And gold ; cal- fwampy.
1. The female of a horfe. iha, Lat.] A
yellow flower, devoted, It hath been a great endangering to the health
A pair of
courfers born of heav'niy breed.
I fuppofe, to the virgin. of fome plantations, that they have built along the
Whom Circe dole from her celcllial fire,
Themarigold hath a radiated difcous flower ; the fea and rivers, in marijh and unwholefome grounds.
By fubftituting mans, produc'd on earth, petals of them are, for the mod part, crenated, the Baton s EJptys.
Whofe wombs conceiv'd a more than mortal birth. feeds crooked and rough ; thofe wliich are uppermoll
Dry den* The fen and quagmire fo snarijh by kind.
long, and thofe mthin Ihort ; the leaves are long, Are to be drained. buffer's Hujhandif.
2. [From Mara, the name of a fpirit ima- intire, and for the moft part fucculent. Miller. Ma'rital. adj. [maritus, Lat. marital,
gined by the nations of the north to Your circle will teach you to draw truly all fphe-
Fr.] Pertaining to a hulband ; inci-
torment fleepers.] A kind of torpor or ricil bodies. The moft of flowers ; as, the rofe
and marigold. Peacham dent to a hulband.
fiagnation, which fecms to prefs the fto-
The marigold, whofe courtier's face If any one retains a wife that has been taken in
inach with a weight ; the night hag. Echoes the fun, and doth unlace the aft of adultery, he incurs the guilt of tlie crime
Mab, hismerry queen, by night Her at his rife. of bawdry. But becaufe repentance does confift
Cleaveland.
Bellrides young folks that lie upright. in the mind, and fince Chridian charity, as well-
Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet. Cay,
In elder times the man that hight. as marital afl'eîon, eafily induces a belief thereof,
Which plagues them out of meafdre. Drayton.
To Ma'rinate. 1;. a. [mariner, French.]
this law is not obferved. Aylife.
Mulhrooms caufe the incubus, or the mare in To fait fifh, and then preferve them in It has been determined by fome unpolite pro-
the ftomach. Bacon's Natural Hijiory, oil or vinegar. feflbrs of the law, that a hulband may exercife his
Ma'reschal. n.f. French, [mare/cJbal, Why am I ftyl'd a cook, if I'm fo loath mar'ital authority fo far, as to give his wife mode-
derived by Junius from mare, the female To marUate my filh, or feafon broth ? King's Cook. rate correftion. Art of Tormenting,
of an horfe. J A chief commander of Mari'ne. adj. [marittui, Lat.] Belong- Ma'ritated. fl<^'. [(torn maritui, Lat.
an army. ing to the fea. Having a hulband. DiS,
O William, may thy arms advance, The king was defirous that the ordinances of Mar/timal. I adj. [maritimus, Luin i
England and France, touching mariM afliairs, might
That he may loje Dinant next year.
be reduced into one form.
Ma'ritime. J maritime, French.]
And fo be marrjcbal of France. Prior. Hayivard.
Vaft multitudes of fliells, and other mar'me 1. Performed on the fea ; marine.
Ma'rgarite. n. /. [margarita, Latin; bodies, are found lodged in all forts of ftone. difcourfed of a maritimal voyage, and the paf-
I
marguerite, French.] A pearl. lyoodtvard. fages and incidents therein. Raleigh's Effays~
Silver is the fccond metal, and fignifies purity ; No longer Circe could her flame difguife. 2. Relating to the fea ; naval.
among the planetsholdeth with luna,
it among But to the fuppliant God marine replies. Garik, At the parliament at Oxford his youth, and want
picctous ftones with the margarire or pearl.
Mari'ne. »./. [la marine, French.] of experience in maritime fervice, had fomewhat
Peacham on Blaxonhg. been flirewdly touched. ffottm,
1. Sea-afFairs.
Ma'kcarites. ». / [iellis.'\ An herb. Nearchus, who commanded Alexander's fleet, 3. Bordering on the fea.
Ain/iuortb. and Oneficrates, his intendant-general of marine, The friend, the fliores maritimal
Marge.
tCE. 1 . r
/• r • have both left relations of the ftate of the Indies at Sought for hii bed, and found a place upon which'
/. \margo, Latin marge, pLiy'd
Ma'rrcbnt. >*"-b.
; that time. jlrhulhnol.
French.] A foldier The murmuring billows. Chapman's Iliad,
Ma'r 2. taken on fhtpboard to be em-
Ercoco, and the lefs maritime kings
1. The border; the brink; the edge; ployed in defcents upon the land. Monbaza and Quiloa. Milton^
the verge. Ma'riner. »./. [from mare, Lat. mari- Neptune upbraided them with their dupidity and
He drew his flaming fword, and ftruck nier, French.] A feaman ; a failor. ignoi ante, that a maritime town fliould negle^ the
At him fo fiercely, that the upper marge The merry mariner unto his word patronage o( him who was the god of the feas.
Of his fevenfold fliicld away it took. Ta'try Sheen. Soon hearkened, and her painted boat (Iraightway Addifin,
Kever fince Turn'd to the ftiore. Fairy Slueen. Mark. ti. /. [marc, We\(h ; roeaîc. Sax.
Met we on hill, in dale, foreft, or mead, We oft deceive ourfelves, as did that mariner
mercict Dutch ; marque, French.]
Or on the beached margent of the fea. Shakefpearc. who, miftaking them for precious ftones, brought
An airy crowd came rufliing where he flood. home his fliip fraught with common pebbles from
1. A token by which any thing is known.
Which the margin of the
Once was proclaimed throughout all Ireland,,
fiU'd fatal flood. Dryier.. the Indies. Glanvilie.
that all men Oiould mark their cattle with an open
3. The edge of a page left blank, or filled His bufy mariners he hades.
fcverai mark upon their flanks or buttocks, fo as
with a fhort note. His with rigging to reftore. Dryden.
ftiatter'd fails
if they happened to be dolen, they miglu appear
As much love in rhime, What mariner is not afraid
whofe they weie. Spenjer on Ireland,.-
As would be cramm'd up in a flieet of paper To venture in a (hip decay'd Stoift,
.'
In the prefent formof the earth tliere aie certain

Writ on both fides the leaf, margent and all.
Ma'rjoram. «. /. [marjorana, Latin; marks and indications of its fird date ; with which>
Shakefpeare. marjolaine, Fr.] A
fragrant plant of if we compare thofe things that are recorded in
Reconcile thofe two places, which both you and many kinds ; the baftard kind only facred liidoiy, we may difcover what the earth was-
the margins of our Bibles acknowledge to be pain its fird original. Burnet,
grows here.
JtaUel. hamminJ. The nymphs of the mountains would be drawn, The urine is a lixivium of the fults in a human-
He knows in law, nor te»t, nor margent. Swift. -^ upon their heads garlands of honeyfuckles, wood- body, 'ind the proper mark of the date and quan-
3. The edge of a wound or fore. bine, and fweet marjoram. Pemham' tity of fuch falts ; and therefore very certain indi-
All the advantage to be gathered from it is only cations for the choice of diet may be taken from,
Ma'rish.b./. [»i«rfl(>, French mepj-c, ;
from the evennefs of its margin; the purpofe will tbe date of urine. Arhuttnot en Aliments,
Saxon; maer/che, D\ilch.'\ A bog; a
be as fully anfwered by keeping that under only. 2. A token ; an impreSion.
Sharp's Surgery. fen ; a fwamp watry ground j a marfli;
;
But cruel fate, and my more cruel wife.
Ma'r GIN A L. [marginal, a morafs ; a moor. To Ciecian fwords bciray'd my Oceping
eidj. French ; life :
The flight was made towards Dalkeith ; which Theft! are the monuments of Helen's love,
from margin.] Placed, or written on way, by reafon of the marifl>, the Englifli horfe were Tbe fltaroe I bear below, the marki I bpre above.
ihe margin. lead aUc to puifuc. Bayward- Dryden,
'Twa«
; ;
. ;
MAR MAR MAR

•Twas then old foldiers, cover'd o'er with fears.
To Mark. To note You are come
a». ». ; to take no-
The of Fyrrhus, or the Punick wars.
miiris A marke/maiJ to Rome, and have
tice. prevented
Thought pad fervices rewarded well,
all
The odentation of our love.
If to their (hare at leaft two acres fell.
Men mark when they hit, and never mark when
Dryden. Shakejfeare' s Antony and Cleopatra;
they mifs, as they do alio of dreams. Bacon's Ejpiys.
At prefent there are fcarce any mart% left of a
fubterrancous fire ; for the earth is cold, and over-
Mark a little why Virgil is fo much concerned Ma'rket-place. n. /. [market and
run with grals and flirubi.
to make this marriage ; it is to make way for the place.] Place where the market is held.
Addijon.
divorce which he intended afterwards. Dryden, Theking, thinking he had put up his fword
3. A proof; an evidence.
Ma'rker. n./. [marqueur, French, from becaufe of the noife, never took leifure to hear his
^r As the confufion of tongues was a mark of fepa-
anfwer, but made him prifoner, meaning the next
^K mctri.]
K
H
ration, fo the being of one
union.
The Argonauts failed
language
up the Danube, and from

is a nurk of
Baccn. 1.
2.
One that puts a mark on any thing.
One that notes, or takes notice.
morning to put him to death in the markitplace.
The gates he order'd all to be unbarr'd.

Sidney,
thence paffed into the Adriatick, carrying their (hip
If Ma'rket. n./. [anciently written mer- And from the marketplace to draw the guard.
Argo upon their (houlders; a m^rk of great igno-
rance in geography
cat,of mercatus, Latin.] Dryden*
among the writers of that
time. A'huttnQtin: Coirs. I. A
publick time, and appointed place, Behold the marketplace with poor o'erfpread.
The man of Rofs divides the weekly bread. Pope,
4. Notice taken. of buying and felling.
The laws It were good that the privilege of a market were
Ma'rket-price. I n.f. [market andprice
Stand like the forfeits in a barber's (hop, given, to enable them to their defence : for there Ma'rket-rate. J or rar^,] The price
As much for mock as lairk, Shakifttare. is nothing doth fooner caufe civility than many at which any thing is currently fold.
5. Conveniency oi notice. marirf-towns, by reafon the people repairing of- Money governs the world, and the markctprice is
Upon the north fea bordeteth Stow, fo called, ten thither will learn civil manners. Sfer.jer. the meafure of the worth of men as well as of fifhes.
per eminentiam, as a place of great and good mark Miftrefs, know yourfclf, down on your knees.
L'EJlrange,
and fcope. Curevj^s Survey of Cormvj/L
And thank Heav'n, falling, for a good man's love : He that wants a velTel, rather than lofe his mar-
For Imull tell you friendly in your car. ket will not ftick to have
6. Any thing ac which a inifEle weapon is
Sell when you can, you are not for all markets.
it at the marketrate.
Locke.
directed. ,
France was a fairer mark to (hoot at

Sbakejpcart. Ma rket-town. ». / A town that has
than Ireland, They counted our life a paftinie, and our time
and could better reward the conqueror. the privilege of a ftat#d market ; not a
Darvki. here a nuir;(<( for gain. Wijd.nv. 12.
Be made the mark village.
If one bulhel of wheat and two of barley will, in
Tot all the people's hate, the prince's curfes. the market, be taken one for another, they are of Nothing doth fooner caufe civility in any coun-
Denbam* try than markrt-toivni, by reafon that people repair,
equal worth. Lake.
7. The evidence of a horfe's age. z. Purchafe and Tale.
ing often thither will learn civil manners of the
At four years old conaeth the mark of tooth better fort. Sperêr.
With another year's continuance of the war,
m horfes, which hath a hole as big as you may there will hardly be money left in this kingdom to
No, no, the pope's mitre my
mafter Sir Roger
lay a pea within it ; and weareth (horterand (horter feized, when they would have burnt him at our
turn the common markets, or pay rents. Temttc.
•very year, till at eight years old the tooth is fmooth market-tctvn. Gay.
The precious weight
Bacon s Natural Hijiory . Of pepper and Sabaean incenfe take. Ma'rketbale. adj. [{torn market.]
8". [Marjue, French.] Licence of repn- And with poft-hafte thy running n.arktt make. 1. Such as maybe fold ; fuch for which
z
fals. Be fure to turn the penny. Dryden s Perftus. buyer may be found.
9. [Marc, French ] A funi of thirteen 3. Rate; price, [warc^/, French.] A plain fi(h, and no doubt marketable. Sbakef.
fhillings and fourpence. 'Twas then old foldiers, cover'd o'er with fears, 2. Current in the market.
We give thee for reward a thoufand markt.
Thought all paft fervices rewarded well. The Pretoria n fuldicrs arrived to that impudence,
If to their (hare at leaft two acres fell. that the death of Pertinax they made open
al"[er
Shiikcjfteart.
Their country's frugal bounty ; fj of old fale cf the empire, as if it had been of
Thirty of thefe pence make a mancus, which common
fome think to b« all one with a mark, for that
Was blood and life at a low mai k:t fold. Dryden. marketable wares. Decay of Piety,
manca and mancufa is tranllated, in ancient book,, 7» Ma'rket. i/. ». To deal at a market; The marketable value of any quantities of two
by marca. Cjmd.n'i Rrmain:. to buy or fell ; to ma!:e b.irgains. commodities are equal, when they will exchange
Upon every writ for debt or dimage, amounting one for another.
Ma'r»et-bell. n.f. [marie/ and ieli.] Locke.
to forty p juiids or more, a noble is paid to fine
The bell to give notice that trade may Ma^rkman. \n.f. [mark and man.] A
and fo for every hundred marij more a noble. Barnn.
begin in the market.
Ma'rksmak. J man Ikllful to hit a
10. A character made by thofe who can- Eater, go in, the marketbell
mark.
is rung. Shakejfeare.
not write their names. In fadnefs, coufin, I do love woman.
Ma'rket-cross.w./. [market and a
Here arc marriage vows for figning
A
cro/s.']
— alm'd near when fuppos'd you
1 fo I lov'd.
Set your marks that cannot write. Dryder,
crofs fet up where the market
Thefe things you have
is held. —A good mark/man.
tight
Sbakefpeare,
Lorenzo fign'd the bargain with his mari. Young. articulated, Whom nothing can procure.
Proclatm'd at markeurcffes, read in churches. When the
To Mark. -v. a. [meriea, Dutch; roeap- wide world runs bias from his will.
To face the garment ot rebellion
To writhe his li.mbs, and (haie, not mend the ill
can, Saxon ; marquer, French.] With fome fine colour. Shakcjpeare's H.vry W. This is the mnrtfn:an, fafe and fure.
». 'I'o imprefs with a token, or evidence.
Market-day. n.f. [market and day-] Who (lilUs right, and prays to be fo (HU Herbert.
Will it not be received.
The day on which things are publickly An ordinary markjman may know certainly when
When we have mark'd with blood thofe Ileepy two
he (hoots lefs wide atwhat he aims.
bought and fold. Dryd'n.
0( his own chamber, and us'd their very daggers.
That tliey have don't ? Shakijpcare's Maib-ih. Fool that I was, I thought imperial Rome MARL. n. f [marl, Wellh ; mergel,
for our quiet polTcflion of thing> ufcful, they are Like Mantua, where on markadays we cohie, Dutch; marga, Latin; marl, tnarne,
naturaDy markidvihae there is need. Crt-u's Cofm. And thither drive our lambs. Dryden's Virgi!. French ; in >Saxon, mep^ is marrow,
z. To notify as by a mark. He ordered ail the Lucquele to be feized that with an allufive fignification, marie be-
were found on a markclday in one of his frontier
That which was once the index to point out all ing the fatnefs of the earth.]
virtues, does now mark out that part of the world
towns. Mdifon on Italy.
Marl is a kind of clay, which is become fatter,
wliere lead of them refides. Dicaj 0/ Pkty. Ma'rket-folks.«./ [market kinS folks.] and of a more enriching quality, by a better fer-
To note; to take notice People that come to the market. mentation, and by its having lain fo deep in the
3. of.
Poor marketfolks that come to fell their corn. earth as not to have fpent or weakened its fertiliz-
Alas, poor country I
Slahjpeare. ing quality by any produdl. Marl is fuppofed to

Where fighs, and groans, and (hrieks, that rend the
air. Ma'rket-man. n.f. [market :snd man.] be much of the nature of chalk, and is believed
to
One who goes be feirilc from its fait and oily quality.
Are made, not mark' J. Staieffeare'i Macbeth. to the.*aarket to fell or ithiincy.
Mark them which caufc divilions contrary to the buy.
We underfiand by the term mails fimple native
earths, kt heavy than the bole; or clays, not
doAriac which ye have learned, and avoid them. Be wary how you plate your words. foft
and unfluous to the touch, nor ductile while
Remans, xvi. 17, Talk like the vulgar fort of maiketmen.
moift, dry and crumbly between the fingers,
4. To heed ; to regard as valid or im- That come to gather money for their corn. Shake/.
readily difi'ufible in vater.
and
porianc. 7he markiiman (hould aft as if his maftcr's //;//.
Marl k the beftcompoft, as having moft fatnefs
Now fwear and call to witneft whole eftate ought to be applied to that fervant's
and not heating the ground too much. Bacon.
Heav'n, Iiell, aad earth, I mark it not from one bufinefs. Sivifi.
Uneafy ftcps
That breathe* beneath fuch complicated guilt. Ma'rket-mai6". n./. [market and maid.] Over the burning marl, not like thofe Heps
A woman that goes to buy or fell. On heaven's azure. Milton.
; , ! ,
MAR MAR MAR

To Maul v. a. [from the noun.] To If that thy bent of love b« honourable, Ptmper'd and cdify'd their real
manure with marl. Thy purpofe marriage, lend me word to-morrow. With marrou) puddings many a meal. Hiidihfes,
Jmprovements hy marlittg, liming, and draining,
Sbukf/jpfarf. He bit the dart, and wrench'd the wood away.
hare been fince money was at five and fix per cent.
The French Icing would have the difponng of The point Hill buried in the marrow lay. j^ddijoH,
ChiU.
the marriage of Breugne, with an exception, that Ma'r ROW, in the Scottilh dialed, to this
he Oiould not marry her himfelf. Bacoti.
day, denotes a fellow, companion, or
Sandy land iMrr</wiU bear good peafe. M^riimtr.
Some married perfons, even in their fr.arriagc,
9'«Marl. 1/. a. [from marlint.'] To do better pleafe God than fomc virgins in their
aflbciate; as alfo equal match, be met
fallen thefails with marline. Ainfiuorth. ftate of virginity they, by giving great example
:
ivith his marrow, [mari, hufband,
Ma'rline. If. f. [meajin. Skinner.^ of conjugal affediion, by prcferving their faith un- French,]
Long wreaths of un twilled hemp dipped broken, and by educating children in the fear of I'hough buying and felling doth wonderful wdi
God, pleafe God in a higher degree than thole vir- Yet chopping and changing I caimot commend
in pitch, with which the ends of cables
gins whofe piety is not aofwerable to tlicir oppor- With thcef or his marrsw lor fear of ill end. Tujjir.
are guarded againll friflion.
Some the gaU'd ropes with dawby marWne bind,
tunities. Teyhr. Ma'rrowbone, n.f. [bone Atx^marro'W.]
I piopofe that Palamon (hall be
Or feardoth mafts with ftrong tarpawling coats. 1 Bone boiled for the marrow.
.
In marriage yswCi with beauteous Emily. Dryden.
Dryden* 2. In burlefque language, the knees.
Ma'rriace is often ufed in compodtion.
Ma'rlinesfike. n. /. A fmall piece In a late draught of murriajr^- articles, a lady
Upon this he fell down upon his marrmvbmes,
and begged of Jupiter to give him a pair of horns.
of iron for faflening ropes together, or ftipulated with her huiband, that (be fb-iU be at
* L* Efhrange*
to open the bolt-rope when the fail is liberty to patch on which fide Ihe pleafes.
Down on your marrowbones, upon your allegi-
to be fewed in it. Bailey. Adiiijoni SpeHatir.
ance; and make an acknowledgment of your of-
I by the honour of my marriagt-bti.
Ma'rlpit. «. /. [marl and fit.] Fit fences } for I will have ample fatisfadion.
After young Arthur, claim this land for mine.
out of which marl is dug. Oryden's Spanijb Fryar,
Sbahjfeare.
Several others, of different figures, were found To thefe, whom death again did wed. Ma'rrowfat. n /. A kind of pea.
part of them in a rivulet, the reft in a marlpii In a This grave's the fecond marriagehi^. Ma'rrowless. at/j, [from marrcui.]
field. Hôod'warii. For though the hand of fate could force \6id of marrow.
Ma'rly. aJ/, [from murl.l Abounding 'Twixt foul and body a divorce. Avaunt
with marl. It could not fever maa and wife, Thy bones are marrovit/fx, thy blood is cold ;
The oak thrives beft on the richeft clay, and Becaufe they both liv'd but one life. Crjjhetiv. Thou haft no fpeculation in thofe eyes.
will penetrate ftrangely to come at a marly bot- There on his arms and once lov'd portrait lay. Which thou doft glare with. Sbakejf'eare's Macbeth.
tom. Mortimer, Thither our fatal marr!agc-\xi convey. Dinham, To MA'RRY. v. a. [marier, Fr, maritor,
Ma'rmalade. ) n. /. [marmalade, Fr. Thou Ihalt come into the mjrna^c-chamber.
Lat.]
Teh. vi. J 6.
Ma'rmalet. \ Hiarmelo, Portuguefe,
Neither herworthinefs, which in truth was great, 1. To join a man and woman, as perform-
a quince.] nor his own fufFering for her, which is wont to ing the rite.
Marmaladi is the pulp of quinces boiled into endear alfedîon, could fetter his ficklencfs ; but, What! fliall the curate contioul me .> Tdl
a conliflence with fugar ; it is fubaftringent, and before the marriare-ixy appointed, he had taken liirn, that he Ihall marry the couple himfelf.
grateful to the ftomach. Siuincy. to wife Baccha, of whom fhe complained. Sidney. Gay'i yyhat d'ye call it.
M ARMOR a'tion. n.f. [marmer, Latin.] Virgin awake the marriage-ho\it is nigh. Po^r.
!
2. To difpofe of in marriage.
Incruilation with marble. DiiS. Give me, to live and die When Auguftus confulted with Mec«na« about
Marmo'rean. iJ<^'. [marmcreus, Latin.] A fpotlefs maid, without the f)tarriage-uc. Dryden. the marriage of his daughter Julia, Mecaenas took
Made of marble. Di^. Ma'rriageable, adj.[from marriage.] the liberty to tell him, that he muft either marry
1. Fit for wedlock of age to be married. his daughter to Agrippa, or take away his lite;
Ma'rmoset. n. y. [marmou/et, French.] ;
Every wedding, one with another, produces four there was no third way, he had made him fo great.
A fraall monkey. children, and that is the proportion of children Bacon.
I will inllrufl thee bow which any marriagetthle man or woman may be 3. To take for hufband or wife.
To fnare the nimble mormixtt. ShaktJ. Tcmfiji. prefumed (hall have. Graunt. You'd think it ftrange if I Ihould marry her.
MARMO'TT. \ „ r ri,
.•
„
[i'^'-^"-]
n I am the father of a young heirefs, whom I be- Sbakefbcare,
MJRMO'TO. "-J- gin to look upon as marriageable. Sptfiator. As a mother fliall (he meet him, and receive
\
The mtirwKtto, or mus alpinus, as big or bigger When the girls are twelve years old, which is him as a wife married of i virgin. Ecclus. xv. 2.
than a rabbit, which abfconds ail winter, doth live the marriageable age, their parents take them To Ma'rry. 1/. n. To enter into the
upon its own fat. Ray. home. Siuif!.
conjugal ftate.
Ma'rquetry. «. /. [marqueterie, Fr.] 2. Capable of union. He hath my good will.
Chequered work ; work inlaid with va- They led the vine And none but he, to marry with Nan Page.
To wed her elm; flie fpous'd about him twines
Shakeffeare.
riegation.
Her marriageable arms, and with her brings Let th:m marry to whom they think bcft.
Ma'rquis. «./. [marquis, French; mar- Her dow'r, th' adopted clufters, to adorn Nutnb. xxxvi. 6.
chio, Latin ; margra've, German.] His barren leaves. Milton. Virgil concludes with the death of Turnus ; for
I. In England one of the fecond order of Ma'rried. adj. [from marrj.] Con- after that difficulty was removed, /£neas might
nobility, next in rank to a duke. jugal ; connubial. warry, and eltablilh the Trojans.
None m.iy wear ermine but princes, and there Thus have you Ihun'd the marry^d ft.»te. Dryden. D^yden'i Dufrefny,
is a certain number of ranks allowed to dukes, Ma'r ROW. «. /. [mep5, Sixoa ; fmerr Marsh, 3 are derived from the 6axun
marqutjfei, and earls, which tUey muft not exceed. Mars, > mepj-c, a fen, or fenny place.
Erfe ; fmtrgh,
Scotlilh.]
Peacham on Draivmg.
All the bones of the body which have any con- Mas, j Gii/on's Camden
2- Marquis is ufed by Siake/feare for mar-
fiderable thickiKfs have either a large cavity, or Marsh. ». /. [mepj-c, Saxon. Sec
tbiontjs. [marqui/e, French.] they are fpongious, and full of little cells in Marisii.] a fen; a bog; a
:
fwamp j
Youhave fhall both the one and the other there is an oleaginous
Two noble partners with you the old duchcfs a watry traft of land.
: fublânce, called marrciVi contained in proper ve-
In tlieir courfes m.ike that round.
Of Norfolk, and the lady muryBf/i Dorfet. Xbaiiff. ficles or membranes, like the fat in the larger
:
In meadows and in marjoa found,

Ma'r QUI SATE. ti.f. [marqui/at, French.] bones this fine oil, by the gentle heat of the body,
is exhaled through the pores of its fmall bladders,
Of them fo call'd the tayry ground.
The (eigniory of a marquis.
and enters fome narrow palTages, which lead to
Of which they have the keeping. Drayto/r,
Ma'rrer. n.f. [from mar."] One who Worms for colour and (hape, alter even as the
fome fine canals cxcavuted in the fubftance of the
ground out of which they are got ; as the itiorjh
fpoils or hurts any thing. bone, that the marmv may fupple the fibres of the
worm and the ftag-worm. H'al-.o:.
You be indeed makers, or mamn, of all men's bones, and icndcr thtm iefs apt to break, îvcy.
. manners within the realm. j^Jcham'i SchoclnuJIcr, Would he were wafkd, matn.iv, bones, and all,
We may fee in more conterm.inous climate- great
variety in the people
thereof; the op-lands in
Ma'rriace. [mariagt, fr.marita-
n. /.
That from his loins no hopeful branch may I'pring.
England yield hardy men ; the
ftrong, finewy,
Sbakeffeare.
gium, low Laiin^ from marilus.] Tne The hath brains as a kind o{ marrow with-
flcull
marjh-lanis, men of large and high ftature. Haic.
a£l of uniting a man and woman for in it back bone liath one kind of marroiv,
: the
Your low meadows and »Mry*-lands you need
not lay up tilt April, except the Spring be very
life. and other bones of the body have another the !
wet, and your ffijrî very poachy. ^.UnimrT'-.Hiifb,

The marria^t with his brothei's wife jaw-botKS have no narnmi fevered, but a little
U« crept tM aeu bis coofciencc> SJ/aiefj/xare. pulp of marrow difi'ufcd, Batan, MarsH'Mallow. n. J', [all beta, hum.']
It
MAR MAR MAR
It is in all refpefls like the mallow, but 1, Boggy ; wet ; fenny ; fwampy. Let his neck anfwer for it, if there is any mar.
»ics leaves are more fofc and woolly. Though here the marfty grounds approach your tial law in the world. Shakefpeare's Henry V.
They proceeded in a kind of marriWjuftice wiiii
fields.
Miller.
And there the foil a ftony harveft yields. Dryden. enemies, olfering them their law before they drew
Marsh-marigold, n /. [populago, Lat.] Jt is a diiiemper of fucli as inhabit marjhyy fat, tiieir fword. Bacon.
This flower confills or" feveral leaves, low, moift foils, near ftagnating water. Arbuthmt. 4. Borrowing qualities from the planet
which are placed circularly, and ex- 2. Produced in maifhes. Mars.
P pand in form of a rofe.in the middle
of which rifes the pointal, which be- With de'lcates of leaves
Peed
and marjhy weed. Dryden.
The natures of the fixed ftars are aftrologically
differenced by the planets, and efteemed martial
comes a membranaceous fruit, in which Mart. n./. [contradled from market.] or jovial according to the colours whereby they
there are feveral cells, for the moft part 1. A place of publick traffick. anfwer thefe planets. Brown,
t bent downwards, collefled into little

heads, and full of feeds.
Chrift could not fuffer that the temple Ihould
ferve for a place oi mart, nor the apoftle of Chrift
5. Having
which is
parts
called
or
Mars by
properties of iron,
the chemifls.
Miller. that the church fiiould be made an inn.
And fet foft hyacinths with iron-blue.
jf any born at Ephefus
Hooker. Ma'rtialist. It./, [from martial.] A
To fliade marJh-mang'Jdi ol' ihining liue. Vryden- warrior a fighter.
;
Be feen at Syracufan marts and fairs,
MA'RSHAL. Many brave adventurous fpirits fell for love of
/. {marefckal, French ;
n. He
dies. Shahefptare.
herj amongft others the high-hearted martialiji,
mare/challus, low Latin, from marfcak, Ezechiel, in the defcription of Tyre, and the
who firft io(} his hands, then one of his chicfeft
old French ; a word compounded of exceeding trade that it had with all the Eaft as the
limbs, and laftly his life. Hoiuel.
only mart town, reciteth both the people with whom
tnare, which, in old French, lignified a
they commerce, and alio what commodities every Ma'rtingal. »./. [martingale, French.]
horfe, ani/cale, a fort of fervant ; one country yielded. Raleigh. It a broad ftrap made fall to the
is
that has the charge of horfes.J Many come to a great mart of the beft horfes. girths under the belly of a horfe, and
1. The chief officer of arms. Temfle. runs between the two legs to faften
The duke of Suffolk claim! The
French, fince the acceffion of the Spanifti
the other end, under the nofeband of
. To be high fteward next the duke of Norfolk monarchy, fupply with cloth tlie beil mart we had
;
in Europe. the bridle. Harris.
To be earl marjkal. Sbakcjpearc.
Addijtm.
2. An officer who regulates combats in z. Bargain ; purchafe and fale. Ma'rtikmas. [martin and maj's.]
n.f.
the lilli.
I play a merchant's part. The feaft of ; St.
the eleventhMartin
Dares their pride prefume agatnft my laws.
And venture madly on a defperate mart. Sbakefp. of November, commonly corrupted to
As in a lifted field to fight their caufe r 5. Letters of CTarr. See Mark. martilmas Or martlemas.
Una(k'd the royal grant ; nor mjrjhal by, To Mart. tj. a. [from the noun.] To Martilmas beefe doth bear good taeke.
As kingly rites re<;uire, nor judge to try. Diydcn. traffick ; to buy or fell. When countrey folke do dainties lacke. Tuffir.
3. Any one who regulates rank or order Sooth, when I was young I wou'd have ranfack'd Ma'rtinet. ? n.f. [martinet, French.]
at a feaft, or any other aflembly. The pedlar s filken treafury ; you've let him go. Ma'rtlet. \ A
kind of fwaJlow.
Through the hall there walked to and fro And nothing marted with him. Shakef. JVm. Tale. This gucfl of Summer,
A jolly yeoman, murpal of the lame, CaHius, you yjurfclf The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,
Whofe name was Appetite; he did beflow Do fell and mart your offices for gold By his lov'd manfionry, that heaven's breath
Be th guells and meats, whenever in they came. To undefervers. Shakefpeare's Julius Cafar. Smells wooingly here. No jutting fricie,
And knew them how to order without blame. If he (hall think it fit, Buttrice, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird
Fairy Siuun.
A faucy ftranger in his court to mart. Hath made his pendant bed, and procreant cradle.
An harbinger; a purfuivant ; one who As in a ftew. Shakefpeare's Cymieline. Where they mod br'ed and haunt, I have obferv'd
4.
goes before a prince to declare his com- Ma^rten. ) [marie, martre, Fr. ti./. The air is delicate. Shakefpeare's Macbeth,
ing, and provi^de entertainment. Ma'rtern.J mar/et, Lutin.] .As in a drought the thirfty creatures cry,
1. A
large kind of weefel, whofe fur is
And gape upon the gather'd clouds for tain
Her face, when it was faireft, bad been but as a Then fitft the martlet meets it in the Jky,
;
marjbal to lodge tlie lo»e of her in his mind, much valued. And with wet wings joys all ths feather'd train.
* hich now was fo well placed as it needed no help 2. [Martelet, French.] kind of fwal- A
of outward harbinger. Dryden,
To Ma'rshal.
Sidnry. low that builds in houfes ; a martlet. Ma ,
rtnets.
n.f. They are fmall lines
-v. a. [from the noun.] A churchwarden, to exprefs
St. Martin's in the fattened to the leetch of the fail, to
1. To arrange ; to rank in order. Fields, caufed to be engraved, on the communion
bring that part of the leetch which is
Multitude of jealoufier, and lack of fome pre- cup, a martin, a bird like a fwallow, fitting upon
dominant defire, that (hould marjhal and put in a mole-hill between two trees. Peacham.
next to the yard-arm clofe up to the
order all the reft, maketh any man's heart
hard to Ma'rtial. adj. [martial, Fr. ntartialis, yard, when the fail is to be furled.
find or found. Bactm. Lat.] Bailey.
how it fhould be the di-
Jt is as unconceivable
MA'RTYR. n.f
of fuch intricate motions, as that a blind
reftrix
1. Warlike; fighting; given to war; martyr, Fr.]
[,îp\v(;
man (bould maijhal an army. Ghmfilltt Scff,. brave. One who by his death bears witnefs to
Anchjfes look'd not with fo pleis'd a face. Into my feeble bread the truth.
In numb'ring o er his future Roman race, Come gently, but not with that mighty rage Prayers and tears may ferve a good man's turn :
And
marjhaliing the heroes of his name, Wherewith the martial troopes thou doft infeft. if not to conquer as a foldier, yet to fuffer as »•
A», in their order, next to light they came. Dryi. And hearts of great heroes dolt enrage. Fairy Siu. """tyr. King Claries.
2. 'i'o lead as an harbinger. The queen of marlials. Thus could not the mouths of worthy martyrs be
Thou And Mars himfelf eondufted them. Chapman. ^l'""-*-
marjhnllfi me the way that I was going. , Brt^vn.
halb felJom been feen, that the far fouthern
Jt Nearer heav n ,his virtues flione more bright
Shaktcjpeare, '
people have invaded the northern, but contrari- Like rifiag flames expanding in their height,
Ma'rshaller. n. /. [from marjbal.'] wife i whereby it is manifeft, that the northern The martyr's glory crown'd the foldier's fight.
One that arranges ; one that ranks in tradl of the world is the more martial region.
_ Dryden.
order. Bacm. Tobe a martyr fignifies only to witnefs the
truth
Dryden was the great refiner of Englilh poetry, His fubjefls call'd aloud for war ; of Chrift ; but the tvitnefling of the truth was then
and the beft marJhaiUr of words. 'frapp. But peaceful kings o'er martial people fet. fo generally attended with pcrfecution,
that martyr,
Ma'rshalsea. n. /. [from marjhaf.] Each other's poize and counterbalance are. dom now fignifies not only to witnefs, but to wit-
nefs by death.
The prifon in Southwark bcioogiog to Dryden. South': Sermons.
the marfhal of the king's houfehold. 2. Having a warlike Ihew ; fuiting war. Ihefirft martyr for Chriftianity was encou-
raged, in his laft moments, by a
See vifion of that
Ma'rshalship. n, /. [from marjhal.] His thoufands, in what martial equipage divine perfon fur whom he fufFered. Addifon.
The office of a marlhal. They ilTue forth Steel bows and (hafts their arms.
I Socrates,
Marshe'ld£r. a. / A gelderrofe, of Of equal dread in flight or in purfuit. Mdion.
Truth's early champion, martyr for his
God.
which it is a fpecies. When our country's caufe provokes to arms. Tbomfint
Marshro'cket. »./ How manial mufick every bofora warms To Ma'rtyr.
A fpecies of wa-
Belonging to war ; not civil ; not ac-
Pope. I -v. a. [from the noun.]
lercrefles. 3. 1. To put to death for virtue, or true
cording to the rules or pradice of peace- profeffion.
MA'«.sHy. adj. [from marjh]
able government. 2. To murder; to deftroy.
You
\
! ;
MAR MAS MAS

You could not beg for grace< They do boy it with much care.
lofe it that incident to every fingle perfon in the whole eouifc
Harki wretches, how I mean to manyr you t Believe me, you are marvelhujly chang'd. Sbakcfp. o<" • pl»y- Mdijon tn Italy.
Thii one hand yet is left to cut your throat}. Sha\. The encouragement of his too late fuecefTcs, Any
2. pretence or fubterfuge.
If to every common funeral. with which he was marvelloujiy elated. Clarendon. Too plain thy nakrdnefs of foul efpy'd.
By your eyes mertyr'd, luch grace were allow'd, Ma'rvellousness
Your face would wear not patches, but a cloud.
n.f. [irom mar-oel Why do« ihou ftrive the conftious ftiame to hide.
lous.] Wonderfulnefs; llrangenefs By ora/Si of eloquence, and veils of pride? Prior.
Suckling.
Marty' i with the gout. Foft.
artonifliingncfs. 3. A fellive entertainment, in which the
Ma'rtyrdom. «./ [from «/jr/j.T.] l"he MA'SCULINE. adj. [ma/culin, French; company is malked.
ma/culinui, Latin.] Will you prepare for this mafjue to-night
death of a martyr; the honour of a ?
martyr; teftimotiy born to truth by 1. Male; not female. Shakeffeare.

Pray God, flje prove not wsafculiiu
long en 4.. A revel; a piece of mummery ; a wild
voluntary fubmiflien to death.
Shak^prare. bullle.
If an infidel fliould purfue to death an heretick
His long beard noteth the air and fire, the two They in the end agreed.
profe<1ing Chriftianity only for Chriflian profeffion
mafcutitie elements, cxtrcifing their operation upon That at a mafjue and common revelling,
lake, could we deny unto him the honour of mar-
nature, being the feminine. Peacham oh Drawing. Which was ordain'd, they Ihould perform the deed.
lydtm f Honker.
Now that he hath left no higher
degree of earthly
O
did God, ! why Daniel.
Cieator wife, that peopl'd higheft heav'n This thought might lead me through
this world^s
honour, he intends to crown their innocency with
With fpirits majculine, create at laft vain ma/i.
the glory of marljrdem. Bacon,
This noveltj' on earth, this fair defeft Content, though blind, had I no other guide.
Herod, whofe unblell
Of nature ? Mihon's Paradijt
Hand, O what djres not jealous greatnefs tore
Loji. Milton.
A
\
thoufand fweet babes from their mother's breaft.

?
2. Refembling man; virile; not foft 5. A dramatick performance, written in a
The blooms of mar-xrdont, Crajbav/* not effeminate. tragick ftyle without attention to rules
Wars, hitherto the only argument You find fomething bold and matatVme in the air or probability.
Heroick deem'd, chief maft'ry to dilTeft, and pofture of the fiift figure, which is that of Thus I have broken the ice to invention, for
With long and tedious bavock, fubled knights Virtue. Addijcr.. the lively reprefentation of floods and rivers
necef.
In battles feign'd ; the better fortitude 3. [In grammar.] It denotes the gender fary for our painters and poets in
their pidures,
Of patience and heroick marijrdom appropriated to the male kind in any poems, comedies, and ma/ts. Peacbam.
Unfung. lÊl:cii. To Mask.
word, though not always exprefling fex. a.
[mafguer, French.]
-v.
What mifts of providence are theft ?
To
So faints, by fupernatural pow'r fct free, Ma'sculinely. ad'v. [from ma/culine.] 1. dilguife with a maflt or vifor.
Like a man. What will grow of fuch errors as go ma/ieel
Arc left at laft in martyrdom to die. Dryder*
under the cloke of divine authority, impoflible
AIartvro'locv. h./. {martyrologe, Fr. Aurclia me, you have done moO. mafculinely.
tells it
is that the wit of man ihould imagine,
And play the orator. till time
atartyrologiuut, Latin.] A regiller of Ben JonJ.ns Catiline. have brought forth the fruits of them. Hooker.
martyrs.
Ma'sculineness. n.f. [from ma/culine.] 'Tis not my blood
In the Roman marlymtcgy we find at one time Manniflinefs ; male figure or behaviour. Wherein thou fecft me mafied. Shaktf. Coriolaeus.
many thoufand martyr: deftroyed by Dioclefian, Mash. n.f. [rnafche, Dutch.] Him he knew well, and guefs'd that it was fire;
being met together in a church, rather thanefcapc 1. The fpace between the threads of a But being majk'd he was not fure. Shakejpeare.
by oftering a incenfe at their coming out. The old Vatican Terence has, at the head of
little
net, commonly written mejh.
Stillingjien. every fcene, the figures of all the perfons, with
To defend againft the flings of bees, have a net their particular difguifes; and I faw
Martyro'logist. n, /. {martyrologijle, knit with fo fmall majkes, that a bee cannot get an antique
ftatue majkcd, which wa» perhafs defigned
French.] A writer of martyrology. 'hrough. M:rtimer. Gnatho in the Eunuch, for it agrees exafliy with
for
Ma'rvel. n.f. [mer'veiUe, French.] A 2. Any

thing mingled or beaten together the figure he makes in the manufcript.
Mdifon.
wonder ; any thing aftonifliing. Little into an
undiftinguiflied, or confufed 2. To cover to hide.
;
in ufe. body, [from mifchen, Dutch, to mix, I to your afliftance do make love,
A marvel it wer«, if a man could efpy. In the of mafcher, French.] Majking the bufinefs from the common eye,
For fundry weigl.ty reafons. Stakeffeare'sMactetb.
3. A mixture for a horfe.
whole fcripturo, nothing which might breed a
probable opinion, that divine authority was the fame Put half a peck
As wiien a piece of wanton lawij,
of ground malt into a pail;
way inclinable. Hooker. then put to it as much
fcalding water as will wet
A thin aerial veil, is drawn
I am fcarce in breath, my.lord. it well; ftir it about for half an hour till the
O'er beauty's face, feeming to hide.
water
^No mar-ve/t you have fo beftirr'dyour va- is very fweet, and give it the horfe lukewarm
More fwectly (hows ihc blufliing bride;
lour 5
you cowardly rafcal I Staieff. King Lear. this majh is to be given to a horfe after he has
:
A foul whofe intclkaual beams
No marva taken a purge, to make it work the better ; or in
No nii.ls do majk, no lazy fteams. Crajtaw.
My lord proteSor's hawks do towre fowoll. Shuk. the time of great, licknefs, or after hard labour. To Mask. 1;. n.
Ma'rvel of Peru. A flower. AinJ'txiortb. Farrier's Diciiinary. 1. To revel ; to play the mummer.
To Ma'rvel. .f. n. [mer'veiller, French.] When mares foal, they feed them with majhis, Thy gown i Why, ay ; come, taylor, let us
To wonder ; to be aftonilhed. Difiifed. and other moid food. Mortimer's llujbar.dry. feet;
You make me marmcU Shakeffeare. To Mash. 1;. a. [mafcher, French.] What majking llufF s here Shakeffeare.
I
Harry, I <io not only marvel where thou fpendell 1. To teat into a confufed mafs. Mjjkirig habits, and a borrow'd name,
thy time, but alfo how thou art accompanied. Contrrve to hide my plenitude of fliame.
The preflure would be intolerable, and they would Prior.
Shakcfpeare. even map thcmfelves and all things eife apieccf. 2. To be difguiCed any way.
The army marvelled at it. Stakejpcare. Mere. Ma'sker. n.f. [from maJk.] One who
The countries marvelled at thee for thy fongs, To brcik the claw of a lobfter, clap it between revels in a mafk ; a mummer.
proverbs, and parables. £ri-/Bj. xlvii. 17. the fides of the dining-room door thus you can do :
Tell f.dfe Edward,
Ma'rvellous. adj. [met-vei//eux, Fr.] it without majhing the meat.
Swift. That Lewis of France is fending over majkcrs.
1. Wonderful; ftrange ; aftoniftiing. 2. To mix malt and water together in To revel it with him and his new bride. Sbakeff.
She haa a marveltoui white hand, I mud con- brewing. Let the fcenes abound with light, and let the
fefs. atakiffiare. What was put in the firft m/r/hing. tub draw mafkcrs that are to come down from the fcene
_
This is the Lord's doing ; it is marvellous in our off, as alfo that liquor in the fecond making tub. have fomc motions upon the Iccne before their
«yM. Pfalms. Mortimer's Htijhandry.
coming down. Bacon.
_
2. Sorpaffing credit. MASK, n.f The mafktrs come late, and I think will ftay,
[mafque, French.]
The Like fairies, till the cock crow them away. Donne.
I. A cover to
marvellous fable includes whatever is fuper-
difguife the face; a vifor.
Datural, and cfpecially the machines of the gods. Now Love pulled of his mj/K,
Ma'sl I N . adj. [corrupted from mifcellane.]
and /hewed his
'
Pofc's Preface 10 the Iliad. face unto her, and told her plamly that flie was his
Compofed of various kinds; as mafli»
3. Tie mar'vel/ouj is ufed, in works of cri- prifoner. Sidney. bread, made of wheat and rye.
ticifm, to exprefs any thing exceeding Since did neglefl her looking-glafs,
ftie
MA'SON.
And throw her fun-expelling mjjk away
n.f. [maôn, Fr. macbio, low
natural power, oppofed to the probable. ;
Latin.] A builder with flone.
The air hath ftarv'd the rofcs in her checks.
Ma'rvellously. adv. [from mar'vel- And pitch'd the lily tinfture of her face. Shahjp.
Many find a rcafon very wittily before the thing
Wonderfully
ftrangely. be true that the materials being left rough, are
leus.l ; Could we fuppofe that a rr.ajk reprcfcnted never ;
You look not well, feignior Antonio ; more manageable in the mafen's hand than if they
fo naturally the general humour of a charafter, it
You bare too much tefpcfi upon the world ; can never fuit with the variety of paffiont that are had been fmooth. /flatten,
A maf.n
] ; ; :
MAS MAS MAS

A »«'«» tliat make* a wall, meets with a ftone 6. [MiJJa, Latin.] The fervlce of the opa(iae bodies, appear of one and th^ fame aolnur
tbat wants na cutting, atid places in bil warlci in all pofitions of the eye. Newton i Opti^h.
it
Romilh church.
Th' intrepid Theban hears the Lurfting (ky,
is that manner of gilding which
Euniifhcd gold
Ma'sonry. »./ [mafotten'e, Fr.] The Sees yawning rocks in »t2jjy fragments iiy.
we parchment and wafi books, done by
fee in old
And views ai>oni/h'd from the hills afar.
craft or performance of a mafon. monks and pricfts ; who were very expert herein.
The floods defccnding, and the wat'ry war. Pope.
MASQUERA'DE. «. / [from w/i/â^.] PeOi'tam on Draining.
MAST. n.f. \mafl, mat, French; mx^-x,
1. A diverfion in which-the company is
Ke infers, that then Luther muft h»ve been un-
pardonably wickei in ufing rru^JJii for fifteen years. Saxon.]
maiked.
What guards
Axuihury. I, The benm or port raifed above the
the purity of mdtine maids.
To Mass. -v. n. [from the noun.] I'o veffel, to which the fail is fixed.
In courtly balls and midnight mafûcmite!.
Sate from the trcach'rous friend, and daring fpark, celebrate mafs. Ten rrajî attach'd m.?ke no* the altitude
The glance by day, the whifper in the dark ? Pope, Their they took from the law,
w.ajfing furniture That thou Kaft perpcndicul-<rly fallen. l<}'a>cjpccre.
Difguife.
left having in aitar and a prieft, tlicy (hould v.aiit He dropp'd his anchor^, and his oars he ply*d ;
2.
vcftments. Uoikcr. Furl'd every fail, and drawing down the r;^.
I was upon the frolick this ereninf, and came
To Mass. t/. a [from the noun.] Ji His vafl'ei mcor'd. Drydcn i IJ'm<rt
to vifit thee in mafjurradc. Drytien's Sfanip Frtar.
Truth, of all things the plained and fincereft, feems once to have fignified to thicken ; z. The fruit of the oak and b(ech. Jt
is forced to gain admitunce in difguife, and court to firengthen. has in this fen'e no plursi termination.
U5 in majquerade. Fclton. They feared the French might, with filling or The oaks bear irofl, th:' briars fcarlet hips
TaMascjuera'de. <v.n. [from the noun.] fffij^n^^ the hoofe, or elfe by fortifying, make iuch The bounteous h;miewife, on each bulh
nature,
Lays her full mcls before you. 5h:il\. Tin:, of A:h,
I. To go in dil'guife. ,
a piece as might annoy the haven. Hayward.
Trees that bea'- naf, and n'lts, are m-^re lafting
A freak took an afs in the head, and he goes MA'SSACRE. n. /. [mafacre, French,
than tliofe that bear fruits ; as oaks and beecl'.cs
into the woods, mafquirading up and down in a from mazz,iire, Italian.] lad longer than apples and pears. Bmcr.'s Nat. iliji.
lion's fkin. VEjtra-ngc. 1. Carnage; flaughter; butchery; indif- When flicep fed like men upon acorns, a ihep-
a. To aflemble in mafks. criminate dellruftion. herd drove his ri:)ck into oak wood,
a little .u;d
I find that our art hath not gained much by the up he went
Of whom fucli TJiaJfacre to ihake them down fome maj}.
happy revival of mafjutn.^hg among us. Srvift. Make they, but of their brethren, men of men. L'EJira-ge's Tables.
Masqjjera'dek. n.f. [fiom ma/querade-l The b:eaki!'g down an old frame of govern-
A perfon in a malk. Slaughter grows murder, when it goes too far, ment, and ereifting a nciv, fjems like the cljttJng
The mod dangerous fort of cheats are but giaf- And makes a m^JJUae what was a war. Dry den. down an old oak and planting a young one it is ;
jiiiraderi under the vizir of friends. 2. iVlurder. true, the (;randfon may enjoy the fliade and the
l.'Eflr,in^t.
Mass. m^j}, but the planter, bcfide the pleafuie of ima-
n.f. \majfe, French ; majfa, Lat. 1 he tyrannous and bloody a£l is done;
gination, has no other benefit. Ttmple's Mifccllamci.
1. A iiody ; a lump; a continuous quan- The moit arch deed of piteius wajjacre^
Wond'ring dolphins o'er the palace gitde
That ever yet tliis land was guilty of. Shakefpeare.
tity. On leaves and tnajl of mighty oaks they brouze.
If were not for thefe principles, tlie bodies
it
ToMa'ssacre. 'v a. [majpicrer, Fr. from
And their broad fins entangl* in the boughs.
of the earth, planets, comets, fun, and all things the noun.] To butcher; to flaughter Dyyden»
in them, woalj grow cold and freeze, and become
inadtivc wcijn. Nrwtnnt Oftich.
indifcriminateiy. Mh ST -EU. eiij. [from mafl,} Furniftied
I'll find a day. to majfacre them all,
Some pairing into their pores,
with mads.
others adhering And raze their faction and their family.
in hjmps or mîffh to their outfidcs, fo as wholly Shaiefpearc. MA'STER. n.f, [meefier, Dutch ; maifire,
to cover and involve it in the ma/s they together Chriftian religion, now crumbled into fradlions, French ; magijler, Latin.]
conlHtuled. ffotdmartfi Katuntl H'tflory. may, God
lik? duft, be irrecoverably diflipated, if 1. One who has fervants: oppofed to wan
2. A large quantity. do not countermine us, or we recover fo much fo-
ov fer-vant. «
Thy (umptuous buildings, and thy wife's attire, briety as to forbear to majfacre what we pretend to
But now I was the lord
Have coft a mah of pukiick treafury. Shaktjfcarc- love. Decay of Piety.
Of this fair manfion, vinjier of my fervants.
Ke dilcoveted to me the richeft mines which the After the mifcrable flaughter of the Jews, at
Queen o'er myfelf ; and even now, but now.
Spaniards have, and from whence ail the ra/r/j of the delhuîon of Jcrufaicm, they were fcattered
This houfe, thefe fervants, and this fame myfelf.
gold that comes into Spain is drawn. Ra/cigh. into all corners, oppreifcd and detelled, and fomc-
Are yours, my lord. Shaktjp. Merchant, of Vemce.
He had fpent a huge ffiir/i of treafure in tranfport- timcs maj/itcred ind extirpated. Aiierbury,
Take up thy ntajier. H kakefpc.ire' s k.ng Lear,
ing his army. Davitt on IrdarJ. MASSICOT, n.f. [French.] My lord Balfanio gave his ring away
3. Bulk ; vaft body. Majfieot is cerufs calcined by a moderate degree Unto the judge that begg'd it
The
Creator of the world would not have framed of fire j of this there are three forts, ariiing from
The boy, his clerk, begg'd mine;
fo huge a ma/i ef earth but for fome reafunabic the different degrees o^ fire applied in the operation.
And neither man nor meijicr would take aught
creatures to have their habitation. " jibhct. White Kajpcot is of a yellowiih white, and is that But the two rings. Shakfpearc i Merch. Venice. of
This army of fuch mn/s and charge. which has received the leaft calcination ; yellow
Led by a delicate and tender prince. Shaitff. Hani. matfuct has received more, and gold coloured majftot
2. A direflor ; a governor.
If thou be made the maficr a! a feaft, be among
4. Congeries; affemblage jndiftindl. ftill more. Trevoux.
them as one of the reft.Ecclus. xxxii. i.
The whole knowledge of groupes, of the lights Ma'ssikess. In.f. [from maJJ^, maf- O thou, my my
genius, come along.
friend,
and ihadowi, and of thofe maffii which Titian cails Ma'ssive-ness. J jive.\ Weight; bulk; Thou mafter of the poet, and the fong. Pot'C.
a bunch of grapes, is, in the prints of Rubens,
expofed clearly to the fight.
ponderoufnefs. 3. Owner; proprietor; with the idea 'of
Drydcn. was more notorious for the daintinefs of the
It
At di (lance, thrgugh an artful glafs. governing.
provifion ferved in it, than for the tnaffmefs of the An orator, who had undertaken to make a pane-
To tb^ mind's c)'e things well appear j dirti. HakcivM. gyrick oh Alexander the Great, and who had cm-
They lofe their forms, and make a mafs
Confus'd, and black, if brought too near. Prior. MA'SSIVE. J aJj. [maf/if, Fr.] Heavy; ployed the ftrongeft figures of his rlietorick in the
Where flowers grow, the ground at a diftance MA'SSY. J weighty ; ponderous ;
praiie of Bucephalus, would do quite the
contrary
fecms covered with them, and «e muft walk into it to that which was expefted from him ; bccaufe
bulky ; continuous. it
before we can diftingulih the fcveral weeds that would be believed, that he rather took the horfe for
If you would hurt,
fpring up in fuch a beautiful itmji of colours. Addif. his fubjedl than the majler. Dryden'i Difrejncy.
your fwords are now too miiffy for yout ftrcngth.
5. Grofs body ; the general ; the bulk. And will not be uplifted. Staltefpeare's Teirpc/1.
4. A lord ; a rtiler.
Comets have power over the grofs and mafs of Perhaps thefe few ftones and (ling, ufed with Wifdom and virtue are the proper qualifications
things ; but they are rather gazed upon than wifely invocation of the Lord of Hofts, may countervail in the majler of a houfe. Guardian.
obferved in their effefls. the mejjnii armour of the uncircumcifedPhiliftinc. There Csefar, grac'd with both Minerva's flione,
Bacon.
ViTiere'er thou he Ciefar, the world's great majler, and his own. Pope.
art, is ; th' eternal mind Government of the Tongue.
Afts through all places ; is to none cenfin'd : No fideboardi then witii gilded plate were prcfs'd. Lxcufe
Tlie pride of royal blood, that checks my foul :
Fills ocean, earth, and air, and all above. No fweating flaves with majjive difliea drcfs'd. <
And through the univcrfal mafs does move. Drydrn. Drydcn.

Yon know, alas I was not born to kneel.
!
The xw/i of the people have opened their eyes, The more grofs and majfi-ve parts of the tcr- To fue f>ir pity, and to own a mafter. Philips,
and will nut be governed by Clodius and Curio. reftrial globe, the ftrata of ftone, owe their order 5. Chief; head.
Unuift. to the deluge. JVoodwaid. Chief roa/7f-gunncr am I of this town.
If there is not fufficient quantity of blood and If thclc liquors nr glsHes were fo thick and Something 1 muft do to procure me grate. Shckif,
ftrcngth of circulation, it may infefl the whole maj: ma£y that no light could get through them, I As a wife maySecbuilder I have laid the founda-
Df the fluids. Ariutbmt. queftion -not but that they would, like all other tion, and another buildeth thereon. 1 Cor. iii. 10.
Vol. II.
;
MAS .,M A S MAS

The beft frti «re the he»ds got frara the rery The princes of Germany did rot think him I reai a book ; I think it very majltrly written.
lopj of the root; the next are the ronners, which fent to command the cm;>ire, who was neither able Siuifit
fpreaj from the wujhr rooij. Mttmer'i Ihfh. to rule his infolent fubjefts in England, nor nujicr
Ma'ster i.y. adj. [from mafier.]
6. PotTefTor. his rebellious pieople of Ireland. Davit's.
1. Suitable to a mailer ; ariful flcilful.
When I have thus nade tnyfelf majltr of a Then comes fome third party, that mnjltrs both ;
hundred thoufand drachms, I fliall naturilly fct As for tiie warmth of fancy, the mafi.rlf
pUintiA' and defendant, and carries away the booty.
myfelf on the foot of a prince, and will demand
figures, and the copioufnefs of imaginationj he liu
J/E/lrangc.
exceeded all others. Drydm.
the grand vith-'s dau^jhter in mairiaê. Mdifin. Honour burns in me, not fa fiercely bright.
The duke of Savoy may make himfelf iirj/?«r of That of ma/lerly defign.
clearer ftrokes
But pale as fires when n.ifter'd by th; light. DryJ.
the French dominioas on the ellier fide of the Obrtinacy and wilful ncglefls muft be m.ijlerid.
Of wife contrivance, and of judgment, fhine
Jn all the parts of nature, we alliirt,
Rhone. Mdifon. Vita though it cofts blows. L<i<ki Education. m Than in the brighteft works of human
7. Commander or
a trading (liip. A man can no morejuftly make ufc of another' 'j
art.
£/actittpre,
An unhappy irnjltr is he rhat is made cunning ncceflity, than he that has more (Ircn^th can feiic
A man
upon a weaker, maftir him to his obedience, and,
e'ther difcovers new beauties, or receives
by many fliipwrecks j a miferabic merchant, tliat ftrongcr imprcllions from the maftirly ftrokes of a
is neither rich nor tt-ifc, but after foine bankrouts. with a dagger at his throat, oflcr him dtath or
great author, every time he perufes him. Addhn.
flavcrj-. Lake.
The reformation of an h;ibitual firmer is 2. Imperious; with the f,vay of a mailer,
A failor's wife had chefauts in her lap a work
Her
;
hufljand's to Aleppo gone, vnjiir o' th' Tyger. of time ami patience ; evil cultoms muft be naflind Ma'sterpiece. n.f. [mafier ;yn6 piece.]
and fubducd by degrees. Calamy's Strmimi. I Capital performance; any thing done
Sbaiejftare-
8. One uncontrolled. 3. To execute with fkill. or made with extraordinary flcill.
Let ev'ry man be mtijlcr of his time I do not take myfelf to be fo perfcQ in the This is the Kaft,rj,icce, and moft excellent part
Till feven at night. Stairfptarc's Macbeth. tranfadions and privileges of Bohemia, as to be of the work of reformation, and is worthy of hi«
Great, and increafing but by fit to handle that part and I will not offer at that
: n>^«fty-
; le.i Da-via.
He an abfolute I cannot ir.jftcr. Bacin. 'Tis done ; and 'twas my m.tfitrfiect, to work
is miijlcr. Sbake^. jixt. and Chsfat.
9. A compellatioo of refpedl. Ma'sterdom. ti./. [from mafier.] Do- My fafety, 'twixt two dangerous extremes :
minion Scylla and Charybdis.
Miifttr do^r, you have brought thofe drugs. ; rule. Not in u(e. Derham't Softy.
Let thofe confider this who look upon it as a
Shakefpiffre. you fliall put
piece of art, and the m,fi.-rficce of converfation,
Stand by, aiy nafitrs, bring him near the king. This, night's great bufinefs into my difpatch,
Which fliali to all our nights and days to come to deceive, and make a prey of a credulous and
ShakeJi>care*
Mxfli's play here, I will content your paiiis, Give well-meaning honerty. Smth..
folely fovcreign fway and mafterdom. HhakeJ.
Something tliat's brief; and bid good njorrov^. Th'^s wono'rous mjfterfiect I fain would fee;
Master-hand, a./ The hand of a man This fatal Helen, who can wars inlpire. Drydiii. '
Sbahfftart. eminently flcilful.

10. A young gentleman. The fifteenth is the
of the whole
majierfuce
Mufick refembles poetry; in each mctamorphofes.
If gaming docs an aged fire entice, Dryden.
Are namelefs graces which no methods teach, In the fii-ft ages, when the great fouls, and
Then my young mafitt fwiftly learns the vice. And which a majicr-hand alone can reach. maftcrfitici of human nature, were produced, mea
Dry den* Pope. Ihined by a noble fimplicity of behaviour. Addifmi^
Maftir lay with hjs bedchamber towards the
fouth fun raifs lodg'd in a g;uTet,
Master-jest. n.f. Principal jeft. 2. Chief excellence.
; cxpofcd to the
Jiorth wind.
Who fliall break the maftcr.jtjt. Beating up of quarters was his maftirpiiee.
^rbutbnot.
And what, and how, upon the reft ? Hudibras.
Where there aremajiin and miOcs in a
little Ciarendcn^
houfe, they are impediments to the diverfions of Master-key. The key which
n. /. Diflimulation was his mafterpicce ; in which he
the fervants ; the remedy ij to bribe them, that opens many of which the fub-
locks, fo much excelled, that men were not afitamed
witli
they may not teil talcs. Sivi/t. ordinate keys open each only one. btmg deceived but twice by him. Clarendon^
11. One who teaches; a teacher; corre- This mafier-key Ma'stership. n.f. [from mafier.]
lative to/cbolar or learner. Frees every lock, and leads us to his perfon. 1. Dominion; rule; power.
Very few men are wife by their own counfel, or Dryden. 2. Superiority ; preeminence.
learned by their own teaching j for he that was Master-sinew, n f. For Python he I'ythian games decree*.
flain
only taught by hirofelf had a fool to his mjftir. The a large finew that furrounds
mafltr-ftneno is Where noble youths for mafiirpip Ihould ftrive.
Bin J'tn/cn'i Dijcwery. the hough, and divides it from the bone by a hol- To quoit, to run, and fteeds and chariots drive.
To the Jews join the Egyptians, the firft majiirt low place, where the wind-galls are ufually feated,
„, .
Dryden^
of learning. Seu:b. which is the largeft and moft vifible finew in a 3. Chief work.
Majtcrs and teachers fliould not rajfe difficulties horfe's body this oftentimes is relaxed or reitrain- Two youths of royal
;
blood, tenown'd in fight.
to their fcholarsj but fmooth their way, and help ed. Farritr'i Did. The maflcrjhif of heavn in face and mind. Dryi^
them forwards. Lsckc. Master-string. »./ Principal flring. 4. Skill ; knowledge.
12. A man eminently fkilful ia pradicc He touch'd me You
were ufed
or fcience. Ev'n on the tender'ft point ;the majlir firing To fay extremity was the trier of fpirits
The great mocking mafier mock'd not then. That makes moft harmony or diQ:ord to me. That when the fea was calm all boats alike
When he £ild> Truth was buried here bebw. I own the glorious fubjed fires my bread. Rnoc. Sliew'd majierpip in floating. Shakcjf. Caritlanuu
Daviti, Master-stroke. ». /. Capital per- J. A title of ironical refpeft.
Spenfer and Fikfax, great v.afiirs of our lan- How now, Signior Launce? what news with
formance.
guage, faw much farther into the beauties of our your f
Ye fkilful mafters of Machaon's race. tr.afterpip Sbakiffearc
numbers than thofe who followed. Drydtn. Who nature's mazy intricacies trace Master-teeth, n.f. [mafier ^ndi teetib.]
A
man mull not only be able to judge of words Tell how your fearch has here eluded been,
:
and ftyle, but be rauft be a majlir of them too;

The principal teeth.
How oftamaz'd and ravilh'd you have fcen Some living creatures have their majl&-urtb in-
he mud perfeftly underftand his author's tongue,
The conduO, piudencc, and ftupendous art. dented one within another like faws ; as lions and
and abfolutcly comm.ind his own. Drydtn. And mafiir ftrtkei io each mcChanick part. dogs. *
Baccn^
He that does not pretend to painting, is not
touched at the commendation of a mnjicr in that
Blackmtrt. Ma'sterwort. n./. [mafier, and pijir,
profefTion. OAUtr. Ma'steri-ess. <i^'. [{torn mafier.] Saxon.] A plant.
No care is taken to Improve young men in their 1. Wanting a mailer or owner. M,'fitrôri is raifcd of feeds, or runners from:
own language, that they may thoroughly undcr- When all was paft he took hit forlorn weed. the roots. Mortimir'i Hujbandry^
ftand, and be majicrs of, it. hoikc. His Clver lliield cow Fairy êcn.
idle mafttrUj't. Ma'stery. n.f. [maifiri/e, Fr. from
13. A title
of dignity in the univ«rfities : The foul opinion mafier.]
of arts.
as, mafier Vou had of her pure honour, gains, or lofes,
your fword or mine ; or mafter/eji leaves both 1. Dominion ; role.
7o Ma'ster. v. a. [from the noun.] To who l}iaU find If divided by moupuins, they will fight for the
them. ibakcffcart't CyinitliM.
.
Xa To be a mc/9fr to ; to rule ; ta govern. ir.ijlery of the paffagcs of the tops, and for the
2. Ungoverned unfubdued.
;
Ay, good faith, towns that ftand upon tlie roots. Raleigh's mptyu
And rat)wr father, thee, than majitr thee. Ma'ster I, I NESS. n. /. [from mafier/y.]
2. Superiority ; pre-eminence.
Sbaktf^re, Eminent fkill.
If a man for maftnia, yet is he not
ftrive
X. To con uer ; to ovcfpower ; to fub- Ma'sterly. atkt. With the flcill of a crowned except he ftrive lawfully. 2 *rm. \u 5,
dae. mpfier. This is the cafe of thofe that will- try Kafieriit
Thrice bleflcd they that nafter fo their blood, Thou doft fpcalc mafierly, with their fuperiuurs, and bite that which is too
To wukrgo fuch maiden pilgrimage. SbeitJ^cart- Voung though thou art. Sbairfftarc liard. If' EJI range.
O004
MAS MAT MAT
Good mtn I fuppofe to live In a flate of mor- mingle; or rather corrupted from ntif- another ; one able to conteft with an-
t'fication, under a perpetual conflldl with their Mixed corn ; as, wheat and
cellaiie.'^ other.
bodily appetites, and ftruggling to get the wafiery Government mitigates the inequality of power,
rye.
over them. AtUrbury. and makes an innocent man, though of the lowed
The tothcr for one lofe hath twainc
3. Skill dexterity. rank, a matcb for the mighticd of l:is fellow-
;
Ofmctjilin, of ric and of wheat. Tujjir's Hujb.
Chief majl'ry to difleft. fubjeils. Addifin,
With long and tedious havack,.iabled knights
MAT. n.f. [meatre, Saxon ; matte, Ger- The old man has met with his matcb. Spedator.
In battles feign'd. Wi/ton^s Paradife Loji. man ; matta, Latin.] A texture of The natural flianie that attends vice, makes
He could attain to a maftiry in all languages, and fedge, flags, or riilhes. them zealous to encourage themfclves by numbers,
found the depths of all arts and fciences. Tillotjin. The women and children in th2'weft of Corn- and form a party againft religion ; it is with pride
To
give futficient fwcetnefs, a majicry In the lan- wall make matt of a fmall and line kind of bents they furvey their incieafing ftrength, and begin to
guage is required : the poet rauft have a magazine there growing, which ferve to cover. Hoors and think themfelves a match for virtue. Rogers,
of words, and have the art to manage his few vowels walls. Carenuî Suri^cy cf Corniuall. 4. One that luits or tallies with another.
to the beil advantage. Drydtn. In the worft inn's worlt room, with mat half
hung.
5. A marriage.
4. Attainment of (kill or power. The mttch
The learning and majicry of a tongue being un- The floors of plaifter, and the walls of dung. Prfe.
Were rich and honourable gentleman
befides, the
j
pleafant in itfeif, fhould not be cumbered with To Mat. [from the noun.]
rv. a. Is fullof virtue, bounty, worth, and qualities,
other difficulties. Locks, I. To cover with mats. Bcfeeming fuch a wife as your fair daughter.
Ma'stful. adj. [from maft-'\ Abound- Keep the doors and windows of your conferva- Sbakefpcarf
of oak, beech, or tories well matted and guarded from the piercing Love doth fcldom fuft'er itfeif to be confined by
ing in maft, or fruit
air. E'vc/yn's K&Undar. other matches than thole of its own making. Boyle*
chefnut. V/ith him die drove to join Lavinia's hand,
Some from on earth arife,
feeds inclos'd z. To twift together ; to join like a mat.
I on a fountain light,
But dire portents the purpos'd matcb withftand.
Fotthus the mafijul chefnut mates the fliies. Dryden,
Dryder, Whofe brim with pinks was platted ;
Lat.] The banks with daft'adiUies dight, 6. One to be married.
Mastica'tion. »./. \mafticatio,
Witli grafs like fleave was maned. Drayton. She inherited a fair fortune of her own, and
The aft of chewing. Sometimes beneath an ancient oak, was very rich in a perfonal edate, and was looked
is no majiicathn^ or comminution
In birds there upon as the riched maieb of the Wed. Clarindotl,
Or on the malted grafs he lies ;
- of the meat in the mouth; but in fuch as are No god of flecp he did invoke :
not carnivorous it is immediately fwallowed into
To Match. 1/. a. [from the noun.]
The flream that o er the pebbles flies.
the crop or craw, and thence transferred into the With gentle (lumber crowns his eyes. Drydtn.
1. To be equal to.
gizzard. ^cty en tbc CreatUn,
He look'd with a gloomy llarc.
a lion
No fettled fenfes of the world can match
MiiJIlation is of folid
a neceflary preparation
And o'er his eye-bruws hung his matted hair.
The pleafure of that madnefs. Sherkrjpeare,
aliment, without which there can be no good di- Dryden.

thou, good Kent, how ihall I live and work
gtllion. Arbuibiwi. The fpleen confifteth of mufcular fibres, all To n:atch thy goodncfs ? life will be too lliort.
Ma'sticatory. »./. [majlicataire, Fr.] malted, as in the flcin, but in more open work.
And every meaiutc fail me. '
Shakejf. King Liar,
A medicine to be chewed only, not Grcûî Cofmol. 2. To fliew an equal.

Ma'tadore. " /. [CTfl/^yor, a murderer, No hidory or antiquity can match his policies and
fwallowed. his condudt. South,
Remember mafiicatoriet for the mouth. Bacon. Spanifli.] One of the three principal
Salivation and maflicnitrics evacuate confider- cards in the games of ombre and qua- 3. To oppofe as equal.
falivation many pints of phlegm in a day, Eternal might
ably ;
drille,which are always the two black
and very HcyeronHum.
much by chewing tobacco. To match with their inventions they prefum'd
aces, and the deuce in fpades and clubs, So ealy, and of his thimder made a fcorn. MUtun.
Ma'stich. »./. [majlic, French.] What though his heart be great, his actions
and the feventh in hearts and diamonds.
1. A kind of gum gathered from trees
Now move to war her fable maladorts. gallant.
of the fame name in Scio. In (how like leaders of the fwarthy Moors. Pope. He wants a crown to poife againd a crown.
We may apply intercipients upon the temples of
M^TACHIN. Birth to match birth, and power to balance power.
v.iifticb ; frontak may aho be applied. IVij'cman. n.f. [French.] An old Dryden.
dance.
2. A kind of mortar or cement. The Shepherd's Kalendar of Spenfer is not to
As for the fmall particles of brick and rtone, Who ever faw a malacHn dance to imitate fight- be matched in any modern language. DryJ:n,
ing this was a tight that did imitate the m.ira- To
moiftnefs would join them together, and fuit ; to proportion.
:
the leaft 4.
cbin for they being but three that fought, every
turn them into a kind of majlicb, which thofe ;
Let poets match their fubjcft to their drength.
Infefks could not divide. yiJd'if^n.
one had two adverfaries llriking hitu, who (irucic And often try what weight they can fupport.
the third. Sidney.
Ma'sticot. »./. [marum, Latin.] See Rcjcomm^n,
Massicot.
MATCH, n.f. [tneche, French; miccia, Mine have been dill
Grind your mcjIUit with fafTron in s"ni water.
Italian ;
probably from mico, to Ihine, Matih'd with my birth ; a younger brother's hopes.
Peacham^ Latin: furely not, as ^/(/'a^zrrconjeftures, Rvwe.
Employ and humour in chufing and
their wit
MaJlicDI is very light, becaufe it is a very clear from Saxon maca, a companion,
the
Drydcns Dufrcf. matching of patterns and "colours. îvift,
yellow, and very near to white. because a match is companion to a
Ma'stiff. It./, maji i vet, p\ar7i\. [majlin,
gun.] •
;. To marry ; to give in marriage.
Italian.] dog of the Great king,
Fr. majlino, .'\
1. Any thing that catches fire ; generally I would not from your love in>:ke fuch a dray.
iargell fize ; a bandog ; dog kept to a card, rope, or fmall chip of wood To match you where I hate. Shakcfp. fCing' Lear,
watch the houfe. dipped in melted fulphur. Tliou dod proted thy love, and would'd it (how
As favage bull, whom two fierce mafl'tvti bait,
Try them in fcveral bottles mntch.t, and fee By matching her, as (he would match her foe. Dorme,
When rancour doth with rage him once cngore, which of them lad longed without ftench. Bacon. Them willingly they would have dill retain'd.
Forgets with wary ward them to await, He made ule of trees as matchet to fet Druina a And match'd unto the prince. Daniel's Civil War,
But with his dreadf j1 horns them drives afore. fire. H'Auel. When a man thinks Wimi^M matched to one who
Spcrjer, fliouid be a comtbtt to him, inftead thereof he finds
Being willing to fomcthing that would nut
try
When rank Tl^crfites opes his Trajiiff]v«i, cherirti much fire at once, and would keep fire in his bofom a bci!^. South,
We (hall hear mulirk, wit, and oracle. Sta'ijp.
much longer tlian a coal, we took a piece of match, A fcnator of Rome, while Rome furviv'd.
When we knock at a farmer's door, the hill fuch as fuldiers ufe. h'^yh. Would not have match'd his daughter with a king,
anfwer Ihall be his vigilant m.njliff.
Mcrii Athcijm,
2. [Vrom f/MX't 3 fight; or from maca, Mdtjoii,
• yli.tidoie againJI
drew. Saxon, one e;,ual to another.] A con- To Match, v. n.
Soon as UlylTes near th' enclofuic
With open mouths the furious majikrei flew. Pope, tell ; a game ; any thing in which there I . To be married.
Let the mi/!!ici amiifc themfclvcs about a (heep's is contell or oppoiition.
A thing that may luckily fall out. to him that
hath the blefling to matcb with fome heroical-
frin llutfed with hay, provided it will keep them Shall we play the wantons with OMr woes,
iwi/r. mindcd lady. Sidney,
from worrying the flock* And make lomc pretty matcb with Ihcdding tears .'
1 hold it a fin to match in my kindred. ShaUJti.

Ma'stless. adj. [from way?.}-. Bearing Shakefpearc.
Let tigers match with hinds, and wolves with
no maft. The goat was mine, by finging fairly won.
(hiep.
Her fliininghair, uncomb'd, was loofcly fprcad, A folemn mcitcb was made ; he lad the prize.
And every creature couple with his foz. Drydett.
A crown of majliiji oak adorn'd hir head. Drydtn. Dryden.
All creatures elfe aie much unworthy thee, •
lAs'itLiti. n.f. [from OT^^r, French, to 3. [From maca, Saxon.] One equal to theymatch'd, and thou alone artleftfgroie. Dryd.
O » a. Tt
:
MAT MAT MAT

2. Tofuit;
be proportionate ; totally.
to Ptmaffus is its name j wiiofe forky rife natcrvilt, the omiffion hereof aflords Ciine pio*
Ma'tchable. aJj. [itom match.] Mounts through the clouds, and mattt the lofty bability it was not ukd by the ancients.
Bna:
|. Suitable; eanaJ ft its David, who made fuch rich^rovifion of matiriats
fit to be joined.
:
;
Y«, whole high worths furpafling paragon, High on the fummit of this dubious cliff, for the buildinj of the temple, becauic
ive had |lipt
CowM not on earih have found one fit for mate, Deucalion wafting moor'd hil link Ikift'. Dryden. his hands in blood, was not permitted to lay a
ftone
Ve but in heaven maiihahlt to none, J. To oppofe to equal.
; in that I'acred pile.
South,
Why Jid yc ftoop unto U> lowly ftatc ? Sfrnftr.
I i' th' wjy of loyalty and truth. That lamp one of the heatlien temples the
in
3. CorrefponJeiit. Date male a founder man than Surrey can be. art of man might make
of lome fuch material aa
'Jhofe at land that are not matrhallc with any
And all that love his follies, iihai'j. H.itry VIII. the Hone a/befluj, which being once cnkinditd
will
upon our (horcs, arc of thofe very kinds which ate 4. [Afa«<r, French; A««/(jr, Spanifli.] To bum without being confumed. Ifilkins.
who* fubduej The materltls of that building veiy fLrtunateiy
found 00 but in ihe deepelt parts of the fea. to confound; to crulh. Not ranged thcmfelves into that delicate order,
ly'Kittuard's Netural Uiftury. in ufe. that it
muft be a very great chance that parts them.
M*'tchless. «<^. [itota match.] Hav- That is good deceit
Which TtlUrfon.
ing no equal. motet him Crft, that firtt hstcnds deceit. o.
Simple
, .
ideas, the wartnj/s of all our knrwicdge,
Thii happy day two lights are fcen, Sbaii'/peare, are fuggefted to the mind only by fenfation and
A glorious faint, a mjuiifi queen. ffâ/ler.
My fenfc Ike >s nutted, and amac'd my light. rclUaion.
Much Icfs, in arras, oppofe thy maiiblift force, i„i,.
Shaiejfieare, Such » fool Was never found.
When thy ihiip fpuu /holi urge thy foaming hoife. Why this is ftrange ; go call the abbefs hither; Who pull'd a palace to the
ground.
DryJ.n. I think you are all mated, or ftark mad. Sl-ekefp. Only to have the ruins made
Ma'tchi.bssly. «</». In a manner not
Thegreat eflefts that may come of indutlry
Maeerials for an houfe decay 'd.
and perfeverance who knoweth not Sni/t,
For audacity .'
to be equalled.
doth almoft bind and mate the weaker fort of
Mate'rialist. ». /. [from mateiiaj.]
Ma'tchiessnicss. n.f. [from matcbUfi.] minds. Bacon's Natural llijlory,
One who denies fpiritual fubihoces.
State effacing without an equal. MATE'RIAL. aJj,
He was bent upon making MemmiDS a irtte-
.
[materiil, Fr. mate-
Ma'tchmaker. n f. \tnalch zaA make.] rialis, Lat.] ,/'"¥• ^ Dryden.
1. One who coatrives marriages. Confiding of matter
Materja lity. n. /. [materialiti, Fr.
I. ; corporeal ; not
You came to him to know from materia/.] Corporeity ; material
fpiritual.
If you fliould tarry .me, or no ;
When wc exifence ; not fpirituality.
judge, our minds we mirrors make.
And would have hir'd him and his imps. And as thofe glafles which material be, Confidering that corporeity could not agree with
To he your miuktr.akcn and pimps. Hud'Jirai. Forms of material things do only take. this univerfal fubfiftrnt nature, abftraîing' from
2.One who mi-kes matches to burn. For thoughts or minds in them we c.innot fee.
all materiality in his ideas, and giving them
an
aflual fubfifteace in nature, he made them
Mate. b./. [maca, :>a.tOD j matt, Dut.] Daviet,
angels, who.'e efTenccs were to be the elfence,
like
1. A hufband or wife. That thefe of life and knowledge were ma-
trees
to give exiifcnce to corporeal individuals
and
I that am frail fleih and terial trees, though figures of the law and the gof- ; and lo
earthly wight, each idea was embodied in every individual of
Unworthy match pel, it is not doubted by the nioft religious and its
immortal matt,
for fuch
fpccies.
learned writers. Raleigh, £,; 4j,,
Myfclf well wore, and mine unequal fate. Fairy S^.
2. A coflipaoion, male or female. !. Important; momentous; eflential :
IvIate'rially. ai/v. [ho m materia/,]
with 1. In the Hate of matter.
Go, bafc intruder 1 over-wecning fiave !
to before the ihing to which rela-
I do not mc.-m, that any thing is
Bellow thy fawning fmiles on cqujl matis. Sbeiefp, feparable from
tion is noted. a body by fire thai was not materially pre-eriftent
My com}:etitor Wemuft propofe unto all men certain ^titions
in it.
In top of defign, my mate in empire,
all incident, and very material in caufes of this nature. £^,.
»itnJ and carapanion in the front of war. State/. 2. Not formally.
ma.r.
Vou Itnew me once no nuie Hold them for catholicks or hereticks,"" it is
Though an ill intention is certainly fufficieat to
not
For you; there fitting where you dnrft not fear. a thinj eitlier one way
<poil and corrupt an afl in it!'e(f materially good,
or another, iu thisqucfticn,
yet no good intention whatfoevtr can rtHify or
MiltiK. material, Ho<iirr, in-
Damon, behold yon breaking purple cloud ; What part of the world foevcr we fall into, tfae fuli: a moral goodncli into an ait otherwife
evil.
Hear'ft thou not hymns and foiigs divinely loud : ordinary ufe of this vary prayer hath, with equal Soutb,
1 here nx>unta Amyntas, the young cherubs play continuance, accompanied the fame, as one of the 3. Importantly; efl'tntially.
About their godlike mite, and fijig him on his way. principal and moft material duties of honour done All tiiis concerneth the cuftoms of the
Irifli very
OiyJiB. to Chrift. Hiike . materially-, as well to
reform thofe which are ovil,
Iioave thy bt'ule alone It may difcover fome fecret meaning and in- as to conlirm and continue thofe whicli are good.
Co, leave her with her maiden »iU« to play tent therein, very mttirial to the Ihite of that go- Sj.eKj,r or. IreL/id.
At fpo:t« mare harmlcfs, till the break of day. vernment. Sfcnter, Mate RjAi-KEss. n. /. [from aja/trW.]
Dry den,, Tire queftion i« mt, Wjether yon allow or dif- State of being material.
3. The
nsAle or female of anjaial$. '
allow that book, neither is it materiil, ff^liigjft.
MATii'RiATE. }aej. [maleriatui, Lat.]
Part fingle, or with man, He would not ftay at your petitions made;
Grajc the fea-wced their paliuie, and through His bufmefs more material. Sbakijp. ffînter's Tali-. Mate'riated. j Confining of matter.
grOves Neither is this a queliion of words, but in- Alter long enquiry of things immf rfe in matter,
Of coral finitely material in nature.
interpofe fome fubjeS which is immateriate or lefs
ftray. Mi/i:>ii'i Faradife Loji.
Pliny tells us, that elephants know no copulation materiate, fuch as this of founds, to the end that
Bacon's Natural Hilary.
with any other than th.cir own proper ma/^. Ajliî. the intclka may be rectified, and become not
1 pafs the relt-, whofe every race and name,
And kinds are Icfi material tu my thcnic. Diyden. P"'ial- Maccn's Natural Kijiovy.
^, One
that fails in ibe fame (hip. ^
What vcnâncc on the paSiiig fleet Ae pour'd. As for the more mutirial faults of writing, thuugh Materia'tion. n. f. [from materia,
The maftcr frighted, and the mata devour d. I fee many of them, I want leifure to amend them. Lat.]^ The ail of forming matter.
Dryden. Creation is the produSion of all things out- of
in the account of fimple down
5. One (hat eats at the fanne table. I Ihall, ideas, ftt nothing; a formation not only of niatur but of
only fuch as are moft material to our prefcnt pur- form, and a maieriaiicn even of matter it&lf.
0. The fecond in fubordination in a fhip :
pol'c. Locke.
a«, the maflrr's matt ; the c&irurgeon's In this material point, the conllitution of the
matt, Englilh government far exceeds all others. Stviji.
Mate'rnal. aJJ. [mateme, Fr. ataternut^
Tq Mate. v. Not formal though the material

Lat.] Motherly; befitting or pertain-
a- [from the noun.] 3. : as,
ing to a mother.
i. To match ; to marry. aflion was the fame, it was formally
'1 he babe had all that infant care beguiles.
Enfampic make of him your haplefs joy. different.
And caily knew his mother in her
And i'( myfelf now mattd as you fee, Mate'riai «./. [this word is fcarccly
fiuiles :
Whofc
s. At his firft aptnefs the maternal love
prouder vaunt, that proud avenging boy
ufed in the fingular ; materiaux, Fr.] Thofe rudiments of rcafon did improve. Dryjett^
.Did foon pluck down, and cuib'd my liberty.
Fairy SêtK.
The fubflance of which any thing is Mate'rnity. n. /. [maiemite, Fr. from
The hind, that would he maud by lire Lon, made. maternus-, Lat.] The charatler or re-
Mull die for love. ^bei. jlll'i nvcL ibal er.di •tvt.'l. Ihe and many nations of the
Well-Indians, lation of a mother.
2, To be equal to. Africans, finding means and materials, have been
Mat-fe'lon.
Some from fceda inclos'd on taught, by their own neccifities, to pafs rivers in a »./. [matter, to kill, and
earth ariê.
For tluu (hs nuftiui *beimt maui boat of one tree. Raleii^h. felon, a thief.]
tk ilucs.
Drydir., intwdiog an actutate caumuatisa of medical A fpecies of knap-weed growing wild.
6 MATHE.
— - ; . .
MAT MAT U At
she was In her early bloom, with a difcretion
length, the fpiril will exhale before the creature be
MATHEMATICAL.) adj. {mathma
mature, except it be enclofeJ in a place wtiert: it yery little inferior to the moll expî'toced mairorrs.
MATHEMA'TICK. J
ticus, Latin.] may have continuance of the heat, and clofenefs
TuiUr.
Confidered according to the doftrine that may i«ea it from exhaling and futfi ;
places 2. An old woman. ,
cf the mathematicians. aie the wombs and uutritts of Ae femJfcs. A

maticn fage
The Eaft and Weft Baccn. Supports vWth Fiomtty food his dfoSpiftg agi. Pope.
Vpon the globe, a maihtimrkk point 2. A mstild; «hiit whicli gives form to Ma'troNal. adj. [tnatroJialis, Latin.]
Ot'ily divides : thus happinefs,and mifery, fomethir.g inclofed. Suitable to a mairoii ; conlUtuting a
And all extremes, are ftill co<Higui««s. Bntam, Stones that carry a refemblance of cockles, were matron
It is a$ impoffible foran aggregate of finites to formed in the cavities of IhelJs; and thefe (hells He hadheard of the beauty and virtuous beha-
compreiKnd oi exhauft one infinite, as it 13 for the have ferved as ma;n(ei or moulds to them. viour of queen of Naples, the widow of Fer-
tlie
greateA numfcer o( mathematick points to amount JVootituard. dinindo the younger, being then of matronal years
to, or conilitute a body.
Bo}le.
Ma'tricide. n.f. [matricidium, Latin.] of ii^Qn and twenty. Bacon.
I fuppofc all tlie particles of matter to be
fituatcd
Beniiej. 1, Slaughter of a mother. Ma'tron LY. adj. [matron and liii.}
in an exaft and r-.athemai'ual evenncfs.
Nature compenfates the death of the father by Elderly ; ancient.
Mathema'tically. adv. [from muthe-
the mjiricidt and murther of the mother. Eroivti. The mttndy wife pinckei oUt all the brown
maiki.] According to the laws of the [Matricida, Latin matricide, French.] hairs, and the youiigcr the white. L'EJirang!^
2. ;
mathematical fciences. A mother killer. Jin/iuon/j. Matro'ss. n.f.
We be mathanaticaily certain, that the heat
may
To MatrTculate. [from matri- -v. a. Msttri/Jh, in the train of artillery, are a fort of
of the fon is according to the denfity of the fun- foldiers next in degree under the gunners, who
^m^. and is reciprocally propoicional to the ftûare cula : a matrix, quod ea velut matrice
about the guns in travcrfing, fpunging, fir-
affift
of the diftance from the body of the fun. Benthy. coDtineantur miiitum nomina. Ji»/iv.] ing, and loadingthem they carry ftte-locks, and :
M ATHEMATi'ci AN. ». /. [matbematictti, To enter or admit to a memberfliip of march along with the ftore-waggons as a guard, and
Lat. mathematicitu, Fr.] A man verfed the univerfities of England ; to enllft j as aiiifta.ica, in cafe a waggdn Ihould break. BaiUy.
in the mathematicks. to enter into any fociety by letting Ma'tteR. n./. [matiere, French; wa/p-
One of the moft eminent maihem{i:\tiatii of the down the name. ria, Latin ]
age affured me, that the greiteft pJeafuit he took He, after fume trial of his mamiers and learning, I. Body; fubftance extended.
in reading Virgil Was in examining yineas's voy- thought fit to enter himfelf of th«t college, ar,d If crien the fcui another foul do make,
age by the map. AdJiJcni S^tSator. after to matriiuitie hira in the univerfity. Eecaufe her pow kept within a bound.
r is
MaTHEMa'tICKS. n. f. [ /»a9:i(*aH*i.] JValmni Life nj SandefJ'.n. She mult lome former ftulf or matter take.
That fcience which contemplates whaft- Matri'colate. n. /. [from the verb.] But in tile Ibul there is no matur found. Dai'!.'!.
capable of being numbered or A man matriculated. Jt fcems prubable to me, that GoJ in the be-
ever is
ginning foiineJ p:a'.tcy in folld, malTy, hard, im-
rneafared ; and it is either pure or Suiter me, in the name of the matricuhtei of
penetrable, ni'ive.ible particles, of fuch iizes and
that famous univeifityy td alk th^m fome plain
mixt : pure confiders abftrafted quan- figure?, and with fucli other properties, and 'm
quelHonSi jirtyutbnot.
tity,withoot any relation to irvatter; luch proportion to fp.ice, as molt conduced to tlie
mixt interwoven with phyfical con--
is
M atricula'tion. ».y. (from matricu-
end lor which he torn"ied them j and that thofe
Harris.
late.'\ The aft of mairicutating.
\
pilmltive particles being folids, are incomparably

fidera lions.
The ifMftnrijtietT and the metaphyficfcs
A from the univerfity for five
fcholar ablcnt h:(rJ?r than any porous bodies compounded of
years, is ftruck out of the matr'uulatm book ; a<iA«' IfiCin, even io very hard as h^ver to wear or brtâk
Fall to them, as yoo find your ftomaA ferves you.
upon his coming de novo to the univerfity, ought in pieces, no ordinary pnwer being 5ftiTc to divide
ShakJfMirc.
to be ajaW matriculafed. Ay^Wc. what G^d hiiniiif made one ih' the fifit creirion.
See royftety to rlinhoratklt fly. i'o/t.
Ma'thes. n./. \cbamamtflum fjhviftre ^

Matrimonial, adj. [^matrimonial, ?r. Ndvton.
Latin.]
frOifl ttiarrimoriium, Suitable to >
Some have dlmKnfioiis -of IfeHgtli, Breadth, .ind
An herb. Ain/xuorth.
de^th, and ha\e alio a piwer cf refiftancc, or elc-
marriage; pertaining to mar/ia^; eon-
Mathb'sis. n. f. [|4a3.!<r(.:.'] The doc- «lude evdify tMng of the I'atiie kind from being in
i)ubi,al ; nupu»l ; hfm(>neal.
I
'
trine of mathematiclcs. the fame place: this is the prortr charafter of

ff he relied upon that title, he could be bnt a king
Mad maihif,: alone was unconfin'd. Popi. n.\rtcf or b^dy. W.ita'i Loghk.
at curtciy, and have rather a mattimor.'u-l than a re-
Wa't V. adj [maiine, Fr. nralulinu:, Lat.]
I
gal pcwer, the right reaaftining in his qurcn. -
i. Marerials; t\iix of <vhich any thing is
Morning ; u:ed in the mornir.g. i

Ha.on's Hi^fy Vil. coropofed.
Up rofe the viftor angels, and to arms Sc r-:l'' •'
""ftick A*l*m in his care, The uppdr regions of the air perceive 4hc col-
The matin ijumpct funj. M:li^ni jfarjdife^yl* And i'.ve. M-i-'tcn I F.fiaHft teifion of the maaer of tcmpelts before the'air here
1 waffc the rrOJin lamp in figio fur thee j. . :
I
.Sir. n i. the hulband, you clic wil):

t.?fl.
below
" Baan,
j
Thy image (teals between my Goi and me. .^-if. . Thcma/ripaTii./' v;4»oryî5 mine^p .; " • .'.
bjjbjc'£l ; thing treated.
I3.
Ma'tin. n. f. Morning. I
WliicT), lijv'ng fafrl/ g«ill'd, twill nC\%n. Dffd.-r. The fuSjeft or maidr of laws in general is thus
The gbw-worm (hew« the maiun to b« near, Mlvf ki mO'n) ALLY. adv. [ffoin mairi- far foi»(i cunilant, which matter is that for the or-
And 'îns to paie his uneffcdtu:il fire, ihaheftieare. monial.] According to the manner or dering whereof laws were initituted. Hooker,
Ma'mins. It/ [matinet, Fiench.] Morn- laws of marriage.
I have words to fpeak in thy ear will make thee
ing worfnip. dumb i yet aiC they much too light for the maiter.
He is lb mair'moiiiiiHy vrcddcd i*ito his church,
Sb..keipc.'.re'i HiimUt.
The winged choriftcrs bfgan that he cannot ûlt the lame, even on the ftbrt'of ,
To chirp their mutiim. CkavelMd. SWit'df dôd. Saviour of Men I 'I'hy name
going into a religious Uoofe. Wyliffe.
Shall b'fe the copious irdUa- of my fong. MMtttn,
By tl.c pantiScnl, no ^tar is coofecratrd with- MA'TRIMONV. ». / [matrimo>,iuM, It is nlattcr of the gfeatcft aftjnilhment to ob-
out relinues ; th« vlgiU are celebrated before them,
Latin.] Marriage ; ihe naptml (lace j fi^c the common boldi^f^ of men. Decay of Pi -ly.
and the n»£lura and mUltin, for the fa.nts whOfe
the reliques ate. Hi UmrflAt. >
the con trail of man and wife ; nuptials. I /hall turn
If any know c.»ufe why tiiis couple Ihould not be Full fraught with joyful tiding of thefe works,
"ViiHl be jhould nufc bit mitied creli on high,
;>.i, J Cv' iilt wjngi, and call hij family
joined in holy malr'mmy, tlicy are to declare it. New matter of his praiic, and of our f ings. DryJcn,
Coinmcrt Prayer. This is fo certain in true philofjphy, that it is
'1 t\ .ites ; and vex th' etherial pmvtrs
;
Vv .tl, inl, might matiim, at nncivil hours. Drydet. ^MATRIX, /. [Latin; matrice,
tr. Fr.] matter of aftonilhmcnt to me how it came to be
doubted.
Matrass, n./. \malrat, French ] Womb; a pkce where any thing is ge-
Chcyr.e.
Af:fraft '« the name of a cliemical glafs veflel nerated or fbrtned ; matrice. 4. The whole ; the very thing fuppofed.
rr, lie 'or being foitietimcs
digcftion or JirtlilatVon, If they be not lodged ih a convenient matiix,
He grants the deluge to have 'come f-d very near
bfl 'k I, and lometimes nfnig gradullly tapered into - the matter, that but very few efcaped. Tillorjon.
they are not excited by th^ efficacy of the fun. .
a c n\:al hgure. ^'mcy. Brcwn'i Vulgar Errcitrs. 5, Affair; bufinefs : in a familiar lenle.
I'rvt'.ift from violent Aotmay and the too parch
Ma'tron. »./. To help the matter, alchcmifts many
»ing ddrtj of the fun* your pcnnîthed tulips and
tanunciilas'i, covering aikm with tnaliaffii.
tretia, Latin.]
[matrone, French; ma-
vanities out of allrolo^'y.
tlie
Mancn fiiccctde.l (b ivell with hiiti, that every

Ba:cn's N.itiiral
t-all in
H'ljfory,
E-vc'yn i Kal.-rtdar. 1. An elderly lady. body was in admiration to fee how mighty rich he
Cortie, civil night.
Ma'trice. n./. [matrix, Latin.] was grow^. L'Eflran'e.
Thou fober. fulled OT^ row, aHinblatk. Shahffearc.
1. 1 he womb; the cavicy where ih« foe-
Yoor wives, ybur daught<:'rt,
N-evct was any thing gotten by fenfuaiity aid
floth. in matter of profit or'rcputatlon. L^F.Jlrarfê.
tus is formed. Yijur malrini and your maids, cOuM nUt (ill npl A fawn wag reafoning the mdiitr vyith a itag,
'rhc cillVrh of my lulti ^hakijbeare > MaUill. ' why l.e (hould run away frum the dogs. L'EJirange,
Some
; ; ; '
MAT M A U
Some young female feems to lu\-e canioi mjiren when forced to leave his title to his younger bro- alimentary and natural juicet in their
Co far, that (he is rl|x: tor a(king advice. SftUdfor, ther, lett ufin the matter nothing to lupiwit it. proper canals. îiicy.
if chance hcrfclf ihoiild vary, Clartndon,
Waller, with Sir William Balfour, exceeded in
Ma'tukative. aeij. [from mature, L.U.J
Obfervehow marten wouU mil'cany> Prhr.
horfc, but were upon the matter equal in foot. I. Ripening; conducive to ripenefs.
6. Caufe of dillurbance. Between the tropicks and equator their fcconi
Clarendon,
Where art thou ? Wh»f» the mjtrer with thee ?
Summer is hotter, mi more maturativt vi (rui'->
Hb.ikefftjrct
If on one fide there are fair proofs, -and no pre-
tence of proof on the other, and that the dirh- than the former. B'-ti't:.
What's the tn-tltir, you diffentious rogues.
That rubbing rtie poor itch of your opinion, culties are mod preiTing on that fide which is dcf- z. Conducive to the fuppuration of a
titute of proof, I dclire t) know, whether this be fore.
Malce yourtelvcsTcabs ? ^taUj^tjre's CorUhnut*
not upon the matter as fatisfa£lory ta a wife man as Butter is maiuraiive, and is profitably mixed
y, Subjeil of fuit or complaint.
a demonftration. Tilhtfon, with anodynes and fuppuratives. fViJ'cman't Surg.
Slender, I broke your head j what maticr have
jou agiinU me ( To Ma'tter. 1/. «. [from the noun.] Matu're. [maturus, Latin.]
adj.
— Marry, Sir, I have tnailtr in my hod againft 1. To be of importance; to import; It I. Ripe ; perfefted by time.
you. Shakefprtrr, is lifed with only it, this, that, or lubat, When once he was mature for man
If the craftfmen have a nuuitr againll any man, before it. In Britain wheie was he,
the law is opea } let them implead one anither. It matters not, fo they deny it all
That could (Hnd up his parallel.
Afli, xix. 3S. AnJ can but carry the lye cofiilantly. Ben Jcnjon, Or rival objeil be ? StakeJ/itare's Cymirme,
In armies, if the maittr fliould be tried by duel it m:ilters not how they were called, fo we know TIteir prince is a man of learning and virtue,
between two champions, the vidory Should go on who they are. Locke, mature in years and experience, who has feidom
the one fide and yet if tried by the grofs, it would vanity to gratify. Melifm,
;
If I'ctrarch's mufe did Laura's wit rehearfe ;
go on the other. Bacm> And Cowley flatter'd dear Orinda's verfe Mature the virgin was of Egypt's race,
8. Import; 'confequence ; importance; She hopes from you— Pox take her hopes and fears, Grace (hap'd her limbs, and beauty deck'd her face.
moment. I plead her fex's claim ivhat mjiters hers I Prior,
;
Prior*
If bad had time to have nude new liveries, I

I 2, To generate matter by fuppuration. How fliall I meet, or how accoil the fage,
UnlkiU'd in fpetch, nor yet mjrM« of ajjc. Popt*
would have bellowed tlie thoufand 1 borrowed of Deadly wounds inward bleed, each flight fore
you : but it is no matter, this' poor (hew di.t'i mitferetb, Sidney, z. Brought near to completion.
bctHr. Shakrffiare'i Hesty IV. 'ihe herpes beneath matterid, and,were dried up This lies glowing, and is mature for the violent
And pleafe yourfclvcs this day ; with common epuloticks. ff'lfeman's Surgery, breaking out. Shakefpeare's Csrie/dnu.
No Kutirr from what hands you have the play. Here th' fands
To Ma'tter. f. a. [from the noun.] i'
Drjtieii. Thee rake up ; and in the mature time.

I'll
Aprophet fame, and fome a poet cry,

To regard ; not to negleft : as, / mat- With this ungracious paper drike the fight
No matter which, fo neither of them lye, ter not that calumny, .

Of the death pradlis'd duke. Shak.fp. King I.ctr.
From ftecpy Othrys' top to Pilus drove Laws my I'indarick parents matter''d not. Wclldiipofed lit for execution well-
3, ; ;
His herd. Drydcti. BratrJIon,

digefted.
Flcas'd or difpleas'd, no matter now 'tis pad Ma'ttery. [from matter,']
atlj, Purii-
}
To Matu're. f. a. [mature, Latin.]
The ririi who dares be an^ry breathes his laft. lent ; generating matter.
Granville. 1. 'Jo ripen ; to advance to ripenefs.
The putrid vapours colliquate the phlegmatick
Prick an 'apple with a pin full of holes, not deep,
9. Thing ; objeft ; that which has fome humours of the body, which tranfcending to the
and fmcar it a little with fack, to fee if the vir-
particular relation, or is fubjeft to par- lungs, caufes their matiety cough. Harvey on Conf,
tual heat of tlie wine will not mature it.
ticular conlideration. Ma'ttock. ». /. [niarruc, Saxon.] Bacon's Natural Hijicry*
The i^ls of Armenia had in his company 1. A kind of toothed inltrument to pull 2. To advance towards perfedion.
three of the moll famoui men for matt en of arms. up weeds. Love indulg'd my labours pad,
Siiincy. Give me that mattock, and the wrenching iron. Matures my prefent, and (hall bound my bd. Pop:,
Plato reprehended a young man for entering
into a diflblute houfe ; the young man laid, Why
Shakefpeare, Mato'rely. adv. [from mature.'[
for fa fmali a matter T Plato replied. But cuftom
2. A pickax. 1. Ripely; completely.
You mud dig with mattock and with fpade,
is no fmall matter* Bacon.
And pierce the inmod centie of the earth. Sbakejp,
2. With counfel well-digelled.
Many times the things deduced to judgment The Turks laboured with maftocks and pick- A prince ouglit maturely to confider, when he
Biay be meum and tuum, when the reafon and enters on a war, whether his coders be full, and
axes to dig up the foundation of the wall.
Kmlles,
confcquence thereof may trench to point of efta,te. his revenues clear of debts. Swijit
To êdroy mountains was more to be cxptdled
I call matter of ellate not only the parts of fove-
from earthquakes than coirolive waters; and con- 3. Early ; foon. A
latinifm.
leignty, but whatfoever introduccth any great al- "We are (o far from repining at God, that he
demneth the judgment of Xerxes, that wrought
teration, or dangerous precedent. Baart^s Bjpys* hath n.it extended the period of our lives t.) the
through mount Athos with mattocks, Brctun.
It is a maxim in (late, that alt countries of new longevity of the antediluvians ; that we give him.
acqued, till they be fettled, are ratlier matters of
Ma'ttress. It. /. [matras, Fr. altras,
thanks for contrafting the days of our trial, and'
burden than of lirength. Bacon, Wellh.] A kind of quilt made to lie receiving us more maturely into thofe everlading
10. Queftion confidered. upon. habi cations above. Bent ley •_
Upon the whole matter,abfurd to think it is Their maitreffes were mado of feathers and ftraw, Matu'rity. ti./. [maturite, Fr. matu-
that confcience can be kept in order without fre- and fometimes of furs from Gaul. Arhuthnot.
ritas, Latin.] Ripenefs; completion.
quent examination. South* Nor will the raging fever's (ire abate
With golden canopies and beds of dale ;
It may
not be unfit to call fome of young jears
11. Space or quantity nearly computed. to train up
for thole weighty afl'airs, againll the
Away he goes ro the market-town, a matter of
But the poor patient will as foon be found
time of greater maturity. Bacon,
feren miles off, to enquire if any had feen his afs.
On the hard mattrejs, or the mother ground. Dryd,
Impatient nature had taught motion
L'EjIrarge. Ma I ura'tiox. »._/; [from mature, Lat.J To dart from time, and cheerfully to fly
I have thougftts to tarry a fmall matter in town, 1. The Haie of growing ripe. Before, and feize upon maturity. Crajbani*
to learn fomewhat of your linô. Congreê. One of ''Various mortifications mud be undergone, many
the caufes why grains and fruits are
12. Purulent running ; that whicii is moie nnurilhing than lc.ives, is, the length of dil^cuUies and obdrxiftions conquered, before we
formed by fuppuration. time in which they grow to maturatitn, Bac'on, can arrive at a juft inaiurity in religion. Rogers.
In an inflamed tubercle in the great angje of 'i here is the maturation of fruitf, the maturation Ma'udlin. ati/. [Alaut//in is ihe corrapt
the left eye, the matter being fuppuratcd, I dpened of drinks, and the maturation of impodhumes ; as appellation of Magdalen, who is drawa
it* tyijemans Surgery, alfo other maiuruii^t.s of metals. Bacon's Nat, Uiji,
^ by painters with Iwoln eyes, and dif-
13. VfCH the Matter. A low pbrafe z. The ad of ripening.
ordcred look ; a drunken countenance,
now out of ufe. Confidering the whole ; Wc have no heat to fparc in Summer; it is very
well if it be fufiicierit fur the muturation of fruit..
feems to have been fo named from a
with refpeft to the main; nearly. ludicrous refemblance to the picture of
B.tiiley.
In their I'upcriors it quencheth jealoufy, and
3. [In phyfick.] Maturation, by lome Magdalen.'] Drunk; fuddled; approach-
tayeth their competitors aflcep ; fa that upott the
maittr, in a great wit deformity an advantage to is phyfical writers, is applied to the fup- ing to ebrieiy.
ri/ing* Bacon i Ejidfs.
- -
puration of excrementitious or extrava- And the kind maujting crowd melts in her praiCsa
Upon the matter, in thefe prayers I do the lame Scuthtrn*
fated juices into matter, and differs
thing I did before, fave only that what before I She largely, what (henvants
in words, fupplies
fpake without book I now read. Bijhop San/lcrjor..
from concodion or digellion, which is With niaueltin eloquence of trickling eyes,
The elder, having cunlumed his whole fortune, the railing to a greater pcrfcflion the Rofcomm ;rt.
% , Ma'udlin.
; ; ; . _.,...
MAW MAY MAY

This alfo tendeth to no more but vphat the king
M-.'uOLlN. a, /. [ageratum, Lat.] A f oft in feafts with coftly cbang3s clad.
may do for what he may do is of two kinds ;
To crammed mavi a fprat new ftomich brings. :
plant. what he may do as juft, and what he may do as

îdr.cy.
T!.e Rijwers of the ir-audlir. arc digcfted Intoloofe
umbels. Miller'
We have heats of durgs, and of bellies and polTible. Bacon*
vtaioi of living creatures, and of their bloods. Make the maft of life you may. Bourne.
Ma'ugre. ai/j. \_malgre, French.] In Baetin, 5. A word expreffing dciire.
fpi'.e of; nocwilhllaiiding, Ii is now Though plcnteoi^s, all too little fcems. May you live happily and long for the fer\'ice of
out of oie. To ftuft this WiiTO, this vaft unhidebjund corps. your country. Dr)dens Dedication to the jîneis*
This, matigre .ill the world, Will I keep fafe . Mihan. May-^^. Perhaps; it may be tât,
Or feme at you ihall imoke for it in Rome. The ferpent, who h rKaiv obfccne had fiird, May-le, that belter real'on will afl'uage
—^ Shokef/xari. The branches in his curl'd embraces held. Dryden. The ra(h revenger's heart, word« well difpos'd
Ma»%re thy (Irength, place, youth, and emi- 2. The craw of birds. Have fecret pow'r t' appeafe inflamed rage.
nence J
'
Granivorous birds have the mechanifm of a mill Fairy S2uecnt

Thy valour, and thy heart j thoa art a traitor. their matt)is the hopper which holds and fofcens May-Cc the amorous count folicits her
the grain, letting it dott'n by degrees into the ito- In the unlawful purpole. Shakefpeare*
I through the ample air, triumph high
in mach, where it is ground by two ftrong mufclesj 'Tis nothing yet, yet all thau had to give;
Shall lead bell cajitive ; maugn bell and fliow ! in which aîon they are aiiifted by fmall ftones, Then add thofe may-be years thou hail to live.
The pow'rs oi daVknel's bjunJ. Milton i.Par* Lojlt which they fwaliow for the purpofc. j^rbutbnot. Dryden.
Maigre all which, 'twas ro ftand fail Mawkish, adj. [perhaps from maiu.] What they offer !s bare may-he and (hift, and
As lon^ as monarchy Ihould laft. Huciihrji.
Apt to give fatiety
fcarce ever amounts to a tolerable reafon. Creech.
; apt to caufe loath-
He proplieHed of the fucccfi of his golpel May. [Maius, Latin.]
n.f.
\vhich, after his death, immediately took root, and
ing.
fpread itfelf every- where, mjugre all oppofition or
Flow, Welded • flow, like thine infpirer beer, 1. The fifth month of the year ; the con-
perfccution. Burnet* So fweetly ma^vHJh, and fo fmoothly dull. Pope, fine of Spring and Summer.
Ma'wkishness. n. /. [(rom maivii/b.] M.iy mud be drawn with a fweet and amiable
Ma'vis. n. f. \mauvis, French.] A countenance, clad in a robe of white and green,
thruAi, or bird like a thruQi. An old /iptnefs to caufe loathing.
embroidered with daflidils, hawthorns, and blue-
word. Ma'wmet. n./. [or mammet ; from mam bottles. Peaeh.m.
The world that cannot deem of worthy thing'!, or mother.^ A
puppet, anciently an Hail ! bounteous May, that doA infpire
When do praife her, fay 1 do but flatter ;
1 idol. Mirth and youth, and warm defire ;
So do:h the cuckow, when the irjtvii fings, Ma'wmish. adj, [from mawum or ma-w- Wood.^ and groves are of thy drelling.
Begin Ms witlefs note apace to clear. Spenfer. Hill and dale doth boaft thy blelTing. Miltotlt
met.] Foolilh ; idle; naufeous.
In birds, kites have a rcfemblance with hawks, 2. 'I'he early or gay part of
It isone of the moft naufeous, miitvmijb mor- life.
and black-birds with thrulhes and mavifes. On a day, alack the
tifications, for a man to have to do with a punctual, day !
Baiat's Natural Hiji-jry. Love, whofe month

finical fop. L'EJlrangc. is ever May^
To Maul. v. a. [from malleus, Latin.]
Maw-worm. 'Spied a blolTom palling fair.
It./, [maiu and ivorm.]
To beat ; to bruife ; to hurt in a coarfe
Ordinary gut worms loofen, and Aide oft" from,
Playing in the wanton air. Shairjpcare.
or butcherly manner. Maids are May when they are maids.
the intern tiinick of the guts, and frequently creep
Will he who faw the foldier's mutton fift, into the ftomach for nutriment, being attradled
But the (ky changes wh«n they are wives.
And faw thee mn/V, appear within the lili. thither by the fwcet chyle ; whence they are called ShaJteêare.
To witncfs truth >
Dryden's Juvenal. llomach or mavf-ivormt. Harvey on Conjumptiom,
My liege
Once ev'ry week poor Hannibal is mauld. Ma'xjllar. )
Is in the very May-mom of his youth.
adj. [maxillaris, Latin.] Ripe
The [heme given, and ftrait the council's call'd,
is for exploits. Sbakefpeare's Henry V.
Whether he (hould t.) Rome direOly go ? Dryden.
Ma'xillary.j Belonging to the jaw- I'llprove it on his body, if he dare ;
had fijme repute for profe j
1 bone. Defpight his nice fence, and his aftive praftice,.
And, till they drove me out of date. The greateft quantity of hard fubftance conti- His May of youth, and bloom of luflihood.
Could maul a minifter of (late. Sivift'i Mifcel. nued is towards the head ; there is tlie Ikull, the Shakefpeare.
But fate with butchers plac'd thy prielUy ftall. teeth, and the maxillary bones. Bacon. To May. [from the noun.]
11. n. To
Meek modern faith to murder, hack and maul. Ma'xim. n. /. [maxime, Fr. maximum, gather flowers on May morning.
Fopi. Lat.] An axiom ; a general principle ; When merry May firft early calls the morn, .
Maul, n.f [malleut, Latin.] A heavy a leading truth. With merry maids maying they do go.
a Sidney,.
hammer; commonly written Jlfa//. This maxim out of love I teach. Shahejpeare. Zephyr with Aurora playing.
A man that beareth falfe wltnefs is a maul, a It is a maya in flate, that all countries of new As he met her once a maying. Milton. .
fword, and rtiarp arrow. Prov. xxv. i8. acquefl:, till fettled, arc rather matters of burden May-bug. n. /. [May and ii/g.] A
Waumd. n. /. [manb, Saxon; mandi, than Itrength. BacoH. chaffer. AiiipiM.
French.] A hand-baflcet. Yet, as in duty bound, they ferve him on ; May-day. n.f. [May md day.] The-
M
To a'u n d e r v.n. \maudire, Fr. ] To
.
Kor eafe, nor wcalch, nor life itielf rcgaid.
For 'tis their maxim, love is love's reward. Dryd.
firft of May.
grumble to murmur. ;
That tiie temper, the fentiments, the morality 'Tis as much impo/Tible,
He made me many vifits, maurdring as if I had of men, is influenced by the example and difpofi-
Unlefs we
fwept them from the door with cannons^
dijne him a difcourtefy in leaving fuch an opening. tion of tbofe. they converfe w.th, is a reflexioa
To fcatter 'em, as 'tis to make em deep
ifîjcmanU Surgery, which has long fines pafiTed into proverbs, and been
On May-day morning. Hhakcfpeare.
Ma'underer. »./ [from maunder.] A ranked among the Itaoding maxims of human wif- Mav-flower. n. /. [May And Jloêr.]
mnrmurer ; a grumbler. dom. Rogers. A plant.
MAUNDY-TijuRSi) AY. n.f. [derived by May, auxiliary verb, preterite might. The plague, they report, hath a fcent of tha
[maân, Sax. maghen, Dutch.] May-fcivcr, Bacon's Natural Hifory.
S/elman Irom mande, a hand-bafket, in
which the king was accuftomed lo give I. To be at liberty; to be permitted; May-fly. n.f. [May and_/?v.] An in--
feft.
alms to the poor: by others from dies to be allowed : as, you may do for me He
me
loves the May-fiy, which is bred of the cod.
vtandaii, the day on which our Saviour [per licet~\ all you can. worm or caddis. Walton's Angler.
gave his great mandate, That we (hould He that is fent out to travel with the thoughts of
a man, defigning to improve himfelf, may get into May-Game. n.f. [May and game ] Di--
Jove one another.] The Thurfday be- the converfation of pcrfons of condition. verfion fport ; fuch as arc uled on the •
;
fore Good Friday.
Loike on Education, firll of May.
hUVSOLE VM >i.f. [Latin maufoUi,
; 1. To
be poflible ; in the words may be. The king thiswhile, though he focmed to ac-
French. A name which was given firft may be, I (hall otherwife bethink me. Shak.
It count of the defigns of I'rrkins but as a May-
to a ftatdy monument erefted by his 3. To be by chance. game, yet had given order fur the watching of bea-
queen Artimeiia to her hulband Mau- Be the workmen what they may he, let us fpeak cons upoo the coaftk. Bacon,
of the work. Like early lovers, whofe unpraflis'd hearts
folus, king of Caria.] A pompous fu- How old may Phillis be, you aflc,
Bacit'i Ejfiyi.
Were long the May-game of malicious arts,
neral monument. Whofi: beauty thus all hearts engages ? When once they find their jcaioufies were vain,
Maw. a /
[maiâ, Saxon ; maeghe, Dut.] To anfuer is no eafy tafk. With doublj heat renew their fires again. Dr\'dcn.
1. 1 he llomach of animals, and of hu- For (he has r' ally two ages. May-lily.
Pr'.or. n.f. [ephemtren..\ 1 he f«m«;
Bian brings, in contempt. 4. To have power. with lily of the valley.
3
MAZ ME A . ME A
Kow th« canker forrow aat my bud.
May roi K.It./. [May wnA foU.'] Pole Wharoia ia-uchaihd many
maka
a Air light «'ill
And chafe the native beauty fium his cheek,

to be dxnced round in May.' Of beata tsvi tjgirs that fierce war. Sfietifer.
Virgil obferves, like Theocritus, a juft deco- And he will look as hollow as a ghod,
Ami* tlie trea wide (he rook hct (had ;.
As- dim and meagre as an ague's lit. Shaie/pure-
rum,, both of the (iibjeft and petCme, as in the
Wkere the t4ll May-file once o"w-looVd'Oie flr»nd. Meagre were bis lo.>ks,
third paftoral, where one of bi» (bapherdt drforib-s
• •> • • .Pofl,
abowi, or muxer, curioufly carved. Drydtn. Shar? mifcry had won him to the bones. Staiejp.
Mav-weep. n.f. \^May an<} wttJ J A M.D. MtJichiet doHor, doflor of phyf^k.
VWiatfocvcr theirneijhbour gets, they lofe, and
^êcies of chamoinile, called alfo ilioJ:- the very bread tliat one eats makes t'other mtgtr,
Me. 1/ EJirartge,
ing chamomile, which grows wild.
I, The oblique cafe of/. Fierce famine with her mtagre face.
Mc, only me, the hand of fortune bore, And fcs*crs of the fiery race,
Ti>tMyn-vurJ ioth buriK,«nd the lliijlle dath (teit, Unbleft to tread an intcrdifted (hore. Fcl>e. Id fwarms th' oStaixna, wretch furround.
"lUc fitches puli diwitwaril both rU and tlie wlicat. For me the fates feverdy kind, ordain All brooding on the blaftcd ground :
A cool fufpenfe. Pafe. And lijnpi:ig death, lalh'd on by fate.
MA'YOR. (I /. Imajor, Lau] The chief z. Me is fometimes a, kind of ludicrous Comes up to (hortcn half our date. Dryden,
of a torpor ition, »ho, in
inagiftrace expletive. 2. Poor; hungry.
London and York, is called LorJ Maytr. He tbrv(lt w» himfelf into the contpany of three Canaan's happy land, when worn with toil,
V/hen the king oi:cr heard out of ange;,
it ; or four gentlemanlike dog», under the duke's table. Keûir'd a Sabbath year to mend the meagre foil.
He fent commmd to the lord mayor ftra'it SLuhefl'urt, Dryden,
To rumour.
ftop theShakefjitar:' i Ihrry VIII. Me prefcntly, as greatnefs knows itfelf. Tb Mk'ager. v,a. [from the noun.] lo
, The mty.r locked up the gates of the city. Knolles, Steps ru a little higher than his vow mnke lean.
Wou'dii thou not rather chufe a fmall renown ; Made to my father, while his blood was poor. It cannot be, that I Jhould be fu (hamefvliy
To be the lujyw of fome poor paltry town? Diyt^m. Stfhcfpe&re. betrayed, and as a man meagered with lopg watch-
Ma'yoraltv. «.y". [(roiu majtr.] The I, acquainted with the fmell befbre, knew it was ing and'yainful labour, laid himfelf dowa to lleep.
office of a mayor. Crab, and goes mc XO the fellow that whips the dogs. Knilles's Hiftcry cfite Tnris.
Shal'fpearc.
It is incorporated with the mayTrairyf and nam- Me'agerness. «./: [from meager.]
fijlowcd ne dofe, came in foot and hand, and,
I
eth burgeflii to the pariiament. Camv. 1. Leannefs; want of flelh.
There v/33 a (harp profecution againft Sir Wil- with a timught, fevcn of the eleven I paid. Shakefp.
It is fometimes ufed ungrammatically 2. Scantiiefs ; barenefs.
liam Capel, for njifgovcmment in his mttycraîy, 3.
Poynings, the bctur 10 make compenfation of
BaccrCi Heitry VH. for / ; as, methinks.
the meagernefs of his fervice in the wais by ads of
Ma'yores*. n.f. [from mayor.] The wife Me rather had, my heart might feel your love,
peace, called a parliament. Baicn,
of rhe mayor. Than my unpieas'd eye fee your courtefy. Shjkefp.
An Meak. «._/ A hook with a long handle.
Ma'zard. [ma/cbeire, Fr.1 A jaw. Me'acock. n.f. [mes coq. Skinner.]
«./. A rKeake for the peafe, and to fwjng up the brake.
Hatimer. uxorious or eflcminate man.
Teller.
Now my lady Worm's ch«pleft> and knockt Me'acoci{. «^'. Tame; timorous; cow- Meal. n./. [male, Saxon, rep aft or por-
about thi m-i3iard with a fcxton's fpade. S/.^tktfp. ardly. tion.]
Uhere thou mi^ht'ft (tickle without bazaid 'Tis a world t« fee.
Of outrage to thy hidejHtd masutrj,
I The a£l of eating at a certain time.
Huitilrai. How tame, when men anti women arc alone,
Boxj faidunto her, at meal time. Come eat, and
MAZE. n. /. [mij/ea, Dutch, to mif- A Ktoink wietcli can make the curftclV {Iirew.
dip thy morfel. Rutk, ii. 14.
Shabejpejrt-.
take ; ma]-e, a whirlpool. Skinner.] The quantity of aliment necefl'ary to keep the
1, A
labyrinth; a place of perplexity and Mead. b. /. [maebo, Saxon; meet/be. animal in a due (Vate of vigour, ought to be divided
winding paffigt-s. Dutch; German; hy/irtmeJi, Lat.]
me/lf, \i\'.o meals at proper intervals. Arhutbntt on Mimer.is,
Circular bafe of rifirg folds, that tower'd A kind of drink made of water and 2. A repaft ; the food eaten.
Fold above fold, a furging maxe. Miilnn. honey. What ftrange fi(h
The ways of Heiv'n are dark and Intricate j Though not fo folutive a drink as mead, yet Hath made his mr-alon thee ? Shakefpeare'iTempeJl,
Puzzled with maxiei and perplcx'd with error, it will be more grateful to the ftomach. Bacen, G^ve them great meals of beet, and iron and
Our undcrftanding fcarches them in vain. Addijon. He (heers his ovcr-bur\ien'd ihecp ;
fteel, they will eat like wolvrs, and fight like devils.
He, like a copious river, pour'd his fong Or mead for cooling drink prepares, Shakejpcarc^s Hij:ry V.
O'er all the muxes of enchanted ground. Tbo/rfar.. Of virgin honey in the jars. Dryden. They made m' a milor's feaft of happinefs.
Mead. And cuu'd not furni/h out another meal,

2. Confufion of thought ; uncertainty ; J «./ [msbe, Saxon.] Ground Dryitn,
perplexity. Me'adow. 1 (bmewhat w.-.tery, not plow- 3. Apart; a fragment.
He himfelf nothing but a Anaa^ of longing, That yearly rent
is ftill paid into the hanaper,
. left in ed, but covered with grafs and flowers.
even as the former cal'ualty itfelf was wont to be,
and a dungeon of forrow. Sidtuy.
Mead is a word chiefly poetical. in parcel meal, brought in and anfwercd there.
While they ftiidy how to bring to pafs that re-
Where all things in common do re(t,
Baatt,
ligion may feem but a matter nude, the)- lofe them-
Corne feeld with the palture and rnead. [Malepe, Saxon
felves in the very maxe of their own difcourfes, as 4. ; meel, Dutch ; mai-
Yet what doth it ftand you in (lead ? Tiijfer't Hujh.
if reafon did even purpofely forfake them, who of
A band fcleft from forage drives len, to grind, German,] The flower
pwpofe forfake God, the author thereof. Hooker, or edible part of corn.
A herd of beeves, fair oxen, and fair kine,
I have thruft myfelf into this maxi. In the bolting and fifting of near fourteen years
From a fat meadciu ground. Mi/rcn! Paradife Lcjl.
Haply to wive and thrive as beft I may. Shakej^,
fame hand which of fuch power and favour, all that came out could
Paints her, 'ti( true, with the
Others apart fat on a hill retir'd. not be expected to be pure and fine meal, but muft
fpreads
In thoughts more elevate, and reafon'd high have a miptture of padar and bran in tliis lower age
Like glorious colours, through the flow'ry meads,
Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, When lavi(h Nature with her beft attire of human fragility. IVottr.n,
Fix*d fate, free-will, foreknowledge abfilutc. An old wcafel conveys himfelf into a meal tub
Cloaths the gay fpring, the feafon of dcfire. JValler.
And found no end, in wand'ring maxes lo(t. Milicn, Yet ere to-morrow's fun (hall (hew his head, for the mice to come to her, fince (he could not go
To Maze. 'v. a. [from the noun.] To The dewy paths of meadctos we will tread, to them. L Kflrtngc,
bewilder ; to confufe. For crowns and chaplets to adorn thy lied. Dryden. To Meal. i/. a. [meler, French.] 'Jo
Much
was I max'i to fee this monfter kind. MEADOW-SAFFRON.B.yt [ett/c/jicum, Lat.] fprinkle to minfjie.
;
In hundred forms to change his fearful hue. Spenfer.
A plant. Were he meatd
Ma'zy. adj. [from maee.] Perplexed meadvw-faffrcn hath a flower confifting of
The With that which he correfts, then were he ty-
with windings ; conful'ed. one (haped like a lily, rifing in form of a fmall
leaf, rannous. Shalejpcare,
How
from that faphire fount the ctifped brooks, tube, and is gradually widened into (ix fegments ; Me'alman. n.f. [»M/andffia».] One
RoUing on orient pearl and fands of gold. it has likcwife a folid, bulbous root, coveted with that deals in meal.
With tuaxy error, under pendant (hades. a membranous (kin. Miller.
Me'ai-y. adj. [from meal.]
Ran ne£iar. Milton. Meadow-sweet. «./. [ulmaria, Latin.]
The Lapithae to chariots add the (Vate I. Having the rafte or foft infipidity of
Of bits and bridles, taught the ftced to bound.

A plant.
meal; having the qualities of meal.
To run the ring, and trace tbemnKy round. Diyd. Me'ager. adj. [maigre, French; maeer, The mealy parts of plants dilToivcd in water
Ma'zer. «./. \_mae/er, Dutch, a knot of Latin. make too vilcid an aliment. Arbutbnot en Alimtnlt^
maple.] A maple cup. I. Lean ; wanting fledi ; flarven. z, Befprinkltd, as with meal.
Thou and meagre waxen late,
art fo lean With four wings, as all farinacious and metily-
Then, lo Perigot, the pledge which
! I plight,
That fcarcc thy legs uphold thy feeble gate. Huh, winged aninuls, and moths. Brmin,
A maatr ywrooght of tix mapla ware. as butteifliec
Like
; ;
M E A M E A M E A
Like a gay inrecl, fummer Mediocrity; middle rate; medium.
The
in his Ih'me, I. 7. £j tio Means. Not in any degree.'
Cop light fluttering fpreads his mca'y wings. He tempering goodly well not at all.
thatnfiti. Their contrary diilikes with loved m;ans.
The wine on this fide of tlie lake is by no meant
Mealy Mo'uTHED. [imagined by aJj. Did place them all in order, and compcll
fo good as that on the other.
To keep themfelves within their fundry reigns, Addijon on Italy,
Simner to be corrupted from mild- 'i. Means are likewife
Together link'd with adamantine chains. Spenf:r, ufed for reveuuc ;
mouthed or meilomj-mouthed : but perhaps fortune
Oft 'tis fcen ; probably from dej'mtnes.
from the fore mouths o^ animals, that, Our mean fecuritles, and our mere defefts i'our means aie flender, your waltc is gicat.
when they are una'jle to comminute Prove our commoditiei. Stakfjpearis King Lear. Shakt-fptare,
their grain, mull be fed with meal.] Temperance with golden fquare. For competence of life I will allow you.
Betwixt them both can meafure out mean. That lack of tnea::s enforce you not to evil
Soft mouthed ; unable to fpeak freely. a
Siak-Jfcare.
And, as wq hear you do reform yourfelves,
She was a fool to be mcaly-nauthcd where nature
There mean in all things, and a certain mea-
is a Give you advancement. Shakeff tare's Hnry IV,
fpeaks lb plain. VEftrar.ge.
fure wherein the good and the beautiful confill, Elfex did not build or adorn any houfc ; the
Mealymo'uthedness. n. f. [from the and out of which t')ey never can depart. quet-n perchance fpending his time,
Dryden. and h-mfc'f
adjeftive.] Bafhfulnefj ; reftraint of But no authority of gods or men his ,r.:ars.
fVoitor.
fpeech. Allow of any ir.ean in pocfie. Rofiommon. 9. MsAN-TiME. ) In the
intervening
Mean. adj. [ir.cene, Saxon.] Agaipft her ti;en her forces Prudence joins, MiiANvvHiLE. J time: fomeiimts
Wanting dignity; of low rank or And to the golden m:an herfelf confines, Denham.
1. birth. mode of fpeech.
an adverbial
She was ftriclccn with moft obftinate love to a 2. Meafure; regulation. Not ufed.
Mean-mbih
young man but of mean parentage, in her father's The rolling fea refoundirg foft. The world fiiall born, and from her aflies fpring
court, named AntjphiJus; fo mtan, as that he was In his big bale them fitly anfweied, New
And on the rock the waves breaking aloft,
heav'n and earth. Mi 'ten's farad.Je I.ofl.
but the fon of her nurfe, and by that .means, with- Met:n.time the rapid heav'ns rowl'd down tlie
out other defert, became known of her. Sidr.ty.
A fxlemn mean untothem meafured. Fairy Sheen. light,
This taireft maid of fairer mind ; 3. Interval; interim ; mean time. And on the (haded ocean rufli'd the night. Drydut.
By fortune m;ar., in nature bom a queen. Sidr.ey. But fith this wietched woman overcome, Mean-time her warlike brother on the feas
Let pale fac'd fear keep with the mijx- born man, Of anguilh rather than of crime hath been, His waving ftreamers to the winds difplays. Dtyd.
And find no harbour in a royal heart. Shakejfearc. Referve her caufe to her eternal doom. M ar.-time, in ihadee of night ^neas lies ;
True hope is fvvift, «id fliej with fwallow- And in the m,an vOuchfafe her honoo:abIe tomb. CaiC feiid bis foul, and Deep forfook his eyes. '
wings : Sj erjir, Dryden.

Kings it makes go<fs, and meaner creatures kings. 4. Inftrument; meafure; that which is Mcun-tvbile I'll draw up my Numidian troops.
Shaiie^pt'aye. nfed in order to any end. And, as I fee occafion,
favour thee. Aildi/im'sCalo.
1. Low-minded ; bafe; uogenerous ; fpi- Pamela's noble heart would needs gratefully The Roman legijnj were
all recalled to help their
ritleff. make known the valiant mean of her fafcty. Sidney. country again.'l the Goths; mean-rime the
Britons,
left to Ihift for themfelves, and
The /hepherd knows not thunder from a tabor, As long as that which Chiiftians did vii^s good, harraffed by in-
More than I know the found of Marcius' tongue and no way fubjeii to juft reproof, their virtuous roads trom the Piils, were forced to
call in the
From every meeij^r man. Shahjjiearei Cork/anut converfation was a mean to work the heathens Saxons for their defence.
Swift.
_
Can you imagine I fo man could prove. convcrfion unto Chiift. Hooker. To Mean. -v. n. [meenen, Dutch.]
To fave my
by changing of my love > Dndeit.
life It is no excufe unto him who, being diank, 1. To have in the mind ; to purpofe.
"We faft, not to pkafe men, nor to promote committeth inctll, and allcdgeth that his v.its were 1 hefc delights if thou can 'ft give, 1
any mean, worldly intereft. Sma/ridge'i Sermons. not his own ; in as much as himfelf might have Mirth, Viiih thee I mean to live. Mi/ton.
3. Contemptible; defpicable. chofcn whether his wiu fliould by that mtan have 2. To think ; to hive tfce power of
The Roman legions, and great Cafar been taken from him. Hooter.
found thought.
Our fatheti no mean foes. I'll devife a m:.in to draw the Moor
Philifs.
Out of And he who now to fenfe, now nonfenfe leaning,
Low the way, that your converfc and bufinefs
4. in the oegree of any good qua- Mians not, but blunders round about a meaning.
May be more free. Stakeffearc's Oitilh.
lity ; low in worth ; low in power. No place will pleafe me no meitn of death,
fo,
Some
things are good, yet in fo mean a degree
As here by Cxlar and by you cut off. Skakejpeare. To Mean. t/. a.
of jioodnefs, that many are only not difproved nor 1. To purpofe to
Nature
made better by no mean.
is ; intend ; to dcfign.
difailwed of God for them. Hooker. But nature makes that mân; f> over that art Ye thought evil againft me ; but God meant if.
French wheat is bearded, and requireth the beft
Which, you fay, adds to nature, is an art unto good, to fave much people alive. C'en. 1.
20.
foil, recompenfmg the fame with a profitable That nature makes. Shakejpeare'i ffin.'er's Tale. And life more pcrfeft have attaind tlian fate
plenty J and not wheat, fo termed bccaufe it is
5. It is often ufed in the plural, and by Meant me, by venturing hiîer than my lot.
unbearded, is contented with a m4aner earth, and
contenting with a fuitable gain. Carnu.
fome not very grammatically with an .... Mi/ton,
I pradtis'd It to make yon your cheer
tafte
The lands be not holden of her majefty, but by adjeelive fingular the fingular
: is in Vyith dauhlc pleafure, firft picpar'd by fear :
a mean tenure in foccage, or by knight's fervice at this fenfe now rarely ufed. So loya! fubjetts often feize their prince,
the moft. Bacon. The more bafe ait thou.
.
Yet mean his facrcd fcrfon not the leart oflênce.
By this extortion grew from ahe fuddenly To make fuch mcam for her as thou hart dons,
a mighty Dryden,
ir.ean lo infomuch that his ancient
eftate, And leave her on fuch flight conditions. Shakefp. .
inheritance being not one thoufand maiks yearly,

2. To intend ; to hint covertly ; to un-
By this mmns he had them the more at vantage,
be became able to difpend ten thoufand pounds. derftand.
being tired and harralTcd with a long march.
Da^viet on Ire/and.
When your children Ihall fay, What mean you
Baton's Henry VM.
To peaceful Rome new by this fervice } ye iliall fay, It is the palTover.'
laws ordain ; Becaufe he wanted means to perform any grcjt
Call'd from his mean abode a fceptie to fuAain. a£lion, he made me.ws to return the fooncr. £xod. xii. »6.
J lorfake an argument on which I could delight
£)ryden. Davics on Ireland.
have facrificcd much of my own felf-love, in
I
to dv\ :-ll
j 1 mean your judgment in your choice of
Strong was their plot,
preventing not only many mean things from feeing Their parties great, means good, the feafbn fit, '-'ryden.
*"2f-
Whatever was meant by them, it could not
the light, but many which I thought tolerable. Their praflicc clofe, their faith fufpeftcd not. be
that Cam, as cider,had a natural dominion over
Pofe. Daniel. Abel. r
5. [3/ff)r«, French.] Middle; moderate; By this means not only many hclplefs perfons will
without excefs. be provided for, but a generation will be bred up not Mea n der. n. /. [Meander is a river in
He
faw this gentleman, one of the propereil and pen'erted by any other hopes. Sfratt's Sirmins. Phrygia remarkable for its winding
keft-graced men that ever I faw, being of middle Who is thcie that hath
the leifure and mtant courle.] Maze; labyrinth; ricxuous
age and a mean ftature. to colleil the proofs concerning moft of the
all
. Sidney. palTage; ferpeotine winding; winding
Now read with them thofe organick arts which opinions he has, fo as fafcly to conclude that he
courfe.
•nablc men to difcourfe and write, and according hath a clear and full view ? Luke,
Phyficiais,' by the help of anatomical
to the fineft ftyle of lofty, iHean, or lowly. A good charaQcr, when eftabliflied, (houid not
hav-. fearchcd into
dilTeaions,
be relied in ai an end, but only employed as a thole various memiden of th,s
Milan on Education. veins, arteries, and integrals of the
means of doing ftiU farther good. Attirhrry. body. HalZ
6. Intervening ; intermediate. 'Tis Weil, that while minkind
It renders us carclefs of approving ourfclves to
In the mean while th- heaven was black with Through faie's pcrvcrfe
Cod by religious duties, and, by that means, fc- meander ens,
ctottdi and wind, and there was a great rain.
curing the continuance of his goodnefs. Atierhyy.
He can imagin'd pleafures find.
I Kings, xviii. 45. To combat againft real cares.
PnV.
Meak. 6. By a/lMEAtis. Without doubt; with- While lingering
»,/. Imeyin, French] rivers in meanders glide,
out hefitation ; without fail. They fcattcr vordant lift on tither fide
Vol.. 11.
^ .Thf
: ; -
M E A M E A M E A
TIk nlliM fmilr, and wiih their flow'ry hca, meafure : as, a mm// of herrings is five caufc every thing it for fome end ; ntitber n»
Aoi wealthy birthi (oakd the Auods embrace. that thing be available to any end, which it not
hundred.] Aiu/wortb.
BUikmcrt. proportionable thereunto ; and to proportion's well
* Law ii a boCtomlers pil : John Bull wai Aatteied
ME'.ASLF.S. n.f. [marii/li, Latin.] esccfles as defeats aic oppoli tc. Hrnktr-
ly I'e awyen, thit hii fuit would mt lart aboie 1. Mtajlts are a critical eruption io a ia- enter not into the particulars of the law of
I
a yeari yrt ten long )»r] did Hocus ftcer his ver, well known in the common prac- nature, or its mtafurcs of puniflimcnt ; yet there it
caule thnmgfa aH the mianitrt of the law, and all încy. fuch a law. Locie,
tice,
the coum. jtrhahnoi. My lungj 4. A Hated quantity : as, a meafure of
Mea'mdrous ijdjr. [from jw/«)K«ipr.] Wind- Co!n words f H the!r decay, againll thofe mtaflct. wine.
ing ; flCAQOUl. Which we difdlin fkuuld tetter us, yet feek Be large in mirth, n;>n we'll drihk a meafurt
1'hc very wjy to eatch them. Shak-ff, drhlanus. The table round. MKb0b.
KIeâning. «./. [from a>M«.] Siakefftane'i
E'cfore the p'ague of London, innammatif'ns of Suiiicient quantity.
1. Purpofe ; intention. ;.
the Innya were rife and mortal, as likewife the
never paufc again.
I'll
Iûn 00 honeft man, if there be any {tood Mean-
meajici. ArbulhtiM. Till either death bath ctos'd the4e eyes of Aine,
wg tmnanlt yoa* Utthjft-Mrts King Liar.
2. Habitual intention.
2. A difeafe of fwine. Or fortune given me me.y'ure of levenge. Hhakeff^
One, when he had an unlucky old grange, would 6. Allotment portion allotted.
Some whofc utaning hjih at firft been fair,
needs fell it, and proclaimed the virtues of it j
;
Crow knaves by ufe, and rebels by defpajr. Good Kent, how Ihall I live and work
nothing ever thrived on it, no owner of it ever To match goodnefs
Rofceiramti,
tihy ? life will be too fliort
died in his bed ; the fwine died of the tnealies, and And every meafurt fiiil me. Sbaiefp. Kirg Lear.'
3. The fenfe; the thing underflood. the flieep of the rot. B, yjitjon't Difcevtry.
We will not botft of things without our mea-
The ntrv/iirgj not the name, 1 call for thoo. :
A dileafe of trees.
3. fure, bat according to the meafure of the rtle
Not of the mules ainc. Alilttns Paâtiije LcJ!,
Fruit-bearers arc often infefted with the meajtri, Which God hath dillributed to us, a me/ifure to
Thefe lol^ the feafe their learning to difplay.
by being fcorchcJ with the fun. Mortmer'i Huji. reach even unto vou. i dr. x. ij.
And thofc explainM the meaning ûite away. Pofe-
No won! more frcnuentiy in the mouths of men Me'asled. afljr". [irota meajlei.l Infefled If eife thon feefc'ft
with the meailes. Ought, not furpafling human triafure, fay. Mi'ian.
than confcicnce; and the Mroxm; of it is, in fomc
Thou vermin wretched. Onr religion fets before us not the example of
meafure, underflooU : however, it is a word ex-
a ftupid ftoick, who had, by obftinate principlci,
tremely abufed by many, who apply other mean- As e'er In m ajlej pork was hatched j
Thou tail of worlhip, that doll grow hardened himlblf againA ail pain beyond the cbui-
ingi to it which Cod Almighty never intended. .
On rump of jufîce as of cow. HaJibrat* mon meahret of humanity, but aa example of a

man like ourfelves. Tilloijm.
4|.. Senfe; po<vrr of thinking. Me'aslv. et/j. [from meaJUi.} Scab-
7. Degree ; quantity.
He was not fpitefal though he wrote a fatyr. bed with the meafles.
I have
laid down, in fime
meafure, the deforip.
For ftiU there goes fome mtaning to ill-nKure. Lad trottird forth the gentle fwine.
tion the old world. Ahboi'i Deferip. of the ff'orld.
ot"
Drydtn, To cafe her againll the Hump,
There is a great meafure of difcretion to be lifed.
True no meaning puzzles more, than wit. i'o^r. /\nd difmally was heard to whine.
in the performance of conteAion, fo that you
Me'aNLY. adv. [from menn.] All as Die fcrubb'd her meajly rump. Stuift.
neither omit it when your own heart may tell vou.
1. Moderately ; not in a great degree. Me'asijr ABLE. iJ/j)'. [from mta/iire.] that there is fomething amifs, nor over fcrupu-
Dr. Metcalfe, inafter of St. John's College, a 1. Such as may be meafured ; fuch as loully purfue it when you are not confcious t»
man mtniily learned himfelf, but not mfaaly afiec- may .ndmit of computation. yourfelf of notable failings. t.tyhr.
tioned to forward learning in others.
jet Ajcbam. God's permanent and in-
eternal duration is The rains were but preparatory in fome mehi'ure,
Ill the rftigs of Domitian, poetry was but meanly vifiblc, not mtafurable by time and motion, nor to and the violence and confummation of the deluge
cultivated, but.{!ainting eminently AouriAied. be computed by number of fuccelTive moments. depended upon the difruption of the great abyla.
Drydcnl Dufrjnoy, Bintlrf'i Sermms, Bumei's Tbeorym
2. Withoot dignity ; poorly. 2. Moderate; in fmall quantity. 8. Proportionate time ; muflcal time.
It was the winter wild. A.naryllis breathes thy fccret pains.
While the heav'n-born child
Me'asurableness. ft./, [from meafur-
And tiiy fond heart beats meafure to thy Araint.
All mtanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. Milton,
aSie.] Quality of admitting to be- mea-
Prior.
The Perfian ftaie will not endure a king fured.
9. Mo-.ion harmonically regulated.
So m;ai^y born. Denhami Scfhy. Me'asuiiably. fli/w. [ftam mea/uraile.] My can keep no ne.fure in delight.
legs
3. Without greatnefs of mind ; uiigene- Moderately. When my poor hejrt no meafure keeps in grief j
roufly. Wine meajurably drunk, aad in feafon, bringeth Tlwreloie no dancing, girl, fome other fport.
Would you mtanlj thus rely gladnefs of the heart. £ului. xxxi. iS. Sbateffem-em
On power, you know, I mod obey ^ frUr. ME'ASURE. »./ [«/>«, Fr. men/ura,
As when the ftai« in their ethereal race,
4. Without re<pe<5t. At length have roll'd around the liquid fpace.
Lat.] From the Cimc pjint of lieav'n their courfe advance.
Our kindred, and our very names, feem to have
fomethjng defirahle in them : we cannot bear to
I. That by which any thing is meafured. And itiove in meajures of ibeir former dance. Dryd..
have othv-rs think mtanly "f them. Hâits'i Logiek. A
news. taylor's 10. A llatcly dance. This fenfe is, 1 be-
Me'anness. m./. [froni »iMn.] Who Hood with fliears and meafure in his hand. lieve, obfolete,
Standing on Hippers, which his nimble hailc
1. Want of excelleiice. Had falli:ly thrurt upon contrary feet.
Wooitl^, wedding, and repenting, fs js a Scotch
The miniftcr's greatnefs or mianntfi of know- jig, a m:afuT,; and a cinque pace j the fiift fnit is
Told of many a thoufand. Sbaiefftare'i King yr.hr..
kdgr hot and hafty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fan
to do other things, ftandeth in this place as A concave meafure, of known and denominated
a ftraager, with whom our form of Comrtion Prayer capacity, ferves to meafure the capacioufnefs of any
fciftica! ; the wedding mannerly, modeft as a mea-
hath nothing to do. Ilcokrr, fure, full of ftate and anchcntry. Sbai^feare.
other velTel. HMer,
This figure is of a later date by the meanntft of All magnitudes are capable of being meafujed ;
Nowarenur brows boundwth viftorious wreaths.
the workmanfliipk Aitjijcn en Italy. but it is the application of one to another which
Our Rern abrms chang d to merry meetings.
2. Want of dignity low rsnk poverty. Our dreadful maivhea to delightful miafureu
; ; makes a^nal meafure. HMer.
No other nymphs men's hearts.
ha»e title to When Mofcs fpeaks of meefures, for ex<implc, Sbakeffiare,
But as their mrannffi larger hopes imparts, tf alter. of an ephah, he piefumes they knew what meafure 11. Moderation; not excefs.
Poverty, and mcanmfi of condition, expofc the he meant : that be himfelf was /killed in weights O be moderate, allay thy ecftafy
love,
j
wlfeft to fcom, it being natural for men to place and mt-afuret, arithmetick and geometry, there is In meafure t<:\n thy joy, fcant this exCefs
;
cbcir eiieem rather upon things great than good. no reafun to doubt. Arbutbnot on Coim. I feel too much thy blcfling, make it l«fs,'
SMb. The rule by which any thing For fear I forfeit. Siakiffeare's Mercbam of Ven..
z. is adjull-
Lownefs of mind. hath enlarged
Hell hertelf, and opened her
3. ed or proportioned.
The name of fcrvants has been reckoned to im- mouth without meafure, Ifa. vi. T^^
He liTCd according to nature,the other by ill
ply a certain mianniji of mind, at well as lownefs of
coftoms, and rtuafuret taken by other men's eyes
12. Limit; boundary. In the fame fenle
condition. Siutb. is
and tongues. 'Xayl:r.
feSordidne^s ; niggardlinefs. Cod's goodnefs is the meafure of hit providence. MiTfor »
EANT, pref. and part.

pafT. of 7« meaii. Mote. Tfi^j iri'nr oinao'af rfitihoLfiv->,.furfof i&vtar
By Silvia if thy charming fdf be meant I expeO, firom thofe that judge by firA fight and
Hjulifrif Bis?^; /ttai'iE; uiitftti,
If frirndfliip bf thy virgin vows extent raih meafmes, to be tkoeght fond or infolent.
AfKHfJCni TWTOtn^.
O ! let me in Amiota's praifes join : Gtattville't Sceffit.
Ker's my eOcem Ihall be, my pafiion thitie.
Lord make me to know mine end, and the mea-
Prkr. Proportion ; tpantity fettled.
3. fure of my days wjwt it is, that I ii»aykn6w how
MeaIe. s. / [probably a corrupiion of Mtafurt it^M.whicb pcrfcAelh all things, be- ftail I am. Pfihm.
t-l' Any ,
;
M E A M E C MED
Me'asubeless. atij. [from mea/uri.] Do not bid me
jj. Any thing adjofted. Difmifa my foldicrs, or capitulate
Chiiil reveals to us the meafitrci according to Immenfe ; immeafurable. Again with Rome's mechankk:. Shakeff. Cmelamit.
whkh God will proceed in difpenfing his r^4.ds. He (hut up in meafurelc's content. ShaJteffrare.
third proves a very heavy philofonher, wiw
A
Me'asur tMENT. [from mea/un.]». /. poffibly would have made a good mechamck, and
14. Syllables metrically numbered; metre. Menfuration ; aft of meafuring. have done well enough at the ufeful philofophy
them lady, and aftefted the fcft- South.
I addrefled to •»
Me'asurer. «.y'. [from mea/ure.] One of the fpade or the anvil.
ncfs of expieflion,
thn the height of thought.
w the imoothncis of menjurc,
Dryden. that mealbres. Mecha'nicks. n.f. [mechamca, Latin.]
rather Dr. Wallis defines mrchcr.hks to be the geome-
The numbers themfelves, though of the hcioick Me'asurinc. [from mea/ure.]
<7<iy. It Is
try of motion, a mathematical fcience, which,
Ktajure, (hould be the fmoothcil: imaginable. Pops. applied to a call not to be dillinguifhed (hews the cfJeils of powers, or moving forces, 16
15. Tone; proportionate notes. in its length from another but by mea- far as they arc applied to engines, lad demon-
The joyous nymphs and light-fojt fairies. furing. ftrates the laws of motion. Harr'tu
Which thither came to hear thtif mufick fweet, "When lufty ftiepherds throw The rudiments of geography, with fomething.of
And to the itiiajurei of their melodies The bar by turns, and none the reft out-go mechanicks, may be eafily conveyed into the minds
Did learn to move their iiiniblc-fliiftiiig feet.
So far, but tl)at t!ie bed aie mias'iir.g carts. of acute young perfons. Watts's Impr. of the Mntf.
Sjicnjer,
Their emulation and their paltime lafts. ffal/er. Salmoneus was a great proticient in mechankks,
16. Mean of aftion mean ; to an end. Meat. ?;./. [met, French.]
and inventor of a vcfiel which imitated thunder.
Broome.
The original of this phiafe refers to the
1. FJeih to be eaten.
neceflityof mea/uring the ground upon To his father he fent ten (he alTes laden with
Mecha'mcally. adv. [from mecha-
which any llruiture is to be raifed, cr corn,and bread, and »;«/ for his father by the nick.'] According to the laws of me-
any diftant efi'eCt to be produced, as in way. Gtr. xlv. i-\. chani fm..
Hence he that Camlvoras, and 'oirds of prey, are no good ra.vi- They fuppofe even the common animSls that
{hooting .nt a mark.
but the rcafon is, rather the cholerick nature of are in being, to have been formed mccbatncaily
proportioned his means to his end was thofe birds than their feeding upon fleih j for among tlie red. Ray.
faid to take right meafurts. By degrees pewets and ducks feed upon flelh, and yet are good Later philofophers feign hypothefes for explain-
meafurts and meam were confounded, pujt. Bjri,;'j NeiF::ral Hijfory, ing all things mechanhaHy, and refer other caufca
There was a multitude of excifcs as, the vefti- to metaphylicks. Neivtm.
and any thing done for an end, and ;
gal macelli, a tax upon meat. uibuthtio:.

Mecha'mcalness. n.f. [from mecba-
fometimes any traof:i£tion abfolutely,
I. Food in general. nick.]
u called a meafurt, with no more pro- Never words were mufick to thine ear.
priety than if, becaule an archer might 1. Agreeablenefs to the laws of mechar
.
And never meal fw«t-favour'd in thy tailc,
be faid to have taken wrong meajures Unlcfs I fpake or carv'd. Shak. Crrudy if Errours.
nifm.
when his maik was beyond his reach, Meait for the belly, and the belly for meals ; 2. Meannefs.
we ihould fay that it was a bad mca- but God (hall deftroy hotlt. I Cor. vi. 1 3. Mechani'cian. »./. [mechanicieit, Fr.]
Me'ateD. a/^'. [from «Wfl/.] Fed; fod- A man profeffing or iludying the con-
Jure to ufe a heavy arrow.
His majefty found what wrong vteajura he had dered. ftru£tion of machines.
taken in the conferring that trull, and bmented Strong oxen and horfes, wel fliod and wel clad, Some were (igured like male, others like female
his error. {^lanndon* Wei KetUid and ufed. tfjfer'i Hujhandry. fcrews, as mechanicians fpeak. Boyle.
17. To have hard mtafure; to be hardly Meathe. n.f. [medJ, Welfh, unde mede, Me'chams.m. a./, [mechanifiiu, Fr.]
treated. meddwi ebrius fum.] Drink, properly 1. Aftion according to mechanick laws.
ToMe'asure. -v. a. [tne/urer, Fr. min of honey. After the chyle has pafTed through the lungs,
for drink the grape nature continues her ufuai mccbanipn, to convert
furo, Lat.J
She crulbcs, inofj'cnfive muft, and m'aebei it into animal fubdances. Arbuthnot on Alimems.
X. To-eompute the quantity of any thing He acknowledged nothing befides matter and
From maJky a berry. Aid'oii^s Paradife Loji.
by fome fettled rule. motion j fo that all mult be performed either by
Archidamus having received from Philip, after Me'azlinc. fart, generally called miz- me^hamjm or accident, either of which is wholly
the vlftary of Cheronea, proud letters, writ back, zling. unaccountable. ficnt/ey.
that if he mcajurtd his own ihndow he would find The air feels more moift when the water js in
2. Conltrudion of parts depending oa
it no longer than it was before his viflory. Bacon. fmall than In great drops ; in meaxf'ing and foaking
Air. m each other in any complicated fabrick.
2. To pafs through ; to judge of extent rain, than in great (howers. jirhurhnol
Mecho'acan. «./ [from the place.]
by marching over. M Ec H a'n I c a l . ) adj. [mechanicui, Lat.
Mcchoacan is a large root, twelve or fourteen
A true devoted pilgrim is not waary Mecha'nick. J
mtchanique, Fr. from inches long ; the plant which adbrds it is a fpccles
To Kuo/iirt Jciogdoma wich bis feeble fteps.
of bindweed, and its dalks are angular : the root
Suakijfiarc, HilU
1. Conftrufted by the laws of mechanicks. in povi'der is a g^îtle and mild purgative,
I'll tell thee all my whole device
Meconium,
At the park-gate and therefore hade away,
Many a fair precept in poetry, is like a fcem- n.f, [fA««u)iM.]
;
ing demonftration in mathematick"!, very fpecious 1. Exprefled juice of poppy.
For we iDuft twenty miles to-day. Hba^tjp.
Mft'/urf
in the'diagram, but failing in the mechatiuk opera-
The veHel ploutrhs the fea. 2, The firft excrement of children.
tion. DrydiTi.
And mttjum back with fpeed her former way. ' Infants new-born have a meconium, sr fort of
Dryden- The main bufinefs of natural philofophy, is to dark-coloured excremi-nt inthc bowels. Arhvihnot.
argue from phenomena without feigning hypo-
3. To judge of quantity or extent, or
tbcfes, and to deduce caufcs from cfJcfts till we
Me'dal. n.f. [medaille, French} pro-
greatnefs. come to the very (irft caufe, which certainly is bably from metallum, Latin.]
Giea: are thy works, Jehovah ; infinite not mechani \ M
and not oniy t» unfold the me- 1, An ancient coin.
Thy pow'r! What thought can m.ajuri thee, or •lianifm of the world, but chieHy to rcfoivc thcfc, The Roman medals were their cuiTCnt money ;
tongue and fuch like ijueilions. Js':ii'tt,n. when an action defervcd to be recorded on a coin,
Relate thee ? Miltcn't ParaJiJe LoJI. bred to manual was dampt, and out of the mint.
2. Skilled in mechanicks ; it ill'ued AddiJ.
4. Toadjuft; to proportion. labour. 2, A piece Itamped in honour of fome
To fecure a contented fp irit, miafuri your defires
of mean occupation. remarkable performance.
fortunes, not your fortunes by your de-
3. Maen ; fervile ;
*T your Meda'llick. [hommtdal.] Pertain-
fires. Taylor.
Know you not, being mrchanual, you ought «<^'.
not to walk upon a labouring day, without the lign ing to medals.
Silver the inftrumert as well as meafure of
is
of your profeflion ? Shakejptarc, You will never, with your medallick elo-
commerce \ and 'tis by the quantity of filver lie all
•gets for any commodity in exchange, that he rr.ta-

Hang him, merharkal falt-butter rogue; I will quence, porfuade Iûgenius, that it is better to have
(tare him oat of his wiu j I will hew him with a pocketful of Otho's than of Jacobus's. AddiJ^n.
Jura the âlue of the commodity he fella. L^ U.
my cudgel. Siakffearc.
French]
«5. To mark out in t.dted quantities. Mechamck (laves,
Meda'li.;on n./. [medailhn,
What thou feed is that portion of eternity which
With greafy aprons, jules, and hnrnmers, (hall A large antique ftamp or medal.
wMafurtd out by the fun, and reach-
is called time,
Shak. Ant. and Cieofatra. Mcdationi, in refpcft of the otiier coins, >*tre
Uplift us to the view.
ing from the beginning of the world to its con- the fame as modern medxU in rcfpcft of modern
To make a god, a hero, or a king,
fummation. ylddijms SpiHanr. R.fcminm. money. Addijoni
Def. end to a mechankk Jlalcft.
6, To allot or dillribute by meafure. Me'dallist. n./. \_meiaillijle, Fr.] A
With what meafure you Oleic, it (hall be mia-
Mecha'nick. n./. A raanufadurer j a
/uritl to you again. Siaitb. vii. 2. low workaian. man fkillcd or curious in medals.
IS P i A«
MED MED MED
Ai a •rat./Zi^, 70U ne not to look upon 1 e*- 2. To limit by fomething in the middle. Mediato'rial.}adj . [from mediafir.']
t'incc of rocdjik u * trcaruie of money, but of They ftylcd a double ftep, the fpace from the iVIe'di ATOi'.y. Belonging to a me-
knuw'icdj(C. Mtiifn «• Mtilalt, elevation of one foot to the fame forit let down tfflôr.
To Me'udle v.m. [^meiitititH, Dutch.] again, rmdiatiJ by a rtep of the other foot, a pace,
All other eficfli of Chrift's .wfrf.'o/orW office
1. 'I'o I'i-ve to do: in this (enfe it is al- c/|ual to five feet. tiliiitr.
are acountcd foi from the truth of hii refurrec-
ways foliow'd by twilh. Me'diate. a^. [midiat, French; me- tion. Fidilei's Sermons,
It itleportsd (hit (.tHii, \olicn gathered, U put diui, Latin.] Media'torjhip. n /. \iti.>m mediator.]
Vnto the lV;a- of bcalli newly fljjed, which breed- 1. Inierpofed ; intervening. of a mediator.
'J'he office
ing worms, they devour the pith «nd mirrow,
and fo realce it hollow ; but mctHU not wiib the The
Soon the
fun
neiii.:lt
fiiall
clouds Ihall be difpell'd
foon be face to face beheld.
;
Prior.
.VlfDi a'trix. n. /. [mediut, hit..] A
back, beciufe it is bitter. Btctr. female meOiaior. Ainftutrth.
2. Middle; between two extremes.
tf'tth the power of it upon the fpirits of men we
Anxious wc hover in a trrdiai; (late,
Me'dic. n.f. [medica, Latin.] plant. A
will only vuildlt- Baean't Aatunl Hif!erj, Me'dical. aelj [iriidicuj, Latin.] Phy-
-Betwixt infinity and nothing. Prior.
I hive thus I'ar been an upright judge, noE mui-
Ailing as a means. Unufual. fi.al; relating to the art of healing;
Jlitr ee/.'A tte defiga nor dil'politi. n. DryJcr. 3.
The mod important care of a new king, was medicinal.
2. I'o inierpole ; Co at\ in any thing.
his mairiagc for m-.diate cAablilhmcnt of the rqjal In this work attempts will exceed performances,
Fur my part, I'll not dk^'/i' nor make any far-
line. ffoiii.i. it be'rg compofed by fnatches of time, as medical
ther. ShaieJêare.
In every turn of Hate, without R(iii//iir; on cither
Me'diatelv. ad-v [from mediate.] By vacation would permit. Br:zvn^t fulmar Errours*
fide, he hai always been favourable to mcr^t* Dryd. a fecondary caufe ; in fuch a manner Me'o\cai.ly. adiu. [irt^m medical ] Phy-
The civil lawyers have pretended to determine that fomething adls between the lirll fically ; meJicinally,
concerning the fucceifion of princes ; but, by our That which promoted this confideration, and
caufe and the lad effect.
author 'a principles, have mcddltd in a matter that medically advanced the fame, was the doflrinc of
God worketh all things amongll us mtdiittly by
belong* not to them. LuU. fccondrry mean; ; the which means of our lafely
Hippocratei. Brcnon.
What ha!> tjiou to do to medilJt with the aflaiis being (hipping and fea forces, are to be cdeemed Mc'dicament. [medicament, Fr.
«._/'.
of my family ? to difpofe uf my cftate, old boy ? a'i his gitts, and then only available and beneficial medicamcnium, Lat.] Any thing ufed in
ji: tothnol. when he vouchfafcth his grace to ufe them aiight. healing genrrahy topical applications.
3. To interpofe or intervene importunely Ra'figh'l Effiyi.
;
Admwitioos, fraternal or paternal, then publiclc

or officioufly. contagion is
Peftilent propagated immediately reprchenfions i
and, upan the unfuccefsfulnefs of
Why Ihould'ft tfaou mtddlt to thy hurt > by converfing with inte£led perfons, and v.cdiatciy thefe milder r.ediramer.:s, the ufe of ftiongcr phy-
2 Kitlgt, XIV. to. by pcdilent fcminaries propagated through the air. fick, the cenfures. Hammond-
It an honour for a man to ccafe from flrife
is :
Hariuy on Ccrfumttiofjs. A cruet wound was cured by fcalding medica-
kut every fool will be meddling* Prev. xx« 3. Media'tion. » /. [midiarion, i'rench; ments, after it was putrified } and the violent (well-
This middling pricll longs to be found a fool. from medius, Latin.] ing and brulfe of another was taken away by fcald-
1. Intcrpofuion intervention ; agency ing it with milk. Temfin Mifcel,

;
Let me (bake offth' intniGve cares of day. Medicame'ntal. adj. [medicamenieux,
And lay the muidJirg fcnfes all afide. liimfiit.
between two parties, pra£lifed by a
common Fr. from medicament.] Relating to me-
STaME'DULE. -v. a. [from mefier, French.] friend.
Some nobler token have k?pt apart dicine, internal or topical.
To mix
to mingle.
; Obiblete.
For Livia and UCtavia, to induce
I
Medicame'ntally. adv. [from mediea-

He that h|d well ycon'd his !cre.
Their ttitui^ttor.. Sb.tkcl'^, jinttmy and Cleopatra. mental.] After the manner of medi-
Thus meduliJ his talk with many a tcare. Sfcnjer.
Noble offices thou may l\ tfkOi
A
mtdtlled (late of the orders of the gulpel,
Of mediation^ after 1 am dead.
cine ; with the power of medicine.
and ceremnoies of popery, is not the bell way to The fubllance of gold is invincible by the power-
Between his greatnefs and thy other brethren.
baniOi popery. titaktr. fulled adion of natural heat ; and that not only
Shaktffeare.
Me'ooler. [from mtddU.'\
«. f. One The king fought unto them to compofe thofe
alimrntally in a fubdantial mutation, buT alfo me-
who bufies himfelf with things in which dic.:men:ally in any corporeal converfion. Brown,
troubles between him and his fubjeds ; they ac-
lie has no concern. c;irdingly interpofcd their mediation in a round and
To Me'dicate. 1/. a. [medico, Latin.]
Do not drive away fuch as bring thee informa- princely manner. Bacon. To or impregnate w'th any
tiniture
tion, ai nuddltrs, but accept of them in good part. 2. Agency interpofed; intervenient power. thing medicinal.
Bacon. The palfions have tlieir tefidcnce in tlie fenfaiive The fumes, deams, and denches of London, da
This may be applied to thofe that alTunK to appetite : (qc inafmuch as man is a compound fo meditate and impreî;nate the air about It, that it
themfelves the merits of other men's fervices, med- of flelh as well as fpirit, the foul, during its abode becomes capable of little more. Graunt,
d/crt, boafters,and impeitiiKnts. EJlrangr. L in the body, does things by the mediation of
all To this may be afcribed the great efl'cils of
1/it.'DDi.i.iOMZ. adj. Jutcimct'dling : as, thefe paHiqns. South's ScrmcKj. medicated waters. jirhuitnt on Aliments,
a meddltjomt, buiy body. jUnJiuorth.
'
It is utterly unconceivable, that inanimate brute Medica'tion. a.y. [Uom medicate.]
natter, without the meitiation of fome immaterial 1. The aft of tinduring or impregnat-
MEDIA-SI INE. n.f. [French ; mediafti- being, ihiuld operate upon other matter without
nam, Lat. ] The fimbriated body about ing with medicinal ingredients.
mutual contad. BcniUj. '1 he watering of the plant with an infufion of
which the guts are convolved. 3. Intercefiion entreaty foi* another.
;
the medicine may have mot); force than the led,
None of the membranes which invert the infide
•f the brcaft but may be the feat of this difeafc,
MEDIA'TOR, »./ [mediateur, French,] becaufe the KcdictUicr. is oft renewed. Bacon,
th? i^diafime as well as the pleura. Arltiib, cm Dlf. I . One that intervenes between two par- 2, 'I'he uli: of phyfick.
y« Me'diate v. [from mcdius, Lat.]' He advifeth to obfcrvc the equinoxes and foU
JjT. lies.
dices, and to decline medication ten dajs before
J. To interpofe as an equal friend to You
had fSind by experience the trouble of all
and after. Brnvn,
both parties ; to aft iiuliiferently be- men's confluence, and for all matters to yourfclf,
as a mediator between them and their fovcreign,
Medi'cinabi.e. adj. [mediclnalis, Lat.]
tween contending parties ; to intercede. Having the power of phyfick.
Bacon^s Ad'vxcc to yiiliiri.
Tê corruption of manners in the world, :Ji Old more
flrlll find owing to fome mtr-iauttg fcliemes that
z. An ihterceflbr; an entreater for an- oil it clear and hot in medicinatle ute,
Baccit,
offer to cooiprehead the diflcrcnt intcrefts of fin other ; one who ufes his influence in
Accept a bottle made of a (in^pentine done, which
and religi in. Jirgers. favour of another. gives any wine inful<:d therein for four and twenty
2, To be between two. It is agaioft the I'cnfe of the law, to make faints hours the. tadc and operation of the Spaw water,
By being crowded, they exclude all other bodtea or angels to be mediators between God and them, and is very m,di,ii:al>lc for the cure of the fpleen-
that before mrdiaitd between the parts of tlwir Stillingflect. ffôtlon.
body.
^
. Digij. 3. One of the charaAers of our biefTcd The hearts and galls of pikes are medicinaile.
yi Me'diate. v. a. Saviour, JValtoa.
I. To eftcfl by mediation. A mediator is conltdered two ways, by nature or Medici'nal. Latin:

adj. [medicinalis,
The earl made many prt/fcHioni
of his defiie by o(Gce, as the fathers Xfitirguiib, He is a me- this word is now commonly pronounced
to irttrpofe, anJ mtdiatt a good peace between the diator by nature, r.s partaking of both natures
meJUinal, with the accent on thtr fecond
nadons. Clarn-Jm. divine and human ; and m'diator by ofBce, as rranf.
fyllable; but more properly, and more
I polTefs chem'fts and corpufcularians of aivan- aîng matters between God and man. Pfâterl.
lajes by (be confederacy 1 ua mtdiathg hetvKrn Man's friend, his tyitdijtar., his defign'd, ngreeably to the beft authorities, medi-
tbeat* . £ ylc. Both raufom and icdcciner volunu:y, MUion. c'laah]
I. Having
; ;
MED MED MED

1. Having the power of healing; hav- Left appetite, in the ufe of food, Ihould lead Me' DIVU, :».•/. [medium, Latm.]
us beyond that which is meet, we owe obedience Any thing intervening.
ing phyfical virtue. 1.
to that law of realbn which teacheth mediocriry in
Come with words as mcJictTui sts true, Whether any other liquors, being made mcJiami,
meats and drinks. Hooker.
Honeft as eirheri to pjrge him oj'that humour caufe a diverfity of found ftom water, it may be
That pteffes him from deep, tihakj. Hînt,r's 7j/,-.
W
hen they urge us to extreme oppoGtion a^jninlt
tried. B etc
the church of Rome, do th-^y mean we ftiould be
_ Thoughts my turracBtors aim'd with deadlj- muft bring together
I
drawir unto it only for a time, and afterwards re-
ftmgs, . All thefe extremes;, and. muft remove ill mediumi.
turn to a ifiediecrify ? Hooka.
Mangle my apprehenfive tendered para That each m.iy be the other's objeft. Dtnham.
Exaiperate, cxulcerate and raiie To Me'ditate. v. a. [mediter, Fr. me- Seeing requires light and a free medium, arjd a
Dire inflammation, which no cooling herb Lat.]
ditor, right line to the objeSs; we can hear in the dark
Nor «-X«;H:7/iicjuor can ailuagc. AIj!ort^sAg:i:ifici. 1. To plan ; to fcheme ; to contrive. iminured, and by curve lines. Holder,
The lecond caufes took the fAtft command. Some affirmed that 1 rmdijat^d a war God j
He, who looks upon the foul through its oirt-
The meditir.oi head, the leady hand ; knows, I did not then think of war. K. Charles^ ward aSions, often fees it through a deceitful mt-
All bat eternal doom was con<]uer'd bv their art. Like a lion that luiheeded lay, diuin, which is apt to difcolour the objcil.
DryJm. Din'fmbling deep, and watchful to betray :tray, J j^dd-joni Sfeâtor*
2. Belonging to phyfick. With inward rage he mediratesius prey. Dridtn. >
y. Dry
The of bodies on which their colours
parts
Learn'd he was in meii'dral lore. Hefore the memory of the flood was loft, mc" depend, aie denfer than the medium which pervades
For by his fide a pouch he wore. ptfditated the fetiing up a falle religion at Babel. their interfticei. Netvtlri,
Replete wjth ftrange heimeticlc powder, Forbei. Againft filling the heavens with fluid mediums,
unlejs they be exceeding rare, a great objedioa
Tl'.at wounds nine miles point blank with folder. 2. To think on ; to revolve in (he mind.
Buihr. arifes from the regular and very lafting motions
Them among
Such meJhirafA^ys by fome writers
ate calPd of the planets and comets in all manner of courfes
There fct a man of ripe and perfeft age.
wherein no crifis or change is expected, (o as to through the heavens. Newton s Of licit.
Who did them meditate all his life long. Fairy Sû,
forbid the ufe of medicines: but it is moft pro- Blelfcd is tlie man
that doth mfdilaie %ooi thingi i. Any thing u(ed in ratiocination, in or-
perly u(^d for thofe days wh-jn;jn pjrging, or uny in wildom, and that reafonetb of holy things. der to a conclufion; the middle term-
other evacuation, is moie cunveaienily complied Eedus. xiv. 20. in an argumentj by which propofitions-
with. Slatn.y.
To Me'ditate. "v. n. To think; to are connffled.
Mcdicinjl-hoviTZ are thofe wherein it is fuppoleJ
that medicines may be taken, commonly reckoned
mufe to contemplate; to dwell on
; This cannot be anfwered by thofe mediitms which'
the morning failing, about an hour bef'^re d.nner, with intenfe thought. It is commonly have been ufed. DryJ-n', Juvenal.
about four hou:S after dinner, and going on bed : ufed of pious contemplation. We, whofc underftandings are fhort, are forced
to collcdl one thing from another, and in that pro-
but times ate to be governed by the lymptoms and flis delight is in the law of the Lord, and in
ccfs we fcek out f to fcr mediums. Baler onLeaminr,
aggravati.^n of the dillemper. S^m.y, hislaw doÎ] hemt:M''J'rnighi and day. PUUm'i. 2.
IAedi ciNALLy. ^liv, [ftom metiianal, ] 1 Will meditate alfo of all thy work, and talk of 3. The middle place or degree; the juft
. Phyficajly. all thy doings. Pfa.'m Ixxvii. 12. temperature between extremes.
The wltneircs that leech -like liv'd on blood,
Mtaitateyou make fome
till att of piety upon The juft medium of this cafe lies betwixt the
them were mufcirelly good.
Sucking for Drydcn what jou meJitute ; either get fome
the occafion of pride and the abjection, the two extremes.
new arguments againft a fin, or fome new encou- L^ EJirange,
Me'dicine. «.y! ynetiiciui, French; mt- ragements to virtue.
dicina, Lat, It isgentraijy pronounced
7i:ylor. Me'dlar. n./. [mej/i/us, Latin.]
' To worlhip God, to ftudy his will, to medi'an
as if onlyof two fyllables, med'ciite upon him, and to love him ; all thefc being plea
r. A tree.
] The leaves of the medlar an either whole,
furc and peace. and
Phyfick; any remedy adminillercd by <. TUIjiJ n
fhaped like thofe of the laurel, as in the manured
phyfician. Medita'tion. u. /. [mtditation, Fr. forts; or laciniated, as in the wild forts: the flower
O, my dear father ! reftauration, hang meditatio, Lat.] confifts of five leaves, which expand in form of a
Thy mfdUine on my lips; and let this kifs 1. Deep thought; clofe attention; con- rofc the fruits arc umbiiicated, and are not eatable
:
Repair thofe violent harms. Shakcf^' King Luir. they decay ; and have, for thft moft- part, five
till
trivance ; Contemplation.
Airierry heart doth good like imrd'u^ne: bu;
the mediiaiions wherein I was, and fpake
I left
haid feeds in each. Milltr,
a broken fpirit dritth the bones. Pî-O. xvii. 22.
to her in anger. z EJd. x. 5.
Now will he fit under a medlar tree,
I wifh to die. yet dare not death endure ;
'Tis moft true.
And wifli hi^ miftiefs were tliat kind of fruit.
Dcteft the med\'nej yet defire the cure. Drydrn, Which maids call medlars. Shakefp, Romnandjul,
That mufing meditation moil affefls
To Me'dicike. v. a [from the noun.] The penfive fecrefy of delert cell. Milton. 2. Thefruit of that tree.
To operate as phyfick. Net ofed. Some th'û^ht and m.-.i';/.j,'i'H aê necefliry ; and You'll bo rotten ere you be half ripe.
Not ail the drowfy fyrups of the world. a man may poffibly be fo ilupid as not to have And that's the right virtue of the medlar. Shallfp,
Shall ever med'nire thee to that fwcct fleep God in' aU his thoughts, or to fay in his hcan, Oftober is drawn in a garment of yellow and
Which thou owedft yeilerday. !<takfffeare, there is none. Bentl y. carnation ; with a bafi^ct of fervices, medlars, and
Medi'ett. »./. [meditie, Fr. mtaUtas, 2. Thought employed npon facred objedts. chefniits. Peacbam,
Latin.] Middle Itate; participation of His name was heavenly Confmplation No rotten medlars, whilft there \ft
Whole
two ex'remes ; half. Of God and goodncfs was hi? meditation. Fairy
Thy thoughts to nobler mtditathns give,
^ orchards in virginity. Cluveiand.
Men have gather'd from the hawthorn's branch
They conuined no ftrtiy compofure, but were Large medlars, imitating regal crowns. Plilipj,
made up of man and bird the human nud'uty
And liu'ly how to die, net how to live. Granville
;
3. A leries cf thoughts, otcafiored by

ToMe'dLE. 1 T- •
P /-
, . Tarioufly placed not only aiiove but below. '""• Tomingle. I
Spettfer.
£rnvn*i Vulgar Erroun. any objcft or octdrrerce. In this fenle ToMe'dly. \
Medio'crity. n. f. \medtocrite, French;, are book:^ of meditaliens. Me'dly. n./. [from meddle for mieg/e.]
mtdiocritas, Latin J Me'ditative. adj. [from meditate.^
A mixture ; a mifcellany mingled : a
,1. Moderate degree ; middle rate. 1. Additt'-d to meditation. Ainj<worth

m.iis. It is commonly ufed with fome
Men of age feldom drive bufincfs home to the degree of contempt.
2. Expreffing iniention or defign.
full period, but content tfaemlelves with a medio- Some imagined that the pdwder In the armory
ir.lj of fucccfs. Bacrm.
Mp.Diterra'ne. T adj. [niedius and had taken fue ; others, that troops of hotfemen
'1 here, appeared a fudden and marvellous convcr-, Mediterr a'nban, > terra, mediter- approached : in wKich medly of conceits they bare
fion in the duke's ca.'e, from the mod exalted to Mediterra'neous. 3 ranee, Fr«:nch.] down one upon another, anil joftled many into the
the m'>!l deprefled, as if hi> expediticn hid been Lncircled with land. tower ditch. Hayivard.
I.
capable of no m<d!ccrityt. ff^vtt'.ru
In all that part tliat lieth on the north fide of , Love is a Kedly of endearment*, jars,
He likens the md
eerily of wit to one of a the 'm^diterxane itij it is th }ught not to be the
Sufpicions,qii.nrrels, reconcilements, wars;
mean fortune, who manages his ftorc with grejt vulgar tongue. Srerttvood.
Tlicn êace again. ff'alfo.
pa;rrr. ny; but who," with feir of running into They count their toilfome marches, long fa-
prf^.'ulcntfs, never arrives to the magnificence of
z. Inland; rftnotc' from she fea.: 1
tigue^,
DrycLn's State of Jnncftmeft It is found mounlnirs and mediterranroiu part? ;
'n Unufual f.iltings, and will hear no more
iLiving.
and fo it U aâc and uadBuus fublL-natiaa of tlie ThisCT'cVyof phllofophy and war. j-IddtfontCatt.
Getting anti improving our kn««Mrd„'c in fub} ,
ftanccs only by enperience and hiftory, is ait that

eartii-
^
£rtnv». Mahomet began to knock J^wn iiis fti',nv.
tiwweaknef. 0/ cur facultici in this ftatc ni medii- W« have taken a Icfa height of the mountains citizen-, and to fill all Arabia with an unna wai
trity, while we are in this world, can attain to.
than is rc«juifete, if we reff'cdl the m'diterrutie'mi meiily of religion and Llo-id.'h.-d. yiadijon,
mountains, or thoi^ that aj« at a êat distance com^'ounded fluid drain
are that a
Lexie. _
'i t"iere
2. Moderation ; temperojice,
;fiM«- lljc.lca, ,, , ^,. Jiuritel^ From diflercat mixtures : mi the blended ftrcams,
1 £acl>
. , ; .
t^^'E W C K M E E
tach mutaally ionWAing nch) crtate ME'BRS^. aij. Relatihg to a boundary ; To me no |;ic*t8r jtiy.
A jilcafurabk mejiiy. Pi'ilifi.
mter being a boundary, or mark cf di-
Than that your labours meet a profp'roui end.
Mb dley. ai(;. Mingled ; confufed.

vifion. Hanmer.
CrafwWe*
I'm ftrangely diAcompOfcd Tff MsET. «. e.
j
What, although you fled I why (hould he fol-
Quklms at my heart, convulfioiis in my nerV»s,
low you ? I. To encoiiiitcr ; to clofc face to face,
Within myUttlt *6rt(l m.ilte *.rf/<;y war. DryJrti.
The itch of his affeftion Aould not then a. To encounter in hoftility.
Mtbu'tlA*. I m(;. [medtttlairt, J'r.
Have nickt his captainfliip; at fnch a point. Then born to diftance by the tides of men,
Mtnu'tLARY. 1 from midulla, Lat.] When half to half the world oppos'd, he being Like adanir.t and fteel they mt,t again. DryJait
Pertaining to the marrow. The m««<y qucftion. Shakcff. Ant, ami Ciiofatra. 3. To ailcDibie; to come together.
Tlirl; little cminarics, united together at the Meet. ad/, [of obfcure etymology.] They
appointed i day 10 meet in together. iMaCt
cortical porr-ct the brain, make liic wiJu'hr part, 1. fit; proper; qualified: applied both Their choice nubility and flower
being a bundle of very fmall, thread-like chdnuels Mil from all parts to fulcmniae this feaft. Alilicn.
to perfons and things. Now rarely ufed.
or fibrcf. Cbtyttci Phil. Principles. The materials of that building hap, ily mrr to-
Ah my dear love, wiiy do you deep thus long.
1
gether and very fortunately langrd thcmfelves into
Theback, for the fecurity ot* that m.tiui/aty
When neeter yrere that you fliould now awake ?
. fubftance that runs down its cjvity, is bent after that delicate order, ll-.at It mull be a very great
Sfenfer.
the manner of the catenarian cunc. Cbeynr. cha -.ce tliat parts them. Tillotpn.
If the eledion of the minillcr flionld be com-
^££0. ». /".
[meb, Saxon ; mieie, Teuto- mitted to every parllb, would they chufe the 4.. To Meet •with. To ligbt on ; to find :
riclc.] ra.vft/. IVhitgift. it includes, fometimes obfcurely, the

k. Reward; recompence. Ntw rarely 1 am a tainted wether of the Aock, idea of fomething unexpefted.
ufed.
Mcdejifor death. Sbahfjuarr s Mirchnr.t cf ycnice. When he Cometh to experiaice of fervicc abroad,
He
knows liis metJ, if he be fpide, To be known ihortuns my laid intent he makcch as worthy a foidier as any nation he
My boon 1 make it, that you know me not. meetetb with. Sperfer.
Tobe thoufand deaths, and (hame befide. Sfevfer.
a
Whether in beauties glory did exceed Till time and I think meet. Shakrffeare' i K. Lear. We met iriib many things woithy of obfervation
What, at any time have you heard her fay > Baron,
A fofy garland \»as theviAoT's>ri«A. Fairy'Siuun.
—That, Sir, which I will not report after her. Hercules' mtetixg -aiitb -pleafurc and virtue, was
Thanks
Of nobis mmds is honourable nt:A,
to lAen
Sbah/penre. — Vou may to me, and 'tis moft tmet you Ihould. invested by Prodicus, who lived before Socrates.
Shakeffcare. Addifcn,
He muiV not float upon his wat'ry bier
York it miet(fi man What a majef^ and force does one neeet wirb
Unwept, and welter to the parching wind,
Without the meed of fome melodious tear.
To be your regent in the realm of France. in thefc jhort infcriptitfns : are nat y<*a amaaed to
Mi/lon.
Shakespeare. fee fo much hiftory gathered into fo fmall a com-
if fb, a cloak and »efture be my meed The eye is very proper and meet for feeing. pafs >
jUdijtn PK Anciatt HtMi.
. *rill his return, no title flial! I plead. Vnfe'iOiiyffcy.
Bejitley.
5. Ti) Meet iii/>*. To join.
a. "Prerent; gift.
2. Meet 'with. Even with, [from meet, FallKlft'atthatbak'fl}altrrrrr«Mr/> as. Sbakr^
Plutus, the god of gold, the verb.] A low expreflion. 6. To Mekt with. To fuffer unexped-
"
Is but his Reward : no mt.d but he repays Niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much ; edly.
Seven-fold above itfelf. Shakefp.Timor. of Atbtr.%. but he'll beme;t wfri ytm. Shakcjfcarc. He, that hath fuffcred this difordered fpring,
Meek. adj. \minkr, Jflandick.] To Meet. v. a. pfret. / mit ; 1 ba've Hath ncnv hinifelf m;/ vAih the Hail of leaf.
1 Mild of temper ; not prood not rough ; ;
met; particip. »;rt. [m<tt;aD, Saxon, to iihakjefp«.ire,
find maeten, Dutch.] A little fum yon mourn, while moil have nut
not eafily provoked ; foft j ^jentle. ;
Witb twice the lofs, and by as vUe a cheat. Crteth,
Mofes was very ««> above all men. 1. To come face to face ; to encounter,
To encounter to engage.
Nu>!:b. xii. 3. 7. ;
•by travelling in oppofue direftions.
Royal raiftiefs.
But he her fears to ceafc, Mct'ft thou my ports ? Sbakcfpeare.
down the ruek-fj i Peace. MUton. Prepare to »«r«f lovh more than brutal firry
Sent His daughter came out towref him withtiUibrcls
We ought to be very cautious and mcfit-fpirited, From the fierce prince. Rruie'i Ambitioui Strfm.
and dances. Jfdgei, xi. 34.
till we arc aflurcd of the honelty of our anccftors. j
Mean while our primitive great lire, to meet
8. A latinifm. To obviate ; teeurrtre
Caliitr. Milton. ctjeilo.
His godlike gueft, walks forth.
2. Expreffing humility and gentlenefs. 2. To encounter in hoftiliiy. Before I proceed farther, it is good to meet
Both confefsM To met the noife witb an xikêîon, which if aiot removed, the
Humbly their faults, and pardon begg'd, with tears condufion of cxjierience from the time paft to ttae
Of his almighty engine, he fliall hear
Watering the ground, and with their fighs the air Miltcn. prefent will nut be found. Bacon,
Infernal thunder.
Trequenting, fer(t from hearts concirite, in fign So match'd they ftood ; 9. To advance half way.
Of fonow unfcign'd and humiliation meek. Milton.' For never but once more was cither Tilce He yields himftlf to tl;e man of bufinefi with
^«Me'eken. Of. a. [from meii,] To, To meet fo grc.it a foe. Milton. rehidlancy, but ofiers himfelf to the vifits uf a
friend with facility, and ^1 the eieitir.g rcadipafa
make meek ; to foften. This word I, 3. To encounter unexpeftedly.
Siuib.
ftill, prefnraptuous, till the wrath,
of deiire.
have found no where elfe. 1 So judge thou
Whith thou incurr'ft by Hying, meet thy flight
Dur mtftin^ hearts
Ttie glaring lion faw, his horrid heart
j Confcnted foon, and mairiaêmade lis one. iJawr.
Vlifwltelim'd, and he join'd his fullen joy. Scv'nfold, and feourge that wifdom back to Hell.
ttmtfon. Miiton. 10. Tounite, to join ; as, tbcfe rivers
Me'ekly. aJv. [from »/«/{.] Mildly; 4. To join another in the fame place. meet at fudi a plrrri'and join.
gently ; not ruggedly ; not proudly. When Ihall wc three meet again. Me'eter. »./ [from rtieet.] 0*ie that
In thunder, lightning, or in rain Sbakcff. M.uh.
Bethertforc, O my
dear lords, pacify'd,
?
accolU another.
Chance may lead where I may meet There are befide
And this raif-feeming difcord rnetkty lay afide.
bjiry Siuecti. Some wand'ring fpirit of Heav'n by fountain fide I.afcivious meetiri, to whofe venum'd found
No pride does with your rifing honours grow. Or in thick (hade retir'd. Milton. The open car of youth doth alwi) s liften. Siaktjp.
You Kctkly look on fuppliant crowds below. I knew not till I met
Me'etinc. n.f. [from wff/.]
Si-pmy. My friendi, at Ceres' now defcrted feat. Vrydcn^
1. An afTentibly ; a convention.
Not look back to fee,
Meê-khess. v./. [frommeei.'] Gentle- If the fathers and huAands of thofe, whofe rtficf
When what vre'love \te ne'er muft )»»«/ again.
nefs ; mildneis ; foftnefs of temper. Drydin. this your meeting intends, were of the houlhotd
That pride and mttknefi miit by equal part, of faith, then their Telifls and children ought not
Do buth appear t'adorn her beauty's grace. Sferjir,
5. To clofe one wilh another. to be lirangers to the gooQ that is done in it, if
The nearer you cnmc to the end of the lake,
You your place and calling, in foil feeming,
iign they want it. Sprat^s SermO'Bt,
the mountain* on each lide grow higher, till at laft
With^«*jiiJ'i and humility j but your heart Since the ladies have been left out of all meeiimgt
.
they mut. Addfm.

J] cramm'd with arrogaocy, Ipleen, and prFd«. except parties M
play, oat cunverliktion hath dege-
Ai :k:jfnar€. 6. To find ; to be treated with ; to light nerated. Snifi,
When hi« diftemper attack'd him, he fubralued on. 2. An interview.
to it with great meckm/i and telignatijn, as became Had I a hundrrd mouths, a hnndted tongues, Let's faa levcnged on him ; l«t*> appoint him a
a Chriliian. Anerlury. I could not half thofe horrid crimes repeat. mut'mg, and lead him on with a fine baited delay.
Meer. adj. See Mere. Simple; un- Nor half the puniOiments thofe crimes have met. Siakefpeare,
mixed. Drtfden.
3. A conventicle; an alTembly of Dif-
Of vice or virme, whether bit'ft orcurft,
Meer. n. /. See Mere. A lake; a
Which (K(r; cootcaift, or wbichKMnpeiTlQn-iirft
>
Tenters.
boundary. . . 4. A conflvrx; as ihemeefittg of two rivers.
Meeting-
: ; ; . ; .,
MEL MEL MEL

Mhetinc-house. ». f. [mteiiitg and In thofc deep folitudes and awful cells, Lat.] A honied flow ; a flow of fweet-
Place where DilTenters aflemble
Whcte heav'nly penfive contemplation dwsll:,
nefs.
houft.'\
And ever muling melan:€oly reigns. Pcfe.
to worftiip-
Melancho'ly. adj. Melli 'fluent. 7 adj. \_mel zni fluo,
{melancholiûi, Fr.]
His heart mifgase him that the churches were Melli'fluous. j Latin.] Flowing
made him I. Gloomy; difmal.
fo many meetinghi.-^jti j but 1 foon cafy.
with honey ; flowing with fweetnefs.
Think of all o-ir miferies
But dream, which has awxk'd >is
as iomcmilaiiirhaly
A mellijiuous voice, as Ia true knight* am
Me'etly. adv. [from the adjedlive,]
To the renewing of our joya. Shakefpeare*
Denhnm.
Filly; properly. If in the melancbolj fliades below, As all thofs thJijgs v/hjch are mod mellijiutui are
Me'etness. n.f. [from »«/.] Fitnefs The flames of friends and lovers ceafe to glow ^
fooned changed into choler ajjd bitternef§, fo are
;
Yet mine (hall facred laft, mine uadeciy'd, our vanities and pleafures converted into the bit-
propriety.
tered forrows. Raleigh'
Me'crim. n.f. [from Eemycrany, mi- Burn on tlirough dcatJ), and animate my (hade.
Innumerous fongders in the fre(hening (hade
grain, megrim, ifuxâua.^ DJlbrder of Of new fprung leaves, their modulations mix
z. Difeafed with melancholy ; fanciful ;
the head. Mellijiuous. Tbomfon's Spring,
habitually dejedled.
In every migr'vn or vertigo there is an obtcnebra- Me'llow. adj. [meajipa, foft, Saxon,
tJOn joined witli a femblaace of turning round.
How now, fweet Frank art thoo melamh'.Iy t;
ShakcffMori.
Skinner more nearly froni mollis, mollf,
Bacor'i Natural Hljiory.
Therefcreen'd in ihades from day's detefted glaie, He obferves Lanwch nv>re melancholy than ufujl, }fioHpvj, melhia : though r is indeed
Spben fighs for ever on her penfive bed.
and imagines it to be from a fufpicion he has eafily changed into / in common-
Pain at her CJe, and megdm at her licad. Prjfc.
of his wife Adah, whom he loved. l^ch. fpaech.]
To Meine. mingle.
'V. Ainjiu.
a. To MELICE'RIS. n.f. prA.*^!^..] 1 Soft wi^h ripenefs ; full ripe.
MJieris is a tumour inclofed in a cyUis, and
A dorm, a robbery,
Me'inv. »./. [meniju, Saxon. See confiiiing of matter like honey.
call itwhat you will.
If the matter Shook down my mellow
Maky. Mefnie, French.] A retinue ; ht-uigingsy. nay, my leaves*
refemblej milk curds, the tumour is called athe-
Sbakcfpiiare.
domeftick fervanu. roma i if like hoaey mcliurit ; and if coimpofed
An apple in my hand works dilTerent eftefts
They fummon'd up their m£iay\ ftrait took of fat, or a fuety fubftance, (Icatoma. Si^'p. upon my fenfes : my eye tells me it is green ; my
horfe i Me'lilot. n.f. [mtliJot, French; mcli- nofe, that it hath a milkto fcent ; and my taftc,
Commanded nie to foUoWy and attend. Shaks^.
kius, Lat.] A plant. that it \» fwept. Dighy.
Meian aco'gues. n./. [from fiirxfji and
To Me'horate. -v. a. [meliorer, Fr. A little longer,
ayu.] Such medicines as ar': ftppofed from melior.'] To
better ; to improve.
i&nd Nature drops him down without your Co,
particularly to purge cfFWack choler. Like mdlow fruit, without a winter ftorm. Dryd.
Grafting meliorates the fruit; fir that the nou-
Mei.ancho'lick. aiij. [from nu/ancioly.] ri/hmcnt is better prepared in the ftock than in the 2. Soft, in found.
I. Difordered with melancholy; fanci- crude earth. Bacar.
Of fcvcn fmootb joints a mcUctw pipe I have,
But when we graft, or budslnoculate^ Whicli with his dying^ breath Damxtas gave,
ful; hypooltondriacal gloomy. ;
Nature by art wc nobly meliorate. Dcr.ham. Dryden.
he he mad, or angry, orwf/^jmifco/ifi, or fpright-
If
ly, he will paint wjiau'ocver ii> prujiortionabie Co any A man ought by no means to think that he 3. Soft ; unfluous.
©ne. Drytten.
(hould be able fo much as to alter or xeliorate the Camomile fiieweth mcUov) grounds fit for whe^t.
The commentators on old Ari- humour of an ungrateful perfon by any aSs of Bactiia
Stotle, 'tis utg'd, in judgment vary :
klsdnefs. Siiitt, 4. Drtmk ; melted down wrt^ drink.
They to their own conceits iuve brought Cartration ferves to mdicriue tilt (Jclh of thofc Greedy of phyficians frequent fees.
Tlie image of his genera) thought beads that fuffer it. Craunt. From female wj/Zimi praife he takes deg^rees.
Juft as the wtlandoluk eye
Much labour is requir'd in trees Rojcctrmott^.
Sees fleets and armies in the (ky. Prior.
Well mud the ground be digg'd, and better drefs'd, In all thy humours, whether gr^ve or mellocu,
S. Unhappy unfortonate cauiing forrow.
New foil
make, and meliorate ibe teli. Drydcn,
to Thou'rt fuch a tedy, touchy, plealbot fellow;
; ;
Tlie king foun.i Iiimfelf at the head of his army, Mehora'tion. n./. [meltoraliqn, tr. Haft fo much wit, and mirth, and (pleen about,-
after fo many accidents and mtlancholkk perplexi- from meliorate. "[ Improvement; thee.
aft of
ties. Clortr.tUn. bettering. There is no living with thee, nor without thee.-
MELANCHO'LY. n.f. [mtlancoHe, Fr. For the melivatlon of mufick there is yet much Alddifoin'
from left, in this point of exquifite conibrts, to try.

To Me'i.i.ow.. v. a. [from the noun.]
and ;^'.Aii.]
iii>.i4,ati
1. A fuppofed to proccfd from

difeafe, Baton. 1. To ripen; to mature; to fofcen by
a redundance of black bile ; but it is
Melio'rity. n.f. [from me/ior.] State ripenefs ; to ripen by age.
better known to arife from too heavy

of being better. A
word very elegant, Lord Aubrey Verc
but not ufed.
Was done to death, and more than fo, ray fathe^},
and too vifcid blood : its cure is in eva- Even in the downfall of his melkiu'd years.
Men incline unto them, which ate fofteft, and
cuation, nervous medicines, and power- Shakefpeare^
lead in their way, in defpight of them that hold
ful ftimuli. flinty. them hardelt tu 1: ; fo that this colour o( welkrity
The royal tree hath left us royal fruit.
Which mcllotv^d by th« itealing hours of time-.
2. A kind of madnefs, in which the mind and pre-eminence is a (5gn of wciknefs. Bacon.
Will well become the feat of majefty. Shak^-
is always fixed on one objefl. The order and bcauiy of the inanimate parts of
the world, tire difcernable ends of them, the tne-
On foreign mountains may the fun re(ine
I have neither the fcholar's mc-lancUly, which it The grapes fuft juice, and mclloiv it to wine*
emutalion; nor the mufician's, which is fantafti- above what was neceffary to be, do evince,
I'writy
by a reflex argument, thafit is the workmanlhip Addifon.
c«li nor the coorticr's, which U proud; nor the
foldier's, which is ambitious ; nor the lawyer's, not of blind mechsjiifm, but <jf an intelligent and 2. To foften.
benign agent. B-niley.
They plow in the wheat (rubble in December }
which is peliti«k ; noi the lady's, which is nice
; and if the weather prove frofty to mellow it, they,
nor tlie lover's, which is all thefe; but it is a ine- To Mei.L. v. n. [meler,/e meter, French.]
do nut plow it again till April. Morlittur's Htifi.
itittclo/y o( ai'itKoYfriy compounded of mjny Omptes, To mix ; to meddle. Obfolete. Tomature to perftftion.
cxtraOed from many objcfts, and, Ind'-ed, tlie 3.
It fathers fits not with fuch things to mell.
fondry tontemplation of my travels, in which my This epifode, now the mod pjeafing entertain-
Spcpftr.
often ruiniitation wraps me in a moft humorous ment of the .<6Jneis, was fo accounted- ip his own
Here is a great deal of good m«tter
ap;r, and before it was nullmued into that reputa-
(idBtCt. SUkcJfrarf. Loft for lack oi telling :
tion which time has given it. Dryden,

Moooftruck. madnefs, moping M<-iUa&(s/;. Milt. Now I fee thou doft but clattir.
A gloomy, Harm may come of melling. Sperftr's Pajkral'-
la Me'llow, 1;. ». To be matured ; to
3. penfive, difcontented tem-
per. Melli'pekou». adj. Produdlive of ho- ripen.
Though no done tell thee what I was, yet thou
He ptotdJtd, that lie had only been tn &ek fcti- ney. Did.
-
tary fbces by an extreme

In my grave's infidc fee'd, what thou art now
neUmclnty that htd pof-
(efled him. Sidr:iy.
Meulifjca'tion. n.f. ^tiuUifico, Lat.] yet thoi('rtr»ot yet fo good, tiU m death lay
All theic gifts come from him The art or pradlice of taAking hooey ; Toiripe and W/ow. there, we.'re ftubborn day^
; and if we mur-
mur here, we may at the next mtlanchaiy pioduftion of honey. I ' ' Donne*
be ^
ttouUul that God. did. net make ui angels. , In judging of ihe air, many thli ^ befid^ the Me'li.owness. n.f. [from mtlk<w,]
^taytorî Hsly L'nri/j^* weather ought to be t^ferved in fome countries, : 1, Maturity of fruits; ripenefs ;. foftnefs
This mtlatuholy llattcrt, but uiiituat you the filence ui grat)»-tuppfts, juui M ant of milliji- by maturiy.
j
What is it clfc but penury of f >ul, cat'ion in bees. Artiuhmt, My
rcafon can confider greenncfs, melhvin^St
A lazy froU, a nunibodj of the mind ? Drydn. Melli'fluehci. n.f, [W and _/?«», fwtcuiefc, or coldocfs, fingly, aad wrtheut rela-
tiOB
; : ; ' ;
MEL MEM MEM

tion to «ny otSet quAlity that it f»inK4 in Bi' 2. To diflblve; to break in pieces. In po^ry, as in archltcauM, not only th« wbol«
by tht faiTK apple. Digfiy if BtJui. but the principal R-rm^. ri fliuuld be great. MdijoH.
To
take ill pieces this frame of nature, and ire't
The fpiiog, like youtl^ fitfli bluiroms dutli it flown iijto its nrll principles ; and then to ob- 4, One cf a community.
prodocf. My go'ng to demand jullice upon the m.m-
i
fcrve how the divine wifviom wrought all thefe things five
But Autumn in.ikn thsm ripe, ind fit for ufel •
into that beautiful compofitionj is, a kind of joy« itrs, my enemies loaded with obiuquies. .
So iê mature m^ftzTPurfs doth fct
a
I
King Cbarftt.
which pierceth ths.mind. Bunta.
On the grccii promifes -olyouthfu! hut« Dîttam.
[
'3. T6 foften to love or tfndernefs. Mean as I am, yet luve the Mufes made
2. Maturity ; full age. Thcmiglity mafter fmil'd to fee Me trc;, a mcmbei of the tuneful trade. Dryden.-
Meloco'tom. n./.ymchcetcnf, Spatiifh ; That love was in the next degree Sienni is adorned with many tov.-ers of brick,
which, in the time of the ommonwcalth, were
malum cohncum, Latin.] quince. A 'Twas bat a kindred found to move.
crcOed ti fuch of the memiers as had done fervice
Obfolete. For pity mell: the mind to love. Drydrn.
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Alas! the (lory meitt away my (oul. Mdifir. to their country. j'lildijoum
In apricots, peaches, or m'litucini upon a nail,
the grcatcH fruitj are towards the bottom. Bdrnn. 4. To wafte away. Me'mbrane. n.f. [membrane, Fr. mem-
Thou woul^'ft have plung'd thyfelf hrana, Lat.]
AJelo'dious. aiij. [from melet^.] Mu-
In gi'neral riot, mhcd down thy youth .A membrane is a web of feveral forls of fibres, in-
. fical ; barmoniou!'. terwoven together foi the covering and wrapping
1 in'differcnt beds of iuft. Shaktff.Timtiiof Atbem.
Fountain! I and ye that wartic, as yc flow, bres of the memlranes give
Melitdioui mumiutsj warbling tunc his praife.
To Melt. 1;. ». up fonie rarts the ; I
them an clafticity, whereby they can contra£l, and

Milipn. 'I. To become liquid ; to diflblve ; to be
clofe y grafp the parts they contain, and their
And oft with hbly liymns he chatmM their ears I made fluid.
nervous fibres give them an exquifite feme, which
A mufickmoreBrj.W/wnhjnthefphcrcs. Drydrv. ttt them melt away as waters which run ctinti-
is the caufe of their contraflion ; they can, there-
Melo'dio-uslv. adv. \Uom melodious .] nujlly. I
FJalm. fore, ftarcelyfuffcr the Aarpncfs of medicines, and
Muflcally ; harmonioufly. The rofe is fragrant, but it fades in time ; are difficultly united when wounded. Sliiney.
The violet fwcct, but quickly p;\ft the prime The chorion, a thick membrane obfcurmg the
Melo'uiouskrss. «./ [from melodious ] While hang their heads and foon decay.
lilies
formation, the dam doth after tearatunder.
Harmonioufnefs ; muficalnefs. And whiter fnow in minutes mclti away. Dryden. Bro^-ns Vulgar Errourt.
ME'LODY. n. J\ [».^.«o"i«.] Mufick 2. Tcbe foftened to \Vy> or any gentle They obdacle find none
fweetnefs of fotjiid. paiCon ; to grow tender, mild, or gentle. Of membrane, joint, or limb, exclufive bars
The prophet David having Angular knowledge I rr; /'f , and .am not Eaficr than air with air, if fpirits embrace.
not in poetry alone but in mufick alfo, judging Of ftronger eai^h than others. " Shakefpeare. Total tjiey mix. MiltM:
tlicm both to be things mod ntcdfiry for the houle Dighton and Forreft; The inner membrane that involred the feveral
of God, left behind him a number of divinely in- Albeit, they were fieflit villains, bloody dogs, liquors of the egg remained unbroken. Beyle.
dited poems, and was farther the author of add- Mtldrg with tendernefs and mild compailion. Mi;M3rana'ceous, J adj. [mtmbraneux,
ing unto poetry melody in publick prayer, melody Wept
both vocal and infViumcntal, for the raifing up of
like two children in their death's fad llory, Membr a'neous. . > Fr. from mem-
Sv.ikej'pt-afe.
. men's hearts, and the fwcetening of their affec- " This fald the mov'd affillants meli in tears,
Me'mbranous. 3 brana, Latin.]
;
tions towards God. Hoekcr* i : Dryden. ConfiiUng of membranes.
Singing and making melody in Jûr hear;s to tlie Milting into tears, the pious man Lute-rtrings, which are made of the mem-
Lord. EphtfiiKt. Dcplor'd fo fad \ fight. Dryden. bramtus of t!ic guts ftrongly wreathed, IvVell
parts
,
Why rather, deep, lieft thou in fmoky cribs, ,
3. To be di/Tolved
; to lofe fuUrtance.
fu much as to break in wet wc.ithcr. Boyle.
And huftit with buzzing night- flies to thy (lumber ;' Whither are they vaniflv'd ?
Great corKeits aie raifed of the involution or
Than in the pcrfum'd chambers of the great,. Into the air; and what feem'd corporal
m:mbraihut covering;callcd the fiUy-how. Brown,
And lull'd with founds of fweeteft mtlody ? '
Mclied as breath into the wind. Sbakejf, Machttb.

Such birds as are carnivorous have n-t gizzard,
Sbakefftart. or muftulou5, but a r;tml>r..nous ftomach ; that
Beauty is a witch,
Lend me yixit fangs, ye nightingales : Oh pour kind of to( d being torn into fmall flakes by the
Agaisft whofe charms faith melietb into blood.
Tlie mazy-running foul of melody beak, may be eafily concord by a memlruKovs ilo.
Shakefpeare,
Into my »arieJ verfc Thotrfoi'i Sfrlng. mach. Ray :n Creation,
!
4. To be fubdued by affliiSipn.
Anodyne fubflances, which take oil' contraiflions
Me'lon. ft./. Imelon, Fr. melo, Lat.] My foul melteth fdr hcavinefi ; ftrengthcn thou
of the membranous parts, are diurctick. yJriuttnot,
1. A plant. me. . Pfalm. Birds of prey have numbranaceew, not mufcular
The flower of the melon confrfts of one leaf, Me'lter. n./. [from «*//.] One that ftomachs. Ar'jutlnot in Aiimeiui,
which
ral
is of the expanded bell /hape, cut into feve-
fegmcnts, and exactly like tliofc of the cucum-

melts metals. MEMENTO, n /. [Latin.] A memo-
Mifo and Mopfa, like a couple of forcfwat rial notice; a bint to awaken the me*
ber: fume ojf tbefc flowers arc barrtfn, not adher- ;
melurs, were getting the pure fil\ier of their bodies
ing to the embrio j others are fruitful, growing niory.
out of the ore of their garments. Sidn^.
upon embrio, which is afterwards cliaiigcd
the
Thi^ the author attributes to the rcmifl'nefs of Our ma/ler, for his learning and piety, is not
into a fruit, for th; moft part of an oval fliapc, only a precedent to his own fubjefts, but to fo-
the former meliers, in' not exhauftirg the ore.
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fmooih or wrinkled, and divided into three fejni- •reign princes; yet he is but a man, aud fejfonable
Dtrkr.m's P/^x/t-o-Theoôgy.
nal apartments, which fecjn to be cut into two mttnentos may be ufcful. Bac-n.
parts, and contain many oblong feeds.
Me'ltingi.it. adv. [from aching.] Like ,1s not tire frcq\ient fpe^lacle of other people's
Miller. '
2. The fruit.
fometbing melting, deaths a memento fufficient to make you think of
Zelmane lay upon a bank, that her tears falling your own ? VEfimrge,
We
remember the fifli which we did eat in
into the water, one might have thought flie began Memo'ir. « /. [memcirt, French.]
Egypt freely ; the cucumbers arid the mi 1cm.
meltirgly to be 'metamorphofed to the running
Num. xi. 5«
river. Sidmy.
1. An account of tranfaclions familiarl/
Melon-thi'stle. n.f. [melocoSiis, Lat.] Mt'LWEL. n.f. A kind of fi(h.
written.
The wholeplantof the /w/9<)-rii>j/?/< hath a Gngu- Be our great mailer's future charge
. lar appearance. Miller.
Mfi'MBfiR,.,/*, y; [tntmbre, Fr. membrum, 1*0 write his own memoirs, and leave his heirs
Lat.] .
High Schemes of government and plans of wars.*

To Melt. v.
,
a. [melcan, Saxon]
I. To dilToIve; to maks liquid; cosi-
I. A limb; a part appendant to the body. Prior.
It is profitable one of thy K:embcrs
for thee that 2. Hint; notice; account of any thing.
inonly by heat. Ihould perifh, and not that thy whole body <hbuld There Is not in any author a computation of the
How they would m,l; me nut of my fat drop by be cad into hell. Matlb. revenues of the Roman empire, and hardly any
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drop, and liquor filhcrmen's boots with rtie! The tongue ii a little n-.mier, and boafteth great memoirs from whence it might be colleêd.
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" '
Shaiefpcare.
'
things. .
5''*'' "'• 5' Arbutknot on Coins%
When
the m^hivg fin burncth, the fire cauleth If fliape it might he call'^, that fliipe had none,
the waters to boil.
Me'morable. ad/, [memorable, Fr. me-
Ifa, \%i\. z. Oiftinguilhable in member, joint, or limb.
Thi( price, which is given above the value of
.
Milton,
mirabilit, Lat.] Worthy of memory ;
the fllver in our coin, is given only to pref<rve our not to be forgotten.
coin from being m^/r<r</ down. Lode.
2. 'A; part of <i "Sffco'urfe or peHod; 'a
Nothing I fo much delight to recount, as the
"
The rock's high lummit in the temple's Oiade, liead ; a clAWe. memorable friendlhip that grew betwixt the two
Nor heat could mtlt, nor beating ftom invade. Wjiere the rci'pondcut limits or diitinîflittnny princes. Sidney,
propofition, thi opponent muft.^rove his own pro- From this defire, that main dcfire proceeds,
If your butter when me/iij tafte; of Vt'^H '' pofitlon according 'to that Memher of the diftinftion .Which all men have furviving fame to gain.
is your mailer's £ault who will oot allow you a flU in which the refpondent denied it. ffâiis. By tombs, by books, by memorable deeds.
Tcr fauccf an. Sm/t, 3. Any part of an integral. ' '
For fhc that this defires doth ftill remain. Daviet,
Dkre*
; ; ; ,
MEM MEN MEN

Darts WlylTes for the prize contend. 2. To caufe to be remembered. Me'kaCOCUE. n.f. [(x?»« and aya.] A
In fight of what he durft not once defend They meant medicine that promotes the flux of the
But bafcly fled that mim'jruhh day, To mema-ixc another Golgotl.a. Shulifpearc, menfes.
When I from HeCtoi's hands redcem'd tlie flaming ME'MORY. »./. [memoire, Fr. memoria,
prey ? Drydni. 7a Mend. 'v. a. [emendo, Latin.]
Lat.] To from breach or decay.
Me'morably. [from memorable.]
ad-v. 1. repair
In a manner worthy of memory.
1. The power of retaining or recollcfting They gave the money to the workmen to re-
things pad; retention j reminifcence mend the houfe.
pair and 2 Cbron. xxxiv. IO«
MEMORANDUM. «./. [Lat.] A note reco!le(!\ion.
; I
2. To correft ; to alter for the better.

to help the memory. Memory is the power to revive again !n out The beft fervice they could do to the ftate, wa«
1 refoived to new pave every ftreet, and entered minds thofe ideas which after imprinting have dif- to mend the lives of the perfons who compofed it.
a mtusirardum in my pocket-book accoKlingly. appcarcd, or have been laid afidc out of fight. temple*
Guartlian. htche. Von need not defpair, by the alliftance of his
Nature's fi'r table book, our tender fouU, The mcm'jry is perpetually looking back, when growing reafon, to mmd the weakncfs of his con-
We Icrawl all o'er with oiJ and empty rules. we have nothing prefent to entertain us : it Is like ftilution. Lockg,
Stale meitt'^randums of the fchools. Swift. thofe rcpofitories in animals that are filled with Name a new play and he's the poet's friend j
Wemo'rial. adj. [memcrial, Fr. memo- ilorcs of food, on which they mny ruminate, when Nay, fliowd his faults— but when would poet*
Lat.]
rialis, their prefent pa.'lure fails. Mdijov'i SpsSlaior, mci:d ? Pcpc.
2. fcxemption from oblivion. Their opinion of Wood, and liis projeft, is not
1. Preiervative of (l!«»nory.
That ever- living man of mi'njry, mended. Stvifi,
Thy mafter now lies thinking in his bed
Of thee and me, and fighs, and takes my glove. Henry the Fifth Shairffearc's Htnry VI.
I 3. To help ; .to advance.
And gives jncmc} ial dainty kill'es to it. Shakei'psarf, 3. Time of knowledge. Whatever is new
is unlooked for; and ever it
May I, of a work, which is
at the conciufion Thy requeft think row fulfiil'd, that alk'd mcndi fome, and impairs othcis and he that is ;
hc.lpen tikes it for a fuftune, and he that, is hurt

a kind of monument oi Pope's partiality to mc, How world, and face of things, began,
fiiit this
place the Mowing lines as an infcription mrmnrial And what, before thy meir.ory, was done. Miiion. for a wrong. Bacon.
If, to avoid fucceflion in eternal exiftence, they
of it. Brooms. 4. Memorial ; monumental record.
The tomb with manly arms and trophies raifc ; recur to the punOum ftans of the fchools, they
Be better fuited ;
There high in air meiroriai of my name will thereby very little menei the matter, or help us
Thefe weeds are memi-riei of thofe worfer hours :
Fix tiie Imooth oar, and bid me live to fame. Pope. to a more pofitive idea of infinite duration. Locke.
I pr'ythee put Sbi'kjptarc' s King Lmr.
them oft".
Contained in memory. Though in fome lands the grafs h but fbort, yet
2. A
fwanJn memory of Cycnus ihines
it mcndi garden herbs and fruit. Mortimer' i liujb
The cafe is with the memorial pofTeflions of the The mourning lifters weep in wat'iy figns. jiddifon.
greateft part of mankind : a few ufeful things 5. Refledlion ; attention. Not in uie. 4. To improve; to increafe.
mixed with many triBes fiU up memories. Death comes not at call juftice divine
their When Duncan is afleep, his two chamberlains ;
Afu.'ij not her ilowcrt pace, for pray'r, or cries.

Will I with wine and walfcl fo convince,
Mifton,-
Memo'rial. n./. That mem^jr^f the^varder of the brain,
When upon thcfand the trave'ler
1. A monument ; fomcthing to prefervc Shall be a fume. Shaiefpcart't Mactelt,
Sec? the high (a come rolling from afar,
memory. Mrs, the plural of man. The land grow fhoit, ha mends his weary pace.
Churches have names 5 fomc as mtmortjh of Wits live obfcurcly, mm know not how; or While death behind him covers all the place.
pe^ce, iomt of wifdom, fome in memory of the die obfcurcly, mi-n mark not when. Ajcham. Dryden*
Trinity ideJf, fome of Chrift under fundry titles ; For meuy there arc to be confidered the valour He
faw the monfter mend his pace ; he fprings.
of the blcifed Virgin not a few ; many of one and number: the old obfervatlon i* not untrue, As terror had increas'd his feet with wings. Dryd-
apollle, faint, or martyr; many of all. that the Spaniards valour lictli in the eye of the
Hooher. To Mend. 'v. n. To grow better; to
A mftnoripl unto Ifrael, that- no ftranger offer looker -on ; but the Englifh valour lieth about the
advance in any good
incenfe before the Lord. iVi^ra. xvi. 43. foldicr's heart. Bactn't IVar tviih Sfjin. ; to be changed
AU the laws of this kingdpm have fome monu- He thought lit that the king's affairs fhould for the better.
ments or thereof in writing, yet all of
mtm'jrii'ti entirely be conduSed by the foldiers and men of Me'ndable. adj. [from mend.] Ca-
them have not their original in writing ; for fome war. CUrindon. pable of being mended. A low word.
of thofe laws have obtained their force by imme- Men- ple'aser. n. /. [men and pfea/er.] Menda'city. n.f. [from mendax, Lat.]
morial ufige. Ha!e. One too careful to pleafe others. Falfehood.
In other parts like deeds deferv'd Servants, be obedient to them tliat are your
Memmal, where the might of Gabriel fooght. In this delivery there were additional mendacities ;
mailers: not with eye-fervice, as men-flcajeri
Miltn. for the commandment forbid not to touch the
but as the fervants of Chrift, doing the will of
RefleA upon a clear, unblotted, acquitting con- fruit, and pofitively faid. Ye fhall furely die ; but
G»d from the heart. £ph, vi. 6. fhe, extenuating, replied, Led ye die. Brctvn*
fcience, and feed upon the ineffable comforts of
the tttfrwrhl of a conquered temptation. Ssuib,
To Men ACE. v. a. [menacer, French.] Me'nder. n./. [from mend.] One who
Medals many monLmc^ts configned over
are fo To threaten ; to threat. makes any change for the better.
to eternity, that may laft whjh all other mermr'uih Who ever knew the heavens menace fo ? Sbakefp. Wliat trade art thou ? A trade that I may ufe
of the fame age ar« worn out or loft. Addijon.
Your eyes do menace mc why look you pale f:
with a fafe confcicnce ; a mender of bad foals.
Sbtthefpeare.
2. Hint to affift the memory. Sbakefp. Julius Ceefar.
He was a prince fad, ferious, and full of thoughts
My roafter knows not but I am gone hence.
Me'ndicant. adj. [mendicans, Latin.]
and obfervations, and full of notes and mc-
fecret
And fearfully did minace me with death,
If I did ftay to look on his intents. Shakefpeare.
Begging ; poor to a ftate of beggary.
mcrinli of his own hand touching pcrfons. Bicen.
From this league Be not righteous over-much, is applicable to
Mnr..riali written with liing Edward's hand ihall
Peep'd harms that mcnac'd him. Shakefpeare. thofe who, out of an exccfs of zeal, praftife mor-
be the ground of tiiis hillory. Ih-yzv.ird.
What ihou'd ht do? 'Tvvas death to go away, tifications, whereby they macerate their bodjes ;
3. An add'efs ; reminding of iervices And the god mcnac'd if he dar'd to ftay. Dryden, or to ihofc who voluntarily reduce themfelves tu
and foliciting regard. Me'nace. n. f. [menace, French; from a poor and meniUcani flate. Fiddes.
Memo'ri ALIST. It. /. [from memorial.'] the verb.] Threat. Me'ndicant. »./. [mendicant, French.]
One who writes memorials. He that would not believe the menace of God at A beggar; one of fome begging fra-
1 muft nrt omit a m<morial fetting forth, that firft, it may be doubted whether, before an ocular ternity in the Romilh church.
tHe mrmcrialift had, with great difpatch, example, he believed the curfe at lall.
carried a To Me'ndicate. t/. a. [mendico, Lat.
letter from a certain lord to a certain lird. Briywni Vulvar Errourt.
Sptflater. The Trojans view the dully cloud liom far,
mendier, Fr.] To beg ; to a(k alms.
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T'sMemori'ze. v. a. [from memory.] And the .dark menace of the drftant war. Dryden,
Mendi'city. «.yt [mtndicitas, Lat. meH-
I. To recofd ; to commit to memory by Me'nacer. «, [menaceur, Fr. from dicite, Fr.] 'I'he life of a beggar,
f.
writing. menace.] A threatener ; one that threats. M E N DS for COTfWj.
Hence meyiacer ! nor tempt me into rage Let her be as fhe is If fhc be fair, 'tis tlie
They n"glef) to ntmorixi the'r conqueft of the :
:
Indians, efpcci.iliy "in thofe time* in wiiich the This roof protedls thy ralhncfs. But begone 1
better for her : and if fhe be not, fhc has the
mentis in her own hands. '
Shakefpeare.
fame was fuppofcd. Spenjer. Philips.
Let their names that were bravely loft be rather MEKA'GE. n.f. [French.] A coUeflion Me'nial. adj. [from tneiny or many;
memorized In the full table cf time ; for my pajt,
of animals. mem, Saxon, or mefnie, old French.]
1 love no amSitioui paint in an eloquent defcrip. I. Belonging to the retinue, or train of
I faw bete the largelj mtnage that I ever met
tlon of mifer'Rs, ff^ticon. with. Addijon, fervants.
Vci. II.
Two
Q^
; ;
MEN M E R M E R
Xwo ^trul ii fi hthie thtir m»fl«r piefi'<| ; 7e Me K»uaATE. i». a. [from me^fura, Me'rcaktant. n. /. [mercataite, Itn..
tkut t)»i, aud gutiilctl thui, be ktlti hl> klngl)
To meafore lian.] This word in SbakeJ'pean ft-erns
Latin.] ; to rake the di-
tve<i. DrjfJin't ^» /!
menfion of any thing. to fignify a foreigner, or foreign trader.
2. Stvi/t feetns not to have known the
Mbnsura'tion. n. J~, [from men/ura, What is he ?
mrai.ing of this word.
Latin.] The aft or praftice of inea-
Â m^cnitant, or clfe a pedant
1 he women attendanti perform only the mod I know not what but formal in apparel. Slmiejf,
>f»M/officea. Cnl'h'r'i Ti«*./r. furing refolt of tneafurin.^.
;
Me'rcantile. Aiiy. Trading; commeN
Me'nial. ». /. One of ibe train of fer- After giving the mrvfur-tihn and argumentation
cial relating to traders.
of Dr. Cumberland, it would not have been fair ;
vants, The expedition of the Argonauts was partly
to have fupprefled thofe of another prelate. Arluih.
MENrNOES. ». / [fMi»/V^.] Theme- Me'ntal. adj. [menta/e, Fr. mentis, Lat.]
mirranth'e, partly military. Arkuthnoi on C'/tm.
the two membranes that tn-
ttimget are Let him travel an.l fulfil the duties of the mili-
Intelleflual ; exilHng in the mind. tary or êrcar^rtfe life let profperous or adverfe
velope the brain, which are called the What
mtntaf power a
;
fortune him to the moft diflant parts of the

call
pia mater and dura mater ; the latier be- This eye lh°ots forth ? How big imaglnatioo globe, (till let him carry on his knowledge, and.the
ing the exterior involucrum, is, from Moves in this hp ? To the dumbaef> of the gellure improvement of his foul. tfam.
iu thicknef^, fo denominated. One might inierpret. Slj^tJ/ -ai s Tmtn of Alh.
So deep the pow'r of thef-; ingredients pierc'd,
Mf.'rcat. It./, [mercatus, Lat.] Mar-
The brain being expolcd to the air groweih fluid,
ket ; trade.
«id i« thruft forth by the coutiaflion of the mi-
Ev'n to the inmoft fea: of m^nlai fight.
That Adam now enforc'd to clofe his eyes, ,
With irrefiiliblemajelly and anthority our Savi-
Susk down, and all his fpirits became cntranc'd. our removed the exchihge, and drove the mercat
Meno'logy, n. /. [aWv.yicj ; menologe, •
Mihor. out of tlie temple. Sfrjtt,
French.] A regiller of months. The metapher of tafte would not have been fo Me'rcature. ». /. [mercatvra, Lat.]
In tile Roman martyrology wt find, atone time,
ma-.y tboufand martyrs deltroycd by Dioclefian
general, had there not been a conformity between The praflice of buying and felling.
: the mental tafte and that Anfitive tafte that atlciils
the irittdcgy faith they were twenty thoufand. the palate.
Me'kcenarikess. »./. \_liom mercenary. "^
AddrJ-n-
St.Uhgfltet.
^
If the ideas be not innate, there was a time when
Venality refpeft to hire orijeward.
;
Me'now. w.y; [fhoxinus.'\ commonly ;»/»- the mind was without thofe principles ; for where To forego pleafures of fenfe, and undergo
tlie
the hardlhips that attend a holy life, is fuch a kind

ntw. A filh. the ideas are not, there can be no knovviedge, no
of mercenarinejsj as none but a rciigncd, believing
affeoc, no jneniol or verbal propofitiuBs about them.
Me'nsal. adj. [men/alis, Latin,] Be- foul is likely to be guilty of; if fear itfelf, and
Locke,
longing to the table ; tranfafted at even the fear of hell, may be one jultifiable motive
She kindly talkd, at leaft three l*urs.
table. A word yet fcarcely naturalized. Of plallick forms, and mer.tal pow'r-s. Pikr.
of men's actions. B^le.
Converfation either mental or merfal. Clariffa, Thofe inward reprefentations of fpirit, thought, ME'RCENARY. adj. {mereenaire. Fr.
Mt'KSTRUAL. adj. [menjirual, Fr. men- We, and hatred, are pure and mental ideas, belong- mercenarius, Latin.]
Jirutts, Lat. ing to the mind, and cany nothing of Ihape or
] 1. Venal ; hired ; fold for money.
fenfe in them. Ifâtn.
1. Monthly; happening once a month; Many of our princes, woe the while \
lading a month. Mu'kt ALLY. adv. [from me Jit/il.] Intel Lie drown'd, and foak'd in mercenary blood.
She turns her globe to the fan, by moving
all
ledually; in the mind; not prajlical- SbakiJ^re.
in her mtnfirval orb, and enjoys nigi>t and day ally or externally, but in thought orme- Divers Almains, who ferved in the garrifons,
ternately, one day of her'i being equal to fourteen ditation. beinj meiely mercenary, did ;ifily incline to the
days and nights of out's. Bmtky. If we confider the hea't the firft principle of
llronged. Haywood.
2. Pertaining to a menllruum. [menjhueux, life, and meKtiiUy divide it into its conftitucnt parts, 2. Too iludious of profit; ading only for
French.] we find nothing but what is in any mufele of the hire.
The dilfcnts of the menprual or ftrong waters body. Bcii:ley. The appellation of fervani imports 3 mrrcmary
hin4er the incorporation, as well thcfe of the a Me'ntion. 71. /. \mfnticn, Fr. mentio, temper, and denotes fuch an one as make? his
melital. iianii. Lat.] rcwa-d both the fole motive and meafure of his
Me'nstruous. a^. \menftruut, Lat.] I. Oral or written expreflion, or recital of
obedience. Soutb^s Sermtim.
'Twas not for nothing I the crown relign'd ;
1. Having the catamenia. any thing. I dill muft own a mercenary mind. Dryden.
O thou of late biloT'd, Think on me when it fliall be well with thee
Now like a mirjiruoui wonian art remov'd. Sardp, and make inenthn of me unto Fharauh. Gen. xl. [4.
; Me'rcenary. n./. [mercenaire, Fr.J A
2. Happening to women at certain times. The Almighty introduces the propofal of his
hireling ; one retained or ferving for
Many, from being women, have proved men at laws rather with the mentim of fome particular afts pay.
the firft point of their menjinioui eruptions. Bmun. of kindnefs, than by reminding mankind of his He a poor nurcenary ferves for bread
Me'kstruum. [This name proba-
tt./. feverity. Rogers. For all his travel, only cloth'd and fed. Sexdyt
bly was derived from Tome notion of the z. Curfory or incidental nolninatiou. ME'RCER. >!./. [mercier, French.] One
old chemifts about the icfluence of the Haply mcr.tlort may arife
who fells fil-iw.
Of fomething not unfcafonabie to alk. Mlltcn. The draper and mercer may meafure religion as
moon in the preparation of difluivent^.]
All liquors are called mfft'uumi which are ufcd
To Me'ntion. v. a. [mentiertner, Fr. they plcafe, and the weaver caft het upon what
a? diflolvents, or to extraA the virtues of ingre- from the noun.] To write or exprefs in loom he pleafe. H-îvet.
dients by infufionor dccoAiun. ^..ia,-)'. words or writing. Me'rcery. n./. [mercerie, Fr. from mer-
enquire what is the proper miisjlruim to di'ilblve I memion the loving kindncfTes of the Lord,
will cer. ] Trade of mercers ; traffick , of
metal, what will touch upon the one and n«t upon and the praifcs of the Lord. Ifa. Ixiii. 7. ftlks.
the other, and what fcveral menjirva will diflulve Thtfc menlioned by their names were princes in The mercery is gone from out of Lombard-ftreet
any metal. âcon. their families. i Chrort. iv. 38.
and Cheapfide into Paternofter-row and fleet. ftreet.
White metalline bodies muft be excepted, which, All his tranfgrcffions Ihali not be mtnthaed.
Graunt.
by reafon of their exceflivc denfiry, feem to relieft £zik. xviii.
almoft all the light incident on their firft fuieificics, To Me'rchand. 'V. ». [marchander, Fr.J
Joys
unlefs by fulution in mtrflruvvit they be reduced Then fweet, now fad to Keiaion, through dire To tranfaft by traffitk.
into very fmall particles, and then they become change Ferdinando merchanJtd with Fiance for the re-
tianfparent. Neictin, Ofti Befall'n us, unforefeen, unthougbt of. Mihon. ftoring Roufliglioa and Perpignan, oppignoraied
It,:
Mensuraii'i.ity. n. /. No more be menthned then of violence to them. Biieon.

[men/urabUile,
Fr.] Capacity of being mealured. Againft ourfclves, and wilfulbarrenneft. Mh'ion. Me'rch ANDiSE. «._/. [marchandi/e, Fr.J
Me'niurabi.e. adj. [mcnj'ura,
Mephi'tical. adj. [mephitis, Latin.] 1. Traffivk; commerce;
trade.
Latin.]
Ill-favoured IHnking. If a fon, that by his fjther about mrr-
is fent
Meafurable ; that may be nieafured. ;
chandije, fall into fome lewd afticn, his wicked-
We nKafore ourtime bj: law and not by nature. Mrphittcal exhalations arc poifonous or noxious
nefs, by your rule, ihould he impofed upon his fa-
The foUr month it no periodical motion, and not fleams ifitiing out of the earth, from what caufe
foever. Sluincy.
ther. Slaieffeare') Henry V.
ealily vuaJuraUr, and the months unequal among
If he pay thee to the utmoft farthing, thou hafi
themfclvei, aod not to be meafurcd by even weeks Mera'cious. adj. [meracut, Latin.]
forgiven nothing : 'n h merchandife, and not for-
or days. Holder. Strong ; racy. givenefs, to reftore him that does as much as you
Me'nsural, ttdj. [ffonj men/ura, Lat.] Me'rcable. adj. [mercor, Latin.] To can require. Taylor.
Relating to meafurc. be fold or bought. Diil. bough tor
2. Wares i any thing to be fold.
fair
: ; . ; : ; !
M E R M E R M E R
Fair when her breaft, lilce a rich Udea bark Her ftther Ton fad llecping did opprefs, We adore his undeferved ikercy towards Us, that
VTith precious mrcbandijty /he forth doth lay* And with moft cruel hand him murdered pltilefs. '
he made us the chief of the vifible creation.
Spcnjcr. S/iCtt/er. Bcfitly't Semmi^
Thou (halt her at all for money ; thou
not fell The is mcrcilefs, and wiH not pity.
foe Sbakeff, z. Pardon.
ihalt not make of her. Deut, xHu 14.
fwrri'^fft/i/f' Think not tlicir rage fo defperate t effay 'Twcre a paper loft.
As for any mercbandiji you have brought, ye An element more mercilefi than they. Denbam, As ofFer'd merry is. Sbikejfeare's CytihiUne.
(hall have your return in itrchanJiJc or in gold. What God fo mean. Cry mercy lords.
Bacon, So Ktrcilcft a tyrant to obey !>^ Dryden's Juveml. That you have ta'en a tardy (laggard here.
So aSive a people will always have money, whilft Whatever ravages mtraUJi diftempet may com-
a Sbaieffeare,
they caji fend what mtnteadifes they pleale to mit, ihe Ihall have one man as much her admirer I cry thee mercy with all my heart, for fufpedling
Mexico. Aildif.r. as ever. /'^y t. a friar of the leaft good nature. DryJcn.
To Me'rchandise. v. n. To trade to The torrent mertilefi imbibes
; 3. Difcretion ; power of afiing at plea-
Commi/Iions, perquilites, and bribes. Swift.
trafiick ; to exercife commerce. fure.
The Pbcenicians, of whofe exceeding mrrcban- Me'rcilessly. adi/. [from mercilefs.]
""
Condition
we read fo much in ancient hiftories, were
i.fittg In a manner void of pity. i What good condition can a treaty find
Canaanitu, whofe very name fignihes merchants. Me'rcilessness. n.f. [from mercilefs.] I' th' part that is at inercy ? Sbahfpeare's Cffriofarcust
Brcrctvo'jti en Languages^
Want of pity. The moft autheiitick record of fa ancient a
Me'rchakt. n./. [marcbanJ, Fr.J One Mercu'rial. adj. [merturieiLs, Latin.]
family (hould lie at the mercy of every infant wh.j
who traiiicks to remote countries. 1. Formed under the influence of mer-
flings a ftone. Pefe.
France hath fiaw'd the league, and hath attach'd A lover ever complaining of cruelty while any
is
cury; aflive; fprightly. thing is denied him ; atid when the laiy ceafcs to
Our mercbantt goods at Bourdeaux. Shakejftearc.
I know the (hape of 's leg this his hand. be cruel, ih: from the next moment,
The Lord hath given a commandment againfl : is is, at his
His foot mercurial, his martial thigh^ mercy.
the mercbart city to deltroy the llrong holds there- Stvifi,
The brawns of Hercules. Sbahfp:are's Cymbeliiu. Mercy-seat.
of. Ija. xxiii. 11. »./. [mercy znd feat.]
This youth was fuch a mercurial, as could make
The mod celebrated imrcbanti in the world were Themercy -frai was the covering of the ark of
his own part, if at any time he chaUccd to be out.
fituated in the ifland o( Tyre. Add'tjon. the covenant, in which the tables of the law were
Bacon's Henry VII.
Me'rchantly [from mtr-
> adj.
Tully confidered the difpofitions of a iiccere,
depofited it was of gold, and at its two end»
:
were fixed the two chcnibims, of the fame metal,

Me'kchantlike. J chant.'\ Like a more ignorant, and lefs mercurial nation, by dwell- which with their wings extended f ..vards, feemcl
merchant. Ain/worth. ing on the paciictick part. Smift. to form a throne for the majefty of God, who in
Me'rch ANT-MAN. «. /. [^tttirchant and 2. ConliHiog of quickfilver: as, mercu- fcripturc is feprefented as fitting between the che.
man.'\ A fhip of trade. rial medicines. rubims, and the ark was his footftool : it was from
Pirates have fair winds and a calm fea, when the Mercurifica'tjon. ». / [frjjn hence that God gave his oracles to Mofes, or t*
mer-
juft and peaceful m^Tchattt-man hath them. tiic high-pried that confulted him.
Id tlx time of AuguHus and Tiberius, the

""Ttiyi.r.
cury.] The aa of mixing any thing
Calrter.
Make a mercy -fiat of pure gold. E.r«J. xxr. 17.
with quickfilver.
fouthern coafts of Spain fent great fleets of mcr-
I add the ways of n ere uriji cation.
Mere. adj. [meruj, Lîm.] That or this
(bavt-men to luly, Arlutbnct. Bcyk.
only; fuch and nothing elfe; this only.
Me'rch ANT ABLE. adj. [^mercabilis, Lat. ME'RCURV. n.f. [mercurius. Latin.] Scotland hath foifons to fill up your will
from mercAani.] Fit to be boushc or 1 The chemills name for quickfilver is Of your mere own. Shakejptare' % Macbetbm
fold. mercury. /////. 1 have engag'd myfelf to a dear friend,
Why they placed this invention in the beaver, he gall of animals and mercury kill worms
'i Engag'd my enemy,
friend to his mere
belide the medical and ntrchaninbU commodity of and the water in which mercury is boiled has tliis To feed my
means. Sbakijp. Merchant of Venke.
caiior, or parti conceived to be bitten aviay, might
effeft.^
. .
Ai-liuthiiot. The mere Irilh were not admitted to the benefit
be the fagacity of that animal, hrmun'! A'o/. Err. 2. Sprightly qualities. of the laws of England, until they had purchafeJ
Me'rciable. aJj. [from mercy.'] This Thus the mercury of man is fix'd. charters of denization. Davits en Ireland.
Strong grows tlie virtue with his nature mix'd From mere fuccefs nothing can be concluded in
word in Sptnftr /iguifies mtrciful. Not j
favour of any nation upon whom it is bellowed.
'I he drol's cements what die were too renn
d,
ufed. And one
in int rcli body atts with mind. Pope. Acterbury^
Nought but weir mocght him befight What if the hearf,
the eye, or ear repind.
3. -'V news-paper; fo called from Mer-
He is fo meek, wife, mtrnah'.e. To fcrve mere engines to the ruling mind. Pope.
And with his word his work is convcnable. cury, the intelligencer oi the gods.
Sper.pr. Let talhirn tyrants from the light of heav'n
Me'rciful. /?<^'. {mercy mi full.] Com- Ainjiuortb. Seclude tlicir bofom (laves, meanly poflels'd
paiConate ; tender; kind; unwilling 4. It is now applied, in cant phrale, to Oiimirc, lifelefi, violated form. Tbcm/en's Spring.
to punifh ; willing to pity and fpare. the carriers ol news and pamphlets. Mtkg or Mer, in the beginning, middle,
Be mrdful, O
Lord, unto thy people thou haft .Me'rcury. n.f
[mercurialis, Latin.] or end, fignify the fame with the Saxoa
redeemed. Diut. xxl. S. Aplant. tpif.i, a pool or lake. Gibfon,
Obferve Herb mercury is of an e;nai,liei\( nature, and is Mere, n.f [mejie, Saxon.]
Hit providence, and on him fole depend, eaten in l;hc mamier of Ipinjch, Mincli, wht-n
Merfiful over ail his works ; with good cultivated in a garden,
[ t- A pool; commonly a large pool or
it grcutly cxteK. ;/,//,
StiB overcoming evil. Milim. lake : as, JVimmder mere.
Me'rcury's /«^^r. n.f. [hirmoda^ylui, Met " ftored both witli fi(h and
Me'rcifully. adv. [from merciful.] Lat.] Wild f.iFron.
fowl. CanJît.
Tenderly mildly with pity ; with z. A boundary. .

; ;
ME'RCY. n.f [merci, French, contrafl- The mifliyer of a mcre-Rone \a to blame but
compafljon. ed from
:
mijericordia, Latin.] the unjuft judge that is the capital temovcr of

it is
Make the true ufe of thofe affliflions which his
landmarks, who dcfineth amils of hinds. Bac:n.
hand, mrr.-ifully fcvere, hath been pleafed to lay
I. Tendernels; goodnel's; pity; willing-
upon nefs to fpare and fave ; clemency iVft'RELY. ad-v. [from mere.] Simply;
thee. AturLry, ;
mildnefs unwillingnefii to puniOi. only ; thus and no other way ; for this
Me'rcifulness. n.f. [from merciful.] ;
Oh lieav'n have mtrij on mc !

and for no other end or purpofe.
Tenderiiefs.; willingnefs to fpare.
—I amen.
fay, Which we ourfcivei would grant, if the
thing
The band that ought to knit all thofe excellen- And have you r^cy too ? Siake/fetre. ufe thereof had been merely iki oflly my'ftical.
cies together i-. a kind mercifuUrJs to fuch a one, Merty is nut Itiain'd
as i> in hu foul devoted to lucli pcifc£iions. It droppeth, as tlie gentle t:ii« liom heiv'n. Theft external manners of laments
Sidn^. Upon tbe place beneath. It is twice bleli d Ate mr'ely ftiaJc>4Vi to tlie mifien grief,
j
Ufe the means ordinary and lawful, among It bleffcth him that gives and him Tliat fwcUs with fijence in the tortur'd foul.
that takes.
which mtrafitheft and liberality is one, to which
'^('a^cff:arc. Shakefpearc.
iht promife of lecular wealth is moft ficquently Thou, O Ooi, vt gnacioutj loiig-fuffcrinj, and bdovv reafonablc creatures to be coaverfaiie
It I»
tntie. Hammitd. in merty ordering in (ucii diverfiuns n are meiely innocent, and have
;ill.
H^{fil. tv. i.
Mt'tiCiLtit. adj. [ftommtrcy.] Voidof Examples of julHcc muft be m.id« for tttror to fcSthing elfe to recommend them. Addim.-
mercy ; pitilefi ; hard hearted fomc ; examples of mercy for comty.t t« others Above a thoui'and bjugbt hi-: almanack miiilt
; cruel
the one procures fear, and the other love. Ji,uv:. to find what he faid again!? me. iS'S.'ifi.
fevere.
Good heav'n, whofe darling attribute we find Hriie not jvjr life fpr other ends
His mother mmVift,
Is boundlcfs grace, and mfr._y to mankind. Tli.m mer,ly to oblige your friend*. Swift..
hlot merciltfi of wtmea Wyden hight.
Abhors the cruel. DryJcn. MERHTRrClOUS, tidj.- [merttriciui.
<i. * nurttrtjtt
M E R M E R M E R
And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back.
merttrix, Lai.] Whorilh ) fuch M is To him
And
the wi: of Cteec} aj-d
ev'ry author's merit but hit
Rome
own.
vtJ knowft,
Bo/ê. Uttering fuch dulcet and h.irnijni.'U^ bieatll,
.
pra£lifed by prollituces ; alluring by I'l'.at the fude fea grew civil at her fong. Shahffit
She valu'd nothing Icfs
falfe (how. Than titles, figure, Uiapc, and dic'.'s
Did fcnie perfuade Llydt-s not to hear
j
Our c- ..,-.,•:_., (,,„ fuft'crcd a The m.rmjids fongs, which fo his men did plea(e.
That mrrir (hnulJ be chiefly plJc'd
fad divn:. '.t, defile them- In judgment, knowlcd^je, wit, and tafte. Swift. That they we.e .ill perfuaded, ihr( ugh the ear,
Iclvtt wit .
, 1. lance, that tljc
Reward dcferved.
' To quit the Ihip and leap into the fcas f Da-uies,
2.
variety at opinion picicati ti4an with. Few eyes have efcjped the pifture of a mer.
U"hofe laurel groves, the Ktria of thy youth.
CUitvUU't Scifji:. rtiaitf : Horace his monfter, with woman's head
Which thou from Mahomet didlt greatly gain.
Not by affcêd, wunttWijut arti, ab-'>ve, and fifiiy extremity below, anlAcrs the ilâpc
While, bold af.lrtor of refiftlef^ truth.
But llrid harmonious fymmeiry nt' parti. Rtf^tm. of the ancient fytens that atlcn-.ptcd upon UlyfTes.
Thy fwo:d did godlike liberty mainiun. Prkr.
MsRlTRrciousLY. aJv. {(tom mttreiri-
3. Claim; right; charadier with relpedt
Brtitvn's Vulgar Errsuru
'
«<»/.] Whoriihly after itie manner t,t Me'RmXid's trumpet, n./. A kind of
;
to Jcfert of good or evil.
whores. fi(h. Jin/.
You bave tlie captivcv; ufe them
Mer bTKi'dousiiesSi n./, [from mert- As wx (hall find their m;rit! and our faiety Me'rrii.y. [from merfy.'\
eidv. Gaily j
irithus.] Falfe allurement like tbole of May e.jually determine. ShaLJ unre'i King Lear. airily; cheerfully; with iivirth ; with
As J am fludiaus to honour of my
pi-orr.ote tl;c gaiety with lautjhter.
llrumpets. ;
native country, put Cliautvr't /nn f:t to the frla!,

1 Td.rr'Jy, n.r.'.'.y, lhi.U we live now,
MERI'DI.AN. ». [merUhn, Fr. meri- / by turning fomesof th^ Casterbiiry ules into our l'ii>l.:r itiL bioifoni that hai.gs on the biugh. Sbak^
dies, Lai.] Drjdcti.
lijigui^ge. When men come to borrow of your mailers, they
1. Noon ; n>ii]-day. When hath been well examined, and cur
a point approach fadly, and go away merrily. Sbakfl-eare.
He promIsM in liis Eaft a gloHoui race. own judgment after a large furvey of the
ffttfej, A paifan of Fiance chinks of no more than
Now funk from his wfrj./Mn, fi-rrapacer Dryjtn. merits of the caufe, it would be a wcaknels to con- and ins onions, his canvafs ciotbes
his coarfe bread
2. The line drawn from north to louih, tinue flutteting. Walls. and wooden Ihoes, labours cont^^ntedlv on working
which the fun crofles at noon. To Me'rit. -v. ez. [meriter, French.] days, and dantcs or plays meriiiy on liolidays.
The true mtr'uHan is a pafTing through circle 1. To defarvc ; to liave a right to claim Tcmfle s M.fcil.
of the world, and tlic zenith or vertex Merrily fiog, and fport, and flay, .
the poie:^ any thing as deferved.
of aoy pbce, cxaAly dhiding tlie call from (he For 'tis Uriana s nuptial day. Cran-jille,
Amply have merited of me, of all
weft. Bii-7vr/i Vulgar Errcbn, Th' ini'crnal empire, Milten'i Paradifi Ltjl. Me'rrimake. «. Jl ^meny and maie."]
The fuo h moon, riling or fccting, our idea A man at bcft is uncapable of meriting any thing A fcftival ; a meeting tor mirth ; merry
ttptcfents bigger than when on the meridian. from God. Soufh^ Sernxns. pranks.
fVaiis'i Lcgiii.
2. To deferve ; to earn : it is ufed gene- Thcnot now nis the time of mrrrym.rkt.
3. The particular place or ftate of any rally of good, but fometimes of ill. Nor Pan to hcrie, nor with love to play,
thing. Whatfoever jewels I have merited, I am futc 1
Sike mirth in May is mecteft for to make.
All other knowledge merely ferves the concerns have received none, unlcfs experience be a jewel j
Or Summer ihade, under the cocked hay. Spenfer*
of this life, and is fitted Co the merilia/i tlicreof: that I have purch.ifed at an infinite rate. The knight did not forbear,
thcv are fuch as will be of little ufe to a fepatatc Shakefp. Merry Wives of Jiîr^djtn: Her honeft mirth and pleifure to part.ikc.
foul. Ha/e. -.
If fuch rewards to vantûiHi'd men are due, But when he faw her gibe, and toy, and gcare^
_
4. The hipheft point of glory or power. What prize may Nifus from your bounty claim, And pais the bounds of modeil merrirrake.
I've touch'd the highcfc poijit of a)l my grcatnefs. ^Vho merited the firll rewards, and fame ? DryJ.ii. Her dalliance he defpifed.
^''Ol ^W'
And from that full mcriJjait of glory my Merito'rious. adj. [meriloire, Fr. from 7o Me'r RiMAKE. "v. a. To fcall ; to be
1 h«(Jenow to my fetting. Shektff. UtKry Vlll. merit.] Deferving of reward ; high in jovial.
Your full majclty at ginccbreaks forth With thee 'twas Marian's dear delight
defert.
In the irurliuB of your reign. Wallir. Tc moil all day, and rr.irr:make at night, Ce^y-
Inftead of fo great and meritorious a fervice, in
MekToian. aJj.
bringirg the Iriih to acknowledge the king for
all
Me'rrimekt. n./.Ûom merry. 1 Mirth;
I. Being at the point of noon. their lifge, they did great hurt. Sperfr on Inland. gaiety ; cheerfulnefs ; laughter.
Sometimes tow'rda Eden, which now in his view The war tlut hath fuch a foundation will not Who when they Keaid thatpiteou? ftrained voice.
Lay pleafjiU, his griev'd look he fixes fad ; only be irputed juft, but holy and meritcricut. In hade forlook their rural mirr'.nunt. Fairy Sluee- •
Soraetimej tow'rds hra»'n, and the full blai!ng Raleigh's Efj'ays. Anumber of merriments and jcds, wherewith
fun, Sufficient means of redemption and falvation, by they have pleafantly moved much laughter at our
Which now iV high in his mtridUn tow'r. M'lktn. the fjtisfaflory and meritorious death and obedience manner of ferving God. Hotk^rt
a. Extended irom north to fouih.
'*'
of the incarnate Son of God, Jefus ChriH, God Methought it was the found
Compare the mtrtdtan line afforded by magnc- bleded for ever. Sarderfon. Of riot and ill-managed m.^rrim^nt. Millon^
• tical needles with one mathematically drawn, ob- This is not only the moft prudent, but th» moft Me'rriness. h./. [ttom merrj.] Mirth;
lervc the irariacion of the needle, or its declination meritorious charity, which we can pradife. j^ddijon. merry difpofition. '
irom the true mc;iiitd« Ime. BaÛ. Merito'riously. adv. [from merilori- The ftile ihall give us cau& to ciimb in the mer~
3. Raifed to the higheft point. cuj.] In fuch a manner as to deferve rinrf. Si/aki/jieare^
tAzni moK tk.L. adj [meridional, tteac^.} .
reward. MERRY, etdj.
1. Southern. i' He carried himfclf meritoricujly in 'oreign em- 1. Laughing; loudly cheerful; gay of
In the (nuthcm coa.t of America and Africa, ployments in time of the Intcrdidt, which held up heart.
the fouthern point varieth toward the land, as his credit among the patriots. Wouon. They drank and were merry with him.
being difpofcd that way by the mcridlu;el or proper
Merito'riouskess. [from meri-
n, /. G:it. xliii. 34.
hemifpherc. Brc^tvn't Vulgar Errours,
torious.'\ The aft or Hate of deferving The vine languiAieth, all the nriry hearted figh.
2. Soul! eriy ; having a fouthern afpefl.
IfaT xxiv.
well.
AU ofh.cs that requite heat, as kitcKeos, liilla- Some that are of an ill and melancholy nature,
fjties, and ftovcs, fhoulil be mtr'iJkr.al,
There was a fiill pcrfuafion of the high meri-
tVcttjti, incline tiu: company into which they come to. b«
forita/jiie/i of what they did; but ftill tlietc was no
Meiiidiona'litY. m. /. [itom meridio-
law'of God to ground it upon,, and confequcntly it
fad and iU-d:fpofed ; and otherts that are of a jovial
)»ai.] Pofitibn in the fouth ; afpeft to- nature, do dilbofe the company to be mirry and
was not coi\fcicnce. South.
wards the fouth. cliccrful. iSaioii's Natural llifofy,
Me'ritot. n. /. [c/cillum, Latin.] A Man is the merritjl fpecies of the creation; all
Meri'dionally. adv. [from meridional. ] kind of play. Ainfiuirth. .iboVc and below him are ferious. jiddifon%.
in the diredlioo of the meridian.
The Jews, nit willing to lie as their temple
Me'rlin.w./. a kind of hawk. 2. Caufing laughter.
Not yielding over to old age his country delights, You kind her hulband, and for that;vile fault
ftood, do place their bed from north to fouth,and
he was at that time following a merlin. iiJney. Two of her brothers were condcmn'd to death ;
delight to flecp meridiori^lly, Brvuni Vulgar Err.
My hand cut off, and made a merry jeft. Hbake^,
MERIT. «./. [meritum, Lat. merite, Fr.] Me'rmaio. m /. ^ner, the fea ; and
Frofperous. •
|. Defert ; excellence defervitig honour

tmetid.'\ A fea woman ; an animal with 3.
In my
fmall pinnace I can 6U,
or reward. a woman's head and filh's tail.
Contemning all the blufl'ring toar ;
I'll drovva tjiore £ulort than the mermaid fliall.
And tanning with a'MtrrJi
She deem'd I well dcferv'd to diey
*
gale.
And made of her cruelty.
a merit Drjd.n. Sbakeffcare. With friendly ftars my fafcty fcrk,
Kofcommon, not more Icarn'd than good, Thou temcmbreft, Wi hin foHie little winding creek,
'With maaners gea'rgut at his noble bluod i
Since once I fat upoa a promontory, And fei the ftorm afcorev tf}jdnt.
;
M E S .M E S MET
7» «/:i# Merry. To junket; to be jo- Thsgreatefl portion of th' arterial blooi. tet t!ie m'nifler be low, his intereft inconfi-
vial.
They trod the grapes and mixdt merry, and went
into the houfe of their God. 7''iig '*• ^7-
By the dole ftruflure of the parts wichllooiJ.
Whofe narrow mrjbci ftop the groUer fljod I
hlatkimre-
derable,
m jf-g!
the world will fulfet for his fake ; the
will ftill find
dignity of the mcn"eni;er.
reception according to t!is
Sovto.
A fox 'fpy'd a bevy of jol'y, goflip'ng wenciies To Mesh. i;. a. [from the noun.] To The welcome rêjpj're made, was foon reccivM ;
'Twas frj be wiih'd and hop'd, but fcarce believ'd»
.•7!-ii'» mtrty over a Jifli ofjjullets. i, Ffiâr^-. catch in a net to enfnare. ;
Drydc-rt*
JiitRRY- a'ndrev/. n.j". A buffoon; a The flies by chancr nrpM in her hair,
Me'ssenger. », /. [mr_âger, Ft.] One
zany; a jackpudding. By the br'ght radiance thiown
He would be a ftatefman bccaufe he is a buf- From her clear eyes, rich jewels were, who carries an errand one who comes ;
foon ; as if there went no more to the making

They.fo like di:.moiids flione. Draytim. fiom another to a third one who brings ;
of counfcUor than thefacultiesof a »i«rr)i-aWr«p

a Me'shy. adj. [from mej/i ] Reticulated ; an account or foretoken of afiy thing ;.
or tumbler. VEjlrargc. of network. an harbinger; a forerunner.

The firft who made the experiment was a mcrty. Some build his hcufe, but thence hi? iiTue barre, Came runninj in, much like a man difmaid,
anirfw. Sf.aatsr. Some make his mfjy bed, but reave his reft. Carciu. A trejjing:/ with letters, which his meilage faid-
Me'rrythouoht. [merry and n. /. Caught in the mejky fnare, in vain they beat Spcnfct.-
thought.^ A forked bore on tht body of Their idle wings. Thomjcn. Yon grey lines.
fowls; recalled becaufe boys and girls Me'slin, n. f. [fromFrench, to »»f^(?r, That fret the clouds, are rr.Jingers of day.
pull in play ac the two fides, the longeft

mix; or rather corruptly pronounced Sbakffpeartm.
The one afrer another
carl difpatched mcjfingfri
part broken off betokening priority of iai mt/ctllane. ScbMaslin.] Mixed to the king, with an account of what he heard and
marriage. com : as wheat and rye. believed he faw, and yet thought not fit to ft.iy-
Let him not be breaking merrjttcugbti under the What reafjn is there which ihould but induce, for an anfwcr. Chrtndcn^
table with my and thcrefuie much lels enforce, us to think, that
coufm. E.harii. Joy touch'd the mjj'.vger of heav'n ; he ftay'd
care of old diflimllitude between :he people of God
1i/1esera':ck. n. /. [n-TclfaKt; me/eraijue, Ent! jn.:"d. and all tJic blifsfut haunt furvey'd. Popt,
and the heathen mtions about them, *as any
French analogy requires it
: /w^/ij-a/V/f.j more the caufe of t jrb'ddV.g tlicm to put on gar-
MESSI'AH. n. f. [from the Hebrew.]
Belonging to the myientery. ments of fundry fiu?*', than of charging them The Anointed; theChrill; the Savijour
It tiiketh leave of the
permanent parts at the withal not to fow their fiel.ls with mtjl.n. llukir. of the world ; the Prince of peace. '
mouths of the accompanieth the

trrftraich, aj:d if worke for the thrclhcr ytvmind for to have. Great and public oppotition the magiltrates made-
inconvertible porticn into the fiegc. Jirowr- Of wheat and of «r;.y?/ii: unthieflicd go fave. Tiijjtr, againll Jefus, the man of Naj»reth, when he ap-
The moft fubtile part of the chyle palTeth im- peared as the Melfittb. Wausi^
MesOLEu'cys. tt. /. [A.'.cr!i>.ivi^.'\ A
mediately into the blood by the abforl>ent veflcls
precious ftone, black, with a ftreak of
MESSI'EVRS^. [French, pluial of
n. f.
of the guts, which difcharge themlelves into the
mon/ttur,] Sirs ; gentlemen.
mftrakk veins. j1riuihi;>:. white in the middle. Dia.
Meso'lOCARITH Me'ssmate. n.yl [me/s and male.]' One
Me'rsion, Latin.]
n. /. 1 he [merjio, MS. *./. [oifVl©^', >iy(f^,
and The logaiiihms of the who eats at the fame table.
aft of finking, or thrufling over head. 0|i^f4'?>..]
cnfircs and tangents, fo denominated Me'ssuage. n./. [mej/'uagium, law Latin f
Ainftvorlh.
by Keflef. formed perhaps from me/nnge by miftake
Mese'ems, imperfonal verb. \me and Harris.
of the n in court hand for a, they beinffi
/etms, or it feems to me : for this word ii Meso'mFI AS. n. /. [itîr!!«£â;.] A pre-
written alikej mefnage, from viaiJon,]''T^
is now too common to ufe methiaks or cious Hone with a black vein parting
mithcught, an ungramraatical word.] every colour in the midft. Baihj.
The houfe and ground fet apart for
Me'spise. n.f [probably mifpi'inted houfthold ufes.
1 think ; it appears lo me ; methinka. lor
Alas, of ghofts hear the ghalHy cr es
I t>sej)ri/e; meflrit, French.] Contempt;
Met, the preterite and part, of meef.
Yef there, mtUcmi, I bear her Tinging loud. SiJtiiy.
A fet of well meaning gentlemen in England^.
fcorn. not to be met with in other countries, take it for
MrpcKcd liy my fide a toyal maid, XIammon was much dtfpleas'd, yet not he chofe
Her dainty limbs full foftly down did granted tiiey can never be wrong fo long as they:
lay. Fjiry Sh But bear ttie rigour of his held mtjpijt. oppofc miniilers of (late.
To that gentral fubjcftion of the land mijcms And thence him forward led, him further to entice.
Aldifsn's Frei/.oiJrr^
that the cuilom cr tenure can be no bar nor im- Mt agc a'mmatisjc.
1 ». / [•«'!» and
Spnf,,.
fcachment. y;a'f,fta.]
S[-enftr. Mess. «. cid French ; mejjh,
/. [met,
ME'SENTERY. ». /. [a$a,i\i(t'>,\ me/en- Italian mijfui, Latin ; ines, Goihick ;
:
Anagrammatifm, or pi.lugrjmmat'fm, Isa diflb-
lutioni.f a name into its letters, as its elements,
tere, French ] That round which the mej-«, Saxon, a did).] difli; a quan- A and a nrwconn.xlon of it by artificial tranfpjfiti;'ii;
guts are convolved. tify of food fent to table together. Without addition, fubtra£tiun, or change of an'r
When the chyle palTeth through the mtfentery, The boimtenus hufwifc, nature, on each bufli letter into different words, making fome perfeit
it is mixed with the Ijmpli. ylrtittnai an Almt>i:s. Lays her full mtj\ before you. Shakcjf. Tim- of Ath. feiife applicable to the perfon named. Camdem,
Mesente'ricx. adj. [tne/enlerique, Fr. Now your traveller, METJ BASIS, n.f. [Greek.] In rhe-
from me/cntery.'\ Relating to the me He and his toothpick at my worfhip's mtfs. Stat. torick, by which the orator
a figure
1 had as lief you Ihould tell me of a mffs of por-
fentery.
ridge.
from one thing to another. Die},
partes
Shaktfpcarc.
They are cvried into the glandiof the mefcntery, Meta'bola. n /. [;/.i'a?o?i«.] Tfi medi-
Heil;^ and other country mfffii.
receivinj a fine lymph from the lymphatjclc du£tj,
Which the neat-handed I'hiltis drertes. Mnt.r.. cine, a change of time, air, or difeafe.
which oilu'esthis chylous fluid, and fcoursitscon-
tainin;; v^fTcIs, which, from the jrefeutfyuk glands,
Ha-i either of the ciimes been cooked to their MeTATa'rPUS. a. y; [u.i1a>:»f7i^,.] \n
palates, they might have changed m,£e%.
anite in large channels, and pafs ditcAly into tiie anatomy, a bone of the arm made op
Dcc.iy ef Piety,
common receptacle of the chyli. Cb.jnt. From him he next receives it
of four bones, whicli are joined lo the
thick or thin,
MfcSH. n. /. [maejihe, Dutch ; tnache, A.^. piirc a wr/j almoft as it came in. Pope, fingers. 2>,v?;
old Fiench : it were therefore better To Mess. -v. n. To eat ; to feed. 1 he conjnnftion is called fynnrthrofis ; a< in
the joining of tlie carpus to the metacarpus.
written, as it is commonly pronotinced, Me'ssage. n.f, [menage, French.] An Wifemans Surgery,
majh.'\ The interftice of a net; the errand ; any thing committed to an-
between the threads of
Metaca'rpal. adj. [from niefacarpus.']
fpa<;e a net. other to he told to a third.
The dtovns hang fijuaie net! athwi:t the t!jc, She doth difplay
Belonging to ttie metacarpus. />/'<*.
thorough which the (hoal of pilchard pafling, leave It will ticilitate the feparation in the joint,
The gate with pearls and rubies richly dight.
many behind cr.t.nrgted in the mtujhtt. Through which herwordifo wile do make when you cut the finger from the mcctarpal bone.
C.tretv. their way.
Such a hare is madnefs the youth, to fk!p o'er To bear the trijfigr of her gentle fpright. SpeiJ.r, ikarft Hurtterf.,.
• the mrjhtj of good cr.nnfcl the crip] k. Sbakejftarc. May one, that is a herald and a prince, METALS. ». /. {metal, Fr. metaiium^
He fprcadd his fobile netj from fight, Do a fair iyrj[..gt to his kingly ears ? ^bakcjpean. Lat.]
With twirkling glalTcs to betray
The Inks that in the mjkc: light.
She is fair, «id, fairer that word.
tlia.a
1. We underlfand by the term metal a
Dr-d '. Of wnnd'rouj viituesj foractime^ from her eyes
firm, heavy, and hard fubftance, opake,
With all their mouths tlie nerves the fpirits dVirk, I did receive fair fpccchlcfs mejfige%. 'Shak,Ji/iart.
M blth ihiougb thecells of the tine ftraincri fink Gently halt thnu fuiible by fire, and concreting again
; told
Tfcefe all the <.hann':rd fibres ev'ry way. . Thy mtjj<sge^ which might elfe in telling wûnd, when cold into a folid body, fuch as it
For mati«D and fcnfAiion, lUS'^bOvey ; And in petfouning end us. MUmn't I'arau'tjtLoji. was before, which is malleable unden
the
; ;
MET MET ]VI E T

The im^fliliititT to concclTt fc great a prince Call her the mtiafbyjitki of her fer.
tliehammer, tnd U of « bright, gloflfy,.
and favourite fo fudden'y mttamtrfhejtd into tra- And fay Ihc tortures wits as quartans vex
and glittering fubft.ince where newly cut
vellen, with no train, was enough Co make any Phyficians. C!i*^<i!iuiJ,
or broken. The memlt are fix in nnm- man unbelieve his five fcofcs. ffoiton. If fight be caufed by intromilTion, or receiving
ber: i. gold; z. iilver ; t. copper; From fuch rude principles our form began. in, the form of contrary fpecies Ihould be received
And man. Dryden. confufedly together, which, how abfurd
9. iron.; 2nd, 6. leaa; of which earth was mciamcrfhoi'd into it is,
4. tin ;
Ariftotle flicws in his mttaphyftku PetchcM'
gold is the heavted, lead the fecond in Metamo'rphosis. »._/". [mtlamorpho/e,
See phyfick beg the Stagyiite s defence !
weight, then filver, then copper, and Fr. fj.t\xiJLOppa!a-*;.l

See mciapbvfii i call for aid on fenfe Pofe'i Dan:, !
iron is the lightfft except tin fome 1, Transformation; change of fliape.

; The lopicks of ontology or mrlapbyfici, are
have added mercury or quickflver, to His whole oration ftood upon a fliort narration, caufe, efTefi, action, p4Jion, identity, oppotition,
what was the caul'cr of this mttamtrpbc/iu Sidnty. fubjeA, adjunA, and figft. Hâm's Lcg'uk.
the number of iKttali ; bat as it wants grown fo common, that one
Obfccnc ta!k is
oialleability, the criterion of meiaU, it
would think we were fallen into an age of metamer-
Me'taPLASM. a. Jl [u«!ar>JWf<.o,-.] A
figure in rhetorick, wherein words or
is more properly ranked among the pbo/ii, and that the brutes did not only poetically
feTni-»«f/<i//. Hill. but really ft>eak. Covermnml of the Tnguc. letters are tranfpofed contrary to their
MeiaUifts ufc a kind o{ terrace in their velTels What ! my noble colonel in mtiamorfhcfii I On natural order. DiJf.
what occafion are you transformed ? Drydtn.
for fining mttaU, that the melted imtal run not out. Metasta'sis.. ».y; [miWiaVk.] Tranfla-
There are probable machines in epic poems,
tion or removal.
where the gods are no lefs a£lors than the men
2. Courage; fpirit. In this fenfe it is ;
His difcafc was a dangerous afthma; the caule
but the lei's credible fort, fuch as mnamorphofii, are
more frequently written mettle. far more rare. Broome.
a meiaftafii, or tranflation of tactarous humoun
Being glaj to find their companions had (o murh from his joints to his lungs.
2. It applied by Harvey to the changes
is
Hanjiy on Confumplions,
mtial, alter a lon^ dcbaie the major part carried it.
Clarcrdort. an animal undergoes, both in its form- Metata'rsal. adj. [from metatar/us.^
3. Upon this fignificaiion the following ation and growth ; and by feveral to Belonging to the metatarfus.
ambiguity is founded. the various diapet fome infefts in par- The bones of the toes, and part only of the
Both kinds of p:cral he prcpar'd. ticular pafs through, as the (ilk-worm, metatr.rfal bones, may be carious ; in which cale
Either to give blows or to wari ; and the like. încy. cut oft' only fo much of the foot as is difordercd.
Courage and (ieei both of great force, Sharp's Surgery,
Prepar'd for better or for worfe. BuiUbras,
METAPHOR, n./. [metaphore, French ;
MetaTa'rsUS. n./. [fA-ha and rafjo;,]
Metale'psis A ftsiaôfa.] The application of a word to
n./. \u.S\»y.ii\i(;.'\ con- The middle of (he foot, which is com-
tinuation of a trope in one word through
an ufe to which, in its original import,
pofed of five fmall bones connefled to
Bailey. it cannot be put: as, he bridles his
a fucceflion of fignifications. (hofe of the fird part of the foot. Z>/'j3.
anger; heJeaJeus the found ; tiie Spring
Mkta'llical. ) atlj. [from meiallum, The conjunAion is called fynirtlurofis, as in the
Meta'llick. Lat. metallique, Fr.]
awakes the flowers. A metaphor is a joining the larfus to the metatarfus. JVfemjn,
J
Partaking of metal ; containing metal fimile comprized in a word the Spring
; Meta'thesis. n.f. [uiia^tsn.'^ A tranf-
confiding of metal.
putting in aftion the powers of vege- pofitiov
The ancients obferring in t^t material a kind tation, which were torpid in the Winter, To Mete. v. a. [metior, Latin.] To
of tr.tt4illic»l ottan, or iu(ibiU»)f, fecrn to have re- as the powers of a fleeping animal are n)€afure ; to reduce to meafure.
solved it an art now stterly loft.
to nobler ufe ; excited by^waking him. I will divide Shecbem, and mett the valley of
Kôtion'i Architidurc. The work of tragedy is on the paflions, and in Succoth. Pjalmi,
The lofty lines abound with endlefs ftore a dialogue ; both of them abhor ftrong metn/ihori, To meafure any diftance by a line, apply fome
Of min'ral trcafure, and memllick ore. Blacktnore. in which the epopoea delights. Dryihn. known meafure wherewith to tnele it. Holder^
Metalli'ferov's. [metallum and
adj. One died in nutaphor, and one in fong. Pope. Though you many ways purfue
/ero, Lat.] Producing metals. Di3. Metapho'rical. J adj. [metapherique, To find their length, you'll never mett the true.
But thus ; take all tiiat fpace the fun
Meta'lline. oajr. [from ra«/a/.] Metapho'rick. J French; from »»?-
Metti out, when every daily round is run- Creech,
1. Impregnated with meial. taphor. ] Not literal not according ;
Me'tewant). ) n. /.[mete jmA yard, or
Mrinllint waters have virtual cold in them ; put to the primitive meaning pi the word ;
therefore wood or clay into fnuch's water, and try Me'teyard. ( -uaffr/.] A lUlF of a
figurative.
whether it will not harden. Bacon. certain length wherewith meafures are
The woiJs which were do continue } the only
2. Confiding of metal. diftcrcnce is, that whereas before they had a literal,
taken.
Though the quicklilrer were brought to a very they now have a mctapboricat ufe. ILokcr. P^ true touchllone, a fure metewand lieth before
and lovely Kitalimi cylinder, not interrupted their eyes. AjchavCi Scboolmofier,
clofe
by interfperfcd bubbles, yet having caufed the air
Metaphra'se. 71./. [ iA.!\!i<pôurK;.] A 'Ve (hall do no unrighteoufnefs in meteyardy
to be again drawn out uf the receiver, feveral
mere verbal tranflation from one lan- weight, or nicafure. l,n. xix. 35.
little bubbles difclofed themfelvcs. B',)'lt. guage into another. To Metempsycho'se. t/. a. [from me-
Me'tallist. [from metal; metal- This tranflation is not fo loofe as paraphrafe,
n. /.
nor fo clofe as metafhrafc. Drydm.
Irmpfychojii."] To tranflate from body to
lifte, Fr.] A worker in metals; ikilled
Metaphra'st. n. /. [metaphrajle, Fr.
body. A word not received.
in metals. The fouls of iifurpers after their death, Lucian
Mctaltifti ufc a kind of terrace in their vofTels f<./I»'?f«rr<.] A literal tranflaiorone ;
affirms to be mciempfy^hejid., or tranflated into the
for fining metals, that the melted metal run not who translates word for word from one bodies of affes, and tl'.cre remain certain years,
•ut i it is made of quick lime and oj blood. language into another. for poor men to tike their pennyworth out of their
Moxoni Micb. Exereiffs. Mktaph y'sical. 7 ,.
In^nes. Pesebam on BJaxoning,
METAtLo'cRAPHY. H./. [metallum and Metaph y'sicK. J
•' Metkmpsycho'sis. n.f. [,xi''t:/.4-vx,i"7n.]
yfoîi.] An account or defcription of 1. Verfed in metapbyficks ; relating to The tranlmigratiOQ of fouls from body
metals. D.V? mctaphyficks. to body.
Me'tai.luroist. n. [metallum and / From theopinion of metempfyehn^s, or tranf-
2. In Shake/peare it means fupernatural or
mlgration of the fouls of men into the bodies of
i(>M>] A worker in metals.
preternatural. beads mift fuitable unto their human condition,
Me'tallurcy. n./. [metallum and S^ytt.l Hie thee hither, after his death Orpiieus the mufician became »
. The art of working metals, or fepa- To chaliife with the valour of my tuiigue fwan. SrC''wni lûlgetr Errours.
rating them from (heir ore All that impedes thee from the golden round.
Me'teor. n. f. [meleore, Fr. lAtiiu.â.]
7e Metamo'rphose. v. a. [metamor- Which fate, and mnafbyfieal aid, doth feem
To have crown'd thee withal. Shakrjftari t M,uh. Any bodies in the air or ficy that are of
/ie/tr, French; ftil«fii*poj.] To change
Metaphy'sick. ) n./.[mtlaphj/fique,¥T. a flux and tranfitory nature.
the form or (hape of any thing. Look'd he or red, or pale, or 6d, or merrily?
Thou, Julia, t!iou had mttaimrfhn'd me
Metaphy'sicks. I ftila-St<7.'»i.] On- What obfervation mad'fi thou in this cafe,
Made me neglefi my ftudici, lofe my time. tology the doflrine of the general
; Of his heart's mneori tilling in his face ? Sbakefp,
Sbake^Jfrart. afFeftions of fubftances exiding. caft with herfclf from what coall
She began to
They became degmcrite andmttumorftiijid V\\ic Themathcmaticlts and the K'laphyjitki, this blazing (hir mud rife upon the horiion of
Kebuchadncizar, who, though he had the face of a Fall to then as you find your liomach ferv?t you. Ireland ; for th«re bad the like tnefetir Ibong in-
maa, bad the heart of a bealt. Duvitt an Inland.' iibakijpsurc. fluence before. BjiOn's Henry Vll,
I Thcfs
- ; . ;
M E T MET MET
Thcfe burning fits but mian be, Mehir.h already I yotir tears futvey. Pc.j.e. In thefe
Whofe matter in tliee focn is fpent; ME'THOD. »./ [methode.Ft. tîâsh.] found notwhat, meticught, I wanted ilill.
I Milt,
Thy beiuty, and all parts w:iich art !n th«e, Mcthid, taken in the largeft fenfe, implies the Mtthougkt I ftoou on a wide river's bank.
Arc an unchangeable firmament. Dcnne* placing of fcveral things, or performing feveral Which I muft need»o erpals, but knew not how.
Then fiaming mcreiri, hung in air, were fcen, operations in fuch an order as is rooft convenient Dryden,
And thunJers rattled through a (ky ferene. Drydsn. to attain fome end. Hâiis. McTt y'mical. atij. [from metonymy.]
Why was 1 rai$'d theuK-r-'r of the world, To fee wherein the harm which they feci con- Put by metonymy for fomething elfe.
Hung in the flties and blazing as I tratcU'd, fifleth,the leeds from which it fprang, and the
TiB njy were fpent; and then cad
Mbtoky'mically. adv. [from metony-
»ll fires method of curing it, belongcth to a (kill, the ftudy
do^vn^va^d •
whcrejf is full of toil, and the praîce befet with
mical.] By metonymy; not literally.
To be trod out Sy Cafar } Dryr!eit's Allfor Lrje. diiliculties. Hooker,
The difpofition of the colou-rd body, as that
O
p* et, thou hadrt been difcrfcter. If you will jeft with me know my afpe£l.
modifies the light, may be called by the name of a
<:o\oax mctottymicetUy, or efficiently; that is, in re-
Hanging the monarch'b hat fo high, And falhion your demeanour to my looks.
If tbou hadft diibb'd thy (Hr a weâry
gard of its turning the light that rebounds from
Or 1 w,ll beat this method in your fconce. Shak.
Which did but blaze, ard rove, and die. Piicr* It will be in vain to talk to you concerning the it, or pafles through it, into this or that particular
colour. B-yh'
MtTEOROLo'riicAL. [from mtteoro-
aif/ melted I think beft to be obferved in fchools.
Ugy-~\ Relating to the doftrine of me- Locke en Education MhTO'NYMY. «./. [mttonymie, French;
teors.
NotwithlUnding a faculty be bntn with us, there ftiia/iu/xia.] A rhetorical figure, by whiih
are feveral n:eth.di for cultivating and improving
Others are conlidcrable in mttioraltgiul divinity. one word put for another, as the
is
it, and without which it will be very uncertain.
Brcwrt, matter for the materiate ; he died hy
Addifan'i SpcHat^r.
Make difquiiition whether thefe unnfiial light? Jieel, that is, by a fword.
be new-come gucHs, or old inhabitant!) in hea-
Metko' oiQM.. adj. [metbcdiqui, French;
They d.'fti:r only as caufe and eftefl, which, by
ven, or iretiyjrji gical imprcfiians not trjnfcenjlng from method.'] Ranged or proceeding a mctoryny ufua! in all forts of authors, are frequent-
the upper region, or whether to be ranked among in due or jull order. ly put one for another. lilhtjott,
ceicftiil bu^dicA. HcnvePt Voiol Farefi The obfervations follow one another without Metopo'sccpy. n. f. {metopofcopie, fr.
Me teoro'logist. n /. [from metioro- that mfri«<y;<-tf/ regularity requifiie in a profe author.
and (7>ci7TTi.:.] '] he ftudy of phy-
iJUTuTTi-t
Ugy-] A man fkilled in meteors, or Addijon't Sfeftaior.
fiognomy; the art of knowing the cha-
Let me appear, great Sir, I pray.
fludious of them.
Methodical in what I fay. Addijori's Rofamond. raflers of men by the countenance.
The
melmidopfis obferve, that amongft the four
elements which are th« ingredients oi all fublunary
He can take a body to pieces, and difpofe of ME'TRE. n.f. [metrum, Latin; i/.hôu']
them where he plcafes j to us, perhaps, not with- Speech confined to a certain number
creatures, there is a nuCable corrcfpondency.
out the appearance of irretrievab e conluiionj but,
Ih-MtPi Vocal Forefi.
with refpcdt to his own knowledge, into the mod
and harmonick difpofition of fyllables
MtTEORo'LOCv. n./. ifUiiu^sL and î7^..] regular and methodical repofitoiies. Rogers. verfe ; mi'afure; numbers.
The dcftrine of meteors. Metho'dically. adir. [from mtthadi- For the mitre fake, fo.-ne words be driven awry
In afiimAls we deny not a natural nuteorokgyj or which require a ftraightcr placing in plain profe.
ccd.] According to method and order.
innate prcientation of wind and weather. Brczve. Aj hanti Scbo^lmajier*
To begin nuthuliculiyt I fhould enjoin you tra-
Abufe the
Mi-te'orous. [fiom metetr.]
adj. Hav- city's bcft goodmen in, metre.
;ai i
for abfcnce doth remove the caufe, removing To laugh ar lords.
ing the nature of a meteor. - Popt,
the ubjcdl.
From the o'lix hill
Suckling.
All the rules of painting are mrttcdieally, con-
M e't r I c a l. adj. [mttrtcus, Lat. metrique,
To their fi<t lUtion,all in bright array. cifelir, and clearly delivered m this oeatife. Dryd. F'rench.]
The cherubim descended, on the ground To Me'thodjze. V a. [from mttbtd.] 1. Pertaining to metre or numbers.
^'Jiiding mefejrauty as ev'ning mift
Ris n from a river. Milun't Paradife Lfjl.
To regulate to difpofe in order.
;
2. Confiding cf verfes as, metrical : ê-
Rffftlv'd his unripo vengeance to defer. cepts.
Me'tsii. »./. [from male.] A meaiurer: The royal fpy retlr'd again unfecn, METRO'POLIS. n.f. [metropolis, Lat.
as, a coal-CTiVcr, a Und me/tr. I'o broud in fecret on hi& gather d fpleen,
metropole, French ; ftrV?,; and otoAij.]
Mhthe'g;. IV. K. yl \meddyglyn, Welfh, And mefiodixe revenge. Drydtnt Boceace*
man who does not know how to tnetboHiJt The mother city the chief city of any
;
\loTR mtdd ^nA glyn, to glue, Min/heiu ; 'I'hc
his thoughts, has always a barren fuperfiuity of country or dillridl.
or mcdclyg, a phyfician, and llyn, His eye difcovcrs unaware
words ; the Iruit is lod amidH tile exuberance of
drinic, becaufe it is a medicinnl drink] leaves. Sp-ilator. The goodly profpcft of fome foreign land,
Drink made of honey boiled with water One who brings with him any obfervations which Firit fccn or fome renown'd tnetropotit.
;
and fermented. he has mide reading of the poets, will find

in his With glill'îng fpirrs and pinnacles adorn'd. Milttn,
White-handed miftrers, one fweetword with thee, his own refie^tions methoditced and explained, in the Reiiuc'd in careful watch
i^Honey, and milk, and fuirar, there is three. works of a good critick. Addijon't SftdMor. Round their metropoiii AlUion's Paraetlfe Loft,
*— Nay then two treys j and if you grow To nice, 1'hofc rules of old difcover'd, not devised, We ftopped at Pavia, that wai once the metropolis
MetbtgUv, wort, and malmfey. Hbakejpcarc. Are nature liill, but nature mcko<iit.'d. Pope. of a kingdum, but at p rcle.it a poor town.
T
all»y the ftrength and hardntfs oi the wine, Me'thodist. n. f. [from method.] Aidijon an Italy,
Aflowitiiuld Bacchus new ni^'iE>r^//'H join. Dryden. I. A phyflcian who praîfes by theory. Metropo'litan. n.f. [metrepolitanui,
Wethi'nks. [w? and
verb imperfonal. Our warieft phyficians, not only chemift but Latin.] A bifhopof the mother church;
thinks. This is imagined to be a Nor- mtihodifii, give it inwaidly in liivetal conltitutions an archbilhop.
and dirtempers. Boyle. He was promotrd to Canterbury upon the dentb
man corruption, the French being apt
to confound mt and /.] I thii.k ; it feems
z. One
of a new kind of puritans lately of Dr. Bancroft, tiiat metropolirai:, who underftood
arifen, fo called from their profeluon to the church excellently, and countenanced men of
to me mefeemt.
: See Mesbems, the greatert parts in learning. Claremkn.
live by rules and in conllant method.
which is more ftridly grammatical, Me Ropo LiTAN. Belonging
Metho'ught, the jJreierite of methinks I «<?/. to a
though lefs in ufc. Methinks was ufed metropolis,
See Methinks and Meseems. i
even by thofe who ufed likewife me- Tlieir patriarch, of a covetous defirc to enrich
thought; it appeared to me. 1 know not liinilclf, had forborn tu inlhtutc marcpolitan hi-
Jttms.
In all have been had in fpecial repu-
ages poets
that any author has meJeemeJ, though fhujis. Raleigh.
tation, ar,d, miibmkt, not without great cauTe; it is more grammatical, and deduced Me ropoh'ticai.. adj. [from metropo-
r
for, bcfiJc! their fweet inventions, and moA witty analogically from mejiems. lis.] Chief or principal of cities.
lay?, they have always ufed to fet forth the my heart away,
Mtthotight, a ferpcnt eat He fearing the power of the Chrlflians vvas gone
ptalfes of the good and virtuous. Sfênftr on Ireland. And you lat fmiling at his cruel prey. Sbokejftare. as far as Gratia, the i/eiropolitical city of Stiria.
. If he choofe out fome expreflion which does mt Since I fought / Knolles,
vitiate the fenfe, 1 fuppofe he may ftrctch his i^Jiain By
to fuch a latityde ; but by innovation of thoughts,
pray'r th' offended deity t' appeafc ME'TTLE. w. /. [corrupted from metal,
Kneel'd, and before him humbl'd all my heart.
tmthinit, be breaks it. DryHen.
but commonly written fo when the me-
Metiought, 1 faw him placable, and mild.
There is another circumftance, which, mttbintt, Bending his ear perfuafion in me grew
:
taphorical fenftHs ufed.]
gives uj a very high i<l«a of the nature of the That 1 wa^ heard with favour; peace teturn'd I. Spirit
; fpritelinefi ; courage.
foul, in rârd
wiut paffes in dreams, that in
to Home to my breafl; and to my memory What a blunt fellow k this grown to be ?
r.umciable nuiltilude and variety of ideas which His piomile, •' That thy feed ibaU biuilie our foe." He wai quick miiile wh«a he uent to fchool.
then artiie lahia, Mdijon'i Sftihtor. Milleri' Shaktfprare,
Iliad
; ;. : :; :
MEW M I C M I C
I Wad rathei go with fir prieA ililn fir knifht 2. To flied the feathers. It is, I believe, great. Obfolete. In Scotland it it pro*
i ciit sot who knuwi lb much of my matlt.
ufed in this fenfe, becaufe birds are, by nounced mucklt.
Sijiifearc'i TwJ/b Iî^hi.
clofe coniinefflent, brought to (hed their This re?dc is rife that ofientiroe
fpon thii heavineri of' the king's forces, in-
feathers. Great cumbers fall unfoft
teipicuH to be fear and want of mrr/Zt, divers rc-
>'
I flidBld difcourfeof hawki, and then treat of In humble dales is footing faft.
foited Co the fcdiUQus.
mewingi, culling, and renovation Of
The trode is not fo tickle,
Hay-uar.ti EJ'.varJVl. their ayties,
He had given fo frequent teftimoDy of iignal their featliers. ffaltor..
And though one fall through heedlcfi halle,
The mno'd Yet is his mifs not mickle. Spttifer't Paflsrait,

<ounKc in leveial aSioDf, that his tnalt was never fun bath his beams from oft' his
i'afpcdêd. Clarrtiiion. lamp,
Many a little makes a mickle, Currd n'i Remains^
.
If I to-day don't die with Ftenchmcn'j rage.
'lis more to guiJe than fpur thcmufc's Heed, And majelty defac'd the royal ftimp. CUnvtlanJ.
Keftiaiii his fury, than piovokt his fpecd Nine limes the moon had nlnvd her horns, at
To-morrow I fliall die with nuckU age. Shekejf.
}
The wir^êd couifer, like a gcn'rous horfe. length
O, mkkle is the pow'rfol grace, that lies
In plants, herbs, ftoocs, and their true qualities,
Shows Oioll Lruc masU when you chock his conrfe. With travel weary, unfupply'd with ftrength.
And witli the burden of her womb opprell, Hbakefptaie,
Pupt.
All this tradt that fronts (he falling fun,
3. Subftance this at leaft (hould be metal. Sab:an fields afford her needful red. Drjdex.
f)h thou
:
[Miakler, French.] cry as a cat. To A noble peer, of mickle truft and power.
vhife felf-fimc nettl;
! 3. Has in his chai-gr. Milat.
r Whereof thy projj child, arrogant man, is puft, Let Hercules himfcif do what he may,
Engcndcni the bia:k toad, and adder blue. The cat will mem, the dog will have his day. MicROCo'sM. n. /. [ti'Kf®- and k,;?;*©-.]
Shake/pân, The little world. Man is fo called as
Me'ttled. «<jy. [from (Wf/z/iT.] Spritwiy; They are not improveablc beyond their own being imagined, by fome fanciful phi-
genius a dog will never learn to mew, nor a cat
:
lofophers, to have in him fomething
. courageous ; of ardour ; full of fire.
full
to bark. Grtio,
Such a r:ght and nciaii'd dwcc analogous to the four elements.
Saw you never. Btnînjon. To Mewl. -v. n. [mJauIer, French.] To Youfeethisin themapof myirK'-iro/m. Stake/f,
Nor would you find it cify to compof= 1 fquall as a child. ~She to whom this world moll itfelf refer.
The me-.Atd ftccdsiwh'" from tiu:ir nolirils fiows > The infant As fuburbs, or tlie micnccjm of her ;
ifce icorching fire that in their eotraiU glows. J Mewling and puking in the nurfe's arms. She, ihe is dead ; ire's dead, when thou kiiow'll
Shalefpeare, this.
ME'TTLEsoMB.fli!)'. [fromwm/^.] Sprue Meze'reon". «. y. A fpecies of Ipurgc Thou know'ft how lame a creeple this world is.
lively gay brilk airy fiery lawrel. Donne,

ly ; ; ; ; ; ;
Mtzerem is common in our gardens, and on As in this our mici-oetfrn, the heart
courageous. Heat, fpirit, motions give to every part
much the Alps and I'yrenean mountains ; every part of
Their foice dirtbrs from true fpirit, as .is
So Rome's viftorious influence did difpc-fe
this ihrub is acrid and pungent, and inflames the
a vicious from a nsitiijame horle. 'lailtr,
All her own virtues througli the univerfe. Denhatn.
mrturh and throat. Hi//»
Aie'TTLESOMELV. adv. [frODi mttt'.t I'hilofophers fay, that man is a micrse^fm, of
With fpriteliiiefs.
MEZZOriNrO.r,/. [Italian.] A kind
little world, rcl'cmHing in miniathre every part of
/ome.'\
of graving, fo named as nearly refem- the great ; and the body natural may be Compared
•Mew. «./. [mue, French.] bling paint, the word importing half to the body politick. Swift.
(. A cage J an inclofure ; a place where
painted It is done by beating the whole Ml'cROGR APHY. ft./,
confined.
: [tiixpcj and ypaiipu.]
any thing is
forthcoming from her darkfome mnv,
into afperity with a hammer, and then The defcription of the parts of inch
Where day did hide her hated hrw. Sferfcr.
fhe all rubbing it down with a ftone to the very fmall objefts as are difcernable
There then flic does tiansform to monllrous hues, refembtance intended. only with a roicrofcope.
Ani horribly mif-ihapes with ugly fights, Meynt. fl^Jf. Mingled. Obfolete. The honey bag is the fiomach, which they al-
Captiv'd eternally in iron meivif \
The faltMedway, tliat trickling ftrcams ways fill to fatisfy and to fparc, vomiting up the
And dai kl'sme dens, where Titaa his face never Adown the dales of Kent, greater part of the honey to be kept againft winter
fhews, Sperfrt Till with the elder brother Thames a curious defcription and figure of the (ling fee in
Her lofty hand would of itfelf refufe
His brackifh waves be me^nt. Mr. Hook's miercgraflj, Creû'i Mufjtum*
Sfenfer'i Paficrds.
ô touch the dainty needle or nice thread
Miasm, Ml'CROSCOl'K n /. [î«f&. and «ot/«}
i
She hated chambers, clofets, fecret mtws.
;
n. / [from i/.iai>u, inquino, to
And in broad fields piefetv'd her maidenhead.

infefl.] Such particles or atoms as are micro/cope, French.] An optick inllru-
Fairfax, fuppofed to arife from diftcmpered, pu- ment, contrived various ways to give
3. [Maep, Savon.] A fe.i-fowl. trefying, or poifonous bodies, and to to the eye a large appearance of many
Among the firft fort we reckon coots, finder- affeft people at a dillance. objeds which could not otherwife be
lings, and meaivru Canîu. The plague is a malignant fever, caufed through feen.
The and (hews her opcn'd fide,
veffel fticks, peftilential miafmi infinuating into the humoral and If the eye were fo acute as to rival the fined
And on her Aattet'd maft the tnnoi in triumph Cunfillcntparts of the body. Hiirvey on Conjum^tions. and to difcern the fmalled hair upon
rnicrcfcepei,
Drjdci:.
ride. .
Mice, the plural of mouft. the leg of a gnat, it would be a curfe, and not a
To Mew. v. a. [from the noun.] Mice that mar the land. i 5am* vi. 5. blelling to us j it would make ail things appear
I. To (hut up ; to confiDe ; to imprifon ; Mich a'elmass. n /. \Michaelix\Amafs.'\ rugged and deformed ; the moil finely polifhed
cryftal would be uneven and rough j the fight of
to inclofe. The feaft of the archangel Michael, our own fclves would affright us j the fmooilied
He in dark corners mfwV, celebrated on the twenty- ninth of Sep- (kin would be befet all over with ragged fcalcs and
Multet'd of nutters as thclfTwoks them (hew'd. tember. briftlv hairs. Btiftlry.
Huhh,<-d.
They compounded to furnilh ten oxen after M\- The critick eye, that micrifcofe of wit.
Why (houW yow fears, which, at they fay,
ehaelm.:ji for tliirty pounds price. Care^v, Sees hairs and pores, examine^ bit by bit. Vunciad,
attend
The fteps of wrong, then move you up
to mno To MICHE. v. n. To be fecret or co- Micro'meter. [a»»f^ and ftiVf-n;
». /.
Your tender kinfman ? Shokrfpeari't Ki'g John, vered ; to lie hid. Hanmer. micromttre, French.] An inftrument '
Fair Hermia, âellion your defires Marry this is mfrîfT^ maiicho means mif-
; it
contrived to meafure fmall fpaces.
Know of your youth, examine well your blond. chief. SbaLff.
Whether if you yi^ld not to your father's choice, Mi'cHER. n. /. [from micbe.] lazy A MicROsco'piCAL. I adj. [from micro-
Yuu can endure the livery of a nun ; loiterer, who fkulks about in corners MlCROSCO'piCK. J /«>pe.'\
Tor aye to be in fcidy cluiller nczu'd, and by -places, and keeps out of Hght; 1. Made by a microfcope.
\ To livft.! barren fifter all your life, Make of the figure and
mi<riiJcopical obfervations
thiuKting faint hymns to the cold, fhiitlefs moon. a hedge-creeper. bulk of (he conflituent parts of all fluids.
Shaktfpcjre. Mi b and mick is Hill retained in the cant language
Aibutbnot and Pope,
for an indolent, lazy fellow. It is ufed in the wel^-
More pity that thi eagle fliould be mtiv'd. 2. AlElled by a microfcope.
While kite) and buriards prey at liberty. Shak-ff. ern counti^ for a trulnt boy.
''Evading even the mkrcfrofic eye!
Feign them fick, How tenderly her tender hands between
Full nature fwarms with life. Ttomfen's Sutnmert
Clbfe mm'' J in their fedani» for fear of air. In ivory cage Ihc did the tnicber bind. Sidney*
Drydlm't Juv. Shall the blelTcd foil of hcav'n prove a mlchtr, 3. Refcmbling a microfcope.
It h
not po0ible to keep a young gentleman from and cat black -berries'? a qucftion not to be aflc- Why has not luan a mkrojcopiek eye ?
ed. ihall the fon of England prove a thjff, and For this plain reafon, Man is not a fly
vice by a total ignorante of it, unlefs you will all
take purfes a (juellion to be ajkcd. Shakeff. Say what the ufe, were finer opticks given,
his life mno him up in a clofet, and never let him
i
Mi'cKLB. adj, [micd, SaxoD.] Much; T' infpeCl a mite, not comprehtad the heav 'n f Pepet
^0 into cAmpaoy. . loikc.
MiO.
; ;
M D I M D I M m I
[con traded from mUdU, or Th« middle-fgeJ fuppart failiAg the beA, be- Ts be up after midnight, .and to ge to be<] then,
MiD' tidj.
early fo that to go to bed after midtigti, is to
otufe of the oily parts abounding in the blood. is ;
derived from miti, Dutch.] go betimes. Sbeitjfuret
jiriulintt ui Alimirits.
I. Middle ; equally between two ex- I found you a very young man, and left you a By night he fled, and at midnight reiurncu
tremes. w':ddU-iig:d ope ; you knew me a middle-aged man, Fcom compaffing the earth ; cautious of day.
No marc the mounting larks, while Daphne and now I am an old one. Stuift. Aiiltn.
fings, Mi'ddlemost. ««) [from si/Vay*.] Be- After this time came on the midnight of the
mid a!r, fufpend their wings. Pcfc,
Shall, lifting in church, wherein the very namea of iha councils
ing in the middle.
Ere mid liour ot night, from tent to tent, wcie forgotten, and men did only dream of wlut
tlic
Why have not fomc beads more than four feet,
had pad.
Viiwcar)-'d, thrvu^h the num'rous haft he paii. Stii'.mgf.cei.
fuppofc (ix, and the middlemcjl (hortcr than the
Rovie. Jn all tint dark midnight of popery thcie were
rclt ? Mare.
ftill fomc gleams of light, fonie witneffes that arofe
a. It much ufed is in compofition. The outmoll fringe vani&ed and the mid-
firfl,
to gi»e tellimony to the truth. Atterhury,
Mid-course, n. /. [mid and ceur/e.] dlcmtfl next, and the innermort laft. Netvtcrd "/•r.^
They can tell what altitude the dog-flar had at
Middle of the way. The outward ftars, with their fyl^cms of planets, midnight or midnooo in Rome when Julius Crefar
Why in the Eaft mull nece(rarily have defcended towards the miJ-
was (lain. Walts.
Darknefs ere day's mid-aurje? and morning light. dlemji fyftera of the univcrle, whither all would
be m<A ftiongly atcrafled from all parts of a fin te Mi'dnicht. adj. Being in the middle
Marc orient in yon wciTern cloud, that draws
O'er the blue firmament a radiant whice ATihin, .'
fpace. Bentley^s Sermons, of the night.
Middling, adj. [from middle.] How now, you fecret, bUck and
midnight hjgt *
Ml D-D A V. adj. [mid and day.'\ Meri-
What is't you do Shat^pcarc's Macbeth.
.'
dional, being at noon. I. Of middle rank of condition equally

;
I hope my midnight (hidies, to make our coun-
Who (hoots at the mid-day fun, though he be remote from high and low. tries fljurilh in myfterious and beneficent arts,
fure he ihall never hit the mark, yet as fure he is A middling fort of a man, left well enough ô have not ungratefully aflxdleJ your intelkfls.
he lliall thoot bigh:r than he who aims but at a pafs by bis father, could never think he had enough
Bamu
bulK. Sidity* fo long ai anyman had more. L' Ejirange' s Fables. Some folitary cloifter will I chufe,
Hit fparkiing eyes, replete with awful fire. z. Of moderate fize ; having moderate Coarfe my and (hort (hzll be my
attire, fl:;ep,
More dazzled and drove back his toemics. qualities of any kind. Brolce by the melancholy midnight bell. t)rydc$.
Than mid-daj fun fierce bent agaioll tlicir faces. The bignefs of a church ought to be no greater Mi'drifp. »./. [mib))fTtpe, Sax.J The
than that unto which the voice of a preacher of diaphragm.
Did he not you through the miJ-day fun.
lead
middling lungs will eafily extend. Graunt,
And clouds oi dull Did not his tcnopici glow
.'
The midriff divides the trunk of the body Int»
Longinus preferred the fublimc genius that fome- two
In the fame (ultry winds and fcorching heats }
cavitiesthe thorax and abdomen : it is com-
;
times errs, to the midd/ing or indiflfcrcnt one, pofed of two mufcles ; the firll and fuperior of
Addijiti.
which makes few faults, but feldom rili:s to any thefe arifes from the (lernum, and the ends of the
Mid-day. h. f. Noon; meridian. excellence. DryeLn.
Who have before, or (hall write after thoe.
laft ribs on each lijc. The fccond and inferior
Mi'dland. adj. [mid ind land."] mufc.'e comes from the vertebra: of the loins by
Their works, though coughly laboured, will be
Like infancy or a^c to man's firm Aay,
I. That which b remote from the coall. two produftions, of which that on the right (ide
The fame name is given to the inlanders, or comes from the firft, fecond, and third vertebras of
Or eariy or late twilights to mid-day- Dotmt.
the loins ; that on the left fide is fomewhat (horter^
midland ii>habitant< of this ifland, by Cxfar.
Mi'ddest. faperl. of mid. middefi, midfi.
Brrwn's Vulgar Errimrs. and both thelc prndu£lians join and nuke the lower
Yet the ftout fairy 'mongft the midJeJl crowd,
The midland towns abounding in wealth, (hews p«rt of the midriff. Sigmcy,
Thought all their glory vain in knightly v,ew.
Whereat he inly rag'd, and as they talk'd,
that her riches are intern and domellick. Howel.
Sftnjar, The various dialefis uf the Englilh in the Smote him into the midriff vikh a (lone
Mi'ddle. [mibble. Saxon.]
adj. North and Weft, render their exprcflions many That beat out life. Milmns Paradife Lcjt.
1. Equally dillant from the two extremes. times unintelligible to the other, and both fcarce In the gullet, where it perforateth the midriff,
The lowcll virtues draw praife from the com- intelligible to the midland. Hale. the carneous fibres of that mufcular part are in-
mon people ; the middle virtues work in them afto- z. In the midll of the land ; mediterra- fleftcd. Ray^
nilhment; but of the higheil virtues they have nean. M ID-SEA. «. /. [mid and /ea.'\ Tne
no fcnfe. Bacnns EJfayi. Mediterranean fea.
There wjs the Plymouth fquadron now come in.
A rt'iddte of
within reach of thofe
ftation life,
Which twice »n BIfcay's working bay had been. Our Tyrrhene I'haros, that the mid-Jta meets
•oavenicncies which the lower orders of mankind
And on the midland fea the French had aw'd. With its embrace, and leaves the land behind.
muft necelTarily want, and yet without embarrafl".
Dryd:n. Dryden.
ment of greatntifs. Rogen.
To deliver a 1 hi> fleet to the Romans, except MtDCE. n./. [miej5«, Saxon.] A gnat. Mi'dshitman. »,/. [ftommiJ,fiip, and
ten middle-fxzti brigantines. jirhuttnst on C'Ani. Mid- HEAVEN, n. /. [mid and ifeavea.] man.'\
1 like people of middle uoderllandiog and middle The middle of the flcy. Miiîfmen are clBcers aboard a (hip, whnfe
tank. Stuift. But the hot always In him burns.
hell that
(lation isfame on the quarter-deck, others on ths
Though pi;>up. Their bufinefs is to mind the braces, to
2. intermediate; intervening. in miJ-ltaien, foon ended his delight.
look out, and to give about the word of command
Will, fceking good, finds many middle ends. Millon.
Mi'dleg/ »./ from the captain and other fuperior officers they
Da-uits, [W.j' and le^.} Middle :
alfo aHiH on all occafions, both in failing the (hip«

J.
Middle finger : the long finger. of the leg. and in lloring and rummaging the hold. Harrii%
you firft introduce the middle finger of the left- He had fifty attendants, young men all, in white
hand. Slarf, fatten, loofe coaU to the midlig, and
Midst, h./. Middle.
(lockings of
AH is wellwhen nothing picafes but Cod, being
Middle, ti./. white filk. Bacn.
thankful in the mii^ of his affliîons. Tajltn,
%, Part equally diflant from two extremi- Mi'dmost. adj. [from mid, or contrailed Arife, y« fubtle fpirits, that can fpy
ties ; the part remote from the verge. from middlemoj} : this is one of the When love is tntcr'd in a female's eye
There come people down by the middle of the words which have not a comparative, you that can read it in the midfi of doubt,
land. Judges, though they feem to have a faperlative And in the midJI of frowns can find it out. Dry/,
With roof fo low that under, it Midst, [conir^ded from midde/f, the
adj.
They never Rand, but lie or (it
degree.] The middle.
And
Now van to van the forcmoft fquadroni meet. fuperlative of mid.] Midmoft ; bcin^
yet fo foul, that wbofo is in«
The inidmc/l battles hailing up behmd. Dryden. in the middle.
Is to the middle leg in priCona Hudjiras.
Hear himlelf repine On earth join all ye creatures to extol
2. The time that pafles, or events that At fate's unequal laws and at the clue.
: Him fird, Him lad. Him «ii^, and without entt
liappen, between the beginning and Which, mercilefs in length, the midmijl filler drew. Milton.
end. Dryden. Tn t.Se Slighted Maid, there
is nothing in tha
The caufes and dcligns of an a£iioo are the What dulrefs dropt among her fons imprett. fird adl but what might have been faid or done
ttginning the eft'eAs of thefe caufei, and the
;
Like motion, from one circle to the reft : in the fifth j nor any thing in the mijft which
difficukies met with in the execution of thefe de- So from the midmojl the nutation fpreads might not have been placed in the beginning.
6gns, air the middle ; and the unravelling and refo- Round, and more round o'er all the fea of heads. Dryj0i.
hitio* of thefe difficulties are the end. Drydtn. Pofc. Midstre'am. ». / [mid and ftream.\
Mit>DLE-AOr d. adj. [middle and agt.'\ Mi'dnioht. «.^ [mid iTlA night. Milton Middle of the ftream.
Placed Hbout the middle of life. feems to have accented this lallfyllable.] The midPream'% his ; 1 creeping by the fide.
A middle tg.d man, that was half grey, half The noon of night j the depth of aigit ; Am (houldcr'd off by bij impetuous tide. Dryden.
. ktewn.tookafancjr toaiarry twowivei. li'Sfirifge' twelve at night. Mi'dsummer, n, /, [midnad/ummer.]
Vol. U. R Tiie
! ; -
M I E U I G M I L
One, whom an outward mirn appCarM Me from Eim will raife <
The fammer folftice, reckoned to fall in
A mighty nation.
And turn fuperior to the vulgar herd. Prior. Afiliarr
on June the twenty-firft.
What winning graces, what majcllick mien. The dire event
However orthodox my fenliments rcUting to
Hath loft us heav'n, and this mighty lioft
She moves a goddefs, and die looks a queen. all
publicic affairs may be while I am now writing,
Pope. In horrible dcftruftion laid thus low. Milton,
they may become criminal enough to bring me
Might, the preterite of »j(7y. ^. Strong in corporeal or intelledlual
into trouble before Midjummer, Stvlff'
At eve lali MiJfuiHmer no lleep 1 fought.
Matters of foch confequencc Ihould be in plain power.
Gay's PaJI orals. words, as little liable as might be to doubt. Luckt. Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine.
Mi'dwaV. » ^way[»i;V and ivay.] The Might, n. /. [raijjjr, 6axon.] Power; Ifaiab*
ftrength force. Thou fall'ft where many mightier have been llain.
part of :he equally dJUant from ;
Brocnu*
What fo ftrong.
the beginning and end. 6. Impetuous; violent.
But wanting reft, will alfo want of might 7 Spevftr.
No m'tdiuay 'twixt thefe extremes at
Sbaitff- all.
Quoth flic, great grief will not be told. A rulhing like the rulhing o{ mighty waters. Ifjl,'
He viett an excellent man that were made in the And can more eafily be thought than faid Intreat the Lord, for it is enough, that there be
;
mtdtvay between him ?nd BenediA : the one is too no more mighty thunderings and hail. Exodus.
Right fo, quoth he, but he that never would.
like an image, and fays nothing j and the other
Could never; will to might gives greateft aid. 7. Vaft ; enormous; bulky.
too like my lady's eldeft fon, evermore tattling.
Sfenfer. They fank as lead in the mighty waters. Exodus.
HbaksJê.uf's Much ado about notbing.
An oathof mickle might. Shahfpeare'i Heniy V. Giants of migiry bone and bold emprife. Miho*.
Pity and fliame that they, who to live well
!
Wherefore fliould not ftrength and might 8. Excellent ; of fuperior eminence.

Stood fo fair, Ihould turn aCde to tread
There fail, where virtue fails ? Milton's Par. Lcf.. Lydiale excell'd the mighty Scaligcr and Selden.
Paths indireO, or in the midway faint MHim.
The hare laid himfelf down about midivay, and
!
Might and main. Utmoftforce; higheft EacharJ,

took a nap ; for I can fetch up the tortoifc when degree of ftrength. The mighty mafter fmil'd. Dryden.
1 pleafe. L'EJlravge. With might and main they chac'd the mnrd'rous 9. Forcible ; efficacious.
How didft thou arrive at this place of darknefs, fox. Great is truth, and mighty above all thiiigs.
when fo many rivers of the ocean lie in the mid- With brazen trumpets and inflated box. Dryden. Ffdret.
ivay f Brocme* This privilege the clergy in England formerly 10. Exprefling or implying power.
Mi'dway. adj. Being in the middle be- •
contended for with all night and main. Ayliffe. If the mighty works which have been done in
tween two places. Mi'ghtily. [ixom mighty .'\
adtj. thee had been done in Sodom, it would have re-
How fearful 1. With great power; powerfully; efii- mained. Matthew.

And dizzy 'tis, to caft one's eyes fo low cacioufly forcibly.;
11. Important; momentous.
The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, With whom ordinary means will prevail, furely I'll ling of heroes and of kings,
Shew fcarce fo grofs as beetles. Sbakejfeare. the power of the word of God, even without the In mighty numbers mighty things. Cytvfeft
MTowAY. adv. In the middle of the help of interpreters, in God's church worketh 12. It is often power,uled to exprefs
paflare. mightily, not unto their confirmation alone which bulk, or extent, in a fenfe of terror or
With dry eyes, and with an open look. are converted, but alfo to their convetfion which
cenfure.
She met his glance midway. Dryden's Beccace. are not. Hooker.
There arofe a mighty famine in the land. LuKt.
Ml'DWIFE. «./. [This is derived, both 2. Vehemently ; vigoroufly ; violently. The
enemies of religion are but brafs and iro(^
by Skinner and Junius, from mib or Do a€ adverfarles do in law, ftrive mightily, but their mifchiefs mighty, but their materials mean.
eat and drink as friends. Shakefpeare.
meed, a reward, and Jiip, Saxon ] A In a great degree very much. This
Delany..
woman who alTills women in childbirth.

3. ; Mi'cHTY. a/v. In a great degree. Not
is a fenfe fcarcely to be admitted but in to be ufed but in very low language.
When man doth die, our body, as the womh.
And as a midtvifet death directs it home. Donne. low language. Lord of his new hypothefis he reigns :
Without a mid'wife thefe their throws fuilain, Therein thou wrong'ft thy thildrcn ntighiily. He reigns How long ? Till fome ufurper rife,.
:
And bowing, bring their ilTue forth with pain. Sbakejfeare. And he too mighty thoughtful, mighty wife :
Sandyi. There's ne'er a one of you but trufts a knave, Studies new lines. Pyior.
There faw how
the fecret felon wrought, That mightily deceives you.. Shakefpeare. MlGR a'tion.
I "S »./. [inigratio, migro, Lat.]
And treafon lab'ring in the traitor's thought, ( An and an ape conferring on grievances
afs the :
afs complained mightily for want of horns, and the

I. Aft of changing refidence ; removal
And midwife Time the ripen'd plot to murder f
.ape for want of a tail. L'Ejlrange. from one habitation to another.
brought. Dryden. }
Thefe happening nearer home made f'> lafting Ariftotle diftinguilheth
their, times of genera-,
I had as clear a notion of the relation of brothers
imprcfltons upon their minds, that the tradition tion, latitancy, and migration, fanity, and vena-
fcefween them, as if I had all the /kill of a mid-
of tile old deluge was mightily obfcured, and the tion, hrtm-n's Vulgar Errturs.
•u-ife. Locke.
But no man, fure ! e'er left his houfe circumftances of it interwoven and confounded 2 Change of place ; removal.
And faddlcd Ball with thoughts fo wild. with thofe of thefe later deluges. Woodiaitrd. Although fuch alterations, tranfitions, migrations
To bring a miiiivife to his fpoufe. I was mightily pleafed with a ftory applicable to of the centre of gravity, and elevations of raw
Before he knew flie was with child. Piiir. this piece of philofophy. SpeSator. iflands, had adually happened, yet thefe ftiells
Mi'dwifery. n./. [from midivi/e.] Mi'ghtjness. tt. /. [from mighty.'\ could nevffr have been repofed thereby in the man-
Power; greatnefs ner we find them. ffôodioard' t Natural HiJIoiy.
1;. AlTiltance given at childbirth. ; height of dignity.
•24 Trade of
a midwife.
Think you fee ti:em great. Milch, adj. [from »«7i.] Giving milk.
And follow'd with gcn'ral throng and fweat Heme
doth, at ftill of midnight.
3, ASt of produflion j help to produc- Of thoufand friends then in a moment fee. Walk round about an oak, with rajjged horni^
;
tion ; co-operation in produdlion. How foon this mightittefi meets mifcty. Sbakefp. And. then he blafts the tree, and takes the cattle^
So hafty and too aoibitiaus flow'rs,
fruits, Will't pleafe your mightinrfs to wafli your hands ? And makes milih kine yield blood. Shck^'Jpeare*
Scorning the midivifry of rip'ning Ihow'rs, Sbakefpeare. When faw Pyrrhus make malicious fpoTt,
flie
Jn fpight of frolts, fpring from th' unwilling earth. Mi'oHTY. ad/, [from might.] In mincing with his fword her huiband's limbs,
Stejiney. Th; in(t.int burft of clamour that ftie made,
1. Strong ; valiant.
There was never any thing propounded for pub- Would have made mi/ri> the burning eyes of heav'n.
Uck good, that did not meet with oppofition
1 ha fliield of the mighty is vilely caft away.
Sha'-.^fpeare.
from the humour of fuch as would have Sr-muel. The
aiifing beft taixtures of water !n ponds for cattle,
nothing brought into the world but by their own He is wife in heart, and mighty in ftrength. jfoi.
to make them more milch, fatten, or keep them
midwifry. Child i Difcourfe kti Trade.
Amazement fciz'd from muriain, may be chalk and nitre. Bacon.
The rebel thrones, but greater rage to fee
Ml'DWUfTER. n /. [mid and •wintir.'\ Thus foil'd their m.igbtieft. Milton.
Not above fii'ty-one have been ftarved, excepting
caufed rather by cardefthcfs an4
The winter foUtice j December the 2. Powerful ; having great command.
ini'ants ac nurfe,
infirmity of the rowr/rwomen. Graunt.
twenty-firft. N imrod began to be a mighty one in the earth. With the turneps they feed fliecp, ni/.ii-cws,
Begin when the Qowwaggoner defcends, Cenejis. or fatting cattle. Miriimer's liujicmlry.
Nor ceafe your fowing.ttU *fUTO;i»ftr ends. Dryden. The Creator, calling forth by name
Mien »,/. [w/m, French.] Air i look ; His mighty angels, gave them fev'ral charge.
MILD. a<3>. [milb, Saxon.] ^
manner. Milton. I. Kind; tender; good; indulgent; raer*
In her alon« th^t owns this book Is fee» 3. Powerful by influence. ciful ; companionate; clement; foft;
Clorinda's fp.rit, and her lofty mieil, ffaller. Jove realms abovcj
left t!ic btifsful not fevere ; not cruel.
Wha- tan have more the figure and mien of a Such is the ppw'r of mighty love. Dtydcn. The execution of jufticc is committed to 'his
Mn than crj^gs, rocks, and cUSiZ Burnet. 4. Great in number. judges, which is the ftvererpactj but thcvK/iir
l^ part.
; ; ;. ,
M I L M I L M I L
fait, which it metcy, i> wholij- left in the Icing, The fame majeftlc sKiUncfs held its place; approvad, yet his craelties weighed iflvia hit vir.
BaccKS Adi-ict to Kdlicn* Nor loll the monarch in his dying Drydai.face. tues. . Bacon's Henry Vli.
If that rrnld ^ni giintle God thoa be. I faw with what a brow you brav d your fa;s Numbers numherlcfs
Who dolt mankind below with pity fee, Drytien. Yet with what m'ddncjs bore your father's ate. I The city gates out-pourd, light-armed troops
It teaches us to aJorc hiai as a vilid and merci- Dryden. In coats ot mail and mili-ary pride. M.lion^
ful being, of innnite love to his creatures. Rogers. His probity and mildftifs fkovis The wreaths his giandlire knew to reap
2. Soft; gentle; not violenc. His care of friends and fcorn of foes. Addifon. By active t.iil, and irilitury fweat.
The rofy morn rcfigns hef #ight. 2. Contrariety to acrimony. Pining incline their fickly leaves. Frior*
And tr.HiIer glory to the noon. TVailer, Mile. ». /. [milk pafut, Latin.] The 3. Eftcfted by foldiers.
Nothing referv'd or fulien was to fee,
ufual meafure of roads in England, one
He was with general applaufc, andgreat cries of
But'fweet regards, and pleafing fanftity joy, in a kind of militar cUdtion or recognition,
MildviLi his accent, and his atllon free.
j
DryJin.
thoufand feven hundred and fixty jards, filuted king. '
Bacon.
Sylvia's like autumn ripe, yet m'lM as Mav, or five thoufand two hundred and eighty MIU'TlA.n./ [Lat.] The trainbands;
More bright than noon, yet treih as early day. feet. the (landing force of a nation.
'Poft. We muft meafure twenty «if/« to-day. Shaiejf. Let any prince think fobi-rly of his forces, ex-
The folding gates difius'd a filver light. Within may you fee it coming,
this three mile
cept hism'tliiia be good and valiant foldicrs. Baron*
And with a miUir gleam refrelh'd the fight. A movln^j grove. Stakt'lpeure's Macbeth.
The militia was fo fettled by law, tliat a fuddcn
Mdifor:. When tiic enemy appeared, the foot and artillery army could be drawn together. Clarendon*
3. Not not ccrrofive; not acri-
acrid; were four tnlL's behind. Clarendon.
Unnumber'd fpirits round thee fly.
monious; demulcent; anuafive ; mol- Million' of iriles, fo rapid is their race. The light militia of the lower Iky. Popt*
To cheer the eit.th they in few moments pafs. MILK,, n./ [meek, Saxon;
lifying ; lenitive.
Bltickmore.
melck, Dut.]
Their quAlities are changed by rendering them
Mi'lestone. ». y. [mi/e and _/?o«f.]
1. The liquor with which animals feed,
acrimonious oxm'sU. Arbntln'A on Alirrenis,
their young from the brea(t.
4. Not (harp; mellow; fweet havii.g no Stone fet to mark the mil<s.
; Come to my woman's brcafts,
mixtorfrof acidity. Mi'i.FOiL. ft./, [m IJe/cIi um, Litia.l
' A And take my milk for gall. iShakcJpeare' s Macbeth,
The Ijiib wer? tranfplanted from the woods and plant, the fame \-ijh yarrow. I fear thy nature.
«nounrains into the plains, chat, like fruit trees, Mi/foil and honey-fockles pound. It is too full o' th' milk of Imman kindnefs ^
they might grow the miider^ and beat lire better With thefe alluring favoi rs lircw the ground. To catch nearcftway.
tlie Hbakcfpcurc' s Macbeth*
and fweeter fruit. Davia* Dryder. Milk is the occafion of tumours of divers kinas.
Suppol'e your eyes fent equal rays Mi'liary. atfj. [milium, Latin, millet; Wtjeman*
Upon two diAant pots of aie. miliaire, French.] Smali; refembling a lUuftrious robes of latin and of filk.
Not knowing which was mild or ftalc. Prior*
fliillet-feed.
And wanton lawns more foft and white than milk.
Wi'ldew. n /. [milbeape, Saxon.] The fcarf4kin is compofed of fmall fcales, be-
Beaumottt*
Mildtiv is a difeafc in j-lancs, caufed by a dewy When dry'd with heat.
milk is
tween which the excretory dufls of tlie miliitry
moifture which falls on them, and continuing, for In vain the milkmaid tugs an empty teat. Dryden*
glands open. Cbeyne.
want of the fun's heat, to draw it up, by its acri- I concluded, if the gout continued, to confind
mony corrodes, gnaws, and fpoils the plant ; or,

Mi\tAK.Y /ever. A fever that produces . myfelf wholly to the wi//t diet. 'Temple's Mijcil.
rri/deivis rather a concrete fubiânce, which cx-
fmall eruptions. Broths and mi/^-mcats are windy to ftomaclis
fudes through the pores of the leaves. What the MILl'CE. n. /. [French.] Standing troubled with acid ferments. Fltiyer on the Utiinottrs,
gardeners commonly call mddcw is an jnfefl, force. A
word innovated by Temple, 2. Emulfion made by contulion of feeds.
found in great plenty, preying upon this exfu- Piliachoes, fo they be good and not mufty, join-
but unworthy of reception.
4iacion. Othen fay, that mildciv is a thick, dam- The two-and-twenticth of the prince's age is the ed witlr almonds in almond milk, or made into a
4ny vapour, exhaled in the Spring and Summer îlk of thcmfclves, like unto almond'm;/^, are an
time alligned by their conftitutions for his entering
from the plants, blojlbms, and even the earth itC'lf, upon the publick charges of their mi'i:e. excellent nourilher. Baan*
Temple.
in clofe, (liU weather, where there is neitncr fun
Mi'LiTANT.ar^' [militant, Lm, mili/aate,
To Milk. t. a. [from the noun.]
nor wind. Miller thinks the true caufe of the
I. To draw milk from the breallbythe
tr.i/deiv appearing moft upon plants which aro ex- French.]
pofed to the Eaft, is a dry temperature in thi air 1. Fighting; profecuting the bufmefs of hand.
when the wind blows from that point, which Capacious chargers all around were laid
ftops a foldier.
the pores of the plants, and prevents their pcrfpir- Full pails, and velfels of the milking trade. Fcpe*
Againft foul fiends they aid us militant
ation; whereby the juices of the plants are con- 2» "io fuck.
They for us fight ; they watch and duly ward.
creted upon the furface of their leaves, which being I have given fuck, and know
And their bright fquadrons round about us plant.
of a fweeti/h nttuir, infects ate inticed thereto. Speitfer,
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me.'
Hill. Sbak'J'peare,
2. Engaged warfare with hell and the
in
Down fell the mldcto of bis fugar'd words. Mi'lken. aJJ. [from OT/Vi.] Conlilting
Foirfax.
world. A
term applied to the church
of milk.
The mUditv cometh by clofenefs of air j and of Chrill on earth, as oppofed to the The remedies arc to be propofcd from a con*-
therefore in hills, or champaign grounds, it foldom church triumphant. Itant courfe of the milkcn diet, continued at Icaft
<:oi>ieth. Bacon. Then are the publick duties of religion belt a year. Temple*
Soon faulting miljewi blaclcen'd all the grain. ordered, when the miritant church doth rcfcmblc, One
'
Mi'lker. »./. [from «»//-{.] that
Dryden. by fenfible means, that hidden dignity and glory
milks animals.
To Mi'tDEW. f. a. To taint with mil- wherewith the cbuicli triumphant in heaven is
His kine with fwelling udders ready Hand,
deinr. beautified. Hooker.
The of a Chrlftian in
ftate this world is fre-
And lowing for tlic pail invite the miikcr'i hand.
Here your hu{band, like a milde^d ear,
is
Dryden,
quently compared t-j a warfa.e and this ailufion
:
Blafting hit wiiolcfonie brother. Sbait/f tare's Ham.
has appeared fo juft, that the character of militant Mi'lkiness. n./. [from milky.'] boft-
He mildnvs the white wheat, and hurts the poor
has obtained, as the common diflinflion of that nefs like that of milk; approach to the
creatures of the earth. iihakeff tare's Kirg Lear.
part of Chrift's church fojourning here in this nature of milk.
Morals fnatch from Plutarch's tatter'd page,
world, from that part of the family at reft. Rigers. Would I conW (hare thy balmy, even temper.
-A ffli/</rwj'<i Bacon, or StJgyras fjgc. Gay'iTrhia.
tAi'LDiY aJ-v. [from milii.]
.
Mj'litar. 1 «/^". [»»;7/V«r/V, Latin /«< ; And milkincjs of blood ! Dryden's Clcjmcncs*
I. Tenderly; not feverely. Mi'litary. t litaire, French. Militar The faltnefs and oylinefs of the blood abforbing
the acid of the chyle, it lofes its miltinefs. Floyer*
Prince, too mildly reigning, is now wholly out of tife.]
foaow and complaining.
Ceafe thy Dryden. 1. Engaged in the life of a foldier Mi'lklivered. [mtlk and li'ver.']
adj.
1. Gently; not violently. foldierly. Cowardly; timorous; faint-hearted.

The air once heated maketh the Aame born He maintain his argument as well as any
will
Mi'klivered man !-
more mildly, and fo faelpeth the continuance. military man in the world. Hhaktj'peare' s Henry W That bear'll a check for blows, a head Tor wrongs*
Bacius Natural Hijiory, Shak^pcore,
2. Suiting a foldier pertaining to a fol-
Mi'ldness, »./ [from w/W.] ;
Mi'lkmaid. «./. [milking maid.] Wo-
dier ; warlike.
I. Gentlenefs; tendernefs ; mercy; cle- In the time of Severus and Antoninus, many,
man employed in the dairy.
mency. When milk
dry with heat.
is
being foldicrs, fcad been converted untdChrift, and
In vain the m'llkma d an empty teat. Dryden,
tMg,>
This milky gtntJHefj and courfe of yoiirsj notwithftanding continued ftill in that military
you are rauchmoie at talk for want of wifdom. courfe of life. Hooker.
A lovely milkiKaid h« began to regard with an eye
of mercy. Addifon,
This ptais'd fot haisoful mildnefi, Siakt/feare- Aithough he were a printc in piililar virtue
R 2 Mi'lkmah*
; : ;
M L I MIL M I L
Mi'llmouktains. Anlierb.
Wi'trwAM. H. /. \mili and w««.] A Not tafteful herbs that in thefe gtriefls >lfe, «./.
Which the kind foil with milky fap fupplies, în/iuorli',
man who fells milk. Can move the god. Pcpe.
A Mj'llteeth. »./ [mill And teeth.] The
Mi'tKPAH,. n. /. [mili ind pail.] Some plants upon breaking their vetTcIs yield a
grinders ; tlenlej molaret, doable leeth.
veflel into which cows are milked. mlk} juice. yirhutbnot en Aliment:.
The bell inftrumcnts for cracking bones and
That very fubftance which Urt week w«s graz- 3. Yielding milk. Arliuihnit en Ahm.
nuts are grinders or mill-litth.
ing la the field, waving in the mlkfail,_ or gruw- Perhaps mypalTion he difdains.
Sng ia the garden, is now become part ot the man. And courts the milky mothers ot the plains.
Millena'rian, n.f [from millenariut,
ffjni't Imfrroemcnt of the Mind. Rofcanimn. Lat. millenaire, Fr.] One who expefls
Mi'lkpan. and/aa.J Veffel the millennium.
»./. [»t;7^ 4. Soft; gentle; tender; timorous.
in which milk kept in the dairy.
is Has frlendlhip fuch a faint and milly heart. Mi'llenarv. adj. [millenaire, Fr. mil-
Sir Fulkc Grevil had much and private accefs It turns in left than two nights ? Sbekcjftare.
lenarius, Lat.] Confiding of a thoufand.
to Queen Eli»abeth, and did many men good ;
yet This milky gentlenefs and courfe of yours The millenary fc.lettium, in good manufcrlpts,
he would fay merrily of himfelf, that he was like You are much more at taflc for want of wifdom. is marked with a line crofs the top thus JTi-
Robin Goodfellow ; for when the maids fpilt the Than prais'd for harmful mildnefs. Shakefftare. Arhuthrtt: tn Coint^
milkfaix, or krpt any racket, they would lay it Mi'lky-way. ». /. [milkji and luay.] Mi'i.LENisT. n /, [frommille, Lat.] One
upon Rrbin : fo what tales the ladies about the The galaxy. that holds the millennium.
queen told her, or otlier br.d offices that they did, The milky-ivay, or via ladea, is a broad wKlte
liicy would put it upon him. Bacon's Apirfh:h,
path or track, cncompalHng the whole heavens,
MILLHrNNJUM. n.f. [Latin,] A thou-
Milkpo'ttage. »•/. [milk and pottage.] and extending itfelf in fome places with a double
fand years ; generally taken for the
Food made by boiling milk with water path, but for the moil part with a (ingle one. thoufand years during which, according
Some of the ancients, as Ariilotic, imagined that to an ancient tradition in the church,
and oatmeal.
confifted only of a certain exhalation
part
For breakfaft and fupper, milk and milkfonagt this grounded on a doubtful text in the
Lotie. hanging in the air; but, by the tclefcopical ob-
are very fit for children. • Apocalypfe, our blefled Saviour fliall
fervations of this age, it hath been difcovered to
Milksco're. B./. [mili md/core.] Ac- leign with the faithful upon earth after
confiil of an innumerable quantity of fixed ftirs,
count of miik owed for, fcored on a different in fituation and magnitude, from the the refurredlion, before the final com-
board. confufed mixture of whofe light its whole colour pletion of beatitude.
He K better acquainted with the mUifcore than isfuppofcd to be occafioned. Hairis.
We mud give a full account of that (late called
his iteward's accounts. Add'ijori. Nor need we with a prying eye furvey the mill.nnium. Burmt's Theory of the Earth.
Mi'lksop. »./. [milkanA/op.] A foft, The diftant ikics to find the milky-tvay : Mille'nnial. adj. [from millennium,
upon our fight.
It forcibly intrudes Creech.
mild, effeminate, feeble-minded man. Latin.] Pertaining to the millennium.
Ofamoft notorious thief, which lived all his How many ftars there muft be, a naked eye
To be kings and prieds unto God, is the cha-
Jife-time of fpoils, one of thcii bards will fay, that
may give us fome faint glimpfc, but much more
rafterillicof thofe that are to enjoy the millennial
a good telefcope, direfted towards that region of
J»e was none of the idle mi'hjops, that was brought Cbcyne, happinefs.
' Burnet.
the iky called the milky --way.
up by the fire-4de, but that moll of his days he French;
MILL. »./. mold, Latin melin, Mi'llepedes. »./. [mtllepieds,
fpcnt in arms, anl that he did never eat his meat [liv-Kr,; ;
before he had won it with his fword. Sfrnjer. Welfh; myln, Saxon ; moulin, French ; mille and pes, Latin.] Wood-lice, fo
A miiifof,
one that never in his life An engine or fabrick called from their numerous feet.
molen, Dutch.]
cold as over (hoes in fnow. Shaitjp.
much If pheafants and partridge are fick, give them
in which corn is ground to meal, or any
Felt fo
We
have as good paflions as youtfelf; and a millefedis and earwigs,which will Cure them.
other body is comminuted. In general Mortimer's Uujhandry.
woman was never defigned to be a miltfif. Addijon,
But give him pott and pr>tcnt fack; an engine in which any operation is Mi'ller. n.f. [from mill.] Oi.e who
From mMj'op he ftarts up mohack. Prior. performed by means of wind or water ;
attends a mill.
Mi'lktooth-. «./. [milk and tooth.] fometimes it is ufed of engines turned More water glideth by the mill
Mllkteeih are thofe fmall teeth which come forth Than wou Shakefptare.
by the hand, or by animal force. the miller of.
kefore when a foal is about three months old, and The table, and we about it, did all turn round Gillius, who made enquiry of millers who dwelt
which he begins to cart about two years and a half by water which ran under, and carried it about as upon its (hore, received anfwer, that the Euripus
after, in the fame order as they grew. Farrier.
Sidney. ebbed and flowed four times a day. Brown.
a mill.
Mi'lkthistle. n. /. [milk tind. thijile
Olives ground in mills their fatnefs boaft. Mi'ller. »./. A fly. Jinfiuortb.
plants have a white
that juice are Dryden. Mi'ller's-thumb. a. /. [miller and
named milky.] An herb. A miller had his arm and fcapula torn from thumb.] A
fmall filh found in brooks,
his body by a rope twilled round his wrift, and
Mi'lctrefoil. »./ [cyii/us.] An herb.
Sharp's Surgery. called likewife a bullhead.
fuddenly drawn up by the mill.
Mi'lktetch. ». / [ajlragalut, Latin.]
To Mill. -v. a. [from the noun ; /ûîn j
Mille'simal. r,dj. [millejimus, Latin.]
A plant. Miller
mila, Iflandick.] Thoufandth ; confiding of thoufandth
Mi'lkweeb. n./l [mili and v/eeJ.] A To grind ; to comminute. parts.
1.
plaott To give the fquare root of the number t\ro,
2. To beat op chocolate.
.
Mi'lkwhite. eJ/. [W/i and wliite.] he laboured long in tnillejimal fraQions, till he
3.To ftamp coin in the mints. confelfed there was no end. ffaltt.
White as milk.
It xvould be better for your milled mtdals, if
_
and
She a black (ilk cap on him begun
Millet. »./. [milium, Latin; mil
they carried the whole legend on thc'ir edges; but
To fet, for foil of his milk-white to ferve. SiJnry. millet, French.]
at the fame time that they are lettered on the
Then will I raile aloft the milk-white rofe,
edges, they have other Infcriptions on the face and 1. A plant.
"Witli whofe fweet fmell the air (hall be pcrfum'd. the reverfe. Addifen. The hath a loofe divided panicle, and
millet
Sbaktjpearc.
Wood's halfpence arc not milled, and therefore each flower hnth a calyx, confiding of two
fingle
The bolt of Cupid fell,
more eafily counterfeited. S-iuift. leaves, which are inrtcad of petals, to piotcft the
It fell upon a we(lcrn flower ;
little
and cog.] The damina and pidillum of the flowr, whiclj after-
Mi'll-cog. «. /. [mill
Before nilk-wLltr, now purple with loves wound wards becomes an oval, (hining feed. Tins plant
And miidens call it love in idlenefs. Sbahijftare. denticulations on the circumference of
was originally brought from the eadern countries,
A imlhsohilr goat for you 1 did provide j wheels, by which they lock into other where it is dill greatly cultivated, from whence
Two milkv/biie kids run frilking by her fide.
wheels. we are annually furnilhcd with this grain, which
Drydtn. The timber is ufeful for milUogi. Mortimer.
' "^
is by many perfons much edcemed
for pudilngs. •
Mi'lkwort. «./. [mili and tuort.] A Mi'i-L-DAM. «./. [mill and dam.] The Miller.
bell-fhaped Aower. mound, by which the water is kept up In two ranks of cavities is placed a roundidi
MrLR.'.V0M*N. »./. [»i/Af and nueman.] dudd, about the bignefs of a grain u( millet.
to raife for the mill.
it IVcodiuard on Fojih.
A
woman whofe bufinefs is to ferve fa- A of lime and of earth is a great advan-
layer
Millet diarrhetick, clcanfing, and ufeful in
Is
milies with milk. tage in the making heads of ponds and mill-damt. Arhuthr.ot en Atimentx.
difcales of the kidneys.
Mortimer.
Even your milk-uKman and your nurfery-maid 2. A kind of ii(h; unlefs it be mifprintcd
have a fellow-feeling. Artulb. Hifi. cfJihnBuii. Mi'll-horsb. n. f. Hoffe that turns a
for mullet.
Mi'i KY adj. [hotamilk.] mill.
Some fi(h are gutted, fplit, and kept in pickle j
Made
of milk A mill-itrfe, AiU bounJ to go in ooe tircle.
as whiting, mackerel, milltt.
Carew.
Sidney-
jk Refembling milk.
I
Ml LLINER.
; :
. M M I M N I MI N
I know »o ways to mince it In love, In^t dircflly
Mi'lumer. »./ [I believe from M;7a»<r, Mi'mical. eelj. [mimicut, Lat.] Imita-
an inhabitant of Milan, Lombard tive; befitting a mimick ; adling the
to fay 1 love you. Shakcfpeare\ Henry vl
as a ^ lago.
is a banker.] One who felis ribands mimick. Thy honefty and love doth mince this matter, '
and drefles for women. Man is of all creatures the mod mimical in Making it light to Caffio. Sbakcffeare^ Otbelh,
He was perfumed like a mMiur ;
geftiires, ftylcs, fpcech, falhion, or accents. Thefe gifts,
And twixt his finger and his thumb, he heli Wotton on Education. Saving your minciitg, the capacity '
A pouncet box, which ever and anon A 7mmi:at daw would needs try the fame ex- Of your foft chcveril confciencc would receive.
He gave his nofe. Shakejjieare t Henry IV. periment j but his claws were fhackled. JS Ejiravge, If you might pleafe to (Iretch it. Skakeheare.
The mercers and millirters complain of her want Singers and dancers entertained the people with I'll try to force you to your duty
•f publick fpirit. Tai/cr. light fongs and mimical geftures, that they might For fo it is, howc'er you mince it.
If any one a/ks Flavia to do fumcthiog in cha- not go away melancholy from ferious pieces of Ere we part, I (hall evince it. Hudiirau
rity, Ae will tofs him half a crown, or a crown, the theatre. Dryden'i Juvenal. Siren j now mince the fin.
and tellhim, if he knew what a long milliner's Mi'mically. «î/. l^rom mimical.'l In And mollify damnation with a phrafe.
(he had juft received, he would think it a great Say you confentcd not to SaiWho's death.
)iill
imitation ; in a mimical manner.
deal for her to give. /.jot. But barely not forbade it. Diydcn's Spanifi Tryar,
Mi'mick. n. /. [mimicui, Latin.]
Mi'llion. tt. /. [million, French; rr.il-
1. A ludicrous imitator; a buffoon who
If, to mince his meaning, I had either omitted
liogne, Italian.] fome part of wiiat he faid, or taken from the

copies another's a£i or manner fo as to ftrength of his exprelTion, I certainly had wronged
I. The number of an hundred myriads, exite laughter. h'"!- Dryden.
or ten hundred tboufand. Like poor Andrew I advance, '
Thefe, feeing no where water enough to eftedt a
Within thine eyes, fat twenty thoufand deaths, Falfe mimick of my mafter's dance general deluge, were forced to mince the matter,
;
Ib thy hands clutch'd as many millicns, in Around the cord awhile and make only a partial one of it, reltraining it
I fprawl.
Thy lying tongue both numbers. Stakffprare. And thence, though flow, in earneft fall. Prior. to Afia. Woodwaii.
i, A proverbial name for any very great 2. A mean or fervile imitator. 3. To fpeak with afFedled foftnefs ; to
number. Of France the mimick, and of Spain the prey. clip the words.
Tbat the three angles of a triangle are equal to j^non. Behold yon fimpering dame, whofe face between
two right ones, is a truth more evident than many Mi'mick. aJj. [mimicus, Lat.] Imita- her forks prcfagcs fnow ; that minces virtue, and
of thofe propolitions that go for principles ; and does (hake the head to hear of pleafure's name.
tive.
jet there are millhm who know not this at alt. Lii-te.
In Reafon's abfcnce n.imick Fancy wakes Shakejpiare's King Lear,
There are mil/iorti of truths that a man is not
To imitate her ; but misjoining Ihapes, To MiNCE. v. It.
concarned to know. Lccte. Wild work produces oft, and moft in dreams.. 1. To walk nicely by /hort (leps ; to
She found the polilh'd glafs, whofe fmall convex
Milton. aft with appearance of fcrupuloufnefs
Enlarges to ten millkni of degrees
The bufy head with mimick art runs o'er
The mite, invifible elfe. Phi/ipi. and delicacy ; to aiFeft nicety.
The fcenes and adtions of the day before. Swift.
Midft thy 6wn flock, great fliepherd, be receivd By her fide did the bold Sanfluy,
fit
And glad ail heav'o with millions thou haft fav'd.

;
Ta Mi'mick. -v. a. [from the noun.] To Fit mate for fuch a mincing minion.
Prior. imitate as a buftbon ; to ridicule by a Who in her loofenefs took exceeding joy. Fairy S!t
Mi'lliokth. adj. [from million.^ 1 he burlefque imitation. I'll turn two mincing fteps
ten hundred thoufandch. Morpheus exprefsM Into a manly ftride. Shakefpeare's Mcrcbar.t ofVtn,
The embrion of an ant is fuppofej to be as

firft
The (hape of man, and imitated bcft; A harlot form foft Hiding by,
big at that of an elephant ; which neverthclefs can The walk, the words, the gellurc, could fupply, With mituir.g ftep, fmall voice, ajid languid eye.
nevet arrive to the miUiontb part of the other's The habit mimicky and the mien belyc. Dryden. Dunciad.
bulk. BcnUcy.
Who wou'd with care fome happy fiftinn frame, 2. To fpeak fmall and imperfeftly.
Mi'llstone. »./ [millindône.] Su mimicks truth, it looks the very fame. Granvilij. The reeve, miller, and cook, are as much dif-
The
flone by which corn
Mi'mickry. n./. [^hom mimick. Bur- tinguiihed from each other, as the mincing lady
is comminuted. '\
priorefs and the broad-fpeaking wife of Bath.

No man fiiall take the nether or the upper mill- lefque imitation.
By an excellent faculty Diydcn's Fables,
Jhmt to pledge. Dcut. xxiv. 6. in mimickry, my corre-
iEfop's bea.ls faw farther into a mWJione than fpondcnt tells me he c^n aflume
and give my air,
Mi'ncingly. aJ-v, [from mince,'[ In
our mobile. LEfiranrc.
my taciturnity a (lynefs which diverts more than fmall parts ; not fully.
any thing I could fay, Sfcdator. Juftice requlretli nothing mincingly, but all with
Mit.T. B./. .[«,7</r, Dutch.]
1. The fperm of the male fi(h.
Mimo'grapher. ».y. [mimus ini yexipoj.] ptelTcd and heaped, and even over -enlarged mea-
You (hall fcarce take a carp without a mill, or a A writer of farces. Diii.
fure. Hooitr.
female without a roe or fpawn. Walton ! Anglrr. Mina'cious. adj. [minax, Lat.] Full
MIND. n.f. [jêminb, Saxon.]
2. [Milt, Saxon.] The fpleen. of threats. 1. The intelligent power.
I am fond old man ;
a very fcolilh,
Til Milt. -v. a. [from the noun.] To Mina'city. n.f. [from minax, Latin.] I fear I am
not in my perfect mind. Sbalefpeare,
impregnate the roe or fpawn of the fe- Difpofition to ufe threats. This word being often ul'cd for the foul giving
male fifh. Mi'n ATORY. a(^'. [ai/aor, Lat.] Threat- life, is attributed abulivcK to madmen, when wc
Mi'iTER. «./. [frommilt.] , The he of ening. •

fay that they arc of a diltraiSed mnd, inlicad of
any fifh, the (he being called fpawner. The king made a ftatute monitory and minatory, a broken underllauding which word, mind, we
;
towards juftices of |>cacc, that they (hould duly ufe alfo for opinion j as, I am of this or thatjniW.-
The fpawner and milur labour to cover their
execute their office, inviting complaints againil and fometimcs for men'? conditions or virtues ; as,
fpawn with fand. IValtoni ytr^hr.
them. Bacon Henry Vll. he is of an hoiieft mird, or a man of a juft mind :
Mi'ltwort. a./, [a/flinon.'} An herb.
. s
fometimcs for iiffedlion ; as, I do this for my
.
To MiNce. II. a, [contraêd, as itleems,

AinfiM. mind's fake ; (bmctimcs for rlie knowledge of piin-
from mi/iijh, or from mincer ; mince, ¥t.
MIME. /
[mimt, French ; ^,>^ ;
a. ciplesl which we have without difcourle olten- 1
fmall.] times for fpirits, angels, and iiitclligences ; but

mimiti, Latin.] A bnffbon who praftifes
gefticulations, either reprefentative of
t. To cut into very fmall parts. as it is uled in the proper lignification, including
She faw Pyrrhus make malicious fport, both tile underftanding agent and pa/Tible, it ia
fome aftion, or merely contrived to raife In miming with hit fword her hulband's limbs. defcribcd to be a pure, finiplc, fubllantial ail, not
mirth. &bakiji>care. depending upon matter, but having relation to that
Think'ft thou, minu, this is great ? Ben Jonfon. With a .good chopping knife minct the two which is intelligible, as to his firft objcfl, or more
To MiMB. V. n. To play the mime capons as fmall as oidinary mimed meat. Bac.n. at large thus; a part or particle of the foiil,
Tbink'O thou, mime, this is great ? or that they What means the fervicc of the church lo im- whereby it doth undcrftand, not depending upon
ifjri»e perleflly, and by halves, read over ? What makes matter, nor needing any organ, free from paftion
Whofe noife fball keep thy m'.ming them minci and mangle that in their praftice, coming from without, and apt to be difl'evered as
mod alive,
Whilft thou doftraifc feme player from the grave, which they jould fwaUow whole in their fubfcrip- eternal from that which is mortal. Raleigh,
Out-daac* the babion, or out-boaft the brave ? tioos t Souths demons. I thought th' eternal Mind
Revive the wits Had made us mailers. Dryden,

» - , Ben 'Jorjon.
Ml MI ».»./ [from «/«/.] Amimick;
But murder firit, and minct them all to bits. Dime. 2. Intelleftual capacity.
a buflfoon. 2. To mention any thing ftrupuloufly, We fay that learning's endlefs, and blame fate
For not allowing life a longer date.
/{e'er* Md <»nc«ri, anticJt?, m»iamcri, mimen. by a little at a time; to palliate; to
He did the utmoft bounds of knowledge find.
extenuate. He tutiud them not fo large n w<o his imnd. C iilcj,
J. Likir\g^
; ;
M N I M I N M I N
Liking; choice; inclinilion and Inward fuggcrtioHS of the holy fpir'it, to If thou be'ft flain, and with no (iiokt of n)/r<.
3. ; propen- fteri,
fion afFeftion.
;
attend to thofc prolpcCU, and mind the things that My wife and khildtvn's gholli will hdiint me ftill.
belong to his peace. Jiggers. Sbflkrjpeare.
Our quclHon is, Whether all be fin which is
done without direction by fcripture, and not whe- 2. I'o put in mind ; to remind. A friend of mite is cooie to me, and I have no-
thing to fet liefore him. Luke,
ther the Ifraelites did at any time amifs, by follow- Let me be punilhcd, that have minded you
'I'hat palm is mine. D>yden*
ing their own minjt without a/king counfel of God ^ Of what you Aould forget. Shulefp. ft'inters Tale.
Hwitr. I defiie to mind tliofc pcrfons of St. Auliin. Min'E. b. f. .[»!/«, French; mivyn or
We will confider of your fuiti Burnet. miiin, W el(h, from main lapis, in the
And conne fome other time to know our K'.ni. This w«n</j me
ofa cobbling colonel. L'Eftrargc. plural uieini.]
mind him, that the ccntiary fuppo-
Siaktfptarc* I (hall only
could be proved, is of little ufe. Locke.
1. A place or cavern in the earth which
Being me thjt brought yout irim/,
fo hard to fition, if it
contains tsftals or minerals.
I ficar prove as hard to ynu in telling her
fhe'll To MiKD. -v. n. To incline; to be dif
Though ftreighter bounds jour fortune did con-
mind* Stakftftarc- poffd. fine.
I svill have nothing elfc but only this When one of them mindcih to go into rebellion, In your large hetrt was found a tvealthy mine.
^nd now roethinks 1 have u 'mind to it> Shukffp. he will convey away all his lordflupi to feoffees in tVdUr.
Be of the fame mind one towards another.
Rtm. x\\. 16.
truft. Spenjer. A workman, worked
to avoid idlenefs, in x
Mi'nded. atlj. ^from mi/iJ.} groove or mine-pt thereabouts, which was little
Hift thou a wife after thy mitid f forljJte her
Ecclus. 1. Difpofed ; fnclined ; affeêd. , efttemed. £:yle,
Bot. -
We come to know A B'mc-dljser may meet vvith a gem, which lie

They had a mind to French Britain ; but they
How you ftand minded in the weighty diff'rence knows not what to make of. Boyiet
h»ve let fall their bit.| Bactn's War with Spain.
Between the king and you. Sbahfp. Ihyry VIII. '{'he heedlcfs mine- man aims only at the obtain-
Sudden mind arofc
Whofe fellow/hip therefore unmeet for tlicc, •ag a quantity of fuch a metal as may be vendible.
. In Adam, not to let th' occafion pafs,
Given him by this great conference, to know Good leafon was thou freely fliould'ft diflike, B-y'e.
Of things above this world.

Milten^t Parîiiift Left, And be fo mindd Mi/i<m's Parddip L,ft.
ftill. 2. A cavern dug under any fortification
Waller coatted on the other fide of the river, If men were minded to live virtuoufly, to believe thatit may fink for want of fupport (A, ;
but at fuch a diftance that he had no mini to be

a God would be no hindrance to any fuch dcfi^n,
in modern war, that powder may he
engaged. CLirendcn, but very much for its advancement. Tiliofjttn.
Pyrrhus is nobly minded and I fain

lodged in it, which being £red at a
He hadmind to do it.
a great Clarendon. ;
proper time, whatever is over it may be

All the arguments to a good lifebe very
will Would live to thank him. Philipi.
iiifignificant to a man that hath a wind to be 2. Miui/ed uufedincompoands: z.&,higb- blown up and deftroyed.
wicked, when remiflion of fins may be hacl upon minded. By wliat eclipfe (hall that fun be Jefac'd ?
fuch cheap terms. Ti/loifin's Strnuni. I am nol higb-minJed, 1 haven') proud looks. PJul.
What mine hath erft thrown down fo fair a tower
What hath fuch a faint difgrac'd
Suppofe that afier eight years peace he hath a 3. We fay likewife Itmj-minded.
I'acrilege ?
Sidney.
mind to infringe any of his treaties, or invade a
^neighbouring (late, what oppofition can we make ?
Mi'ndful. adj. \^ntind anA/'ull.'\ Atten- Build up the walls of Jerufalem, which yon
yiddifm. tive ; heedful ; having memory. have broken down, iind fill up the mina that you
I acknowledge the ufcfulnefs of your direftlons, have digged. IVIaitgift,
4. Thoughts ; fentiments.
and I promife yuu to be mindful of your adm.mi- Others to a city ftrong
Th' ambiguous god,
tions. Hjrntmrd. Lay fiege, encamped ; by batt'ry, fcale and mine,
In thefo myfterious words, his mind expreft.
Some truths reveal'd, in terms involv'd the reft. Mi'kdfuli.y. adv. [from mindful.] Anauiting. Aliiim's Paradife Lofl,
DryJen* Attentively; heedfully. To Mink. v. h. [from the noun.] To

Opinion. Mi'ndfulness. ». /. [from mindful.] dig mines or burrows; to form an/
J.
The earth was mind, not of my Attention ; regard. hollows underground.
\f you fuppofe, you, it Ihook. Sbahjp.
as fearing
Mi'ndless. adj. [from mind.]
The ranging ftnrk in ftately beeches dwells
Thefe men are of the mind, that they have clearer The climbing goats on hiUs lecurdy feed ;
1. Inattentive; regardlefs.
ideas of infinite duration than of infinite fpace, be- The mining coneys Ihroud in rocky cells. IVotton.
Curfed Athens, mir.i-.lejs of thy worth.
caufe God has exifled from all eternity; but there Of this various matter the terreftrial globe confiUs
Forget now thy great deeds, when neighbour ftatcs,
is no teal matter coextcndeJ with infinite fpace. from its furlace to the greateft depth we ever dig cr
Locke.
But for thy fword and fortune, trod upon them. mine, iVce>divard^s Natural Hi/iory.,
Sbakejpeare.
The gods permitting traitors to fucceed.
As the ftrorg eagle in the filent wood,
To Mine. v. a. To fap ; to ruin by
Become not parties in an impious deed ; mines ; to deflroy by flow degrees, or
Mirdlejs of warlike rage, and hoftile care,
And, by the tyrant's murder, wc may find.
That Calo and the gods were of a mind. Gmnvilh. riays round the rocky clift', or cryftal flood. Prinr. fecret means.
6. Memory ; remembrancy. 2. Not endued with a mind ; having no It will but Ikin and film the ulcerous place.
intellffluai powers. While rank corruption, mining all within,
The king knows their difpofition ; a fmall touch
Infcfls unfeen. Sbakejpeari'i UamleU
will put him in mind of them. £aicn. God firft made angels bodilcfs, pure, minds ;
Then other things, which mindlefi bodies be They mined tiie walls, laid the powder, and
When he brings :
rammed the mouth ; but the citizens made a coun-

Over the earth a cloud, will therein fct Lall, he made man* Davies*
termine. Hayvuard.
His triple-coloured bow, whereon to look, 3. Stupid ; unthinking.
And call to mind his covenant. Milton'i J'ar. Lofl. Pronounce thee a grofs lowt, a mindlrjs flave,
Mi'ner. ». /. [miaeur. Ft. from mine.]
Thefe, and more than 1 to mind can bring, Or elfe a hovering tempoirizer. Shak. fUnt. -Tale. I. One that digs for metals.
Menalcas has not yet forgot to fing. Dryden. MlND-STRiCKEN. adj. [mind and By me kings palaces are pufli'd to ground,
The cavern's mouth alone was hard to find, And miners ciulh d beneath their mines are found.
out Dryden.
flricken.] Moved ; aftcifted in his mind. Dryden,
Becaufe the path difus'd was of mind,
He hadbeen fo mir.d ft icken by the beauty of vir-
They will put him in mind of his own waking
tue ih that noble king, though not born his
z. One who makes military mines.
thoughts, ere thefe dreams had as yet made their As the bombadeer levels his milchief at cities,
fubjefl, he ever profeflcd himfelf his fervant.
LmprciTions on his fancy. j^tterhury's Sermons. the mimr bufies himfelf in ruining private lioufcs.
Sidney.
A wholefomc law time out of mind. Tji/er.
Had been confirm'd by fate's decree. Swift. Mine, pronoun polTeflive. [myn, Saxon; MfNERAL. »./ [minerale, Lai.] Foffile
TV Mind. -v. a. [frcm the noun.] mein, German ; mitn, French mtus, ;
body ; matter dug out of mines. All
1, To mark to attend. Latin. was anciently the praflice to
It
;
metals are minerals, but all minerals
His mournful plight is fwallowed up unwarcs, ufe my before a confoiiant, and mine
are not metals. Minerals in the re-i
Forgetful of his own that mirds another's cares. before a vowel, which euphony ftill
Sprnfer's Fairy Slucen, itrained fenfe are bodies that may be
requires to be obferved. Mine is al-
Not then millrnft, but tender love injoins. melted, but not malleated.
That I (hould mind thee oft j and mind thou me !
ways ufed when the fubfiantive pre- Sh<. did confefs, Ae had
Mtllon. cedes : as, thii is my cat ; thit eat ii For you a mortal mineral j which, being took.
the raving of a fmntick mufe,
If, in mine.] Belonging to me. Should by the minute feed on life, and ling'ring
And minding more his verfes than his way, Thou art a foul in blifs, but I am bound By inches wade you. Sbakefpcare's Cymbeline,
Any of thefe ihould drop into a well. Hojibmmon. Upon a wheel of fire that mine own tejrs
;
The minerals of the kingdom, of lead, iron,
Ceafe to requeft me ; let us mind our way ; Do fcald like molten lead. Shakejptan's King Lear. copper, and tin, are of great value. Baan,
Another fong requires another day. Dryden. When a wife man gives thee better counfel, give Part hidden veins digg'd up, nor hath this earth
He U daily called upon by the vnotd, tbe miai- me mine âin. SiaJteJpeart't King Lear. Entrails uoUkc, of mineral and Itoiie. Miltm,
Minerth ;
; . ; . : ; .
M N I M IN M 1 N
They art minified and brought low through op-
JUinerah; nitre with vitriol; common fait with The water, with twenty bubbles, not content to
P/a/. cvii. 39.
a!lum i and fulphur with vitriol. fy&odwurd, have the piiture of their face in large, would in preffion.
each of thefe bubbles let forth the miniature of

Another law was to bring in th« filver of the
Mi'neral. adj. Confifting of foffile
realm to the mint, in making all dipt, minified,
them. Sidney.
bodies. If the ladies fliould once take a liking to fuch a or impaired coins of filver, not to be current \a
By experience upon bodies in any mine, a man diminutive race, we fhould fee mankind epito- payments. Bacon s Henry VII.
•may conjeclure at the metalllck or mireral ingre- mized, and the whole fpecies in miniature: in MINIS I'ER. ». /. [minijier, l.at. mi-
dfents oi any mafs found -tbere. H^caJzuarit.
Older to keep our po.lirity from dwindling, we nijire, French.]
MrNBRALisr. » /. [from mtKeral.] One jiddij.nt Guardian.
have inftituted a tall club.
The
1. An agent; one who is employed to
Ikilled or employed in minerals. hidden ways
any end ; one who afls not by any in-
Amine-digger may meet with a gem or a Of nature would'fi thou know ? how S'il flie frames
mineral, «hch he knows not what to make of till All things in mini-ttw/ ? thy fpccuiar orfc^ herent authority, but under another.
he fljews it to a jeweller or a mweraViJi. Boy-e, Apply to well diHiiled kernels : lo! •* 1
You, whom virtue hath made the princcfs of
The metals and minerals which are lodged in Strange forms arife, in each a little plant felicity, be not the ntimficr of ruin. Sidr.ey.
the perpendicular. intervals do ftiU grow, to fpcak Unf.-ldi its boughs obferve the flender threads
:
Rumble tliy belly full ; fpit, fire ; fpout, rain :
in the rr.ineraliji's phrafe, or receive additional in- Of firftbeginning trees, their roots, their leaves. Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters ;
H^vcdivarJ, In narrow feeds defcrib'd. Fbilifs. I tax not you, you elements, with unkindneCi
creafe*
Minera'logist. n./. [mineralogie, Fr. Gay has improperly made it an ad- But yet I call you fervilc minificrs,
3.
Th.it have with two pernicious daughters join'd'
from mineral and Aoy^.J One who dif- jeflive.
Your high-cngender'd battles, 'gainft a head
Here the pencil bid its colours flow.
courfes on minerals. (hall
So old and white as this. Shakrtpeare^s Ki"g hear*
And make a miniature crcition grow. Cay.
Many authors deny it, and the exafted mimra- Th' infernal winf/Jfr advanc'd,
hgiHs have rejected it. Brvwni Vvlg. Err^ûrs, Mi'nikin. aiij. Small; diminutiVe. Scir'd the due viftim. jDrjdet.
Minera'logy. n. /. [{rom mineral and Ufed in flight contempt. Other fpirits govern'd by the will,
Xoy^.] The doftrine of minerals. SIcepeft, or wakcft thou, jolly fliepherd. Shoot through their trafts, and diftant mufcles fill
Thy be in the corn This fovereign, by his arbitrary nod,

Mine'ver. a./. A Jkin with fpecks of
flieep
Ant^for one blaft of thy minikin mouth. Reftrains or fends his minifien abroad. Btachm-ire.
white. Ainjvjorth.
Thy flieep fliall take no harm. Shakejf. King Lear. 2. One who employed
is in the admini-
To MI'NGLE. ij. a. Mi'mkin. »./. A fmall fort of pins. ftration of government.
1. To mix ; to join ; to compound to ;
Mi'nim. n /. [from minimut, Latin.] Rings muft be anfwerable to God, but the mi-
unite with fomething foas to make
I. A fmall being; a dwarf. nifters to kings, whofe eyes, ears, and hands they
one mafs. NotaU arc, muft be anfwerable to God and man. Bacon.
Sulpliurous and nitrous foam Minims of nature feme of ferpent-kind,
5 3. One who ferves at the altar ; one who
They found, they m'wgled, and with fubtle art, Wond'rous in length, and corpulence, involv'd performs facerdotal funSions.
CuncofleJ and aduftcd, they reduc'd Their fnaky folds, and added wings. Milton. Epaphras,afaithfulmmi/Ji;rof Chrift. i Co/, i. 7.
To blacked grain. Mi/tcn.
z. This word applied, in the northern
is The minijlers are always preaching, and I*ie
Lament witli me
with me your forrows join,
!
counties, to a fmall fort of fifh, which governors putting forth edicts againft dancing and
And m:r,iÎi your united tears with mine PKalJh* !
gaming. Addijon.
Our fex, our kindred, our houfes, and our very they pronounce OT«;n;'/w. See Minnow.
The miiii/brs of the gofpel are efpecially required
names, we are ready to mingle with ourlelves, and Ml'NIMUS. n.f. [Latin.] A being of to Ihine as lights in the world, becaufe the diflinc-
cannot bear to have othera think meanly of them. the lealt fize. tion oi their ftalion renders their conduft more,
JfMii'i Logul,
Get you gone, yoadwar^ obfcrvablc and the prefumption of their knuw-
;
z- To contaminate; to make of diflimilar You minimus of hind'ting knot grafs made ;

Itdge, and the dignity of tlieir office, gives a pe-
parts. You bead, you acorn. Stalteffeare, culiar force and authority to their example. Rogo s.
Toconfound the race Mi'nion.. »._/! [migneu, Fr.] A favou- Calidus contents himfelf with thinking, that
Of mankind in one root, and Earth with Hell he never was a friend to hercticks and inlidels 1
rite ; a darling; a low dependant; one
To mingle and involve. Milter* that he has always been civil to the tninjier of
The belt of us appear contented with a mingl,d, who pleafes rather than benefits. A his parilh, and very often given fomething to tha
imperfefl virtue. Rogtrt'i Sirmnii. word of contempt, or of flight and fa- charity-fchools. ' Lawm.
^, To confufe. miliar kindnefs. 4. A delegate ; an officii!.
There mingle broils. Milton, Minion, faid (he ; indeed I was a pretty one in If wrongfully
y»Mi'NGLr. 1/. n. To be mixed ; to be thcfe days ; I fee a number of lads tlut love you. Let God revenge ; for 1 may never lift
united with.
.Sidney. An angry arm againft his niinijicr. Shaicffetire,
They were made great courtiers, and in the way 5. An from a foreign power with-
ag-.nt
Ourfelf will mingle with fociety.
of minions, when advancement, the molt mortal
And play the humbic hoft. Shckeff>eari*s Macheth. out the dignity of an ambaffador.
offence to envy, (tirred up their former friend to
Alcimus had deliled himfdt wilfully in the
overthrow them. Sidney. To Mi'nister. v. a. \miniftro, Latin.]
times of their mingling with the Gentiles.
2 Mac, xiv. 13.
One, who had been a fpeclal mteicjr of Andro- To give ; to fupply ; to afford.
nianas, hated us for having difpoflelfed him of her All the cuftoms of the Iri(h would mi;.' j/?t-r
Nor ptiefts, nor ftatefmen.
heart. ' Sidmy. occafion of a mort ample difcourfe of tl.a original
Could have completed fuch an ill as that,
Go rate thy minians ; 1 and antiquity of that people. Spenjer on Ireland*
1/ women had not mingltd in the mifchicf. Jieive.
Becomes it thee to be thus bold jn terms ! Now he that m'nijlereth feed to the lower, both
She, when Ihe faw her fifter nymphs, fupprefs'd
Before thy foveieign? Sl'akijj>eare's HeisryVli minifir bread for your food and multiply your feed
Her tifing fears, and mingled with the reft. Aliiifin. His company muft do his minions grace,
'
fown. '
2 Cor. ix.
Mi'ncle. n.f. [from the verb. J Mix-, Whilft I at home ftarvc for a merry look. Shakefp. .The wounded p«tient bears
ture ; mtdlcy ; confufed mafs. Edward lent one a/my into Ireland ; not for The attili's h.uid that minijieri the cure. Otnvay,
With
Trumpeters, coiiqueft, but to guard the perfon of his ninin To M i'n I ST e r . 'a, n,
brazen din blaft you the city's ear, Piers Cavcfton. Dauies.
Make
1. To attend to ferve in any office.
;
mingle with our rattling tdbourines. SBaiefp, If a man (hould launch Into the hiftory of
At.taWc Eve
Neither can 1 defend my SpanJIh Fryar ; (hough human nature, w*e (hould find the very minions of
Minifir'd nalctJ, and their (lowing cups
the comical parts are diverting, and the ferious princes linked in confpiracies againft their mafter.
"With pleafant liquors crowa'd. Milton*
moving, yet they are of an unnatural mingle. LÊ^range.
Drydem Dufre[niy. The drowfy tyrant by his minions led. 2. To give, medicines.
Can' ft thou not minijier to a mind difcas'd,
Mi'ncler. n.f. [from the verb.] He To regal rage devotes fome patriot's head. Swift.
fMuek from the memory a rooted forrow,
who mingles. Mi'nious. adj. [from minium, Latin.] • I\aze out the written troubles of the brain ?
Mi'niatuke. »./. [miniature, French; Of the colour of red lead or vermillion. Sljakefpeare't Macbeth.
from minimum, Latin.] Some conceive, that the Red Sea receivcth a
3-, To give fupplies of things needful-;
ted and minimi tinSure from fprings that fall into
I. Painting in water-colonrs with pow- to give alTriiance ; to contribute ; to
it. Brotvn.
ders tempered with water. mode of A Tff Mi'nish. i>. a. [from diminijh; mi- afford.
painting almoA appropriated to fmall Others minijlered unto him of their fubHance.
titts, Lat.] To leffen; to lop ; to im- Lt'ke^
figures.
pair. He who has a foul wholly void of gratitude,
Z. Reprefentation in a fmall comp^fs Ve (hall not minljh 4ught from your bricks of /hould fet his foul to learn of his body 5 fot^ the
reprefentation iefs than (he reality. ; \
you daily talk. Exod, v. 19. patli of that minijier to one another. South.
. Thtta
r
;
M I N M N I
e isiM-tnth whkh * imn nwy fntVe tx'i-' flat «f th« divine wUl, yet I thiAk they <A mod wafted well in fait, and their k:>di and tails cut
onlinarily done by the«tn>/^r.}/iv« of angels. off, and their guts taktn out, being fri^ with
Jfntly out thin the ciiiK-nc;.- ot a God ; yet
make
Unlet Orrgin cf Mankimi. yolks of eggs, priniro&s, .lod tanfy. IVaJu*' 1 Aag.
he tbtt (lull content himi'elf with things «* they
mintfier to ourpleifurei anJ piflioiu, and not make a. Service; office; ecciefiallital fontlion. The nimble turning of the mirnow is the ptr«
feftion of miKKMu fifliing. H'ylton'i ^ngltr,
•ûiry a little (Kthti 'rata their <Mtfti «nd enJs, The profeflion of a clergyman ii an holy pro-
tniy liw long without any notion of fuch a being. feîon, becauie it is a mimjiraium in holy things, MINOR, adj. [Latin.]
Lccit. «n attendance at the altar. Law. 1. Petty ; inconfiderable.
Thofe good men, who taUt fach ^leal'ute ifl re- If t!ie ptefent mimftraiim be more glorious than If theie are petty erraurs and tamer Itpfea, not
Jicviagtlie milcrable for CUrift's Wte, would not the former, the minitler is more holy, jitterbury. conCdcrably injurious unio faith, )et is it not
,k»\e been lc& fiJiward to m'.njiir unto Chrift him- Mi'nistrv. n. /. [contradled from mi- J'afe to contemn infaiourfalCtici. Sroien.
A:tcrbuiy.
fe!t. iiijierj ; minijterium, Latin.] 2. Lefs; fmailer.
Fiftinjr is net abfolutelj- good, bctielativeiy, and They altered this cuftom from cafes of high
1. Office; (trvice
OS it->ii«.ij'.'«-«to other virtues. SmairidgSs SirmoaS^ conceriunent to the moft trivial debates, the minor
So far is an indi(lia£tion of all perfoBS, and,
4^ To attend on the fervice of God. part ordinarily entering tlicir proceft. OcrenJcti.
by confcqueuca, an anarchy of all things, fo far
Whethef'prcFl.ttv, let us prophcq- according tu from being agrfeabk to the will of God declared in The dificrence of a thitJ part in io large and
the proportion oi faith; or miniftry, let us wait colledive an account is not ftrajige, if we cenfidcr
his,gieat huufnold, the world, and efpecially in all
•«n our mhifjhrin^. "'"• »"• 7'
the mwifir'u! of his proper houlchoid the church,
how di/lietentiy they.aiv fet in ««r
and Icfs mjf-
-MijiisTt'RiAL. adj. "[from mini/er.] ukcable numbers. Jircwri'i yujfar^rrouru
that tlierc was never yet any time, 1 believe, Cnce
1. Attendant adling at command.
; was a numb r, when fome of its members were
it Mi'nor. »./.
UndetilandJBg is in a man courage and viva- ; not-more facied than others. Sfraii's Sermons. 1. One under age; one whofe. youth can-
city in the lion; fervice, and mniJirrUl ofSciouf- 2. Office of one (et apart to preach ; not yet allow him to manage his own
j^jfs, in the ox. Brru-.i.
eccleiialtical funftion. aFiirs.
Froin cCieoKiMnlaiJ, taleftjal names,
Their maifiry perform 'd, and race well run, King Richard the Secot4, tiie firft ten.ytan of
'.tolight'ning fpirki, and minithruil Aamca^ i
Thtir doftrine and tlieir ftory written left, ,Oax-ies on.Irctmnd*
his reign, was a minor.
l.itt VI owr icaf)!i to that fovcreign caufc, MiiKin's Paramje L'JI.
fnor^
| They die. He and his niufe might be mimrt, but the
Who blelVd tU«: whole with U»c. _ Sjint Paul was miraculoudy called to the mis'ijiry libertines-are full grown. Collier'i V rm eftkr Styê,
2. JiiX'iog under fuperior authority. of the gofpel, and had the whole doftrlne of the Long the years dtll circle i««m. to rQ«i,
ai
in eocrf,-^»4)ere muil from God by immediate revelation and wis
Fcr tlie n'lifîcriitl officers gofpel ; When the triik minor pants for t»rcaly-«ne. Pffe.
bean eyciunto tlicia. Btuen'i AJvke tc 7';/.V",, Appointed the apoltie of tiie Gentiles for propa- The ngblett Llood of England having been Jhed
Ab.Hnence, the apjftle idcterniincs, is of nij gating it in the heathen world. Lock:. in tlie grand rebellion, many gr«at famihcd became
other real vabie in religion, than as a min'^flir'ml
.
Agency inteipolition extinft, or fupported only bj m:r.cri. S-utf;,

3. ;
rauff of moral tSedti ; as it recalls us from the The he made after a miraculous
natural world, Aminor or infant cannot be faid to be con-
uorld, and give> a ferious turn to our thoughts. 'manner ; bat direfts the affairs cf it ever fmce tumacious, beâufe he car.not appear as a defendant
Rig'rs. Parergon^
by iiandin;- rules, and the ordinary mini/lry of fe- in court, bur by his guardian, /lyliffe's
3. Sacerdotal ; belonging to the ecclc- cund caufes. .,i:teriury. 2, The Iccond or p.»rin.ular propofition
fiaftL-ksor their office. To all but thee in fits he feem'd to go. in the fyllogilm.
Thefe fpccches of Jercra arid Chryfoftom plainly And 'twas my v.'mjliy to deal the blow. Parne!.
The fecond or minor pioiôfition was, that dii»
Jludc unto fuch mnijicrhil janrfOnts as were then The poets introduced the yr.hiftry of the gods,
kingd.>m hath caul'e of juft fear of oveithtvw from
Jo ufe.
Hooker. and taught the fepatate exiftence of human fouls.
Spain. Btcofi,
or per- Bentlcy,
^. Pertaining to minifters of ftate, fuppofed that a philofopher's bram was like
He
fons in fubordinate authority. 4. Bulinefs. a foreft, where ideas arc ranged like animals of
He fafc from loud alarms, fcveral kinds ; that the major is the male, the
Ministe'riallv. adv. In a minifterial Abhorr'd the wicked minifliy of arms. DrytSen. minor the female, which, copulate by the middle
manner. Perfons employed in the publick affairs term, and engender the conciufion. Ajbu:br.tt*
5.
Supremacy of oiBce, hy mutual agreement and
of a ftate. To Mi'norate. v. a. [from minor, Lat.]
voluntary economy, belongs to the father ; while
the fon, out of voluntary condefcenfion, fubmits
I convtrfe in full freedom with many. conCJer- To to diminjfli.
leflen ; A word not
able men of both parties ; and if not in equal yet admitted into the language.
to aft mimlicriaUf, or in capacity of mediator,
'
number, it is purely accidental, as happening tq

This it doth not only by the advantageout
have made acquaintance at court more under one affiftance of a tube, but by (hewing in what de.
Mi'kistery. «. /
\mMfierium, Lat.]
mmiflry than another. Swifi.
gtees diftance mirorales the objefll. Glanvitkm
Office ; fervice. This word is now coo-
traded to miniftry, but ufed by Milton
MINIUM, n.f. [Latin.] Minora'tion. n. f. [from miHorale.'}
Melt lead in a broad earthen veffel unglaied, and The aft of lefiening ; diminution; de-
a$ four fyllables. tiil it be calcinated into a grey
They that will have their chamber with a filled
ftir it
powder
continually
; this is continue
called the calx of lead j
cieafe. A word not admitted.
fome odoriferous water be blown Bodies emit virtue without abatement of weight,
good fcent, make the fire, ftirring it in the fame manner, and it be-
arc dexte- as is moll evident in the loadftonc, whoiie -elS-
about it by their fervants mouth* that comes yellow ; in this ftate it is ufed in paint-
Diîy. cioaccs are communicab.e without a rrino: alien of
rous in that mmjie'y. ing, and is called mafticot or malficot ; after this
This temple to frequent gravity. Bmvn » Vulgar Errouri,
put it into a reverbcratory furnace, and it will caU
Alihin. hope the mercies of God will confider our
Wo
With m'lnftcrut due, and folemn rites. cine further, and become of a fine red, which is
degenerated integrity unto fome minoration of ou»
Mi'nistral. d.^'. [from «/»i/?fr.] Per- the common m'mwm or ted lead : among the an- Broun.
offences.
taining to a miniiler. cients mimum was the name for cinnabar : the
Mino'rity. «. /. [mhtoriti, Fr. frojn
At- modern minium ufed externally, and is excellent
is
Mi'nistrant. adj. [from minijfer.']
in deanfing and healing old ulcers. i/;/rr Ma:. M. minor, Lat.]
tendant ; afling at command. Pofe know The of being under age.
Mj'nnocic. n. /. Of this word 1 I. Jlate
accents it, not according to analogy, It is not mov'd the king, my mailer, to (peak in the
not the precife meaning. I
on the fecond fyllable. behalf of my daughter, in the minority of them
unlikely that minnock and minx are ori-
Him thrones, aad pow'rs. both. Sbakcffenre.
Princedoms, and dominations mirjijirjnt, ginally the fam« wor^. He is young, and his mirtrity
Accompany'd to heav'n-gatc. lUilrin'i Pur. ttft. An afa's nolc 1 head
fixed on his
Is put into the truft of Richard Glofter. Sbukijf.
queen with bufy catc,
Ikilmftrant to their Anon his Thilbe muft be anfwered, '1 hefe changes in religion (hould be (laid, Until
And forth my mlnmck comes. Sbtkejfetre.
foul faithful handmaids the foft rites prepare. th- king were of years to govern by himfclf : thii
Pft. Mj'unow. ». /. {menut, French.] A the people appiehendmg worfe than it was, a queftian
Ministra'tion. *. /. [from minijlrq, very fmall lilh ; a pink : a corruption was raifcd, wheiher, during the king's minority,
fuch alterations might be made or no. iUymari.
1-atin.] of minim, which fee.
Hcaryou thistritonof the luiuMwr? Sh»keffmre. Haor] the lighth, doubting he might die in the
I. Agency ; intervention ; office of an
The minnow, when he is in perfcft feafon, and minority of his fon, procured an aft to pafs, tw
age.'t delegated or commiffioned by annot fick, which is only prefently after fpawning, no ftaiute made during the minority of the king'
him or his fuccelTors, except it were
other. (hould bind
hath a. kind of dappled or waved colour, like a
coD(iimcd by the king at his full age. But the
G»d tnade him
the Inftrumcnt of his providence panther, on his fides, inclining to a grecniih and
10 me, as he hath made his own land to him, with that pafTcd in king Edward the Sixth'*
aft
(ky-colour, his belly being milk-white, and his firft
this diiference, that God, by bit Wttn^rat'nnVt me, time, was a repeal of that former aft j at whid»
back alinoft black or blackith : he is a Aarp biter Bace:
inlendi to do him a favour. tityhr. at a fmall worm in hot -weather, and in the Spring
time neverthclefs the king was minor.
Though It there be evidence, that it ij n9t ta»j age»
fojnctiiQU effc^d by the immediate &cy make excellent mnarui tanfiesj for being fihcc
J,
; ; ;
M I N M I N MI N
fince nature was may be taken
in her mir.irity, this number of curious inventions are iffued out, which MI'NUTE. «. /. [tninutum, Latin.]
tor a good proof that She not eternal. is grow current among the party. Addifcn. 1. The fix.ieth part of an hour.
Burnetts theory of the Earth. STe Mint. 'v. a. [from the noun.] This man fo complete.
Tiidr cpunfclsare wariijceand ambitious, tiiough 1. To coin ; to ftamp money. Who was enroird niongit wonders, and when we,
Ibrtietlitn^ temperqd by the alr.crity of tiieir king. Another law was, to bring in the filver cf the Alraoft with lift'niiig raviih'd, could not find
realm to the mint, in making all clipped coins of His hsur of fpeech a Kim/te. Sixiktfp. Henry VIII.
2. The ftate of being UTs. iilvernot to be current in payments, without giving 2. Any fmall fpaceof time.
From this narrow time ot gertatiin may enfuc any remedy of weight ; and fo to fet the mint They walk'd about me ev'ry minute while ;
a m'mcriy, or finallncrs in the cxclufion. Srojvn. on work, and to give way to new coins.of fiiver And if I did but ftir out of my bed.
3. The (mailer number : as, the minority wliich fliould be tlicn mimrd. Bacons Henry VU. Ready they were to flioot me to the heart.
held for that queUion in oppcfuion to 2. To invent ; to forge. Sbakeffeart.
Look into the titles whereby they hold thefenew The fpeedof g.-d;
the majority.
portions of the crown, and you will find them of Time counts. not, though with fwiftell n-irutci
MTnotaur. /. [minolaure, French;
n.
fuch natures as may be cafily minted. Bacon. wing'd. Milton' i Farad fe Lofi.
minm and taurus.'] A monfter invented MtNTACE. n. jf. [from m/'/!/.]
Gods that the world Ihould turn
!
by the poets, half man and half bull, On tnitiuCiS and on moments. Denhain's Scjify.
1. That which is coined or ilamped.
Experience docs e'.ciy minute provj the fad truth
kept in Djedalus's labyrinih. Its pleafiqg poifon
of tliib allertion. South's St:rm.ns.
Thou may'ft not wander in that labyrinth, The vifage quite transforms of him that drinks.
Tell her, that 1 fome certainty may bring
There v/ircnaun, and ugly treaibns lurl<. okakejf. And the inglorious likenefs of a bcall
I go this minute to attend the kin^. DiyJcn.
Mi'NiTER. n./. [minprepe, Saxon ] A Fixes inftead, unmouiding reafon's mintage
The firll draught of any agreement in
CharaftcrM in the Miller. 3.
monaftery; an ecciefiaftical fraternity; face.
The
duty paid for coining. writing; this is common in the Scot-
a cathedral church. The word is yet 2. Aifi/ivort/).
tilh law: as, have you ma.de a minute
retained at York and Lichfield. Mi'nter. K.f. [from «/«/.] Coiner.
Sterling ought of pure ijlver called leaf
to be of that ctmtraft }
Mi'nstrel. »./. \menejiril, Spanifh mt-;
A Iilver, the iiinter muft add other weight, if the ToMi'nute. t). «. [minuter, French.]
nejlrallus, low Latin.] mufician ; Camden.
ore who plays upon inliruments.
filver be not pure.
To fet down in fhori hints.
Mi'nt.man. »./. [ifiitit ZJid rnati -I One I no fooner heard this crltick talk of my works,
Hark how the miifirth 'gin to fliriU aloud
but 1 minuted what he had faid, and refolved to
(killed in coinage.
Their merry mufick that refounds from far,
He that thinketh Spain to be fome great over- enlarge the plan of my fp<culatirns. Sp.Elatir,
The pipe, the tabor, and the trembling croud.
That well agree withouten bresch or jar. Sf infer.
match fur this eftate, is no good mirtman ; but Mi'nute-book. n.f. [minute inUi book. ^^
takes grealnefs of kingdoms according to their bulk Book of fhort hints.

I will give you the rnvfifeh
— Theti 1 will give you the ferving creature.
and currency, and not after their intrinfick Value.
War iv'ul^ Spain. Bacoji^s
MrNUTE-CLAss. n.f. [minute and g/ofi .]
Shakrfptare. Glafs of which
Mi'ntmaster. n./. [mint and maJUr.^ the fand meafures a
I to the vulgar am become a jell j
minutd.
Eiteemed as a majirtl at a fealt. Saitdyi'tfarafbr. 1. One who prefides in coinage.
1 hefe fellows That which is coined, as mintmajitrt confefled, Mikv'tely. ai/v. [from »i/««/^.] To a
Were once the minjirels of a country /how ; Is allayed with about a twelfth part of cap',>er. fmall point; exadly ; to the leall part
Follow'd the prizes through each paltry town. Boyle. nicely.
By trutnpet-cheeks and bloat»i faces known. 2. One who invents. In this pofture of mind it was impofiible for
'
Dryilett. The great mintmafieri of thefe terms, thefchool- him tokeep that (low pace, and obfcrve minuiily
Often our and poets have confcfs'd.
feers
men and metaphylicians, have wherewithal to con- that order of ranging all he faid, from which re-
That mufick's force can tame the furious beaft ; tent him. Locke. fults an obvious perfpicuity. Lorke^
Can nake the wolf, or foaming boar reilraln
His rage \ the lion drop his crciled mane.
Mi'nuet. «. /. [menuet, French.] A Change of night and day.
flately regular dance. And of the feafons ever fteaUng round,
Attentive to the fong ; the lynx forget Minutily faithful: Thomjon's Summer,
His wrath to man, and lick tlic m'irjirtti feet. The tender creature could npt fee his fate.
With whom Ihe dancM a minuet fo late. Sief/ny.
Mi'nutely. adv. [from minute, the fub-
Prior.
John has aQ'uiance to fet up for a tr.iaun dancer. ftantive.]
Mi'nstrelsey. v./. [from minjirtl.'\
Spe£ielor. 1. Every minute; with very little time
Muflck; innrumeniai harmony.
|.
Apollo's fclf will envy at his play.
MrNUM. n.f. intervening.
And all the world applaud his m-njiretfty* Davia. 1. [With printers,] A fm all fort of print- What is it but a continued perpetuated voice
That loving wietdi that fweart, ing letter. from heaven, refounding for ever in our e^rs > As
if it were minutely proclaimed in thunder from
'Tls not the bodies matry, but the miiids, 2. A note of flow time,
[With muficians.]
heaven, to give men no reft in their fins, no quiet
^^'hich he ia her angelick findx. t»\o of which make a femibrief, as two
Would fwear as juftly, that he hears. from Chrift's importunity till they rife from fo
crotchets make a minom ; two quavers mortiferous a (late. Hammond's Fundamentals.
In that day's rude hoarfe minflrcljey, the fphercs.
lior.uc, a crotchet, and two femiquavers a qua- 2. [In the following paflage it feems rather
I began. ver. Bailey. to be an adjefllve, as hourly is both the
Wrapt in a pleafing fit of melancholy. He's the courageous captain of compliments adverb and adjedUve.] Happening eve|y
meditate my rural mii^reljey,
To he fights as you fing prlckfons, keeps time, dillancc,
'
minute.
'Till fancy had her fill. Mih'.ii. and proportion ; refts his mi/rum, one, two, and
Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach,
2. A number of mudcians. the third in your bofom. Shakf[>eare.
Thofe he commands, move only in command.
Miniftring fpirits tralnM upjn feaft, and fong ! Miriu'TE. aJj. [minutus, Lat.] Small; Nothing In love. Shakcffeare's Macbeth.
Such hall thou arm'd the mirpriljty of Itcav'n.
(lender ; fmall in bulk
Jili/rctt.
little ; ; fmall Minu'teness. w.y. [hommtnute.'\ Small-
in confequence. nefs; exility; inconfiderablcncfs.
MiNT.«.y. [mmte, Saxon; ruenihe, Fr. Some v.irtvtc philofophers pretend. The animal fpirit and infenfible particles never
mentha, Latin.] A plant. That with our days our pains and plcafures end. fall under our fenfes by reafon of their miiiuienfft.
Then rubb'd it o'er with rcwly.gather'd mirt, Derbam. Benthy.
A wholcfomc herb, that breatb'd a grateful fcent^ Such an univerfil fuperintendency has the eye Mi'nute-watch. «../. [minute and
Dryiicn. and hand of providence over all, even the moft
,
m':nute and inconndcrablc things. S'>uri-^s Sermons.

nvatch.'l A watch in which minutes are
Mjkt. « /. [muijie, Dutch; mynenan, Into fmall parts the wond'rous ftojie divide, more diftinftly marked than in common
to coin, Saxon.] Ten thnul'and of mitutejl lize exprefs watches which reckon by the hour.
1. The place where mon*y is coined. ^"he fame propcnfion which the large pofTefs. Carting our eyes upon a minvtc-toatch, we found
What 1! a perfon's na.me or face, that receives Blachncri.'. that from the beginning of the pumpiog, about
all his repu'5'.ion from tie it!:n', and wouli) never The fcrum is attenuated by circulation, To as two minutes after the coals had been put in glow-
have been known had l}:ere not been medals } to patic Into the mir.u'ffi channels, and become fit ing, to the total difappearing of the fiie, there had
. ,
jiddifon on Mtdalt. nutriment for the body. j^rhuthnot. pa(Ii:d but three minutes. Beyle.
2. Any place of invention. In all divifions wc
ihould conlider the larger and MiKX. n /. [contrjfted, I fuppofe, from
A more immediate parts of the fubjeft, and not di-
man in all the worlds new fafljion planted,
vide it at once into the mote piinuie and remnte
minnocki'] A young, pert, wanton girl.
T ! If hi'h a f'-nt ofphrafcs in his brain. Siatf/f. Lewd minx t
parts. H'otiit Lpgitk.
'itaay vt »t nerk; a girtt Core, go w'.th me apart. ShAifpearc.
S :>omi
: . -
M I R M I R M I S
Seme torche; bore, fome links, Kow plung'd 10 mrt, now by Jbarp brambles torn The fcaft was fervd ; the bowl w.i« crown'd
j
Before the proud virago mirtx* tludibrai* B-ojcemmon. To the king's picafuie went the irirttful round.
She, when but jet a tender m'wx, begin To Mire. ti. a. [from the noun.] 'i'o Pritr.
To hold the door, but now fcts up for man. Dry J. whelm in the mud ; to foil with mud. Mi'rthless. ee^, [from mirth.] ]oy-
MI'RACLE. «./• {.nuracle, Fr. miracu- Why had I not, with charitable hand, lefs ; cheerlefs.
lum, Lat.] Took up a beggar's iflTue at my gales f Mi'B.r. adj. [from «/r^.]
1. A wonder; icmething above human Who froeered thus, and mir'd with infamy, 1. Deep in mud ; muddy.
I might have faid no part of it is mine. Shakejf. Thou have heard bow her horfe fell,
power. Ihould'ft
Nothing almoft fees miraclts

MiRE. »./. \jnyr, Wellh ; myjia, Saxon ; and (he under her horfe : thou (hould'ft have heait
But mlfery. Shakejpcart' s K'mg Lear, tnier, Dutch.] An ant ; a pifmire. in how miry a place, how (he was bemoiled.
Virtuous and holy, chofen from above. MTriness. It. [from »»/>y.] Dirti- Shaktfpeare's Taming of the Sbrrtu,
f. men who
To work exceeding mirteln on earth. Sbak^ff- nefs ; fullnefs of mire.
All lived lazy lives, and died natural
Be not offended, nature's mirade. deaths, by ficknefs or by age, went into va(t caves
Thou art allotted to be ti'en by me. Stakeff.
Mi'rksome. [morct; dark, Danilh.
aJj, under ground, all dark and miry, full of noifome
2. [In theology.] An efFcft above hu- in the derivatives of this fet, no regular creatures, and there grovci.ed in endlefs ftench
orthography is obferved : it is common and mifcry. Ttmfle.
man or natural power, performed in Deep, through a miry lane (he pick'd her way,
atteftation of Tome truth. to write murky, to which the reft ought
Abuve her ancle role the chalky clay. Cay's Trivia,
The miraJtt of our Lord are peculiarly eminent to conform.] Dark; obfcure. So have 1 fecn ill-coupled hounds
ai>ove the lying wonders of demons, in that they Through mirkfcme air her ready way flie makes. Drag di/T'rent ways in miry grounds. Stoifl,
were not made out of vain olUntation of power, fai'-y Siucen.
2, Confilling of mire.
and to raife unprofitable amazement; but for the Mi'rror. n.f. [miroir, French; mtrar, Shall thou and 1fit round about fome fountain
real benefit and advantage of men, by feeding t!ie Spanifh, to look.] Looking ali downwards to behold our chteks,
hungry, healing all forts of difcafes, cjefting of
devils, and reviving the dead. Ben:/ey.
1. A looking-glafs ; any thing which How they are (lain d like meadows, yet not dry.
exhibits reprefentations of objefts by With miry (lime left on them by a flood > Shukeff.
Mira'culous. [miraculeux, French;
at(/.
Mis, an infeparable particle ufed in coin
refleftion.
from mirac/e.] Dons by miracle ; pro- And in his waters which your rr.imr make. pofuion to mark an ill fenfe, or de-
duced by miracle; efFeded by po*er Behold your faces as thf,xryAil bright. Sper.fer. pravation of the meaning: as, chance,
more than natural-.' That pow'r which gave me eyes the world to
luck; mi/c&ance, i\\ lack ; computation,
Arithmetical progreflion might eafily demon- view,
reckoning; mijsomputation, falfe reckon-
ftrate how fall mankind would increafe, over- To view myfelf infus'd an inward light.
paying as miracuhus, though indeed natural, that Whereby my foul, as by a mirror true, ing ; to like, to be pleafed ; to mijlike,
example of the Ifraelites, who were multiplied in Of her own form may take a perfcil fight. Da-vies. to be offended ; from met in Teutoniclc
two hundred and fifteen years from feventy unto Lei's bright the mooji. and French, ufed in the fame fenfe.
fix hundred thoufand able men. Raleigh's EJfays. But Weft was fet
oppofite in levell'd
Of this ic is diiHcuit to give all the
Rcftore this day, for thy great name, His mirror, with full face borrowing her light
Unto his ancient and miracuhu: right. Herbert. Friim him. MJtoni Faradife Loji. examples but thofe
: that follow will
Why this ftrength Mtrroir of poets, mirroir of our age. fufficienily explain it.
Miraculous yet remaining in thofe locks ? Which her whole lace beholding on thy ftagc, Misacckpta'tion. n /. [mis and accep-
His might continues in thee not for naught. MJi. Pleas'd and difpleas'd with her own faults, endures tation.] The aft of taking in a vviong
At the firft planting of the Chriftian religion, A remedy like thofe whom mufick cures. fValkr.
fenfe.
God was pl;afed to accompany it with a mhaculcas By chance he fpy'd a mirroir while he fpoke.
power. T'iU'jtJoju And gaiing there beheld his alter'd look: Misadve'nture. n /. [mi/a'venture, Fr.
Mira'culously. adn}. [from miracu- Wond'ring, he faw his features and his hue mis and ailventure.] Milchance; mif-
lous.'] By miracle ; by power above So much were chang d, that fcarce himfelf he fortune ; ill luck; bad fortuue.
knew. Dryden. Your looks are pale and wild, and do import
that of nature.
Late as I rang'd the cryftal wilds of air. Some mifadventure. Shnkefp. Rorneo and yuUct,
It was a fingular providence, of God, to draw
down into thole
In the clear mirroir of thy ruling ilar, When a commander, either upon nccedity or
thofe northern heathen nations
1 faw, alas fome dnead event impend.
! Voê. mi/adventure, fallcth into danger, it much ad-
Chridian parts, where they might receive Chrirti-
2. It is ufed for pattern ; for that on vanceth both his reputation and enterpriae, if
anity, and to mingle nations fo remote n:irac:ilcujly,
which the eye ought to be fixed as bravely he bchaveth himlclf. Hay^vard,
to make one blood and kindred of all people, and j
The body coniilled, after all the lofl'es and mij-
each to have knowledge of him. Spenfrr onlrelor.d. men look in a glafs to adjuft their mien au'v.nturts, of no lefs than fix thoufand foot.
Turnus was to he (lain that very day ; and or drefs an exemplar ; an archetype.
;
Clari'fit'cn,
/£neas, wounded as he was, could not have en- The works of nature are no lefs exaft, than if Diftinguilh betwixt m'ljadventuri and dclign.
gaged him in fiigle combat, unlefs his hurt had flie did both behold and ftudy how to cxprefs fome
Drydin. L'FJIrange,
been miracuhujly healed. abfolute ihape or Brnrur always pre&nt before her. The trouble of a m'faJventure now and then,
Mira'culousness. n. f. [from mira , . , . . .
Htoker. that reaches not his innocence or reputation, may
culous.] The ftate of being efFefted by O
goddefs, heavenly bright, not be an ill way to teach him more caution.
miracle fuperiority to natural power. Mirrmir of grace and majeily divine. Fairy Queen. Luke en F.duiatiiM,
;
Howfar'ft thou, mirror of all martial men ?
Misadve'ntured.
MIR ADO'R. n.f. [Spanifh, from mirar, <iiiik:fpeare.
at/j. [Irom mi/ad-
to look.] A balcony; a gallery whence Afirroir of ancient faith in early youth. Dryden.
Venture.] Unfortunate.
ladies fee (hews. From forth the fatal loins of thefetwo foes,
MrRnoR-STONE. ». /. [/cUniies, Lat.]
A pair of (tarcroft lovers take their life
Mean time yonr valiant fon, who had before A
kind of trarfparent ftone. Ainfitiorth. ;
CainM fame, rode round, to ev'ry miredor Whofe mijadn'cntur'd piteous overthrows
Beneath each lady's ftand a (top he miide,

;
Mirth. «._/! '[myf.);be, Saxon.] Merri- Do with their death bury their parents ftrife.
And bowing, tuuk th' apf laufes which \hty paid. ment jollity; gaiety; laughter.
;
Shakefptare*
Drydefi, To give a kingdom for a mirth, to fit. MiSADVi'sED. adj. [mis and ad-vijed.]
Mire. Mud; And keep the turn of tippling with a fiave. direacd.
». / [wtfr, Dutch.] dirt
Ukah.jpeare.
Ill
at the bottom of water. Misa'imed. adj. [mis and aim.] Not

His eye begets occafion for his wit
H; his rider frorh her lofty deed aimed rightly.
For every objct^ that the one doth catch.
Would have caft down, and trod in dirty >ni''e. I'he idle liroke enforcing furious way,
The other turns to a wirrii-moving jeti. Skckefp.
Spetifer. MilTing the mark of his mifaimed fight,
Moft of the appearing miith in the world is not
Here') that, which is too weak to be a finner, Did fail to ground. Fairy ^tt^r«,
mirth but ait : the wounded fpirit Ts not fecn, but
'
honcft water, which n:'er left man i' th' mire. Ml'sANTH ROPE. It./, [mi/anthrope, t
walks under a difguife. South. T,
Shakrff. Timm of Athens,
I'm Ralph himfetf, yOur trufty fquire,
With genial joy to warm the foul, Misa'nthROPOS. 1 ft<(7a»»p«7r®-.] A
Prijjht Helen mix'd a mirth inipiring bowl, Pcfe. hater cf mankind,
Wh' has dragg'd your don(hip out o th' mire.
Hudihras, Mi'kthful, adj. [mirth and full.~\ Iam mijanlhrcpcs, and hate mankind. Sbakefpcare^
I appeal to any man's reafon, whether it be not Merry ; gay cheerful.
;
Alas, poor dean his only fcope
!
better that there (hould be a dittinftion of land No fimple word, Was to be held a mifamhrope ;
and iei, than that all ihould be mite and water. That (hall be uttcr'd at our mirthful board, This into gcn'ral odium drew him. Swift,
Mire egainjl At'vcjm. itail make us fad nejt moriiing. Bets Jtnjn. Misa'kthroi'Y. «./. [^mi/antbrepii, Fr.
from
; : :
MI S M I S M I S
from ?tti/anthrope.'\ Hatred of man The with unavailing ftrife.
fwellirtg rind, If you vitfcarr-^f
kind. To leave the wooden womb, and pulhes into life. Your bufinefs of the world hath (o an enJ,
DrydcK. And machination ceaTes. Shahfp. King Lctir.
Misappmca'tion. [mis zndafflt-
n./.
To Misbeha've. v. n. [mis dknd heha've.'] Sweet Bafianio, my fiaips have all miCcanicd, my
i-atioa.] Application to a wrong pur- grow cruel, my
To aft ill or improperly. creditors eftatcis vcrylow. Sbahfp.
pofe. I could mention fome
projeils which I have
The of miny in the community
indiftinflion
Misbeha'ved. [mis and bcbaved.'\
adj.
brought to maturity, and others which have mif-
of name, or the mijappttcSf.cn of the ai5l of one Untaoght; ill-bred; uncivil. carricd. AddiJ'^n'i Guardian.
unto another, hath made fome doubt thereof. Happinefs court? thee in her beft afnty ; '
No wonder that this expedient rliould fo ofierr
Bro'iuni Vulgar Errtun, But, like a rvifheha-v'd and fullen wench, n:ijcj'-ry, which requires fo much art and genius to
The vigilance of thofe wjo prefide over thefe Thou pout' ft upon thy fortune and tliy love. arrive at any pcrfeilion in it. Svif!
charities is fo exemplary, that perfons difpofed to Shakcfpcarc,
2. To haw an abortion.
3o good can entertain no fufpicions of the mifiippfi- Misbeha'viour. n.f. [mis and ieha Give them a n.ifcarryifig womb and dry bre.ift?.
ca'hn of their bounty. At!erbu)y. •viour.] Ill conduft ; bad pradlice. HoJ. ix. r^.
It is our duty to hi provident for the future, and The mifbfba'vieur of particular perfons docs not So many politick conceptions fo elaboratjiy
to guard igainft whatever may lead us into ir.ij-^ppli- at all affeit their caufe, fince a man may laud-
a(5t formed and wrought, and grown at length ri pe for
cathrs of it. Rîgers. ably in fome refpeils, who docs not fo in others. '
a delivery, do yet, in the illue, wifcany and provt:
7*0 Misapply', -v. a. [mis znA afjilj-l Addifitf^s FrahoUer. abortive. Sot'tb's Scrnicm.
To apply to wrong purpofes. Misbeli'ef. ».y". [mis Ar\A belief.'\ Falu His wife mi/carried j but the abortion proved a
female fcetus. Pope and Arbutbnr,
Virtue irfeif turns vice, being n.ifjpplicdt religion; a wrong belief.
And vice fometime by action's dignified. Shahfp* You have proved yourfcif more tender of an-
Mi/beu'ever. n.f. [mis and believer.] other's embrioi, than the fonde!l mothers are ot
The holy treafure was to b; referved, and iiTued
• fcr holy ufes, and not mrfipjiiai to any other ends.
One that holds a I'aUe religion, or be- tiieir own ; fcr you have prclei-ved every thing that
Hiticl. lieves wrongly. 1 trifcarried of. Pvpe.

He that knows, that whitcnefs is the name of Yes, if I drew it with a curft Intent Mis.ella'ke. ti. Lat.
/. [mi/cellaneus,
that colour he has obferved in fnow, will not mif- To take a trijbilk-vtr to mj bed.
This corrupted into majllin or meft-
is
"pply that vord as long as he retains that idea. It muft be fo. Dtyden't Den SibuP'wn.
lin.] Mixed corn ; as, wheat and rye.
LKke. To Misca'lculate. v. a. [mis and cal- It is thought to be of ufe to make fome miJcclUine
7'e Misapprehe'nd. t/. a. [mis and a/)- culate.] To reckon wrong. in corn ; as if you fow a few beans with wheat,
freheaJ.] Not to anderttand lightly. After all the care I ba\e taken, there may be, your wheat will be the better. Baon's Nat. HjJ}.
That year may rone of in fuch a multitude of paliliges, fevcral milqu.ited,
reafonings lofe tlii--ir
Miscella'n ECUS, adj. [mi/cellaneus,
force by my mi'appreb^jtdirg or mifreprefenting milintcrpreted, and wtjcaku'îttd. Arbuth. on Ccim.
Lat.] Mingled ; compofed of various
them, 1 fhili give the reader your arguments. To Misca'l. v. a. [»j« and call.] To kinds.
Lcckc* name improperly. Being m'fcellancous in is to be many things, he
Misapprehe'ksion. n. /. [mis ind ap- My heart will fjgh when I mffra! it fo. Siatefp.
received with fufpicion ; >s amafs all re- for fuch
prehtnJion.\ Millake; not right appre- The which conneils propofitions and
third ail,
htioHj muft err in fome, and without offence be
Jienfion. dcduceth concluficns from them, the fchools call
unbelieved in many. Bn-wn,
It is a degree of knowledge to hj acquaint.-d
difcourfe ; and we fliall not tnijia/ it if we name it
And what the people but a herd confus'd,
reafon. Glar.iiiUs's Scepjis.
with the cauics of our ignorance ; what we have
What
A mifccllanccus rabble, who extol
to fay under this head, will equally concern our you KJ/tW their folly is their ca:e. Drydcn.
Things vulgar, and well weigh'd fcarce worth the
ir.'tfjpprchivjtor-t and errors. Clanv'ilU, Misca'rri ACE. n.f. [mis and carriage.] piaife. Milton's Par, Reg.
To MiSASCRi'sE. v.a, [fflr/Vand a/cribe.'\ I. Unhappy event of an undertaking; Miscella'neousness. n./. [from mij'-
To afcribe falfely. failure ; ill conduct. cellaneousCompofitionofvariouskinds.
]
That may be nfnjmbid to art which is the Refolutions of reforming do not always fatisfy
MI'aCELLANy. adj. [mi/cellaneus, Lat.]
bare produflion of nature. BuyU. juftice, nor prevent vengeance for former mifcar-
King
Mixed of various kinds.
To MiSASsi'rjN. 'V. a. [mis and aj^ga ]
riiges. Charles.
The power of Spain confifteth in a veteran
To aflign erroneoufly.
When a counfellor, to five himfelf,
Would army, compounded of mifccllany forces of all na-
lay mifcarrioga upon his prince,
We have not m/.^JfigneJ the cinfe of this pheno- Expofing him to publick rage and hate, tions. Bacon,
menon. £yr/.-.
O, 'tis an ail as infamoufly bali:. Mi'scELLANY. «./, A mafs formed out
To MiSBECo'ME. V. a. [mis and hecome.'\ As, Ihoold a common foldier fculk behind. of various kinds.
Not to become to be unfeemly not
; ; And thtuft his general in the front of war. Drydcn. I acquit myfelf of the prefumption of having
to fuit. If the negleil or abufe of the liberty he had, lent my name to recommend mifccUanies or woika
Either die has a poflibility in that which I think to examine what would really make for his happl- of other men. Pope*
impoifible, or elfc impoflibie loves need not mifh! nefi, milleads him, the mi/carriages that follow on When they have join'd their pericranies.
£cmt me. SiJnry. it muft be imputed to his own eleilion. Locke. Out (kips a book of mifcetlaniei, Sivift.
What dauphin from England ?
to the A great part of that time which the inhabitants To Misca'st. 'u. a. [mis and caft.] Tj
^Scorn and defiance, flight regard, contempt. of the former earth had to fpare, and whereof
take a wrong account of.
And any thing that may not mijh.ame they made, fo ill ufe, was now employed in dig-
Men mifcajiihax days; for in their age they de«
The mighty fender. Sbai^fptart't Henry V. ging and plowing j and the excefs of fertility, » hich
ducc the account not from the day of their birth,
That boldnefs which Jads get amongft play- contributed fo much to their inifiarri.zgtSf was re-
but the year of our Lord wherein they were born.
fellows, has fuch a mixture of rudcnefa and ili- traced and cut off. IVoodtvard's Natural Hijicry.
Broivn's Vulgar Errours*
turned confidence, that thofe nAJhiccmmg and dif- Your cures aloud you tell.
ingenuous ways of Jhifting in the world muft be Bur wifely your mi/carriages conceal. Ga^tb. MiscH a'nce. ». /. [mis and chance.]
unlearned to make way for better principles. How, alas 1 will he appear in that awful day, Ill luck ; ill fortune ; misfortune ; mif-
Ltcke. when even the failings and mifcarringei of the hap.
Portius, thou may'ft rely upon my condudk ri >hte.)us fliall not be concealed, though the mercy The lady Cccropia fent him to excufe the mlf'
Thy father will not aft what mjittimci him. of God be magnified in their pardon. Rogcn. cbance of her beafts ranging in that dangerous fort.
AddiJ'.n. 2. Abortion; aft of bringing forth before Sidney.
the time. Extreme dealing had driven her to put herfelf
Misbego't. \odj- [begot Ot begotten,
with a great lady, by which occafion ihc had
M isbeco'tten. J with /»//.] Linlaw- There muft be mifcarriara and abortions; for
there died many women with child. Graunt. ftumbled upon fuch inij'ckancet as were little for
fully or irregularly begotten. the honour of her family. Sidney,
To Misca'rrv. ni. n. [mis and carry.]
Contaminated, bafi-. View thefe letters, full of bad tnifchanec
And nipniM-n blood, 1 fj.ill of thine. Shairfprarc.
I. To not to have the intended
fail; France is revolted. Shakefp. Henry VI.
Your words have taken fuch pains, as if tticy la- event not to fucceed ; to he lofl in an
; Sleep rock thy brain.
^
bour 'd enterprife; not to reach the effeft in- And never come nijchanlc between us twain.
To bring man-flaughter into form, fet quarrelling tended. Shakefpcare.
I'pon the bead cf valour; which, indeed, Notliing can be a reafonable ground of defpifing
Have you not heard of Frederick, the great fol-
Is valour mijhrgii, and came into the world a man but fome fault chargeable upon him ; and
dier, who w,yiirAi;(/ at fea? Sbakefpcarc.
Wljen feOj and faflioni were but newly born. " nothing can be a fault that is not naturally in a
Our filler's man is certainly mifcarried. ULiikiJp,
Stttktjpeart, Is it concluded he Ihall be proteilor.^ man's power to prevent ;%othcrwife it is a man's
The mijhego'iin infant grows.
.— It is determin'd, not concluded yet unhappinefs, his mifcbanse or calamity, but not his
And, lipe for Lirth, diilcadi with deadly throes fault. Soutb,
But So it muft be if the king mifcarry, Shahjf.
S 2 Ml'SCHlEF,
! . ; ; '
/
M I S. MIS M I S
MrSCKlEF. »/ [me/cbe/.oM French.] To MiscoNCl'iVE. v. a- [railand fori- 7» Muco'uKSEL. V. m. [mis tnd rout-
1. Harm; hurt; whatever ia ill and in- cei-vt.] To misjudge; lo have a falfe /el.} To advife wrong.
jurioufly done. notion of. Every thing that is begun with reafon
The law in that cafe punilheth the thought; Ne let falfe whifpers, breeding hidden fern, Will come by rudy means unto his end.
for bitter it a mijcbuf than an inconvenience. Break gentle lleep with it i/"«»r«ivf</ doubt. S^trfrr. But things mijtounjetted muft needs mifwend.
*
Sptrjcr IrelaaJ. m Our endeavour is not fo much to overthrow Sferjer.
Come you muith'riiig minifteis them with whom we
contend, as to yield them To Misco'uNT. v. a. [me/counter, Fr.
Wherever in your fightlefs fubltanccs juft and reafonable caufes of thofe things, wh';ch, mjs and count .'\ To reckon wrong.
You wait on nature's trif.lUf* Sbakefp* Motbuk. for want of due confidctation heretofore, they mi/-
Mi'scREANCE.
Thy tongue devifeth mjf.Htfs. n.f. [from mt/creance
J
Pful. lii. I. ' cotiCirveJ* Hooker.
Was 1 the caulc of mifth'i f, or the man M:Jc^r.ci'med ! Joan of Arc hath been
Mi'scREANCy. or mefcroiance, Fr.]
J
Whofe lawlefs lull the fatal war began ? Dtyjcn. A virgin from her tender infancy. SLak. Hen. Vl. Unbelief; falfe faith ; adherence to a
2. Ill confequence ; vexatious affair. Misconce'it. l"/- [""' and con- falfe religion.
States call io foreigner! to aflill them againft a Misconce'ption. 1 ceit, and concep-
If thou wilt renounce thy mifreance.
common enemy ; but the »ii/"i i/V/" was, thcfe allies
tion.'] Falfe opinion ; wrong notion.
And my true liegeman yield thyfclf for ay.
would never allow that thet common enemy was Life will 1 grant thee fjr thy valiance. Sfenfir,
The other, whicli indead of it we are required to
fukducd. Stvifi. The more ulual caufes nf deprivation are, murder,
accept, is only by error and mijconaii named the
To Mi'scHiEF. V. a. [from the noun.] man-llaughter, herefy, mijcreancy, athclfro, fimony,
ordinance of Jefus Chrill no one proof being as
:
To hurt to harm to injure.

; ; yet brought forth, whereby it may clearly appear
MI'SCREANT. n.f [me/creant, Fr.]
Ayliffe.
]f the grcateil inward heat be not fwcetened by to be fo in very deed. Hsohr.

meeknefs, or not governed by prudence, can it It cannot be that our knowledge fliould be other 1. One that holds a falfe faith ; one who
bring to our fouls any bcnefic ? rather it mijihtefi than an heap of mifemceflkn and error. Glamillc. believes in falfe gods.X
them. Sfratt^s Scrmcn. Great errors and dangers relult out of a mi/cut- Their prophets judly condemned them as an
Mi'scHlEPMAKER. ft./, [from mi/chief ctftkii of the names of things. Harv y cti Corjump, adulterous feed, and a wicked generation of mif-
It will be a great fatista£lion to fee thofe pieces crtanti, which had forfaken the Uviog Cod. Uockcrm
and makt.^ One who caufes milchief.
Mischief- MAKING, adj. Caufing harm.
of moft ancient hiftory, wliich have been chieHy
pieferved in fcripture, confirmed anew, and fieed
2. A vile wretch.
Come not thou with mifîief-making beauty,
Now by Apollo, king,
from thofe mifienceftiimi or mifreprcfentations Thou fwear'ft thy gods in vain.
To interpofe between us, look not on him. Rvwe.
Mi'scHlEVOus. adj. [from mifchief.'\
which made them fit uneafy upon the fpirits even
of the beft men. Bi/rr.ci'i Theory of the Earth.
— UvalTal! mifcreant! Shakefptare'i King Lear,
If cxuaordinary lenity proves ineffeftual, thofe
I. Harmful; hurtful ; êftruftive; noxi- Misco'nduct. «./. [mis and conduil.] mijcreantt ought to be made fenfible that our con-
ous; pernicious; injurious; wicked: Ill behaviour ; ill management. ftitution is armed with force. Addijcn'i Freeholder,
ufed both of perfons and things. They are induftrioufly proclaimed and aggravated Miscrea'te. \odj- [mis and created.]
This falfe, wily, doubling difpofition is ir.tjle- by fuch as are guilty or innocent of the fame flips Miscrea'ted. J Formed unnaturally
rably mifchirroHS to focicty. South'i Sermom, or miJcoaduHi in their own behaviour. AdAfan. or illegitimately; made as by a blunder
I'm but a half-ftraln'd villain yet; Jt highly concerned them to refleft, how great
But mongrel mijcblvcus, Drydtn. obligations both the memory of their paft mijan- of nature.
He had corrupted or deluded moft of his fer- dua, 'and their prefent advantages, laid on them, Then maje he head againll his enemies.
vants, telling them that their mafter was run mad ; to walk with care and circumfpeftion. And Ymner flew or Logris mifcrcale. Fairy êen»
Eftfoons he took that mifireaied fiir,
that he had dilinherited his heir, and was going to Regents Sermori,
fettle his eftate upon a parilh-boy ; that if he did MiscoNDu'cT. And that falfe other fprite, on whom he fpread
7tf v. a. [mis and con-
not look after their mailer he would do fome very A feeming body of the fubtile air. Sftnferm,
du3.] To manage amifs ; to carry on God forbid, my lord.
pttjchievbui thing. Arbutknot^ i Hiji. of y. Bull.
wrong. That you fliould fafliion, wrell, or bow your read-
2- Spiteful ; malicious. Ain/iu^rth.
Misconje'ctvre. »./. [mij itid tonj(c- ing i
Mi'scHiEVOusLY. ad'v. [itom mijcbiej'.'\ With opening
ture.] A wrong guefs. whofe right
titles m'fcreeie,
Noxioufly ; hurtfully ; wickedly. I hope they will plaufibly receive our attempts,
Suits nut in native colours with the truth.
Nor was the cruel deftiny content or candidly correal our mijctr^jcfiuies. Broken.
Shakefjptarem
To fwecp at once her life and beauty too ;
To Misconje'cture. f. a. [mis and Misde'ed. ». /. [mis and deed.] Evil
cort-
But like a hanlen'd felon took a pride adion.
To work more mijck'ievoujly flow. jeSure ] To guefs wrong.
And plundered firft, and then deftroy'd. Dryilen. MiscoNSTRu CTiON. n.f. [mis and ee»-
O God,
If thou wilt be aveng'd on my mifdeeds.
Mi'scHiEvousNESs. n./. [from mi/chie<v- JiruSion.'] Wrong interpretation of Yet execute thy wrath on me alone. Slakefpeare,
ou).'\ Hurcfulnefs ; pernicioufoefs ; wick- words or things. Evils, which our own mfdeedi have vvrought.
ed nefs. Jt pleas'd the king his mafter very lately Milicti.
Compare the harmleflhefs, the tcndemefs, the To ftrike at me upon his mffctnjlntffhft, Chas'd from a throne, abandon'd, and exil'd.
modelly, and the ingenuous pliablenefs, which is When he conjund, and flatt'ring his difpleafure, For foul mifde.ds were puniihments too mild.
in youth, with the mifchinjtufn'Jif the flynefs, the Tript me behind. Shah/f). King Lear. DryJfn.
craft, the impudence, the falfchood, and tile con- Others conceive the literal acceptation to be a To Misdb'em. v. a. [mil and deem.] To
mîrtflrufiion of the fymbclical exprcirion. Brown.
firmed obliinacy found in an aged, long-piaflifcd judge ill of; to miftake.
6nncr. Soutb^t Sîmcn!* Thofe words were very weakly inferred where All onwceting an enchanter bad
they are fo liable to m^jecnjiruflhm. StWingJieet,
Mi'sciBLE. adj. [from mifceo, Latin.] His and made him to mifdcem
fenfe abus'd,
Poffible to be mingled. 7« Misco'nstri: E. 'V. a. [«<> and roA- My loyalty, it did fcrm.
not fuch as Fairy Sêen,
Acid which come over To interpret wrong. Belides, were we unchangeable in will.
fp'rits ate fubtile liquors Jirue.^
in diflillations, not inilammable^ tnijcibU with wa- That whichby right cxpofiiion buiUeth up And of a wit that nothing could mijdtem ;
ter, yirbiiitrci. ChriHian faith, being mifonjiruedy brccoeth error Equal to God, wiiofe wifdom fliineth llill
And never errs, we might ourfelves etleem. Daviei,
KJiscita'tion. tt./. [niM'and cita/ioa.] between true and falfe conlh-udlion the difference
Unfair or falfe quotation. reafon mull Ihew. Hi/oUr. To Misdeme'an. v. a. [mis and demean.]
Being charged with n:ijcitat'uni and imfair deal- We would have had you heard To behave ill.
ing, it was reijuiCte to t;-.y fomething ; hooeily is
The manner and the purpofc of his trcafons From fnulty
a tender point. Cotlitr.

That you might well have fignified the {jtmt And want of widum, you, teach us,
th-r: b?ll flinuld
To Misci'te. <v. a. [mil and «/#.] 'I'o

Unto the citizens, who, haply, may liivc mifdemeax'd yourfelf, Siakelf. Henry VUU
quote wrong.
M:tienJ}rue us in him. Shakrfpeare^t Rich.
IIT. Misdeme'anor. n. /. [mis in d demean.]
Many of the unbelieving Iftactities would have
Offence; ill behaviour; fomething lefs
Miscla'im- »/• [mil And claii7i.'\ Mif- mi^njirued this llory of mankind. Raltigb.
Do not, great Sir, niijconjlrur his intent.
than .in atro«iou5 crime.
tiikrn claim.
Nor call rebellion what was prudent cue,
The houfc of commons have only |iower to cen-
Error, m'tfclaim, and forgctfulncfs, become fuitnrs
To guard himfelf by necelTjry war. Drydert. furc the mcmbcvs of their own houfcj in point of
for fome remiflion of extreme rigour. Baicn.
A
virtuous emperor was much affliflcd to find elcîon or mijdanetnen in or towards that hculi:.
Miscomputa'tion. *./. [mis a.nd com- Baan,
his anions mifconjirued and defam'd by a party. ^
fu/ation.] Falfe reckoning. It is no the chur-.h merely to life
real difgrace to
Addifcn.
*
It was a general misfortune and mip^mfutntkno( her privileges, but to forfeit them by her fault or
th<: time, that the party had fo guod an opinion
Misconti'nuawce. n.f. [mis and con-
mifdtmcanorm South,
•t their pwn repuutJon and iotcrcli* dariniien tiauance.} Cefi'iUitjn ; intermiilion. Thefc could never have touched the head, or
Hopped
j
M r s M I S M IS
flopped the foiiree of. theft unhappy miCJemeanirt, They grew di/ToIute and prophane ! and by wif- Perhaps it may be found more cafy to forget the
for ivhich ihe puniflinient wa» feat. iynii-j;ard. tmp/ciymg the advanr.ifcs which God had thrown language than to part entirely with thofe tempera
MisoEVo'riON. fi.f. [mis ani devotion.] into their lap, provoked him to witlidraw them. which we ieai-nt in mifery.
L.."tu.
Miftaken piety. Jitter bury. 2. Calamity ; misfortune ; caufe of mi-
A where nijdcvot'mi frames
placs, Misemplo'ymknt. ». /. [mis and em- fery.
A tboufand prajcrs to faints, wbofs very names flcyment.] Improper application. When we out betters fee bearing our woes.
I'he church knsw not, healj^ knows not yet.
" Dc,:Ke.
An
their time
improvident cjtpente, and ir.ifimplo'imcnt of
and faculties. HaU'z Origin of Mankird.
We "fcarcely think our miferics our foes.
The gods from heav'n I'urvey the fatal ftrlfe,
Shakifp.
Misdi'et. n./. [mis ind t/iet.] Impro- Mi'sER. »./. [mijir, Latin. And mourn the miferies of human life. Dryden.
per food. 1. A wretched perfoh ; one overwhelmed 3. [From mifer.} Covetoufnefs ; avarice.'
A dropf) tlirough his flefli dij flow. with calamity. Not in ule. Mifer now figniiies not
Which by mijd'ttt daily greater grew. Fairy Sheen. Do not difrlain to carry with you thewoful words an unhappy, but a cotietous min ; yet
To Misdisti'kgujsh. -v. a. [mis anJ of a Ki/Ir now
defpaiiing ; nsither be afraid to ap- mifery now fignifies not covet cufitefs but
tlijlinguip.'\ To make wrong diftinc- pear before her, bearing the bafe title of the fender.
unhappinefs.
tions. Sidney. He look'd upon things precious, as they were
we imagine a difference where there is none,
If I wifh that it may not prove fome onuino^s fore- The common muck b' th' world he covets lefs :
l>cC3u:e we dillingailh where w^ fhould not, it token of misfortune to have met with fuch a mifir Than mifry itli:lf would give. Sbakefpeare' sCoriol.
may no: be denied that we m\Ji\JlKgmp. Ha-Acr. as 1 am. Sidney. In a tabrick of forty thoufand pounds charge,
Fair fon of Mars, that feek with warlike fpoil I
To Mis do'. 1/. a. [mis and do.^ To do And great atchievements, great yourfilf to make,
wIfh thirty pounds laid out before in an exaft mo-
wrong del ; for a little m-frry may
; to commic. Vouchlafe to flay )our fteed for humble mifcr's
eafily breed fome ab-
furdity of greater charge.
AS'ord me place to iliew what recompence fake. Spenf.r.
JVotton.
T'wardi intend for what I hav= mijdoni, MisESTt'EM. ». /. [mis and
tliee 1
2. A wretch ; a mean fellow. efieem.]
Milidn.
Decrepit mifer I bafe ignoble wretch
Difregard; flight.
I
TV MisDo'. -v. n. To commit faults. I am defcended of a gentler olood. Shektfptare. To Mi5FA%Hi0N. -v. a. [misandfaflrion.']
Try the erring foul
3. A
wretch covetous to extremity; one To fijrm wrong.
Not wilfully mifjeing, but unaware A thing in reafon impofTrble thorough their mif-
Mijed. Mitii,ai ParaJifc Rcgam'J.
who in wealth makes hiinfeif miferable
fa/hioncd preconceit, appeared unto them no left
have mifd'jnr, and I enJuie the fmart,
I by the fear of poverty. This is the only certain, tlian if nature had written it in the very
Loth to acknowledge, but mote loth to part. Dryd. fenfe now in ufe. , foreheads of all the creatures of God. Hakciuill.
Misdo'er. a./, [from mijdo.] An of- Though (he be dearer to foul than reft my To Mispo'rm. v.
itnder ; a criminal ; a malefador. To weary pilgrims, or to mijers gold,
a. [mis and form.] To
Rather th;m wrong Caflalio
put in an form. ill
Were they not contained in duty with a fear of I'd forget her. Olivay.
No His monftrous fcalp down to his teeth it tore.
law, which inflifleth (harp punilhments to mijd'ttrs, (ilvcr faints by dying m:fcrs giv'n.
Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n
And that misformed Ihape mifhaped more. Spenfer.
no man Ihould enjay any thing. Spenjer »n Inland. ;
But fuch plain roofs as piety could raife. M.'SFo'rtune. n.f. [mis and fortune.]
MuDo'iNG. » /. [Uotn mi/do. \ Offence; And only vocal with the Maker's praife. Calamity ; ill luck ; want of good for-
Pcfi.
deviation from right.
Ml'sERABLE. ad;, [miferable. Ft. mifer, tune.
The word is, to think ouifelvei fafe f) long as
Lat.] Fortune thus 'gan fay, mifery and misfortune ii
we keep our injuries from the knowledge of men,
one,
and out of our own view, without any awe of that 1. Unhappy; calamitous; wretched. all
all-feeing eje that obfcrves all our nijeleirgi. O nation mijerable.

And of misfortune, fortune hath only the gift.
L.'£Jtrarigt;.
With an untitled tyrant, bloody fcepter'd I
Sidney.
When thou
What world's delight, or joy of living fpeech.
To MisDo'osT. V. a {mil and doubt.] (halt fee thy wholefome d.iys again .'
Can heart fo plung'd in fea oif forrows deep.

To fufpefl of deceit or danger.
Moll
Sbakejpeartt
And heaped with fo huge miforiunes reach .>
mijerablt is the defire that's glorious.
If file only niJJ.uttrd me, I were in heaven ; for
Sbakefpeare. Spenferi
quickly I wuld
bring fufficient atfurance. Sidney. Confider why the change was wrought.
What's more mlferablt than difcontent ? Sbakefp.
I do not miJJiubt my wife, but 1 would be loth You'll find it his misfiriune, not his fault. Addifon.
There will be a future (late, and then how m.jer-
to turn them both together ; a man may be too Ttf MiSGi'vE. •!/. a. [mis Tind give.] To
ailt the voluptuous unbeliever left in the lurch.
is
confident. Shakefpearc.
Soutb. fillwith doubt; to deprive of confi-
The bird that hath been limed in a bufh,
What hopes delude thee, miferailemia } Dryden. dence. It is ufed always with the re-
With trembling wings mifdcuirttb every bufli;
And 1, the haplef^ male to one fweet bird,;
2. Wretched ; worthlefs. ciprocal pronoun.
Have now the fatal objeft in my eye. Mi'erable comforters are ye alL Joi, xvi. 7. As Henry's late prefaging prophefy
Where my poor young was lim'd, was caught, ai}d 3. Culpably parfimunious;, ftingy. In Did glad my heart with hope of this young Rich-
kiU'd. Shaifjftarii Hmry VI. low language. mond ;
If yflu mifdcuit me that 1 am not (he, Defpicable So doth my heart mfgive me in thefe confliiSs
4. ; wretched ; mean : as, a
What may
I know not how 1 (hall alTure you farther. Siaieff. befall him, to his harm or ours.
To
mikizlU fer/on.
believe his w iles my truth can move, Shaktfpeare^-
Is to miJUubt my reafon or my love. Dryden.
Mi'sERABi.ENESs. »./ [frgiR mi/eraile.] This is (trangc ! Who hath
got the right Anne .>
Misdoubt. »./. [mis and Jouit.] State of mifery. My heart mijgives me. Shakefp. Merry }Vi-vei of W^.
Mi'sERABLY. adv. [from mi/erai/e.'] Yet oft his heart divine of fomothing ill
1. Sufpicion of crime or danger.
Unhappily; calamitoufly. Mifgpve i im. Miltcn.
He cannot fo prccifcly weed this land. 1.
His heart mifga-ve him, that thefc were fo-many-
As his mijdjuhti prcfent otcafion Of the five employed by him, two of them
j meeting-houfcs ; but, upon communicating his fuf-
His foes are fo enrooted with his friends. quarrelled, one of which was (lain, and the other
picions, I foon made him e-afy. MJfoni Freehol.
That, plucking to unfix an enemy. handed for it ; the third drowned himfclf ; the
He dotK unfallcn fo and (hake a friend. Stahiff. fourih, though rich, came to beg his bread; and MisGi'viNG. n.f [ivutnmifgive.] Doubt:
2. Irrefolution ; heHtation. the fifth was miferably flabbcd to death. South. diftruft.
York, fteel thy fearful thoughts. 2. Wretchedly; meanly. If a confcience thus qualified and informed, be
And chan-e mijdiubl to refolution. As not the mcafurc by which a man may take a true
Sbahfpi-are. the love I bear you makes me thus invite
ellimate of his ablolution, the (inner is left in the.
MISE. n./. [trench.] Iffue. Law term. you, fo the fame love makes me afliamed to
bri.ng
you to a place where you ihall be fo, not fpoken plunge of infinite doubts, fufpicioni, and mif-
Dia. by ceremony but by truth, miferahly entertained. givings, both as to the meafurcs of his prefent
Ttf Mjsemplo'y. v. a\ [mis and em/Uy.] Stdnry.
duty, and the final ilfucs of his future reward.
To ufe to wrong purpofes
3. Covetoufly. Ainf'worth. S.utb.
Their frugal fathers gains they mifemfUy, To Misco'vERN.
Mi'sERV. n.f. [mi/eria, Latin; ni/ere, <v. a. [mis and govenit]
And turn to point and pearl, and ev'ry fern^'e toy.
To
French.] govern ill ; to adminiller unfaith-
Urydin.
Some
taking-things upon trulV, m'ifempky their I. Wretchednefs ; unhappinefs. fuly.
power by laiily enflaving their minds to tbeili«ates My he.-irt is drown'd with grief, Solyman charged him bitterly, that he had aif-
otot'iers. My body round engirt with mjery. goverred the (late, and inverted liis trealures to his
_ Lo,i,f_ Sbakefpeare.
'1 hat vain and foolilh hope, w-'iich is mifem- Happinefi, in its full extent, is the utmoft plc.i-
own ule. Knollei.
f!cy:d oa temporal objcfls, produces many forrows. fu« we are capable of, and i.îj'ery toe utmoft pain. .Vlisco'vERNED. adj. [from mifgov<rn.'\
Aid I -m' I Sfiaal.r. I Lii:ke. Rude ; uncivilized.
Rude,
; ; : ; .;
M I S M IS M I S
Rude, trtjgfjerm'j h»nd«, from window top*, By no meani lru!> to y<iur fcrvanti, who miflead O thievifh night.
Threw duft and rubbiOi on King Richard's head. you, or f^jfirform you reproach will upon Why thou but for fome felonious enl,
fliould'ft
j ciie lie
Shitiffpfare, yourfclf. Bacon. In thy dark lantliorn thus dole up the ftarl,
Misco'vE»KAKCE. »./ [iw/x indgeiterx- Bid her wtl! beware. That nature hung in heav'n, and fiU d their Ijmpi
axcf] IrreeuUrity. Left by fome fair appearing gojd furpriz'd, With everlalling oil, to give due light
Thy mufc toolbng (Inmbetetb in forrowing, She diflate falfe ; and ixj^B/s^m the will To the miJleJ and lonely traveller ? Milln.
Luilci j.nxp ihroigh love's mifg'iv.r-ijvce.
Sptrfir.
To do what Cod enprefdy hatli forbid. Milt'jn. What can t!iey teach and not mijlead
MiSOOVERNMENT. ». /. [/B/V 30(1 gO- Misinforma'tion. n.f. [from mijin- Ignorant of themfelves, of Cod much more >
•vertimeKt ferm.] Falfe intelligence falfe ac- Miiton,

, ;
."l Thou who haft taught me to forgive the ill.
I* Jll adminiftration of publick affairs. counts. And recompenfc, t; friends, the good iKijUd
Men bltme of thofc evils whereof they
lay the Let not fuch be JifconrageJ as (fcfcrve well, by
If mercy be a precept of thy will,
know not the ground, upon public milpvfrnm-nr. irijittfirmtztion of others, perhaps out of ejivy or Return that mercy on thy fervanfs head. Dryden.
treicliery. Bacon.
Ra/i'gb's Ejj'ap. The imagination, which is of fimple percep-
t. IIImanagement. The vengeance of God, and the indignation of tion, doth never of itfeif, and diredly, mijlead us;
Men are miferable, if men, will join forces againft an iufuiting bafenefs, yet it is the almoft fatal means of our deception.
their education hath been
fo undifciplined, as to leave tliem unfurniflicd
when backed with grcatnefs, and fet on by mi/in-
of Gtanvillt's Scrffit,
firmalion. Sox/i'j Scrm:ni,
/kill to fpend their time ; but mcft milerab!:, if Whatever neceffity determines to the purfuit of
fuch mtjiovtrnir.int and
unikilfulnels mike them To Misinte'rpret. v. a. [mit and in- real blifs, th4 fame neceflity eftabliihei fufpcnce,
into vicious company.
fall Tayltr. lirpret.] To explain to a wrong fenfe, and fcrut(ny of each fucceffive defire, whether the
3. Irregularity ; inordinate behaviour. or wrong intention. fatisfadiion of it does not interfere with our true
There is not chaftity enough in language The happy to hear the worthleft
gentle reader reils happinel's,and mijlead us from it. Locke,
Without offence to utter them thus, prct'y lady, : works the cleared aftions obfcurcd,
mifintcr-prettd,
"lis hard to fay, if greater want of IkiU
I am forry for thy much mfguverrmett. Stakrjp. and t!ie innocenteft life traduced. Ben 'Jmjon. Appear in \vriting or in judging ill :
MisGurpANCE. After all the care 1 have taken, there may be But of the two leis dang'rous is th' oSence
n.f. [mil &ad guiJanee.] To
feveral paffages mifquoted and npfirurprtied. tire our patience, than mijlead our fenfe. Pttp4,
Falfe direftion.
The Niccae council j4rliutbmt on C.ins. Misle'ader. n.f. [irom miJIeaJ.] One
fixed the equinox thetwenty-
of March for the finding out of Ealler
firft
which :
ToMisjo'iN. v. a. [mit a.nA join.] To that leads to ill.
'
has caufed the mifguidance from the fun which join unfitly or improperly. When thou doft hear I am as I have been.
we lie under in relpcQ of Eafter, and the move- In reafon's abfence mimick fancy wakes Approach me, and thou flialt be as thou waft.
able feafts. HMtr on T<mc. To imitate her ; but miiy'o/niii^ (hapcs.
The tutor and the feeder of ray riots
Whofoever deceives a man, makes him ruin Wild work produces Till then I banifli thee on pain of death,
oft, and moft in dieams j .
himfelf; and by caufing an error in the great Ill-matching words, and deeds, long palt, or late. As I have done the reft of my m-jleaders. Sbakeff.
goide of his aSions, his judjjment, he caufes an Mti:on.
They lutic difclaimed and abandoned thofe he-
error in his choice, retical phantafies touching our baviour, wherein
the mifguiJanci of which Luther, more miftaking what he read,
muft naturally eng.igc him to his deftruftion. South. Misjein: the lacred body with the bread. by their rrijlcadcrs they had been anciently plunged.
Drydcn.
ToMisayi'DK.'u a. [rtis dn\i guiJe.] To Misju'dge. 1/. n. [mil zmA ju'dgt.] Brernoood on Languagei»
To 7i Misli'ke.
direft ill to lead the wrong way.
; To form falfe opinions ; to judge ill. 'V. a. [mit aad iiie.] To
Hunting arguments to make good one fide
after You misjudge difapprove ; to be not pleafcd with
'y
of a qucftion, and wholly to neglcfl: thofe which "Vou fee through love, and that deludes your fight to diflike.
favour the other, is wilfully to mijguide
under- tlie As, wh.it is flraight,' feems crooked through the It was hard to fay, whether he more liked his
Handing ; and is fo far fiom giving truth its due water. Dry den. doings, or mijliied the effeft of his doings. Sidney.
value, that it wholly debafes it. By allowing himfelf in what is innocent, he Tertullian was not deceived in the place
Locke. ; but
,
M:fguideil prince ! no longer urge thy fate, breeds offence to his weak and misjudging neighbour. Aquinas, who mijliied this opinion, followed a
Nor tempt the hero to unequal war. Prior. jitter iury. woffe- Raleigh.
Of all the ciufes wliich confpire to blind Infenfatel Judge not the preacher, for he is thy judge :
Man's erring judgment, and mifguiJt the mind. Too long misjudging have 1 thought thee wife, If thou mijlike him, thou conceiv'ft him not.
What the weak head with ftrongeft bias rules But fure relentlcfs folly ftcels thy breaft. Pipe. Hcrlert.
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Misli'ke. «./ [from the verb.]
Pofe. 7e Misju'dge. i;. a. To millakej to Dif-
Misha'p. n/. [mis and hap.] Ill chance; judge ill of. approbation ; diilalle.
ill luck ; calamity. Where we misjudge the matter, a mifcarria^-e Setting your fcorns and your mijlike afide,
To you wiiat miferable tmjhap^ fell to the
tell draws pity aftor it; but when we arc tranfportcd Tell me lomc reafon, why the lady Gray
young prince of Maccdun his coufm, I (hould too by pride, our ruin lies at our own door. VEjlran. Should not become my wife. Slakefp. Henry VI.
much fill your ears with ftrangc horrours. SUmy. To Misla'y. Their angry geftures with mijlike difclofe.
Since we aie thui far eiiteicd into the confidtra-
'v. a. [mis and lay.] To How much his fpeech offends their noble ears.
tion of her rtiijhapi, tell me, have there been any
lay in a wrong place.
Mea.T time my worthy wife our arms miflny^d. ,
Fairfax.
mor,: fuch tempefts wherein Ihe bath thus wretch-
And from beneath my head my fword convcy'd. MisLi ker. ». /. [from mijlikt.] One
edly been wieckcd ? Spir.fcr.
Dry den. that difapproves.
Sir knight, take to you wonted ftrength,
The is generally mijlaid upon nature ;
fault and Open flatterers of great men, privy irijlikers of
And malier thcfe mi/haj>s with patient migiit. Spcii.
there often a complaint of want of parts, wlicn
is good men, fair fpeakers with fmiling countenances.
Rome's champions, repofc you here.
readicft
the fault lies in want of a due improvement.- jffh.m.
Secure from worldly chances and mlfiaps. Shaktfp.
It cannot be
Lacte< Mi'slen. n. f. [corrupted from mifcel-
But that fuccefs attends him : if tr.}fcal>.
If the butler be the tell-tale, mijl:<y a fpnon, fo lane.] Mixed corn as, wheat and rye. :
as he may never find it. Sn-ifi't Rula to Servants. They commonly fow
Ere this he had return'd, with fury driv'n thofe lands with wheat,
By his avengers ; fince no place like this Misla'yer. /. [from mif,ay,]
ft. One ir.ipn, and barley. Mm timer s Hvjhandry
Can fit his punirtimt-nt, or your revenge. Milton. that puts in the wrong place. ToMi'sLE. v. It, [from miji To ram
]
If the worll of ail Ki/hap! hath fallen.
The mijlaêr of a mere ftone is to blame'! but in imperceptible drops, like a thick
Speak J for he could not die uiaikc himfclf. the unjuft judge is the capital remover of land- mill properly mijlU,
:
,. Denham. marks, when he defincth amifs of lands. Bacon. Ynough, thou mourned haft.
Ml , SHMASH. ti./. Ain/'w. A low word. To Misle'ad. Now ginnes to mixxde, hie we homeward faft.
A 'V. a. preterite and part.
mingle or hotch-potch.
To Misinfe'r.
piSive mtyieJ [mit and ieat/.] To guide The very fmall drops of a mif.ing rain defccnding
Spenjer.
-v. a. [mit and in/er.] a wrong way ; to betray to mifchief or
To infer wrong.
millake.
through a freezing air, do each of them (hoot into
Ncftorius teaching rightly, that Gt.d and one of thofe figured icicles. Greto't Cofmol,
man Take, oh take thofe lips away. This cold precipitates the vapours either in dews,
are diftinft natures, did thereupon
miftnfer, that in That
Chrift thofe natures can by no conjunQion
fo fweetly were forfworn ; or, if the vapours more copioufly afctnd, they
make And thofc eyes, the break of day, are condenfed into mijling, or into ftiowers of fmall
one perfon.
u^^^_ Light! that do mijlead the morn. rain, falling in numerous, thick, fmall drops.
ShakefpeOre.
7» Misinform, v. a. [mit and inform.] I'oor mijied men your Hates are yet worthy pity. Derham's Phyfico-'Tbeohgy,
To
I
deceive by falfe accounts. If you would hear, and ch.inge ycur favage minds, In mijling days when I my thrcAcr heard,
Some belonged to a man of great dignity, and Leave to be mad. Ben Jonfons Catiline. With nappy beer to the barn rcpair'd.
I GaysPi'P.
<K)t at that wicked Simon had mifinfcrmid. Ttuft not fcrvant5wh«wi/7;«i/ or mifinforni you. To Misli've, v. n, [mis and livt.\ To
%Mac. iii. i j. Bacon.
Should
;
M I S M I S M I S
Should not thilke God, that gave him tfi2t good, fcJences, ind fca-c« ever wrote a letter to him Here take her hand.
Eke cberlfli bis child if in his ways he ftood. without wil.'ully mfpdling his name. SfiBa'.or. Proud fcornful boy, unworthy this good gift I
For if he m-Jli've in leudnefs and luft, That doth in vile mifprifon flucklc up
To Mispe'nd. tj.a. preterite and part.
Little boots all the wealth and the truft, Spmffr. My love, and her del'crt. Shakefpettrei
To Misma'nage. v.
pafTive mi/fent. [mis and /pend.]
a. [mii ind manage."] 2. Miftake mifconception. Not in ufe.
To manage ill.
I. To fpend i!] ; to walle ; to confume to
;
'J'h-ni haft miftaken quite.

The
debates of princes councils would be in
no purpofe ; to throw away. And laid thy love juice on tome true love's fight;
danger to be m.fmanagedy lince Ihofe who have a What a deij of cold bufmefs doth a man mifpcvd Of thy tnifprijion muft perforce epfue
them the tetter part of life in ? In fcattering compli-
great ftroke in are not always pericflly know- Some true Ijve turn'd, and not a falfe turn'd true.
ing in the form^ of fyllogifm. ments, tendering vilits, gathering and venting
Locke, ^hahjpeare.
news. Ba: yonJ3n\ D'ljcovery, We
Mismanagement, n. /. [mis and ma-
Let him now endeavour to reJcem what he hath
fuch or fuch a fentiment within u:,
feel
and lietcin is no cheat or miffrifion ; it is' truly To,
nagement.'] ill management ; ill con- v.-.jfent by employing more of that leifure in tills
and our fenfe ccncludes nothing of its rife.
dud. duty for the future. Duty of Mjn. dani'ilie^s Scepjis,
It is mifhtafiagemrrt more than want of abilities, lirft guilty confclcnce does the mirrour bring.
thit mc.i have leafon to complain of in thofe that Then Iharp remorfe Iboots out her angry fting ; 3. [In common law.] It fignifies negleft,
differ. L:cke. And anxious thoughts, within themfeives at ftrifc, negligence, or ovcj fight. Mij}rifion of
. The falls of fav'rires, projefls of the great. Upbraid the long irijpitit, luxurious life. Dry Jen. treafon is the concealment, or not dif-
Of old /ttijrnarragi-mtntif taxations new. I this writer s want of fenfe arra'^-n.
clofmg, of known treafon f r the which :
All neither wholly falfe, nor wholly true. Poft, Treat all his empty pa^cs with difdain.
the offenders are to fufler imprifonmerjt
To Misma'rk. 'V. a. [mil and mark.] To And think a grave reply mijpent and vain.
Bljclmcrt. during the king's pleafure, lofe their
markwith the wrong token.
Things arc miftnarhJ in contemplation and life He who has lived with the greateft cSe will find, goods and the profits of their lands
for want of application or integrity.
upon a review of his time, that he has fonicthing during their
lives. Mifprifion of fe-
Co/lkr.
to redeem ; but he who has mi/pent much has ftlll
7i) Misma'tch. -v. a. [ms and mafcii.] lony, the letting any perfon, com-
is
a greater concern, Rogers.
To match unTuitably. VVift men retrieve, as far as they are able, every
miited for treafon or felony, or fufpicioii
Wha'. at my years forfakcn had I !
n.i^p^vt or unprofitable hour which has flipped from of either, to go before he be indirted.
Cgly, or old, mifmar<h/ to my defi;es. them. R:gers. Cciixieh
My natural defects had taught me
z, Jo wade, with the reciprocal pronoun. To Mispropo'rtion.
To fet me down contented. Souttern.
1/. a. [mis and
Now let the arched knife their thirfty limbs proportion-] To join without due pro-
To MisNA'.\f£. -v. a. [/a/Vand name.] To Difiever, for the genial moiitjre due
call by the wrong name. To apples, othcrwife m'.Jpinds itjelf portion.
They make one man's fancies, or perhaps fall- In barren twigs. PhV'ip:. MisPRo'uD. adj. [mis and proud.] Vi-
ings, confining laws to others, and convey them Mispe'nder. n tioufly proud. Obfolete.
y! [(torn mi/pend.] One
as fuch to thfir I'ucceeders, who are bold to tnif- Now I fall, thy tough commixtures melt.
rar>:c all unobfequloufnel's to their incogitancy, pre-
who fpends ill or prodigally.
Impairing Henry, fttength'ning infprcud York.
-
4-fuffC(5l the excellency of tliofe men's pirts who
famption. Boyle or, Col.iiis.
Shi^kefpcars.
are dill'olute, and catelefs mifpendirs ot their time.
MISKO'MER. V /. [French.] Jn hw,
JVcrris. To Misquo'te. -v. a. [mis and quote.']
an indiftment, or any other aft vacated To quote X^'ly.
Mispersua'sion. «. y! [mis ind fer/ua-
by a wrong name. Wrong Look how we can, or fad, or merrily,
Jlon.] noiion ; falfe opinion.
To MisotsE'iivE. T. a. [mis anioB/er've.] Some concerning the divine
mtfperjvaf:<,ns attri-
Intcrpietatlon will mifjuite our looks. Sh-:kcfp,-are.
/iftcr all the caie 1 have taken, th'.re may b:
Not to obferve accurately butes tend to the corrupting men's manners.
feveral palVages mifjuorcd. ./irbu-brnt on C':u.i.
They undcrftand do language
it as early as they Decay of Piety.
an.l, if 1 they love to be treated as
mijolf-r-Lt no:, To Mispla'ce. 'V. a. [mis zni place ] To To Misreci'te. v. a. [mis and recite.]
rational creatures fooner than is imagined. Locke^ put in a wrong place. To recite not according to the truth.
MlSO'CAMlST. ». /. [,xicu and yujxij. •] rU have this crown of mine cut from my He irifrci'.tei the argument, and denies the con-
A marriage hater. ihouldcrs. fcqucnce, which is clear. Bramhull agj'irjl Jio/ioa.
Miso'cYKY. n /. [(.iiû and yvri.] Ha- Before 111 fee the crown fo foul Kifplae'd. Sbaiefp. To Misre'ckon. -v. a. [mis and reckon.]
tred of women. What litile arts govern the world we need not ! 'I'o reckon wrong ; to compute wrong.
An armed enemy or corrupted friend, * Whoever finds a miftake in the fum mud
7'o Miso'rder. -v. a. [mij and orJer,] total,
When fervice bjt miJpLc d, or love miftaken. allow himfclf out, though al'.cr repeated (rlais he
To conduft ill to manage irregularly.; Performs the work. Denham's iii^phy, may not fee in which article he lias mifreck:,r,.d.
If the child mlfs either in forgetting a word, or is a man betrayed by fuch agents as he employs ?
Sinifi.
would not hive the maf-
"'firJcrh.g the fentence, I He rr,Vpljc:~d his confidence, took hypocrify for
7i MisreLa'te.
t:r frown.
1/. a. [w/r and relate.]
AjcLam. fiielity, and fo relied upon the fervices of a pack
Vet few of them come to any great age, by rea- of villains. Souih,
To relate inaccurately or faUly.
fin of their mif-.rdtrtd life when ilicy were )our.g. Shall we repine at a little mifphetd charity, we,
To fatkfy me that he i;:ift.,U:ed not the experi-
who ment, he brought two or three finali pipes oi glafs,

Jljctam. could no way foiei'ec the eff'c£l ! Atterhury.
The
time mijorderd doth in common fenle which gave me the opporiunity of trying ir. Bjyii.\
Crowd us, and crulh us to this monftrous form.
To MupOi.NT. v. a. [mil and point] MiSRHL a'tion. n.f. [frtim mi/relate..]
To hold our fatety up. SlmkflKare's Henry IV.
To coofufe fentences by wrong punftua- Falfe or inaccurate narrative.
Miso'kder. n.f. [from the verb.] Irie- tion. Mine aim was only to prcfs home thofe things in
giilarity; diforderly proceedings. To MispRi'sE, v. Sometimes it fig-
a. wtiting, which h.id been afitated bctv«en us Ly
When nr.ws was brought to Richard the Second, nifies miftaken,'^from the French verb word of mouth 5 a courfe much to be preferred be-
that his unclej, who fought to reform the mijordtrs fore veibai conferences, as being lefs liibje.S to
mefprendre; fometimes undervalued or
of his counfellors, were aflcmbled in a wood near miftakes and t/ifre!nî:ni^ and wherein paraiogifms
dilaained, from the French verb me- a.e more quickly detected.
unto thecourt, he menily demanded of one Sir Hugh B.emLulL
a Lmne, who had been a good military man, but prij'er. Hanmer. It is in both fenfes To Ml sRt MEMBER, 'v. a [mis and re-
v/3» then fomcwhat diftraught of his wits, what wholly obfolete. member ] To millake by trading to
he would ajvifc him to do ? Iflue out, quoth Sir 1. To mirtake. memory.
Hugh, and flay them every mother's fon and You fpend your pafllcn on a miffrh'd mood
;
; If I much tnifemimhcr not, I had fuch a fpirit
when thou ball fo done, thou haft killed all the I am not guilty of Lyfander's blood. from peai kept long enough to lofe tiielr verdure.
faithful friends thou haft in England. Ciir.dn. Skalifpeare.
Bale.
Mijo'RDf. Ri. r. adj. [from mi/order.] Ir- 2. Toflight ; to fcprn ; to defpife. 7a Misrepo'rt. [ctm and report.]
'u. a.
regular ; unUwIul. He's fo much in the heart of the world, and
To give a falfe account of; to give an
His over-much fearing of you drires him to fcek cfpecially of my own people who heft know him,
f-^me m-j'.iJrly (hift, to be helped by fome other that I am altogether irlfprrfcd. Stat.jfsycu /tie it.
account difadvantageous and falfe.
book, or to be prompted by fome other fch )Iar. VWxk invîgnatlon on thy hc;:d j HU
ioi\u!it Wif niifrepi'lcd, as though he had
every where preached this, not only concerning
j^Jckam'i SchKlmaJirr. Ey the mifp.'tjing of a maid, too virtuous
the Gentiles, but alfo touching the Jews. Hooker.
To Mispe'l. v. For the contempt of empire. Sbaiefpeartt
a. [mil and /êlL] To A
man that never yet
fpcll \vrong. MiSPRi'sioN. «/. [from mifprife.] Did, as he vouches, nij'rtport your grace. Shakejp.
She became a profcft enemy to th« arts and I. Scoxn ; contempt. Not in ufe. The wrong judgme.it that milleads us, and
b makes
; .-
M I S M I S M IS
By the rubtick of the mijjiil, in every folemn
When t man miî bU great end, hipîoefi, he
miket the w'lU often filten on the worft fide, liei
acknowledge he judged not right. Ltctt. mafs, the pricft is to go up to the midjle of the
in mirtftriais upon the Titiou» compirilons of will
Stiltingftil.
altar.
thefe.'
t-'-i'-
4. To difcover fomcthing to be unexpeft
»./. [from the verb.] Falfe ediy wanting.
To Missa'y. V. n. [mij ar.i/aj.]
Minigpo'RT.
Without him I found > weaknefs, and a mif 1. To fpeak ill of; to cenlure. Obfolete.
account; falfe and malicious reprefent- Their ill behaviour girres men miffay.
truftfulnefsof myfcif, as one ftr.iyed from his bcft
ation. Sulvcy. Both sf their doctrine and their fay. Sfinftr't Pajt,
llrength, wlwn at any time I nifj him.
We defend him not,
lay wrong.
In vain have 1 kept all thai this fellow hath in 2. i (
Only dffire to know his crime : 'ti» paflible

the wildemefs, fo that nothing was m_fd. Diggon Davie, I bid her godday.
It n>*y be fomc ttlillAe or mifrefsri.
I iam.iixv. 21. Or Digijon her is, or I miffiiy. Sfinfer's Pafl.
Some filfe fuggeilion, or oiaUcious feudal. We are not dwarfs, but o»" equal ftature, if Vive*
5. To be without.
We cannot mij'i him he does make our ntijfay noX.. Hainuill tn Prtvidenre.
A» by flattery nun ii ufuilly brought to open ;
fire.
hi< bofam to hii mortal enemy, fo by detraftion, Fetch in our wood. Shakeffeare'i Temftfi. To Muse'em. <i/. ». [mis and /tern. 1
md flmderoua mijr'furt of perfons, he is often
I 6. To omit. 1. To make falfe appearance.
brought to fljut the fjme even to his bell and trueft He that is U tender of hlmfelf, that he can Foul Duefla meet.
friends. Scuth'i Sernmi. never find in his heart fo much as to mi/i a meal, Who with her witchcraft and niffuming fwcet
To Misreprese'kt. [w;V and rt- 1/. <j. by way of punilhment for his faults, Ihews he is
not much fallen out with himfelf. Duly af Man.
Inveigled her to follow ber defires unmeet. I'a'iry
To miftjecome. Obfolete both.
^
frt/ent.] To not as it ii ; to
reprefent 2.
She would never ixi/j one day, Never knight I faw in fuch ntiff.anirg plight*
f;.lfify to difadvantaee: «;V often fig-
A walk fo fine, a fight fo gay. Prior, Fatry Sluten.
nifies not only error, but malice or mif- y. To perceive want of. To Miise'rve. 1/. a. [mis and fervi.]
chief. My
redoubled love and care.
To ferve unfaithfully.
Tw-o qualities necefliry to a reader before his May ever tend about thee to old age
common honefty Great men, who mijferved their country, were
juJjmcnt rtiould be allowed, are With all things grateful chear'd, and fo fupply'd.
fined very highly. jirhuthi:ct tn Ceint
ind common finfe ; aid that no man coold have That what by me thou haft bft thou lead (halt mifi.
nifreprtfcnrii that paragraph, unlefs he were utterly Miiioii. To Missha'pe. 'u. a. part, mijhaptd and
dcftitute of one or boJi. Swift. He who has a firm, linccre friend, may want all mijhaptn. [mis and fi/afe.]
to learn the fprings of
While it is fo difficult the reft without mijjii:g them. Smth. 1. To fhape ill ; to form ill ; to deform.
fomc fiQs, and fo eafy to forget the circuraftances To Miss, v, n. A rude msjhaf.-n, monftrous r.ibblement.
sf others, it is no wonder they Aiould be fo grofsly Fairy S^r r.
1. To fly wide ; not to hit.
trifr prefcKttJ to the publick by curious and in- His monftrous fcalp down to his teeth it tore.
Flying bullets now
quiiitive hudi, who proceed altogether upon con-
And that misfomxd Ihape, mitfbaftd more.
jefturea. Swifi. To execute his rage, appear too flow.
Fairy Slum.
^ They m';Jt or fweeii but common fouls away.
Misrepresenta'tion. n. /. [from mt/- Him then Ihe does transform to monftruous
Ifallcr.
rt^reftnt. ] hues,
2. Not to fucceed.
And horribly miifkapa with ugly fights,
I. Theadofraifreprefenting. The general root of fuperflition is, that men ob-
Captiv d eternally in iron mews. Fairy Quuti.
They have prevailed by mijrcfrrftnt/ithns, and when things hit, and not when they mifi ; and
ferve
Let the mi'fiafrd trunk that bears this head
ether artifices, to make the fucceflbr look upon commit to memory the one, and forget and pafs
Be round impaled with a glorious crown. Shakefp.
them as the only perfans he can truft. Sw:ft. over the other. Bacm.
Pride will have a fall : the beautiful trees go all
Account malicioufly 3. To fail ; to miftake.
a. falfe.
to the wreck here, and only the misjhaprn and def-''
have fliewn him his foul miftakes and
4. To be loft ; to be wanting.
Since I
p'cable dwarf is left ftanding. L'EJirange.
injurious jKifrefrtfentariam, it will become him pub-
My lord. Pluto hates his own miifbaptn race.
lickly to own and retraft them. jitieihury.
Upon my lady's miffing, came to me Her fifter furies fly her hideous face. Drydtn,
Misru'le. ». /. [mis and rule.'\ Tu- With his fword drawn. Shakcjptare' i CymMine, They make bold to deftroy ill-formed and mu-
mult; confufion ; revel ; unjuft domina- Thy Ihepherds we hurt not, neither was there fhaped produdions. Locke.
tion. ought miffirg unto them. 1 Sam. xxv. 7. The Alps broken into fo many fteps and preci-
In the portal plac'd, the heav'n-born maid, For a tinie caught up to God, as once plccs, form one of the moft irregular, miijhapcn
Enormous riot, and mifrMlc furvey'd. PcJ>e> Mofes was in the mount, and miffing long. fccnes in the world. AJdifin.
And through his airy hall the loud mifrult And the great Thllhite, who on fiery wheels We ought not to believe that the banks of the
Of driving tempeft, is for ever heard. Thewfiri. Rode up to heav'n, yes once again to come. Milton. ocean arc really deformed, becaufe they have not
ûs. ». /. [con traded from mi/re/s.] J. Tomifcarry ; to fail, as by accident. the form of a regular bulwark ; nor that the
Th" invention all admir'd, and each, how he mountains are HI) -â/r/i, becaufe they are not ex
Bailey.
To be th' inventor mijid, fo eafy it fcem'd. adl pyramids or cones. Btntley^s Sermcn:.
I, The term of honour to a young girl. Some figures monftrous and mrjhap'd appear
Once found, which yet unfound moft would have
Where there are little mafters and niiffit in a
thought Confider'd fingly, or beheld too near.
lioufe, they are great impediments to the divcrfions Which but proportion'd to their fite or place,
Impoflible. Milton" t Paradifi LcJI.
»f the feivants. Sivift.
Due diftancc reconciles to form and grace. Pope.
A flrumpet; a concubine; a whore; 6. To fail to obtain, learn, or find: fome-
t. 2. Itf Shake/peare, perhaps, it once fignifies
times with 0/ before the o^jeA.
a proditute. illdirefted; ^%, to pape a ccur/t.
Crittus miffirg of the Moldavian fell upon Maylat.
All women would be of one piece, Thy ornament to fiiape and love,
wit, that
virtuous matron and the mifi. Hudibtat. Kmlla.
The Miijbapcn in the condufl of them both.
This gentle cock, fir folace of his life,
The moral and
perfeSions of the Deity
relative
by us ; upon the icaft re-
arc eafy to be unicrftood
Like powder in a IkiU-lefs foldicr's flaflc,
Six miffit had befides hii lawful wife. Drydtn, Stakj'p. Riir.co and yuliet.
1 fct on fire.
flexion we cannot mifi of them. Attcrtury.
To Miss. f. « [mijfen, Dutch and Ger- Miss. »./. [from the verb
Mi'ssii.E. ad;. [mi£ilis, Lat.] Thrown
]
man.] Mifftd precer. miffid or mifi by the hand ; ftriking at diftance.
1. Lofs ; want.
part.
I could have better fpar'd a better man.
Wc bend the bow, or wing the mrjjile dirt. Ptpe,
1. Not to bit by the mind ; to miftake. Oh, 1 have a heavy mifi of thee.
fliould Ml'ssiON. «./. {^mijjto, Latin.]
To heav'n their prayers If 1 were much in love with vanity. Sialrfp. 1. Commifiion ; the ftate of being feot
Flew up, nor m'tji'd ihe way. Milm. If theft- papers have that evidence in them, there by fupreme authority.
-Nor can I irifi the way, fo flrongly drawn will be no great mifi of thofe which are loft, and Her fon tracing the defart wild.
By this new-felt attraction, and inftin£t. Milieu. my reader may be fatisXcd without, them. Lccke. All his great work to come before him fet.
2. Not to hit by manual aim. 2. Miftake errour. ; How to begin, how to accomplifli bcft,
The life you bojOtd to your jav'lin giv'n. He did without any great mifi in the hardeft His cod of being on earth, and miffiiin high. MJtcn.
Prince, you'have mi/iV. Popt. points of grammar. jif bam*i Hibtâlmaficr. The divine .luthority of our mij/iin, and the
J.
To fail cf ..biaining.
3. Hurt ; harm. Obfoleie. p->wcrs vefttd in us by the high-prieft of our pro-
If fhe defired above all things to have Orgalus, In humble dales is footing faft. feflinn, Chrift Jcfus, are publicldy difputcd and
Crgilus feared nothing but to mi/j Parthenia. SiJtiey, The trode is not fo tickle, denied. jiittriiury.
So mayj, blind fortune leading me, And though one tlirough heedlefs hafte.
fall
2. Perfons fent on any account, ufually
A'J/i that,\hich one unworthier miy attain Yet is his mijfc not mickle. Sfcnfcr't Paflorali.
And die w'th gficving. Sbakiff!. Mtrcf>. t.f Vtnice. to propagate religion.
Where (hall a maid i diftraflcd heart find rell, Mi'ssAL.n./. [miJitU, Litia i mijil. Ft.] In thefe ftiips there ftiould be a miffuin of three of
can in her lover't bieaft ? Drjdtn. The mafi book. the brethren of Solomon's houfe, to give us know-
If flie oii/s it
5 Wge
; ; :
'U is M Is
yo'Siist. v. a. tKe noun."] Toj To Mîstb''ac6. v. a. [mis arid Uach.\
Wge »f th^ fcirtlcn', vkiadfkHuris, and mven- ffro'ni
tiont of all the world, and bring us books and clotid ; to cover with a vapour or iVeam. I To teach wrong.
patterns; and that the' brethren iTiould ftay atjroaii Lend. me a looking-glafs ;
Such guides (hall be frt over the feveral congre.
till new iridic.
the Baan'i tltvi AtlamU. If that^.her breath v.ill mijl or ilain the Itone, gations as .will be fure to mificach them. Sentdtrf'>n.
Why Shekfjêare's Kitig Lear. The extravagant;* of the lewdell lift are the
3. Difmiffion ; difcHarge. P>lot in ufe. tbffl ihe lives.
In C*far-3 army, fomewhat the loldiers would Mista'keaBle. ai/j. [trom miftake.} more confummatc difotders of a mijlaurht or neg-
leaed youth. UEJiravê.
have had, yet onljl demanded nixijkn ot diiVharge, Liable to be conceived wrong.
though with no intcntioa it ihould be granted, not ftrange to fee the dit;'jrcnce of a third
It' is
To MisTE'ti.. ». [mis and /.'//.]
a.To
but ôugln't'o wrench h!l|) to their other deliit:s ; part in fo large an account, if we confider ho%v tell uhfaithftiUy or inaccurately.
whereupon with one cry thfy-aflt^d jn'îon, Baccr:- difterentiy they ixe fet forth in minor and lefs To Miste'mper. 'V. a. [mis and temper ]
4. Fa<5iion ; party. Not in ufe. mijlahable numbers. Br(.iun.
To temper ill ; to diforder.
Glorious deeds, in thefe neUs of late, 7c Mista'ke. 'v.a. [mit ind taie.] To This inundation of mijlemi'r'd humour
Alade emulous mj^wr J 'mongft the gods thenifelves,
conceive wrong ; to take fomething for Retts by you only to be qualified. Shaktfpeare.
And drove great Mars to faction. Stukcjpeart.
Mi'sTBR. adj. [from ,7;f^?/>r, trade, Fr.]
that which it is not.
Ml'ssiON A RY. 1 ». /. [mijônaire, Fr.]
Thefe did apprehend a great affinity between What »»7/*f>-, what ,^r'a</ of. Obfolete.
Mi'ssioNER. 5 One fent 10 propagate
their invocation ot' faints and the heathen idolatry, . The redcrofs knight toward him crofTed faft.
xeligioD. or elfe there was no danger one fliould be mijla^^n To wcet what mijier wight was fo difmay'd.
You mention the preftyterian miff-ttrtry, who for the odier. Sri/lingjket. There him he finds all fenfelefs and aghail. Spenfer.
hath been perftcuted for his religion. Swift, This will make the reader very much mi/fake,
To Miste'rw. <f. a. [mis and term.'] To
Like mighty mijfwner you come, and mifuhdetftand his meaning. Lccke.
term eironeoufly.
Ad fartes inlidchum. DryJtn. Fancy pafTes for knowledge, and' what is prettily
Hence banifhed, is banifh'd from the world ;
Mi'ssivE. adj. \mi£ive,< French.] faid is 7/ii^.j4e« for folid. Lxke-
And world exiPd is diath. That banilhed
Foots into the notion faH,
1. Such as is feiit. Is d«ath mjlern'ii, ^hakifpeare's Romeo and Julitt.
THat vice or virtue ii* none at all
tl'.ere
The king grants a licence under the great feal,
To ivIiSTHi'NK. V. a. [mis and think.'\
called aconge d'cflire, to eleit the peifon he has Afic' your ownand nothing is fo plain,
henrt,
nominai^d by his letter* mjfeve, jiyl'tfct Partrgm. 'Tis to mifiake them cofts the time and pain. Pofe. To thinkill ; to think wrong.
To Mista'ke. "J. n. err; not to To How the country, for thefe woful chances,
will
2. Ufed at diilaore.
MiJIlink the kin;^ and not be fatisfy'd. Sbakefp.
In vain with darts a diftant war they try, judge right.
men's We, the greateft, arc piijlbought
Short, and rjore fnort, the mijlive weapons fly. Seeing God found folly in his angels ;
For things that others do. Sbakefp. Ant. and Chop.
Vryden* judgmetits, which inhabit thefe houfcs of clay,
Ral^gb. Thoughts which how fouiid they harbour in
!
MrSSIFE, canncit be without their mijlakir.gt.

n.f. [French.] thy brcaft,
Seldom any one mi/lakes in his names of fimpie
1. Aletterfeni: it is retained in ScotlSnd Adam, mijlhougbt of her to thee fo dear ! Milton,
ideas, or applies the name red to the idea green.
in that fenfe. Lteke. To Misti'me. 'V. a. [mis and time.] Not
Great aids came in to him ; partly aôa mijfvts, .Servants mjli^ke, and fometime* qccalion mifun- to time right ; not to adapt properly
and partly voluntary fr.>m many par'.s. hacun,
deiKandng amon^ fiiends. Sivift.
wiih regard to time.
2. A meflenger. Both oblolcte. M ista'i- n . piet. and part. palT. oi miftake, Mi'sTiNEss. n.f. [from mifty.] Cloudi-
Rioting in Alexandria, you
for miftaken, and lo retained in Scot- neis ; ftate of being overcaft.
Did pocket up my letters ; and with taunts
Did gibe my my/:ve out of audience. Shakefftare. land. The fpeedy depredation of air upon watry moif-
This dagger hath mifta'eti, for lo the flieath and verfion of the fame into appearcth
While wrapt in the wonder of it came mijfvn !
ture, air,
ttom the king, who all hail d me than- of Cawdei. Lies empiv on the back of Montague, in the fudden vanilliing of vapours from glafs, or
Shakcjfxart'l Atachelt. The point misdieiithed in my daughter's bofom. the bl.tde of a fword, fuch as doth not at all detain
Slakeijêare. or imbibe the moifture, for the niijiinef fcattereth
To Misspe'ak. 1;. a [mit and /jêaA.]
To fpeak wrong.
To 6e Mist KKtrt To err. \To miftake
. immediately. Baeon»
A mothrr delights to hear has a kind of reciprocal fenfe; / tnif- Mi'sTioN. [from miftus, Latin.]
». y.
Her early chiid mifffiak haif-uttcr'd words. Donne. takt, je me trompe. I am miftaken, The ftate of being mingled.
Tq Misspe'ak. v. n. lo blunder in means, / mi/conceive, I am in an error ; many aSions are mixt, and depend
In animals
fpeaking. more frequently ihan / am ill under- upon their living form as well as that of mijliortf
and though they wholly feem to retain unto the
It is not fo; thou haft m':f[rkr, miiheard ; ftood; but, my opinion is mftaken, means
Tell o'er thy tale again, iihaktjteare'i King hear. body, depart upon difunion. Brown,
my opinion not rightly underftood. ]
is
Botli bodies do, by the new texture refulting
Mist. n.f. [mi|-c Saxon.] The towiis, neither of the one fide nor the from their m:Jlion, produce colour. Boy/c on Colours.
I. A low thin cloud; a fm<ill thin rain other, willingly opening their gates to Grangers,
nor ftrangers willingly entering for fear of' being Mistleto'e. ». /. [myj-rehan, Saxon;
not perceived in fir^gle drops.
Old Chaucer, like the morning ftar. Kijiaken. Sidney. mij/el, Danifh, iird lime, and tan, a
To us difcovers day from tar
— England is fo idly king'd. tivig.] A plant.
"V'ou are too much mijfakcn in this king : The flower of the mijiliice confifts of one leaf,
Hii light thofc mifi and cloudi diflblv'd
Which our dirk nation long involv'd. Ditiham. Queilion, your grace, the late ambaffadors. which is ihapcd like a b.tfon, divided into four
And mifii tondens'J to clouds obfcure the Iky, How modcft in exception, .iiid withal parts, and befet with warts ; the ovary which is
And tlouds dilfoWd, the thirfty ground fupp!y. How terrii>lc in conftant refolution. Shakefpeare* produced in the female flowers is plared in a remote
Mi/ljken Brutus thought to break their yoke. p.irt of the plant from the male rtowcrs, and confifts
As a m'lfi is a multitude of fmall but lolid glo-

But cut the bond of union with that ftroke. tfjller. of four n-.orttr leaves ; this becomes a round berry
bules, which therefore defcend; fo a vapour, and Mista'ke. n.f. [from the verb.] Mif- full of a glutino'us fubftance, inclofing a plain heart-
iherefote a wjtry cloud, is nothing elfe but a con- conception ; error. ihaped iced; this plant is always produced from
geries of very fmall and concave globules, which He never fhall find out fit mate ; hut fueh feed, and is not to be cultivated in the earth, but
therefore afcend to ihat height, in which they a,c As fome misfortune brings him, or mijlaki, Miltm. will always grow upon trees ; from wlii^nce the
of equal weight with the air, wliere they remain Infallibility is an abfolute fecurity of the under- ancients accounted it a fuptr-plant, who thought
fufpended, till by fomc motion in the air, being' ftanding from all poHibility of trijlakt in what it it to be an excrefcence oft the tiee without feed.
broken, they defcend in f.lid drops ; either fmall, beJiev'-3. TiUofJ^n. The manner of its propagation is as follows the :
as in a m//J, or bigger, when many of them run Thofe terrors are not to be charged upon reli- m,Jileioc thruih, which feeds upon the berries of thi»
tcgether, as in ram. Grew. gion, which proceed either from the want of plant in winter when it is ripe, doth open the feed
Bat hovring mif% around his brows are fpread, religion, or fuperftitious mijiakei about it. Bentley. from tree to tree ; for the vifcous part of the
Aiid night with fable Ihades Involves bis head. berry, which immediaiely furrounds the feed,
Mista'kincly. adnj. [from miftaking.'\
Dryden. doth fomctimes faftcn it to the outward p.irt of
Erroneoufly ; falfly.
A cloud is nothing but a mifi flying high in the
The error is not in the eye, but in theeftimitivc
the bird s beak, which, to get difengaged of, he
air, as a mifi is nothing but a clouil here below. ftrikes his beak at the branches of a neighbouring
Ucke. faculty, which mifiakingly concludes that colour to
tree, and fo lcave.> the feed llicking by this vif-
belong to the wall wmch does indeed belong to
2. Any thing that dims or darkens. the objcft. BoyU on Colours.
cous matter to the bark, which, if it lights upon
My peoples eyes once blinded with fuch m'ljii of a fmooth part of the tree, will faftcn itfclf, and
T'o Mista'tb. v.a. [mis zndftate.] To the following winter put out and grow the trees
fufpicion, they are nulled into the moll defperate :
anions. King Cbarltt. ttate wrong. which this plant doth moft readily take upon are
His paffion caft a mji before his fenfe, They mij}ate the quelliun, when they talk of thft aj<p1e, the afti, and feme other fmooth rind
/tnj'either made or magnify d th' offence. Dryden- ptcfling ccrcmoaies. Bijkof Sandnjon. trees : whenever a branch of an oak tree hath any
Vol. II. T ef
:; ; !
M I S M I S M I S
•r thcfe pUnti growing upon !t, it U cot off, aod or ytcj rarely to fee, hit mijlrtji, whom the; pre- In vain do men take fanfluary in fuch mifunJtr-
pitfcnred by the cuiiows ia their coUe£iioos of natoral tended he (hould forthwith marry. Clarendm. fiend eiprcffioni as thcfe ; and from a falfe perfua-
curioficiet. Millrr, Nice honour ftill engages to requite fion that they cannot reform their lives, never
If fnow-e do continue, flieepe hardly that fare Falfc mijirejjis and proud with flight for flight. go about it. Seulb.
Crave mijili and ivie for them for to (pare. 1'ujftr. GramUU. This, if itbe negleSed, will make the reader
A
barren and detefted vale, you fee it is 6. A term of contemptuous addrefs. very much miltake and mijundcrjland his meaning.
The trees, though Sommer, yet forlorn and lean, Look you pale, mijireftf Lxke.
O'crcome with moft, and baleful mijjiht, Sbakijf. Do you perceive the ghaftnefs of her eye ?
Were they only deftgned to inllruft the three
MiJJtliM grvweth chiefly upon crab trees, apple Sbatiffeare. fucceeding generations, they are in no danger of
romelimcs upon hazlcs, and rarely upon oaks being mifunderftood.
trees, :
7. A whore ; a concnbine. yiddijtn.
the mil'ilio whereof is counted very medicinal it : The example of a good man is the bell diredion
1$ ever green Winter and Summer, and bcareth
MiSTRu'sT. n.f. [mis and trufi-l Dif- we can follow in the performance of our duty; the
a white gliftering berry ; and it is a plant utterly fidence; fufpicion ; want of confidence. mod cxaft rulrs and precepts are fuhjeft to be mif-
differing from the plant upon which it groweth. He needs not our mijirufi, fince he deliveri underftood ; fome at lead will miltake their mean-
BaccK. Our offices, an'd what we have to do, '"g- Rogeri'i Sermons.
All rour temples (How To the diteftion jufl. Hiakrfpeare's Maebelh.
Misundersta'ndino. «./. [from mi/-
With Uarcl green, niU facred miJUue, Gjy. Not then mjiiuj}, but tender love, injoins
u>iderfland.'\
Mi'sTLiKE. aJj, [miji and like.^ Re- That I (hould mind thee oft ; and mind thou me
Milion. 1. Difl'enfion ; difference; difagreement.
fcmbling a mill. There is a great mifunlerjtunding betwixt the
Good Romeo, hide thyfelf.
To MiSTRo'sT. V. a. [mil and iruft.'\
corpufcular philofophers and the chemifls.
—Not I, unlefs the breath of heart-lick groans To fufpeft ; to doubt ; to regard with Beyle.
Servants midake, and fometimes occalion mif-
Mjpiiii unfold me from the feirch of eyes. diffidence. underjiandings among friends. Stvift.
Stttieffearc. Will any man allege thofe human infirmities,
2. Error ; mifconception.
Misto'ld, particip. pafT. p( mifie/l. as r';aruns why thefe things (hould be mjirujied or
Sever the condrudion of the injury from the
doubted of. Hmkcr.
MiSTo'oK, particip. pafl*. t>i mifiakt. point of contempt, imputing it to mifundeiftanding
By
a divine in(lin£t, men's minds mtftrujl
Look nymphs, and (heplierds look. or (ear. Baton.
Enfulng danjicr; as by proof we fee, '^
What fudjcn blaze of majeliy. Misu'sACE. >i./. [from mi/u/e]
The waters fwell before a bolfterous (torm^
Too divine to be m'ljimlt' Millm- 1. .'\bufe ill ufe.
Shakefpeare. ;
Ml'sTKEss. a./, [mai/lreê, mahrfJTeiFt.] Fate her own book mijlrufted at the fight. 2. Bad treatment.
I. A woman who governs : correlative to On that fide war, on this a fingle fight. Ctnvley. To Misu'sE. 'V. a, [me/u/er, French ; mii
/uhjtil or Xo/er'vant. The relation of a Spartan youth, that fulfered
and u/e.] To treat or ufe improperly;
Here (lood he in the dark, his (harp fword out. a (xjx concealed under his robe to tear out his
Mumbling of wicked charms, conj'ring the moon bowels, is miftrufied by men of bufinefs* Bnivn. to abufe.
To ftand 'saufpiciousw.J/Jrr/j. Shaktff. King Lear. The gen'rous train complies. You mipfe the rev'rence of your place.
llet us prepare Nor fraud mifirufii in virtue's fair difguife. Pcpe. As a falfe favourite doth his prince's name
In deeds dilhon'rable. Shakefpeare'i H^nry IV.
Some welcome for the miflr^jt of the houfe. MisTRu'sTFUL. adj. \mi/lruft Anifuil.'l
It hath been their cuftom (hamefuUy to mifaj'e
Siaitffeare. Diffident; doubting.' the fervent zeal of men to religious arms, by
Like the lily,
1 hold it cowardice converting the monies that have been levied for
- That «nce was miftrrfs and flourilh'd,
of the field
To where a noble heart
reft mijirufiful,
I'll hang my head and perifh. Shatcff. Htnry VIII.
fuch wars to their own fervices. Raleigh.
Hath pawn'd an open hand in fign of love. Bacchus, that firll from out the purple grape
He'll make your Paris Louvre (hake for it.
Shaieâre^ Crufli'd the fweet poifon of mifufed wine.
Were It the mjireji court of mighty Europe. Milion.
Here the mijlrujiful fowl no harm fufpeAs, Machiavel makes it appear, that the
Shakefp{are. weaknefs
So fafe are all things which our king protc^s. of luly, once fo ftrong, was caufcd by the cor-
I will not charm my tongue; I'm bound to IValUr. rupt practices of the papacy, in depraving and
fpeak i
MisTRu'sTFULKEss. ». /. [from mif- mjujing religion.
My miftrifs here lies murther'd in her bed.
Sûth.
Shakiffeares Olhella. trujlful.'] Diflidence ; doubt. Misu'sE. n.f. [from the verb.]
The late queen's gentlewoman a knight's !
Without him I found a weaknefs, and a mifiruji- 1. Evil or cruel treatment.
daughter !
fulr,4' of myfelf, as one llraycd from his bcft Upon whofe dead corpfe there was fuch mifufe,
ftiength, when at any time 1 mill him. Sidney.
To be her mtjlrrfi' mifirtjs ! the queen's queen. Such bcallly, (hamelefs transformation,
Sbckeffearc* MisTRu'sTFULLY. adv. [(xom miftruft- By thofe Wclfliwomen done, as may not be
Rome now is miftrefi of the whole world, fea With fufpicion with
/ul.^ ; miftruft. Without much ihame retold. Shakeftnare.
and land, to either pole.. Sen 'Jcnjjni Caulir.e. MisTRu'sTLEss. aJj [from . mijlruji.'] 2. Wrong or erroneous ufe.
Wonder not, fov'reign miflreji ! if perhaps How names taken for things miflead the un-
who Confident ; unfufpefting.
Thou can'ft, art fole wonder ; much lefs arm dcrdanding, the attentive reading of philofophical
where he doth in ftream mifi'ufiUfi play,
Thy looks, the hcav'n of mildnefs, with difdain. writers would difcover, and that in words little
Veil'd with night's robe, they ftalk the (hore
Miltin. fufpeftcd of any fuch mijiife.
abroad. Caniv. Locke.
Thofe who alfert the lunar oib prefides
Mi'sTY. adj. [from CT.y?.] 3. Mifapplication ; abufe.
O'er humid bodies, and the ocean guides
Whofe waves obfequious ebb, or fwelling run 1. Clouded; overfpread with mills.
We have reafon to humble ourfelves before God
by falling and prayer, left he (hould punilh the
With the declining or encreafing moon ; TJie morrow fair with purple beams
mij'hje of our mercies, by ftopping the courfe of
With reafon feem her empire to maintain
As Bii/ir.yj of the rivers and the main. Slaclmorr.
Dllpers'd the (hadows of the mijly night. Fairy
Loud howling wolves aroufe the jadis,
^ them. Atlerbury.
What a miferable fpeflacle, for a nation that had That drag the tragick melancholy night To Miswe'en. nj. n. [mis and iijeat.'\ To
been mijlrcfs at fea fo long ! jliiuttro: en Ccins. Who with their drowfy, (low, and flagging wings misjudge; to Obfolete.
diftrult.
3. A woman who has fomething in pofTef- Clip dead men's graves ; and from their mijiy jaws Latter times things more unknown (hall (how.
Breathe foul contagious darknefs in the air. Sink, Why then fliould wiJefs man fo much mifunn f
Parents overprize their children, while tliey be- Fairy Hêeii.
There had (he enjoyed herfelf while (he was
of herfelf, and had no other thoughts but
wnftreji
hold them through the vapours of aftedion, which To Miswe'nd. 1/. n. [mis and penban,
alter the appearance, as things feem bigger in mi^y
fuch as might arife out of quiet fenfcs. Sidney. Saxon.] To go wrong. Obfolete.
mornings. jyoitcn.
Ages to come, that (hall your bounty hear. Every thing begun with reafon.
Will think you mfirjt ot the InJies were; Now fmoaks with (how'rs the trifty mountain Will come by ready means unto his end :
Though ftreighter bounds your fortune did confine. ground.

But tilings mifcounfelled mu:l needs miftoend.
In your large heart was found a wealthy mine. And floated fields lie undi({ingui(h'd rour:d. Ptpt.
HuticrJt
2. Obfcure ; dark; not plain. In this maze ftill wand'red and mi/'went.
3, A woman (killed in any thing. To Misi) ndersta'nd. v. a. [mil and For heaven decreed to conceal the fame.
A letter dcfiiei all young wives to make them- uKiierfiand.] To mifconceive ; to mif- To make the mifcreant more to (eel his (hame.
felves mflrtjfes of Wingatc's Arithmetick. Addijon. take. Fairfax^
4, A woman 'eacher. The words
of Tertullian, as they are by them Mi'sv. n.f. A kind of mineral.
Erefl publick fchools, provided with the belt aliedged, arc mijundtrjicod. Hooker. Mijy contains no vitriol but that of iron : it is
,
and ableft mafteis and mijirejfet. Sivifi. He failed in di(iingui(hing two regions, both a very beautiful mineral, of a fine bright yelbw
of
5, A woman beloved and courted. called Kdrn, and altogether tr.iJi,i.dtrJl6od two of the colour, frinble ftiuOure, and refembles the
They would not fuOcr the {rince to confer with, four rivers. Aaleigt. goWeo maicafitcs. HUU
MlTE.
; ; ;;
M T I M X I M O
Mite. n.f. [mlft, French ; mlj'i, Dutch] They eaufed divers fubjefts to be indifled of To Mix. v. n. To be united into one
fundry crimes ; and when the bills were found they
1. A fmail inTeftfou-nd in cheeie or corn mafs, not by junftionof furfaces, but
committed them, and luftered them to languiih
a weevil. long in prifon, to extort from them great fiaci anJ
by mutual intromiflion of parts.
Virginity breads mites, like a cheefe, confumes ranfoms, which tliey termed compoi'.tions and wi- But is there yet no other way, befides
itfelf to the very paring, and dies with feeding tig.ilioris. Bacon's Henry VII.
Thefe painful palTages, how we may come
ic$ own ftomach. Sbakcfp, To death, and mix with one connatural duft ? Miltottm
Ml'TRE. n. /. [mitre, French ; mitra,
The poliih'd glafs, whofe fmall convex If fpirits embrace.
'
BnUrges to ten millions of degrees.
Latin.] Total they mix, union of pure with pure
The r.ite ir.vifibie elfe, of Citu.e s hand I. An ornament for the head. Defiring ; or refttain'd conveyance need
Leaft animal- Philips, Nor Pantheus, thee, thy mitre nor the bands As flelh to mix with flelh, or foul with foul. Miltoa.
The idea of two is as diftinft from the idea of Of awful Phorbus, fav'd from impious hands. Mi'xEK, n.f. [mixen, Saxon.] A dung-
three, as the magnitude of the earth from that of a , \ Dryden. hill; a layllal.
!»/«. Loikt' z. A kind of epifcopal crown.
Mi'xtion. «.y; [mixtion, French; from
2. The twentieth part of a grain. Bilhopricks or burning, miires or faggots, have
been the rewards of different perfons, according as mix.] Mixture; confufion of one thing
The Seville of eight contains thirteen
piece
pennyweight twenty- one grains and fifteen w/i/«, oi they pronounced thefe confecrated fyllables, or not. with another.
which there are twenty in the grain, of fterling Watts. Others perceiving this rule to fall Ihort, have
fiii'er, and is in value forty-three Engiilh pence and Mi'tre. ) »./ [Among workmen.] A pieced it out by the mixtion of vacuity among
eleven hundredths of a penny. Aibuibnot, bodies, believing it is that which makes one rarer
Mi'ter. j kind of joining two boards
than another. Dighy on Bodies.
3. Any proverbially fmall
thing ; the together. Miller. They are not to be lightly part: over as ele-
third paitofa farthing. Mi'tre D. adj. French;
[mitre, from mentary or fubterraneous mixtions. Brcwn,
Though any man's corn they do bite,
They will not allow him a mite, Tujfer,
mitre.] Adorned with a mitre. Mi'xtly. adv. [from mix.] With coa-
Shall the loud herald our fuccefs relate. of different parts into one.
lition
Are you defrauded, when he feeds the poor,
Or mitred prieft appoint the folemn day ? -Pr'tor.
Mi'xTURE. n./. [mixtura, Latin.]
Our mite dccreafes nothing of your ftore. Vryden,
Mitred abbots, among us, were thofe that were
Did I e'er my mite with-hold
exempt from the 1. The aft of mixing; the ftate of being
dioccliin's jurlfdiiSion, as having
From the impotent and old ? Swiftt mixed.
within their own prccinils epifcopal authority, and
4. A fmall particle. being lords in parliament were called abbots fo- O
happy nuxlure, wherein things contrary do fo
Put blue bottles into an ant-hill, they will be vereign. qualify and c^rreft the one the danger of the other's
^yliffe's Parergon.
ftained with ted, becaufe the ants thruft in their
Mi'ttent. adj. [mittens, Latin.] Send- excefs, that neither boldnefs can make us prefume,
liings, and infliil into them a fmall mite of their as well as we are kept under with the fenfe of our
Hinging liquor, which hath the fame efi'cd as oil ing forth ; emitting.
own wretchednefs ; nor, while we truft in the
of vitriol. Raj on Creation. The fluxion proceedeth from humours peccant
mercy of God through Chrift Jefus, fear be able
in quantity or quality,
Mite'lla. »./. Aplant. Miller.
thrull forth by the part
mittem upon the inferior weak parts. Wifeman's Hur,
to tyrannize over us !
Hooker,
Mi'thridate. h./. [mithridate, Fr.]
Mi'ttens.
"Thofe liquors are expelled out of the body which,
Mithridate is one o( the capital medicines of the
n.f. [mitaine, French.] It is by their mixture, convert the aliment into an animal
/hops, conliiling of a great number of ingredients,
faid that mit is the original wort! jlrbuthnot.
'W"'"!-
and has its name from its inventor Mithridates, whence mitten, the plural, and after- by baleful furies led.
I,
king of Pontus. îniy. wards mittens, as in chicken. With monftrous mixture ftain'd my mother's bed.
But you of learning and religion. 1. Coarfe gloves for the winter. Pope.
And virtue, and fuch ingredients, have made December muft be exprclTcJ with a horrid afpc£t,
2. A mafs formed by mingled ingredients.
A
mithrniaief whole operation
as alfo January clad in Irifli rug, holding in furred Come vial —
What if this mixture £> not work
Keeps oS, or cures, what can be done or faid. mittens the fign of Capricorn. Peacham on Drawing. at all f^ Shakefpeare.
_
Dovne. While we live where good and
in this world,
2. Gloves that cover the arm without
Mi'thridate mujlard. n. /. [thla/pi,
covering the fingers.
bad men are blended together, and where there is
Lat.] A plant. Miller.
To handle one without mittens. To
alfo a mixture of good and evil wifely diftributed
3. by God, to ferve the ends of his providence.
VliTic ^^NT. adj. \_mitigani, Latin.] Le- ufe one roughly. Alowphrafe. Jin/w. Alterbury's SermCKSt
nient; lenitive.
Mi'ttimus. n.f. [Latin.] A warrant 3. That which is added and mixed.
To Mi'tigate. v. a. [^mitigo, 'Lî. miti- Neither can God himfelf be otherwife under-
by which a juftice commits an offender
gfr, Fr.] ftood, than as a mind free and difentangled from
to prifon.
1. To temper; to make lefs rigorous. all corporeal mixtures, perceiving and moving all
We
could greatly wifli, that the rigour oi their
To MIX. v. a. [mijchen, Dutch; mi/ceo, things. Stillingjiect.
opinion were allayed and miiigjteJ, Htscn r.
Latin.] Cicero doubts whether were poflible for a com-
it
2. To alleviate ; to make mild ; to af- 1. To unite to fomething elfe. munity to exift, that had not a prevailing mixture
Ephraim hatli mix-d himfelf among the of piety in its conftitution. Add'ijon's Freeholder,
fuage. people.
Milhaps are mafter'd by advice difcrcet. Hofia, vii. 8. Mi'zMAZE. n.f. [A cant word, formed
And counfel mitigates the greateft fmart. Fairy
^ 2. To unite various ingredients into one • from maze by
reduplication.] maze; A
it can do is, to devife how that which mult
All mafs. a labyrinth.
be endured may be tt:itigated, and the inconvenien. A mi.W. multitude went up with them, and Thofe who are accuflomed to reafon have got
cies thereof countervailed as near as may be, that, flocks and herds. Exod. xii. 38. the true key of books, and the clue to lead them
when the bed things are not po/Tible, the belt He fent out of his mouth
of fire, and
a blaft through the mixmaxe of variety of opinions and
may be made of thofe that are. Hooter. out of his lips a Haming breath, and out of his authors to truth. Locke,
3. To mollify ; to make lefs fevere ; to tongue he caft out fparks and tempefts j and they Mi'zzEN. »./ [mexaen, Dutch.]
foften. were all mixt together. 2 EJdrai, The mizxen is a madin the ftern or back part of
Air, and ye elements, the eldeft birth a fliip: in fome
1 undertook large Ihips there are two fuch
Before thee : and, not repenting, this obtain
Of nature's womb, that in quaternion run mails, that Handing next the main mall is called
Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix the main mixzen, and the other near the poop the
Of right, that i may miiigaie their doom,
On me dcriv'd. Milton's faradife Lojl.
And nourilh all things. Milton. bonaventure mixxen ; the length of a m'lxxcn mall
To cool to moderate. 3. 'Fo form of different fubllances or is half that of the
main malt, or the fame with
4. ;
A man has fiequent opportunity kinds. that of the main

from the quarterdeck,
topmali:
of mitigatirg
the fierccnel's of a party, of fuftening the envious, I have chofcn an argument, mixt of religious and the length of the mixxen topmaft is half that.
ijuieting the angry, and rectifying the prejudiced. and civil confiderations ; and likcwife mixt between Bailey,
Mdijon's Sfilialor. contemplative and aitive. Bacon's Holy War. A commander at fea had bis leg frafluied by the
of his mixxen topmaft.
Mitica'tion. n.f. [mitigatio, Latin; 4. To join; to mingle ; to confufe.
fall , Wifeman's Surgery,
French ;
mitigation, from mitigate.] Brothers, you mix your ladncfs with fome fear Mi'zzv. n.f. A bog ; a quagmire.
This is the Engliih not the Tutkilh court. Ainfnxiorth,
Abatement of any thing penal, harfli,
or painful.
Shakefpeare. Mnemo'nicks. »./ [,*,B;itoH«.S.] Theaa
She turns, on hofpltable thoughts intent
The
king would not have one penny abated of
of memory.
What choice to choofc for delicacy bed.
that granted to him by parliament,^ becaufe it niight What order, fo contriv'd as not to mix
Mo. adj. [ma, Saxon , mae, Scottilh.]
encourage other countriei to pray the like rclcafc TaiVcs, nor well join'd, inelegant, but bring Making greater number; more. Ob-
Cit miiigalii.a. Bac^rt, Taftc after taftc, upheld with kindeftthanjc. Milt. folete.
T » Calliope
; ; ' ;
MOB M O C M C
C^liope and rnQfei bî to the French ^V«r' AaW/^.] To drefs To Mock. v. ». To make contemptuout
Soon as yonr oaken pipe begins to found grofsly or ineleg.intly. fport.
Their ivory lutes lay by. Sfvrfer,
But who, oh hath feen the moiled ûeen,
! Pluck down my oflicers, break my decrees
With oxbows and oxyoket, with other thingb mo, Run barefoot up and down. Hbakefpâri i Hamlrt> For now a time is come to mock at fnm. Shakijit
For oxteem and horfetcxm in ploogh gn.
tor to
Mo'bby. If./. An American drink made A
(lallion borfe is as a mo.king friend : he
Tnjir. neighcth under every one. Ecciiu. xxlii. 6.
Mo. of potatoes.
aJv. Further ; longer. Obfolete. A
repruach uuto the lieatheo, and a mukivg to
Sing no more ditties, ling no mo Mo'bii.e. h. /. [mobile, French.] The all couniries. Exick. xxii. 4.
Of dumps fo dull and heavy ;
populace ; the rout ; the mob. When thou mtckcfi, (hall no man make thee
The frauds of mm vttrc ever (o. Long experience has found it true of the un- alham'd .'
Jci.
Summer was firft leafy.
Since Shticfpîirt. thinking mohil:, that the clofer they (hut their eyes Moct. v./. [from the verb.]
Tff MOAN. V. a. [from onxnan, Saxon, the wider they open their hands. South.
Ridicule; a£l of contempt;
1. fleer;
to grieve.] To lament; to deplore.
The meiile are uneafy without a ruler, they are
reftlefs with one.
'
L'E/lmnge. fneer ; gibe ; flirt.

7« Moan. v. h. To grieve; to make Tell the pleal'ant prince this mtck of his
Mobi'lity. »./. \_mobilite, French f mo-
lamentation. Hath tum'd his balls to gun-ftones. Sbakefp.
bilitas, Lat.] Oh, 'tis the fpiglit of hell, the lieod's arch moii.
The gen'rous band redreflive fearch'd
Into the horrors of the gloomy jail, \. Mobility is the power of being moved. To wanton, and fuppofe her chalte. Sbak^jp.
lip a
Unpity'd and unheard, where milery msans, Locke. Fools make

a mock at dn. Pr<m, x'.v. 9.
Thamjiin. Iron, having ftood long in a wind.^w, being What (hall be the portion of chafe who have
a/fronted God, derided his word, and made tmoik
Moan. »./^ [from the verb.] Lamenta- thejice taken, and by a cork balanced in waicr,
of every thing that is facrcd ?
where it may have a free maiililjf, will bewray a I'illotfon*
tion ; audible forrow ; grief exprefled
kind of inquietude. jyouon. Colin makes mock at atl her piteous fmart,
in words or cries. The prefent age hath attempted perpetual mo- A lafs that Cic'ly higbt, had won his heart. Guy,
I have difabled mine ellate.
tions, whofe revolutions might out-la(t the ex- 2. Imitation ; mimickry.
By (hewing fomethlng a more fwalling port. emplary tJKîitty, and out-meafure time itfetf. Now
reach a drain, my lute.
Than my f»int means would grant continuance ; Brr.tvnî Vulgar Erroun. Above her mock, or be for ever mute. Crajhaia,
Nor do 1 now make moan to be abridg'd You tell, it is ingenitc, aftive force,
MocK.a.-?)'. Falfe; counterfeit; not real.
From fuch a noble rate. Shai,'f/i. Mcrcb. ofVtnice, Mobiluy, or native power to move
The frelh ftream ran by her, and murmur'd } The mock aftrologer. El aflrologo fingido. Dryd.
Words which mean nothing. Haekmore. That fupcriorgrcatnefs and mock majefly, wliich
her mtam ;
and foften'd the
2. Nimblen^fs aflivity. ; is afcribcd to the prince of fallen angels, is admir-
The fait tears fell from her, lionps.
The Romans had the advantage by the bulk of ably prcfcrved. SptStUor.
Slake^fiar:.
their and the fleet
(hijis, of Anciuchus in thefwift- Mo'cKABLE. [from
Sullen ngjnt. a<^'. )ne(v(. ] £xpofe(l
nefs and mMliry of theirs, which fcrvei! them in
Hollow groa 11, to derifion.
great Itejd in the flight. Arturbnoi.
And cries of tortur'd ghofts. Fopfi St. Cxcilia. Thofe that are good manners at the court, are
MoAT. n./. [mottt, French, a mound ; 3. [In cant language.] The populice. as ridiculous in the country, as the
behaviour of
She fingled you out with her eye as commander
mcia, low Lat.] A canal of water round in chief of the mobility. Drydeti't Don Schajlian.
the country is molt mockabU at court* Sbakejpm
a houfe or caftle for defence.

^40CK-PR1VET. I /• v>i . r ..
The found of good ftrcngth, having a

caftle I
4. Ficklenefs ; inconftancy. Ainfworth.
Mock-willow. \
«/.P'=»°''; ^">-
MocHO-STONB. n, /. [from Mocha,
great moaf round about it, the work of a noble Mo'cKEL. adj. [the fame with micile.
gentleman, of whofe unthrifty fon he had bought it. therefore more properly Mocha Jione.']
Mocho fionts are related to the agat, of a clear
SeeMiCKLE. This word is varioufly
SilJny.
horny gicy, with delineations reprelenting npolTes, written mickU, mickel, mocbil, machel,
The fortteft thrice himfclf in perfon ftorm'd;
Your valour bravely did th' alTaulc fuftain, (hrubs, and branches, black, brown, red, in the muckle.'] ; many. Much
iôd fill'd the mtais and ditches with tht (lain. fubilance of the (lone. tfocdjoard. The body bigg, and mightily pight.
Thoroughly rooted, and wondrous height,
DryJen. To MOCK. v. a. [mecauer, French ; iitcc-
Whilom had been the king of the field.
No walls were yet, nor fence, nor mt;e, nor
cio, Wellh.]
mound. And mockcil mail to tlie hulband did yield. Spenfert
Nor drum was heard. DryJen^t Ovid, 1. To deride; to laugh at ; to ridicule. Mo'cKER. n.f. [from mock.l
All the regions
TaMoAF. V. Fr. from thea. [motler, 1. One who mocks ; a fcorner; a fcoffer;
Do feemlngly revolt ; and who relid
noun.] To furround with canals by Arc mocked for valiant ignorance. a derider.
way of defence. And perllh conftaiit fools. Shjiefpeare'sConcfanus. Our very priefls mui? become mocktri, if they
prefently to St. Luke''s there at the Many tlioufand .windows (hall encounter fuch ridiculous liibje^s as y9ii are.
I will ;
Shall this his mock, notk out of thair dear hulbands Sb.ikejptart.
moated Grange Mariana.
rcfidcs this deje5lcd
;
, Sbakfjpeaieî Mtafure for Meajure. Alock mothers from their foDS, iô.A.cafllcs down. Let them have a care how they intrude upon fo
An arm of Lethe, with a gentle flow, Slakcjceari;,
great and holy an ordinance, in which God is lo
The palace moats, and o'er the pebbles creeps. We'll difhotn the fpirit, '
'
feldom mocked but ic is to the mocker's confufion.
murmurs coming deeps. And moii him h.'>me to WinJfor. South' i Serv.em.
And with foft calls the Sbahfpsare.
Vryden. I am as one mocked of his neighb.tur; the ju(l, 2. A deceiver ; an elufory impoftor.
He he can hardly approach greatnefs, but,
fees man is mark d to fcorn.
upright Jot, xii. 4. Mo'cKERY. ».y. [?/tocquerie, French.]
as a moaiti calUe, he mud (ir(t pais the mud and 2. To deride by imitation ; to mimick in 1. Derifion fcovn fportive infult.
; ;
61th with which it is encompaiTsd. Dryiin. contempt. The forlorn maiden, whom your eyes have ftea
Moo. n.f. [contraded from mobile, Lat.] riong, Eilwdrd fall by war's mifchance,
till The laughing-ftock of fortune''s motkenei.
The crowd a tumultuous rout.; for mtcking miYriage with a dame of France. Am the only daughter of a king and gueen.
Tarts of different fpecles jumUed together, ac- Shakefpeare. Fairy Siurcn.
eordinj to thf m.id imagination nf thertawb": a :
3. To defeat ; to elude. Why (hould pubKck mockery in print be a bet-
very monfter in a Bartholomew-fair, fo: the mah to ter teft of truth than I'evcre railing farcafms ? H^ntts.
May gone into liis grave.
father is
gape at. Dryden, And with bis fpirit f^ly I furvive. Grace at meals is now generally fo performed, as
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes to look more like a mockery upon devotion, than
To mock the expcftati m^ of ihe world
When monarch rcafon Deeps, this mimtck Wakes, To fruftrate prophecies, and to raac out any foiemn application of the mind unto God.
Compounds medley of disjointed things,
a Rotten opinion. Sbakffpvri's Hitiry W. Lav;*
A court of coblers, and a moi of kings. r>rîtn.
4. To fool ; to tantalize ; to play' 00 con- 2. Ridicule ; contemptuous merriment.
A dufttr o( mot were making tliemfelves merry tempiuoufly. A new method chcy have of turning things that
with their betters. yidJtfon's FricLo'd^r. arp fcrious into mockery ; an art of cootradiôn
[from moile.] A kind of fe- He will not
Mob. i» /.
Mock us with h!a bled fight, then faatch him
by way of fcom, wherewith we were long fithcncj
m-ile undrefs for the head. forewarned. Hcoktr,
hence.
Jo Mob. II. a. [from the noun.] To ha- Soon (hall we nur hope return.
fee Mi/ten. 5. i)p'<rt ; Ouibjeft of laugVler.
Why do ( overlive ? What cannot be preferv'd when fortune tal^,
rafa, or overbear by tumult.
Mo'bbish. atfj. [from mo6.] Mean ; Why am I mcck'd with death, and lengthcn'd out ParieiKC her injoiy a mockery makes. Sbt^^'p, •
To deitlilcfs pain f Mi/.oi's P iraJife Lcjl.

Of the h.ily place they m^de a mviery,
dt ne after the manner of the mob. Hcav'n's fuMer influence mocki our dazzipd light, z Mac. viii. 17.
yi Mo'bi.e. v. a. [fomctimes wri'ten Too great its brightoefs, and too Hfoai its light. 4. y.<tnity of attempt ; (Jeltiiory Jaûgr;
mabli, perhaps by a ludicrous allufion Price. vajn effort.
«- I Ic
; ;
MOD MOD MOD

It IS a; the air, invulnerable I'll draw the foim and mcd'-l of out battle 6. OT the middle rate.
And our vain blows malicious mzckery* Sbekefp, Limit each leader to his fcveral charge. More midciatc gifts might have prolong'd his
Imitation ; counterfeit appearance ; vain And jartin juft proportion ourfmall ilrength. date.
Ihow. Sbjkfff;rare, Too early fitted for a better ftate. Dryden.
To have done, is to hang quite out of fadjion, You
have the ntdeh of feveral ancient temples,
To Mo'derate. -v. a \jnoderor, Latin;
Like rufty mail in monument<ii m'»:)tcry.
though the temples and the gods aic periflied.
iibaktfft. moderer, Fr.]
What thou^-h no friends in fabê weeds appear,
Mdifon,
Grieve for an hour, êrhaîs, then mourn a year, 2. A copy
to be imitated. 1. To regulate ; to reftrain; to ftill ; to
A fault it would he if fome king Ihouldbuf'dhis pacify ; to quiet ; to reprefs

And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances. *
PopeU Mijcel. msniion-houfe by the modtl of Solomons palace. With equal meafuic (he did niodcrati
MocsiNG-BiRD.»_/I \mocking and bird.^

The ftrong extremities of their rage. Sptrfir.
An American bird, which imitates the

They cannot fee fin in thofe means they ufe, 2. To make 'einperaie; to qualify.
with intent to reform to their ffrc^/f/s what they call Ye fwjrthy nations of the torrid zone.
rote of other birds. rel'gijn. ^'"g Charles. How to you is this great bounty known ?
litcll
Wo'cKixGLY. adv. [from mockery.^ In 3. A mould ; any thing which fhews or For frequent gales from the wide ocean rife
contempt; petulantly; with ir.fult. gives the fliape of that which it inclofes. To fan your air, and modcrau your Ikies.
Blaflmsre.
MocKiNC-bTocK. ». f. \mocking and Nothing can we call our own but death ;
By its aftringent quality it moderatrs the relaxing
fiock.\ A
but for merriment. /. nd that fmall mdtl of the barren earth.
warm water.
quality of ji'huthjtit «« AlimrrHi,
Mo'dal. adj. [module, Fr. modalis, Lat.] Which feives as palle and cover to our bones.
Shakefpeare. Mo'deratei Y. adv. [from moderate.]
Relating to the iorra or mode, not thf Temperately; mildly.
4. Standard ; that by which any thing is 1.
eflence.
meafured. 2. Jn a middle degree.
when we fpeak of faculties of the foul, we
Each nympli but moderately fair,
aflert not with the fchools their real diftinflion
As he who prefumes fteps into the throne of
God, io he that defpairs meafures providence by Commands with no icfs rigor here. Header.
from ir, but oniy a mcdji divcriity. G'aniuU.
his own little contradêd modfl. S'.utb. Blood in a healthy (late, when let out. Us red
Moda'litit. b. /. [from modal.] Ac part fliould congeal ilrjngly and foon, in a mafs
(;. In Shake/peare it items to have two
cidertal Jifference; tnodal a-.cident. muUratily tough, and fwim in the ferum.
unexamfled fenfes. Something rcpre-
T}:e moti':-ns of the mouth, by wîicli the voice j^rhuthnot en AlmcTils.
feniative.
1£ difcriminaZed, a.e the natural elements of fpeech j Mo'derateness. [from moderate ]
n.f.
and tile appljcatiun of them in their fevrral com - I h.ive commended to bis goodnefs
The model of our challe loves, his young daughter.
of being moderate; temperate-
6taie
poUiicns, or words ;nade i z\.c.vn, to Mîfy things.
.
Shakdpcare. nefs. Moderatenefs is commonly ufed

or the modaliiUi of th'T^jS, and fo to ftrve for
communication of notions, is arti6cial. Hcldir, 6. Something fmall and diminutive for ; of things, and moderation of perfons.
MODh. n.J. {mode, Fren h ; modus, Lar.] module, a fmall meaTure; which, per- Modera'tion. n./. [moderatie, Latin.]
I, External variety; accidental dilcrimi haps, is iikewife the meaning of the 1. forbearance of extremity; the con-
nation ; accident. example afiixed to the third fenfe. trary temper to party violence ; ftate of
A meJe is that which cannot fubfiA in and of it- England mide! to thy inward greatnefs.
! keeping a due mean betwixt extremes.
ic]f, always elleemed as bel.:n{jtng to, ar d Tub-
but is Like little body with a mightv heart, bhaktfpeari. Was the purppfe of thefe churches, which
it
littirig by, the help of fome lubânce, which, for To Mo'del. "v. a. [moaeler, French.] 'I'o abolilhed popilh cetemonics, to come back again
all
that region, is calkd its fubjed. fVuiu': Log, k. to the middle point of evennefs and jnod:r.it:an i*
plan ; to (hape ; 10 mould ; to fonr ;
Few allow jr.od^ to be caded a be:n^ in the uruc Hooker,
fime to 'lelineate.
perfeft fenfe as a fubllance is, and lacdci have
Wh' n they come to model heav'n.
Azeal in things pertainmg to God, according
evidently more of i«ai entity tlian others. Hâiti. to k.oowlcdge, and yet duly tempered with candour
And cilculare the ftars, how they wiH wield
Z. Grauation die^rr.f. and prudence, is the true notion of thjt much talk-
The m ghty frame.
;
Milton's Pr.rajfe Lcji.
What wk/ci of fi ,ht betwixt each wide extreme, ed of, much mifunderftood virtue, moderation.
The government is modtlUd after the fame man- Atterbury,
. The mole's dim curuin, and the linx'tt beam ; ner wit.i that of the Cantons, as much as fo fmail
Of fmell, the he2(il.,ng iinnefs between, In modcraiUn placing all my gloiy,
a coiumunity can imitate thofe of fo large an ex-
And hound laâciou^ on the tainted grten. P.J.e.
on Italy.
While torics call me whlg> and whigs a tory.
tent, ylddijiftt
Manner; method; form; falbion. Pope,
3. Mo'dei.leh. » [from model] Plan-
/. Calmnefs of mind; equanimity, [/we-
Our
Siviour beheld 2.
ner; fchemer ; contriver.
A tab!e richly fpreaJ, ir regal mtJr,
maga-
deration, Fr.]
WKh dirties pil d. tduioi': CeraMfc Rgalmd- Our great mcdillirs of gardens have their
F.qiially inur'd
zines of plants to (jifpofc of. SpcSlaCor.
The duty itfelf b-iog retolved upon, the mode of By tncderation either liate or bear,
doing it may cafily be found. Tajlor'i Guide. MO'DER ATE. adj. [moderatus, Latin; Profperous, or adverfe. Milioii'i Paradi[i Lcfl,
4. Slate ;
qoality. moderi, Fr.] 3. Frugality in expence. jlirfivcrth.
My death 1. Temperate; not exceflive. Modera'tor. n.f. [moderator, L;uin ;
Change* the made ; for what i.i me was purchas'd. Sound Hcep cometb of mederate eating, but
moderaleur, French ]
upon the-* in a much fa-rer f"'t,
Fails pangs of the belly arc with an infatiahle man.
Fof thiu the garland wcai'li fucceflivLly. Shakiff, Ecdus. xxxi. 20. 1. The peilon or thing th.it calms or re-
ftrains.
5. [Mcae, Freni h.] l-alhiim ; (.ullom. I. Not hot of temper.
There are certain garbs and moaei ai fpâking, A number of mcdemle members managed with Anglirg wa5, after tedious Audy, a Calmer cf
vrluch v^ry with the times i the laihion of our fo much art obtain a majority, in a thin
as to unquiet thoughts, a modtrator ai paflions, and a
flothes being not more fubj<£l to ailcatitn th^n houfc, for paHing a vote, that the king's con- procurer of contentednefs. h'''tdtcTi.
\hat of ou^ ipeech. DtnKt/i. ccdions were a ground for a future fettlcment. 2. One who prefides in a difputailoh, to
Weare to piefer the bleflings oi Providence oe- i'wi/r. contending parties from in-
refirain the
foK the of mtde and imagina
fpiendiit cutiolitiea Fix'd to one part, but mod'rate to the reit.
decency, and confine them to the quef-
Au>B, h'lftrange. Pope.
tion.
They were inv.tcd fro.ro all parti; and the fa- 3. Not luxurious ; not fx/enftve.
.Sometimes the ntodiratof is more troublefcmc
vour of iearniag was tbe um Jur and ;r^/ of the Therr> not fo much iet't as to furnilh out
than the aflor.. Bacot's Fjjiiy:.
T.mjl:. Tmcn
age. A midirate table. ^kiik^', .art's of Aihetis, How does Philopolis feafonably commie tnc
A» we fee on coins the di ffereni faces of pe f ns,
4. Not t-Atrcnie in Opinion j not fanguine opponent with the refpondent, i.ke a long-prajlifed
we iec to' tli'ir UifFc ent h:^Lit antl dr^HLS, ate Td-
Attdifur on Med..ii. in a ttnet. mod r a tor? lifore.
JBg to tiisn df th t ;'.-ev»iieJ.
The firlt perfon who fpeaks when the court is
Tho' wrong th'r m c-, compijr; more fenfe is Thefe are tenet* which tbe vudirattfi of the
SnrMridg-. fet, opers the cafe to the judge, cliairman, or mo-
|i,.. Romai.iH. will iiut vmcurc to ai5rm.
than ymjr own. Young. derator of the .ill(:mbly, and gives hh own rcafjns
In we?, n^^ tii-.. iblli'-s
5. ûced between extremes ; hol.iing the
worn, for his opinion. JVat-s.
If fu.ui itleif n.' Uitf rent dtefiis
©eart.
What wonder modtt in wit fliouU uke their tura >
Quietly crnfider tfetrial that hath been thus

MO'OERN. «./. [moderne, French ; fronT
foe,-. fuppofrd a
fcn^.aa 5>(kinds of teformarion ; as well
b t!i
modern-US, 1"W Latin ; o.ifual
MO'DLL. n. /. [modele, Fr. modulm,
this m'^ i.le itinn, w'lich the clui h of England corruption r-f hodiernus. Vel pniius ab
Lat.] hath rakea, as t'.a' /her more extrrme and liior- adverbiu modh, modernus, ut a die dim-.
I. A rrprefc-n'atioa in lictle of fomethin^- oui, wludi ceitaia c&utcJkcs dfewhue have b.:tter
aui. Ain/iuorth ]
liked. Ilnktr.
made or done.
1. Late
: ! ;
.
MOD MOD MOD

1. Late; recent; not ancient; not an* 3. Not loofely ; not lewdly ; with de- 2. To foften ; to moderate.
tique. cency. Of his grAce
Some ofthe ancient, and likewife divert of the He modifies his firft fcvere decree.
4. Not exceflively ; with moderation.
modtrn writers, th»thave laboured in natural ma- The keener edge of battle to rebate. Drydtn,
gick, have noted a fympathy between tlie fun and
Mo'oESTy. n./. [modejlie, Fl. modejiat,
To Mo'difv. v h. To extenuate.
certain herbs. Bacon.
Lat.] After all this difcanting and modifying upon tlie
The glorious then downward bring
parallels 1. Not arrogance j not prefumptuoufnefs. matter, there is hazard on the yielding fide.
To miderit wonders, and to Britain's king. i'nV. They cannot, with modejly, think to have found L'EJlrange.
2. In Shahjptare, vulgar; mean; com- out abfolutely the bed which the wit of men may Modi'llon. «. [French; modiolus,
/.
mon. devife. Hooktr.
Latin.]
Trifles, futh as we ptefent mojern firiends withal,
2. Not impudence ; not forwardnefs as, :
MMlofis, in architefiure, are little brackets
Sbahffeerc. his petitian •was urged luith modefty. which are often fct under the Corinthian and com-
The juftice
3. Moderation ; decency. pofite orders,and ferve to fupport the projeflure of
With eyes fcvere and beard of formal cut. A you play ;
lord will hear the larmier or drip : this part mu ft be didingoilh-
Full of wile faws nnd modtrn inftances. Shaktfftare. But I am doubtful of your modejlirs. ed from the great model, which is the diameter of
We have our philofophical perfons to make Left over eying of his odd behaviour. the pillar; for, as the proportion of an edifice in
mcJcn and familiar things fupeinatural and caufe- You break into fome merry paHion. Sbakejpear^. genera! depends on the diameter of the pillar, fo the
lels. Shakejfttarct fize and number of the modilhns, as alfo the in-
4. Chaftiiy ;
purity of manners.
Mo'derns. »./ Thofe who have lived Would you not fwear, terval between them, ought to have due relation to
lately, oppofed to the ancients. the whole fabrick. Harriu

Alt you that fee her, that (he were a maid.
There are moderns who, with a (light variation, By thefc exterior (hews ? But (he is more.
The modillons or dentelli make a noble (how by
their graceful projeftions. SfiBaHr,
adopt the opinion of Plato. Soyle on Colours. Her blulh is guiltinefs, not modejly. Sbakcjpeare.
Some by old words to fame have made pretence ^ Of the general character of women, which is
Mo'dish. adj. [frommode.] Fafhionable;
Ancients in phrafe, mere moderns in their feni'e modtjlyy he has taken a moft becoming carcj for formed according to the reigning cuf-
his amorous expredions go no farther than virtue tom.
Mo'dernism. «./. [from modern.] De- may allow. Drydm. But you, perhaps, expcil a modip feaft.
viationfrom the ancient and claffical Talk not to a lady in a way that modejly will not With am'rous fongs, and wanton dances grac'd.
permit her to anfwer. Cljrjjfa.
manner A word invented by Sivi/t. Mo'desty-piece.
DrydeXm
Scribblers fend us over their trafli in profe and
n.f. Hypocrify, at the falhionable end of the town,
verfe, with abominable curtailings and quaint mo-
A narrow lace which runs along the upper part of is very different from hypocrify in the city; the
* the (lays before, being a part of tlie tucker, is call- mtd'fh hypocrite endeavours to appear more vitious
dernifms. Svfifr,
ed the modejly -piece. Add'tfon. than he really is, the other kind of hypocrite
To Mo'dernise. v. a. [from modern ]
Mo'dicum. n.f. [Latin.] Small por- more virtuous. Addifon's SpsBator.
To adapt ancient compofitions to mo-
tion pittance. Mo'dishly. adv. [from modip.] Fa-
;
dern perfons or things to change an- ;
What modicums of wit he utters his evafions : Ihionably.
cient to modern language. have ears thus long. Sbakfjp. Troilus and CreJ/ida. Young children (hould not be much perplexed
Mo'dernness. «./ \i\ota modern.'] No- Though hard their fate, about putting o(F their hats, and making legs mo-
velty. A cruife of water, and an ear of corn. dijhly. Locke.
Yet ftill they grudg'd that modicum. Dryden.
MO'DEST. adj. \modefte, Fr. modejius, Mo'dishness. n.f. [from modifii.] Af.
Lat.] Modifi'able. ai^'. [from modi/y.] That fetation of the fafliion.
1. Not arrogant; not prefumptuous not
may be diverfified by accidental differ- To Mo'dulate. -v. a. [modular, Latin.]
;
ences. To form found to a certain key, or to
boaflful ; balhful.
It appears to be more difficult to conceive a
Of boafting more than of a tomb afraid; certain notes.
diftinft, vifible image the uniform, invariable
A foldier Ihould be modejl as a maid. Young.
cITence of
in
God, than in variouHy modijlable matter
The nofe, lips, teeth, palate, jaw, tongue,
2. Not impudent; not forward. but the manner how 1 fee either ftill efcapes my
;
weafan, lungs, mufcles of the cheft, diaphragm,
Refolve me with all modf/i hafte, which way and mufcies of the beliy, all ferve to make or modu-
comprehenfion. Locke.
Thou miglit'ft deferve, or they impofe tliis ulage. late the found. Grew's CoJmA,
Sbak::fj[>eare.
Modi'ficabi.e. adj. [from modify.] Di- Could any perfon fo modulate her voice as to de-
Her face, as in a nymph, difplay'd verfifiable by various modes. ceive fo many ? Broome.
A fair fierce boy, or in a boy bettay'd Modifica'tion. n.f. [modification, Fr.]
Echo propagates around
The blufliing beauties of a modejl maid. DryJen. Each charm of modulated found. Antn.
The ail of modifying any thing, or
3. Not loofe ; not unchalte.
new
Modula'tion. n. [from modulate
giving accidental differences of
it J', i
MrSi Ford, the honeft woman, the modefl wife ; modulation, French.]
the virtuous creature, that hath the jealous fool to
external qualities or mode.
The chief of all figns is human voice, and the
J. The ail of forming any thing to cer-
her huiband. Sbaieffeart.
feveral modijications thereof by the organs of fpeech, tain proportion.
4. Not exceffive; not extreme; moderate; the letters of the alphabet, formed by the mntions The number of the fimple original minerals have
within a mean. of the mouth. Holder. not been rightly fixed the matter of two or more
:
There appears much joy in him, even fo much The phaenomena of colours in rcfrafted or re-, kinds being mixed together, and by the difterent
that joy could not Ihew itfelfmo</5/? enough without flefled light, arc not caufed by new modifications of proportion and modulation of that matter varioujly
a badge of bitternefs. H haiejpeare the light varioufly imprefli:d, according 10 the va- diverfified, have been reputed all difterent kinds.
During the four years, by a modrfl computa-
laft
rious terminations of the light and (hadow. Neôton. IVoodtvard.
tion, there have been brought into Breft above fix If thefe powers of cogitation, volition and fenfa- The fpeech, as it is a found rcfulting from the
millions fterling in bullion. AdJifin. tion, are neither inherent in matter as fuch, nor modulation of the air, has moft affinity to the fpirit,
Mo'destly. ad-v. [from modejl.] acquirable to matter by any motion nnd mod:f cation but as it is uttered by the tongue, has immediate
1. Not arrogantly not prefumptuoufly. ;
of it, it necelfarily follows that they proceed from cognation with the body, and fo is the fitteft in-
I may modi-Jlly conclude, that whatever eiTors fome cogitative fubftance, fume incorporeal inha- ftrument to manage a commerce between the in-
there may be in this play, there are not thofe bitant within us, which we call fpirit. Bentley. powers and human fouls clothed in flelh.
vifible
which have been objeijled to it. Dryden'sSeboJlian. Government of tbe Tongue.

7a Mo'oiFY. <!'.«. [modifier, French.]
Firft he modijtly conjeSutes, 2. Sound modulated harmony; melody.
;. To change the external qualities or ac-
;
His pupil might be tir'd with Icftures Tnnumerous fongfters, in the frc(hening (hade.
Which hclpd 10 mortify his pride. cidents of any thing ; to fhape. Their mo^/B/ij/isni mix, mellifluous. TbomJ'on's Sir.
Vet gave him not the heart to chide. Yet there is that property in all letters, of apt- Mo'dulator.
Sivifi. /. [from modu/iite.] He
tt.
Tbo" learn'd, well-bred ; and tho" nefs to be conjoined in fyllables and words through
well-bred,
the voluble motions of the organs, that they mo-
who forms founds to a certain key; a
fincere,
dify and difcriminate the voice without appearing tuner ; that which modulates.
Modejlly bold, and humanly fevere. Pope.
to difcontinue it. Holder. The tongue is tlic grand inftrumcnt of tafte,
2. Not impudently; not forwardly ; with the judge of all our miuriihment, the
The middle parts of the broad beam of white faithful
tefped. light which fell upon the paper, did, without any artful modulator of our voice, and the ncccdiry
I, yourglafs. fervant of maftication.
Will modcfily difcover to yourfcif - — ^-
confine of (hadow to modify it, become coloured
all over with one uniform colour, the colour being Mo'uule. ». /.
Derham.
[modulus, hiun.] An
That ofyoutkif, which yet you know no.t of. always the fame in the middle of the paper as at the empty reprefentation j a model j an ex-
Shakifpeare. eiigW' Ntv/m. ternal form.
My
.
M OI M O L M O L
My heart hath one poor firing to (by ft by, moilitig hulband ; to fpend all my days in ploughing. To noutidi hair upon the moles of the face, is
Which holds but till thy news be uttered ; ISEflrange. the perpetuation of a very ancient cudom.
And then, all this thou fee'ft, is but a clod Now he mull moil and drudge for one he loaths. Brown's yulgar Errcurs,
And Koduh of confounded royalty. Sbakifp. Drfden. Such in painting are the warts and moles, which,
Mo'dus. n. /. [Latin.] Something paid With thee 'twas Marian's dear delight adding a likencfs to the face, are not therefore to
To moiVall day, and merry-make at night. Gay. be omitted. Drydm.
as a couipenfation for tithes on the fup-
MOIST, adj. \moiJle, matte, French.] That Timothy, Trim, and Jack were the fame
pofiiion of being a moderate equiva- perfon, was proved, particularly by a mJ: under the
lent. 1. Wet, not dry; wet, not liquid; wet Aroulbnct*
left pap.
One terrible circumftanc^»f this bill, is turning in a fraall degree. The peculiarities in Homer are marks and mcleSf
the tithe of flax and hemp into what the lawyers The hills to their fupply
by which every common eye didingmlhes him.
ciAii m(,dui, or a certain fum in lieu of a tenth Vapour, and exhalation duflc and moiji, Pope.
part of the produ£l. Sent up amain. Milton.
French.]
Stv'tft,
3. [From moles, Latin ; mole,
Mo'dwali.. «./. A Why were the moijl in number fo outdone.
[picus.'\ bird, jiinf.
That to a thoufand dry they are but one } A mound ; a dyke.
MoE. aJj. [ma, Saxon. See Mo.] More; Blackmc'-e. Sion is dreightencd on the north fide by the fea-
a greater number. Many who live well in a dry air, fall into all the
ruined wall of the mole. Sandys^
The chronicles of England mention no moe than difeafes thatdepend upon a relaxation in a mdji With afphaltick (lime the gather'd beach
only fix kings bearing the name of Edward fince one. Arbuthnot. They faden'd ; and the mole immenfe wrought on
the conqued, therefore it cannot he there ihould be Nor yet, when mtiijl Arflurus clouds the (ky, Over the foaming deep high-arch'd ; a bridge
more. Hr.olcr. The woods and fields their pleafing toils deny. Of length prodigious. Milton's Paradife Lojl.
Mo'hair. \mohere, moire, French.]

n. /. Pope. The great quantities of ftones dug out of the
rock could not eafily conceal themf:;Ives, had they
Thread or Auff made of camels or other 2. Juicy ;»fucculent. AlnJ-uoorth.
not been confumed in the moles and buildings of
hair. To Moist. '\<v. a. [from ««//?.] To Naples. AddiJ'on on Italy.
She, while her lover pants upon her bread. ToMo'isTEN. ( make damp; to make Bid the broad arch the daftg'rous flood contain.
Can niuk the figures on an Indian chcft, The mol; projefted break the roaring main. Pope.
wet to a fmall degree ; to damp.
And when Ihe fees her friend in deep defpair,
Oblcrves how much a chintz exceeds mchair. Pofe.
Write till your ink be dry ; and with your tears 4. [Talfa.'\ A little beall that work*
Moiji it again ; and frame fome feeling line. onder-ground.
Mo'hock. n. /. The name of a cruel Shakefpeare, Tread foftly, that the blind mole may not
nation cf America given to ruffians who His breads are full of milk, and his bones are Hear a foot fall ; we now are near his cell.
infefted, or rather were imagined to in- moijlcnul with marrow. *Job, xxi. 24. Shakefpeare.
feft, the ftreets of London. A pipe a little moijiened on the infide, fo as there What more obvious than a mole, and yet what
is
be no drops left, maketh a more folemn found more palpable argument of Providence More,
From millc-fop he darts up mthuk. Prior. .'
than if the pipe were dry. B.icon. M-'les have perfeft eyes, and holes for them
Who ha» not trembled at the mohick'i name }
Gay,
When torrents from the mountains fill no moie, through the (kin, not much bigger than a pin's
the fwelling river is reduced into his (hallow bed, head. Ray on Creation*
Thou hall fallen upon me with the rage of a
with fcarce water to moijitn his own pebbles. Thy of building from the bee receive ;
mad dog, or a mabcck, Ver.nis, arts
Dryden's Mniid, bearn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
Mo'iDERED. ai/J. [properly met/t/ereJ, or Moi'sTENER. The
n.f. [from moiJlen.'\ Pope.
muJJed.'\ Crazed. Ainfiuorth. pprfon or thing that moiftens. Mo'lebat. ». /. [arthragori/cus.'] A filh.
Mo'iDOii. n. yl A Portugal coin, rated Mo'isTNESs. n.f. [from Damp- A'mf'worth,
moiJ}.'\
at one pound feven Ihillings.
nefs ; wetnefs in a fmall degree. Mo'lecast. n /. [»io/^ and cajl.'\ Hil-
Mo'iETY. a./, [moitie, Fr. from moien, Plcafure both kinds take in the moijlnefs and lock caft up by a mole.
the middle.] Half; one of two equal denfity of the air. Baccn'i Natural llijlory. In Spring let the moltcafis be fprcad, becaufe
parts. The fmall particles of brick or (lone the lead they hinder the mowers. Mortimer's Hufband'y.
This company being divided into two equal moijineji would join togf ther. Addison i Guardian.
Mo'lecatcher. n./. [///o/^ and catcl}er.'\
m'-Utlti^ the one before, the other fince the coming Mo I ST u RE. n.f. [;wo//«r, French ; from One whofe employment is to catch
of Child J that part which, fince the coming of moij}. ]
Chrifl, partly hath embraced, and partly (hall em-
moles. ,
1. State of being molft ; moderate wet- Get moulecatcher cunningly moule for to kill.
brace, the Chriftian religion, we term, as by a
more proper name, the church of Chrifl. Hmker. nefs. And harrow and cad abroad every hill. Tiijferm
Sometimes angling to a little river near hand,
The death of Antony Mo'lehill n.f. [mole and /l>ill.] Hil-
If not a fingle doom, in tiiat name lay
which, for the moijiure it bedowcJ upon roots of
fome (lourilhing trees, was rewarded with their (ha-
lock thrown up by the mole working
A mc'tfty of the world. Shakrjp. Attt ny and CUof. under ground. It is uied proverbially,
Touch'd with human g.!ntleoefs and love. dow. Sidney
Forgive a meUty oMhe principal. Skaieffeare.
Set foch plants as requite much moipuri upon in hyperboles, or comparifons from
The was fettled, tmoit:y of which Ihould
militia
fandy, dry grounds. Baconî Natural Hijiory. fomething fmall.
be nominated by the king, and the other mokiy by While drynefs moijlu-e, coldnefs heat refills,
You feed your folitarinefs with the conceits of
the parliament. Clarindon.
All that we have, and that we are, fubfids. the poets, whofe liberal pens can as jal'ily travel
Der.b.im.
As this is likely to produce a ceflation of arms over mountains as mJehills. Sidney.
among one half of our ifiand, it is reafonable that 2. Small quantity of liquid. The rocks, on w!iich the falt-fea billows beat.
the more beautiful mciety of his majclly's fubjedls
'
All my body's n:::ijitire And Atljs' tops, the clouds in height that pafs,
(hould eftablilh a truce. MJiJcn, Scarce fervea to quench my furnace-burning heat. Compar'd to his liuge perfon molehills be. Fo-irJ'ax,
7'oMoiL. ij. a. [m(!«/7/irr, French.] Sbaiefpetire, A
churchwarden, to exprcfs Saint Martin's in
If fome penurious fource by chance appcar'd the Fields, caul'ed to be engraved a martin fining
1. To daub with dirt.
Scanty of waters, when you fcoop'd it dry. upon between two trees.
a molihill Peachim,
All they which were left were moiled with dirt
And offcr'd 0.,e full helmet up to Cato, Our having bafllcd confcience, mult
politician
aiid mire by reafon of the deepneft of the rotten
Did he not da(h th' untafted ntoijiure from him
'
? - not be nonplufed with inferior obligations} and,
way. Kaolltt.
Add-.for, haying leapt over fuch mountains, lie down before
2. To weary. MoK.ES of a net. The me(h'!s. AIkJ'-m. a mJehdl, South' s Scrmors,
No more tug one another thai, nor mcil your- Mountains, which to ôur Maker's view
fclves, receive
Mo'kv. adj. Dark: as, moky weather.
Seem Itfs thin moLbills do to you. Rojcommov,
Prize equal. Chafmati'i Iliad. Ainfivorth. It fcems a corruption of
.Strange ignorance that the lame man who knows
!
To MoiL. "u. n. \mouiller, French.] murky. In fome places they call it Ho-.v far yond' mount above this moLhiH ihows.
1. To labour in the mire. muggy, Duflty ; cloudy Should not perceive a dl(forence i'- grcjt
Moll not too much under ground, for the hope MOLE. n. /• [moel, Saxon ; mole, Fr. Between (mall incomes and a vail eftate ! Drydin.
of mines is vt-ry uncertain. Baci,ni EJJayi, mola, Lat.] To Mole'.it. v. a. [molejler, Fr. moUjius,
2. To toil ; (0 drudge. 1. A mo/eh a formlefs concretion of extra- Lat] Todifturb; ro trouble; to ve.t.
The name of the laborious Hîlliam Ney, at- concerning point5
vafateJ blood, which grows into a kind If they will firmly p.rfid
twr.ey-general to Charles the Firft', was anagram- which hitherto have been difputed of, they mud
matiled, / tmyl tv Loiv. H</ivcl.
of flclh in the uterus, and is calU-d a
agree that they haye mi,/,y?cr</ the- church wi:h
They toil arjd m^.Vforthe intercftof their maders, falfe conception. ^lincy. Ihokir,
ncedi'jfs opp'ifition.
thai in requital break their hearts. L' EJlrarge, 2. A natural fpot or difcolouration of the No man fliall med4i« with them, or moUji them
Ob tJie endleli mifery of the life I lead cries the
I
bodv. in any mattisr. iMac.x,^^.
7 Ple»fui-e
; ; ; : ;
Kf OL I
MOM
Pl«fare am! piin Tignffy wjiitfctveir deligTi'.! sr Mo'lV. «./. [Mtfy, Latin; mely, Firwch.] MoWE'^NTAttT. «/». [from ttitthtntum,
m»lejls uj. Ltfkt.
A plant. Lat.] For a raomcm.
Both are dr*©!!!'.) to death
Air but mom.ntdViy remaiulng in our bodies, hath
; Moly, or wild garlick, is of feveraj fort's ; as
And the dew* wake not to ^>)•/«/^ tho iiving. Ro-uii.
the great moly of Homer,
the Indian moly, the moly no proportionable fpace for its convcrfion, only of
Molest a'tiok. «. /. [me/e/fia, Latrn ; of Hungary, ferjent's troly, the yellow moly, Spa- length enough to rclrrgerate the heart. JJr;wif.
Jtom Dillutbitnce
lao/e/l.] ; uneafinefs niih purple 'r.dy, Spanifii filver-capped moly, Diof- Moment a'neous. / aJj. [mxrmemanee,
caufcd by vexation. corides's moly, tile of Montpelier
fweet m.ly Mo'mentakv. \ French; momen.
Though unto us, and rather of mcA/!- the roots are tender, and mud be carefully de-
ofelefs taneus, Latin.] Lpding but a montifnt.
<f(tir, \ve refrain from killing fwailows. Brvwn. fended from frofto ! as for the time of tlieir
Small when exceeding grclt good i»
difficulties,
An interral fatitlJiHicn and Kûicfcenc:, or flowering, the moly of Homer flowers in May, and
(uie to enfue and, on the otl]er fide, muKiUfany
;
difljtija^lion and fniljiation ut fpi.it, at;eiid the continues fill July, and fo do all the reft except the
benefits, when tlic hurt which they draw after
pra£lica of virtue oiid vice tefpc^ vdy. la((, which is late in September ; tliey are hardy,
them is unfpcakable, are not at all tu be refpc£ted>
Karrii'l Mlj:il. and will thrive in any foil. Mortimer,
Hooka',
Moie'stbr. *. /. [fiom moJefi.] One The fovereign plant he drew,
Flame above durable and confi.lent
i> ; but with
And fliew'd if; nature, and its wond'rous pow'r,
who dillurbs,
niack was the root, but rdilky white the flower ;
us it is a Ifrangcr and m'jmentany. Baton.
Mo'i.ETRAcK. i». /. [mole and trad.] Afhlly the name. Pcfe'i OJyJfy.
Mo'.MENTARY. a<*y. [(rova momml .] Laft-
Courfe of the mole nnder-groiind. MoLo'ssEs. J ti. f. [melazzo, Italian.] ing fur a moment ; done in a moment.
The pct-tnp is a deep eartlien vefTel fet in
the Momentary as » found.
Mola'sses. 1 Treacle; the fpume or
ground, with the brim even with Uie bottom of Swift as a jhadow, fiiorc as any dream. Shukeffetret
the moltiraih.
fcum of the juice of the fugar cane. Scarce could the /haJy .king
Moriimtr,
Mo'i.BWARP.
MoME. n.f. A dull, llupid blockhead, a The horrid fum of his intentions teil,
ti.
f. [moll and peoppan, ftock, a poll this owes its original to the
: But file, fwift as the momentary wing
Saxon. See MouLDWARP.] A mole. Of light'ning, or the words he Ipoke, left hell.
The tmlmuirfri brains mixt therewithal.
French word momon, which fignifies the
Cr,jjheivi.
And with the fame tlie pifmire's gall. Drayton. gaming at dice in mafquerade, the rule Swift as thought the flitting (hade
Mo'llibnt. adj. [aollienj, Lat.] Soften- of which is, that a ftrid filence is to Through journey made. Dryden.
air his mr.mentary
ing. be obferved ; whatfoever fum one flakes Onions, garlick, pepper,fait and vinegar, taken
Mo'llipi ABLE. <i<^'. [ftom mollt/jf ."] That another covers, but not a word is to be in great quantities, excite a mimentery heat and
fpoken hence alfo comes our word fever. Arhutbnot.

may be fofcen »'. ;
yioMt.'uTOVi.adj. [from momentum, Lat.]
Mollifica'tion. ». /. [from mollify.] mum for filence. Hanmer.
Mome, malihorfe, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch important; weighty; of confequence.
1. The art of mollifying or fofiening.
!
Either get thee from the door, or fit down ac the Great Anne, weighing th" events of war
For induration or mallipeatKn, it is to be in- Momentous, in her prudent heart thee chofe.
hatch. Sitihf^-ate.
make metals harder and harder,
quired what will
and what mil make them fofcer and fofcer. Bacm. MO'MENT. «. /. [moment, Fr. momen-
If any falfe flep be made in the more
Phillpt.
momemout
2. Pacification ; mitigation. tum, Lat.] concerns of life, the whole fcheme of ambitious
Some jm/lijicatkn, fweet lady. Shakefpettre. 1. Confequence ; importance; weight; dcfigns is broken. Mtiijin.
Mo'llifier. n. /. [from mollify.] value. It would be a very weak thing to give up fo mo-
l: That which foftens ; that which ap- We do not find that' our Saviour reproved them menicus a point as thU, only becaufe it has been
of error, for thinking the judgment of the icribes contcfted. H'aterlarJ.
peafes.
The roothath a tender, dalntjr heat; which,
to be worth the objeiling, for efteeming it to be Mo'mmerit. «.y [or mummery, from mum-
when it Cometh above ground to the fun and air, of any moment or vaiue in matters concerning Got!. mer, momerie, Frerth.j An entertain-
Hooker.
'
vmiiiheth ; for it is a great moU'jieT, £a«m, ment in which maflcers play froiicks.
Ihave feen her die twenty times upon far poorer
2. He that pacifies or mitigates.
moment. StakcJ'fearc.
See MoME.
All was jollity,
To Mo'llify. 1'. a. [mollio, Latin ; mol- What towns of any moment but we have ? Sbak.
Feafting and mirth, light wantonnefs and laughter.
lir, French.] It is an abftrufe fpcculation, but alfo of far lefs
moment and confequence to us than the others ; Piping and playing, minHrelfy and malking.
I. To foften ; to make foft.
feeing that without this we can evince the exift-
Till life fled f.om us like an idle dream,
z. To afTwage. ^ ence of God. Bentley^s Sermons.
A (hew of mommity witliout a meaning. Rorve.
Neither herb, nor mM/yhg plaifter, reftorcd Mo'nachat.. eiJJ [monacal, French; mo-
them to health. IVifcf. xvi. I2.
2. Force ; impullive weight ; a£luaiing
nacl'alis, Lat. fj.,,:ax'xoi.] Monattick
Sores have not been clofed, neither bound up, power.
neither motlijiij with ointment. IJahh, i. 6. The place of publick prayer is a circumftance
relating to monks, or conventual or-
outward form, which hath moment to help ders.
J. Toappeafe; to pacify ; to quiet. in the
Thinking her fitent imaginations began to work devotion. Hooker. Mo'nachism. ». f. [monachifmt, Fr.]
upon fomewhat, to mdlify them, as the nature of Can thefe or fuch be any aid to us ? The Hate of monks ; the monallick
mulick is to do, I took up my harp. SiJnrf. I.ook they as they were built to fliake the world ?
He brought them to thefe favage parts. Or be a moment to our entcrprize ? Ben jfcrfn.
And with fweet fcience mollify d their ftubborn Touch with lighteft morrer.: of impulfe Mo'.NAD. ) n.f [iioK»f.] An indivifible
hearts. Sf,t>ifii.
His free-will, to her own inclining left Mo'nade. \ thing.
In even fcale. Milton's Parailif' Lofl- Difunity is the natural property of m.itter, wliich
The cror.e, on the wedding night, finding the
kr.ighr's avctfi.in, fpeaks a gôd word for hcrfcif, He is a capable judge ; can heir both fides with of itfelfis nothing but an infinite congeries of phy.
in hope to tr.sUify the fuUcn bridegroom. Drydtn. an indifl^crent ear ; is determined only by the mo^ fical monads. More.
To qualify to leffen any thing harfti

menu of truth, and fo retraOs his pad errors. MO'NARCH. H. / [monarch, French ;
j^ ;
lôrriu
Ititoefxo'.]
or biirdenfome. An indivifible particle of time.
They would, by yielding fo fome things, when
3. I. A governor inverted with abfclute au-
If 1 would go to hell for an eternal mcm'rt, or
they refufed ctêr^, fooner prevail with the hnufes thority ; a king.
(o, I could be knighted. .Shakefp. Merty fVit/es.
to mollify their demands, than at firil to lefnrm I was
The flighty purpofe never is o'ertook,
them. Clarendon. Unlefs the deed go with it ; from this moment
A morfel for a monarch. Shakejpt Ant. and Cle^pat.
Cowley thus paints Cvliah : Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth
The very firftllngs of my heart fliall be
Ttw valiey, now, this monHer frem'd to fill, The firlHings of my hand. Hhakejpea'e'i Macbeth. Do all expe£l that you fliould roufe yourfelf.
And we, me-.hought, look'd up to him from our The imaginary reafoning of brutes is not a di- Shakefftearea
hill; The father of a family or nation, that ufet
flin£t reafoning, but performed in a p!.yfical mo-
where the two words, fecm'tl and methought, have and advllcs with them
his fervants like children,
ment. Hale.
nmllifed the figure. Dryjcn, in what concerns the commonweal, and thereby
While I a moment name, a mcment'% part
is willingly obeyed by them, it what the fchoolt
Mo'lten- part paff. from melt. Tm nearer death in this verfe than the lalt
Biafs is mdttn out of the (lone.
mean by a monarch. lemfle,
Job, xxviii. i. What then is to be done P Be wife with fpeed ;
In a fmall furnace made of a temperate heat A fool at forty is a fool indeed. Young. 2 One fuperior to the reft of the fame
let the heat be.fuch a> may keep the metal mthcn, Yet thus receiving and returning blifs kind.
uaA no more. Bjc:n. In this great m\,n:ent, in this golden now. The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees,
Love's myOick form the artizanj of Greece When cv'ry trace of what, or when, or how, 1 hree centuries he grows, anJ three he ftays
'
laiwoaaded ftone, or mtlitn gold, u^cis. Pritr. SUou'd from my foul by raging love be torn. Prior. Su|>Mme ia &.Mt, and in thtee more decay:. Dryd.
With
; ; ; - ; ;
M O N MON MON
With e»re Jiftingulfli'd, is the regal race, but MoniiJ was formerly ufed for fums.] Mo'n'EY5W0RTh.»./. [meaeyind luertlt.]
Something valuable; fometbing that

One an open, honeft face
rn'.narcb \rears Metal coined for the purpofes of com-
Shap'd to his fize, and godlike to behold.
merce. will bring money.
His royal body fljines with fpccks of gold. Drydc7t* There either money or money/worth in all the
Importune him for mn'n be not ceaft
is
:
Reium'd with dire remorfelcfs fway, controvetfies of life for we live in a mercenaiy
With (light denial. Stakfjp. Tiiroji nf Athens, j
The monarch lavage lendi the trembling pre)'. Pofe. world, and it is the price of all things in it.
The jealous wittoUy knave hath mafles of montjr. LÊJirang-;
3. PrtCdent. SiaieJ'ftarc.
Coire, thou mnarrh of the vine, You need my help, and you fay, Mo'nocorn. n, /. [manj, Sax'on, and
Pluropy Bacchus, with piak ejne. Shylock, we would have monies. Sbakejfeare. corn.] Mixed corn : as, wheat and rye ;
In thy vats our cares be dn^n'd, Shai'Jf>eare-
1 will give thee the worth of it in mon.y. mifcellane, or maflin.
Mona'rch AL. aa)'. [hom >ncaarcl>.] vjuit- I Kings, xxi. 2.
Mo'nger. n. /. [manjepe, Saxon, a
ing a monarch; regal; princely; im- Wives the readicil helps
To betray heady huibands, rtb the eafy trader; from manjian, Saxon, to trade.]
perial.
Satan, whom now tranfcendent glory raij'd And lend the mmiis on return of lull. Ben JorJ'.rt. A dealer ; a feller. It is feldom or ne-
Above his fellows, with mfnarchal pride,
Money differs from uncoin'd filver, in that the ver ufed alone, or otherwife than after
quantity of fiUer in each piece of money is afcer-
Confcious of higheil worth, unmov'd thus fpake. the name of any commodity to exprefs a
taired by the rtamp it bears, which is a publick
l.oekc. feller of that commodity as, a Jijh- :
voucher.
Moka'rchical. adj. [mtinarc&ique, Fr.
My difcourfe to the hen-peck'd has produced monger ; and fometimes a medler in any
iui»ac5(ixo? ; ftook monarch.^ Veiled in a many correfpondents ; fuch a difcourfe is of general thing : as, a ixihoremonger ; a ne'wf-
fingle ruler. ufe, and every married man's money. Mdijon.
monger.
That only
ftorks wiil live in free dates, is a Shall I money or food from my
withhold a little
Do you know meP^Yes, excellent well, yoa
pretty conceit to advance the opinion of popular fellow creature, for fear he Ihould not be guod are a ixSts-m-jr.ger. Shaheffearc.
policies, and from antipathies in nature to difpa- enough to receive it from me? Lit-w.
Th' impatient (kitt%-mongir
rage monarctkul government. Brmvn. People are not obliged to receive any monies, ex- Could now contain hinifclf no longer. Hudibras.
The decretals rcfolve all into a mirarchicfl power cept of their own coinage by a publick mint. adj. [as mongccrn, from manj,
Swift.
Mo'ngrei..
Rome. Bskrrs Rejkîor.son Ltiirn'ug*
Saxon, or mengen, to mix, Dutch.] Of
at
To MoNARCHisE. "v. ». [froiB monarch.] Thofe huckfterers or mcmy jobbers will be found
ncccflary, if this br.ifs mcney is made current in the a mixed breed: commonly written
T.) play tlie king.
exchequer. Swift. mungrel for mongrel.
Allowing him a breath, a little fcene
To jwMriAiit, be fear'd, and kill with lodks. Mo'neybag. n./. [money and iag.] A This zealot ,/
large purfe. Is of a mongrel, divers kind,

CIciick before, and lay behind. Hudihrjt*
Mo'narchy. n f. \monarchie, French ;
Look to my houfe I am riglit loth to go
;
There is fome ill a brewing towards my rell. Ye mongrel work of hcav'n, with human Ihap'es,
For I did dream of moneybags to-night. That have but jull enough of (tin(e to know
1. The government ot a fingle perion. Stakefjeart. The rhalter's voice. Dr^den's Don Schajlun^
While the mtnureby flourilTied, wanted not
thefe I'm but a half-drain'd villain yet,
jilHrburfs Strmnii.
My place was taken up by an ill-bred puppy,
Dryden.
1 proteftor. with a tnorttybi'g under each arm. /Iddijons Guar. iatmngrel mil'chievous.
Kinedom Bafe, groveling, worthlefs wretches
2. ; empire. Mo'neybox. n./- [money and ôx.] A poor faint-hearted traitors.
Ipaft Mongrels in faftion ;
till ; repofitory of ready coin. « AJdiJon.
Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.
The firit tliac ihcie did greet my ftranger foul, Mo'nevchancer. », /. [money and Hi» friendlhips ftill to few confin'd,
Was my great father- in law, renowned Warwick, change.'] A broker in money. Were always of the middling kind
Who cried aloud. What fcourgc for perjury ufurcrs or moneychangers being a fcandalous
The No fools of rank, or morgrcl breed,
Can this dark monarchy afford U\it Clarence ?

employment at Rome, is a reafon f»r the high rate Who fain would pais for lords indeed. Swift's Mifc,
Sbaitffeert. oi intereft. Arbmhnot. Mo'niment. x.y. [from moneo, Lat.] it
This trnall inheritance Mo'neyed. adj. [from money.] Rich in feems here to iignify infcription.
Contenteth me, and 's worth imcnarcly. Shalcff.
money: often ufed in oppofition to Some others wc^, driven and diftent
Mo'NASTERy. H. /. [mona/iere, French ;
thofe who are poncfled of lands Into great ingots and to wccUcs Square,
motiajierium, Latin.] Houfe of reli- Invite Kmeyed men
to lend to the merchants, Some in round plates withoutcn mmincnt.
Fairy Hîin*
jjious retirement; convent; abby ; cloi- for the continuing and quickening of trade. Bacog.
fter. It is ufually pronounced, and If exportation will not biUnce importation, away ToMo'nish. v. a. [moneo, Latin,] To
o/ten wri ten, monajlry. muft your iilvcr go again, whether mtBe)**/ or not admopifh, of which it is a contrattion.
Then courts of kings were held in high renown; moneyed i for where goods do not, filver muft pay Monij/j him gently, which ihall make him both
for the commodities yon (pend. Locke. willing to amend, and glad lo go forward in love.
There, virgins honourable vows receiv'd. .
Drydtn. Several turned their money into thofe funds, Ajeham's Schoolmajler.
But chafie as maids in trcnafteriei liv"d.
In a mnrttijltry your devotions cannot carry you
merchants as viell as other moniyed men. Swift.
Mo'nisher. [from moni/h,] An «. /.
fo far toward the D«t world, as to make this lofe
With thefe meafures fell in all monied men ;
admcnilher; a monitor.
tlie fight of you. fofe. fuch as had raifcd vaft fums by trading with Hocks
and funds, and lend'.ng upon great intereil. i'lij/r. Moni'tion. n.f. [monitio, Lat. monitiott,
Mona'stick. 7 "dj- \_monaJlique, Fren.
Mo'niy.er. n./. [monnoyer-eur, French; French.]
MoN a'stical. 1 monaJlicus,Uzt..'\ Re-
from money.] I. Information; hint.
Jigiouily reclufe; pertaining to a monk. We have no vifible monition of the returns of
1. One that deals in money ; a banker.
1 drave my fuitor to forr.\ear the full ftrtam oi any other perii;ds, fuch we have of the day, by a
the woriJ, and to live in a nook merely m:r.vfi',.k.
2. A coiner of money. fucceflive light and darknefs. Holder on Time.
i>haifff. j*J you l,ke it. Mo'niyless. adj. [frommoney.] Want- InftruAion document.
z. ;
The lilicioMS and

hairy vefts of the (Iridicft otdci s ing money ; pennilefs. Unruly ambition Is deaf, not only to the advic*
of friers derive the inllitution of their mizajiiik The ftrong expeftation of a good certain falary of friends, but to the counfels and munitions ef tea-
life from the example of John imd Eli.u. will outivcigh the lofs by bad rents received out of L'E/lrange,
fonitlelf.
Br'y^'tt'i yulgeir Eiroun. Undi in moneyleji times. Snifi. from
Then after fagc monitions his friends.
When yoting, you led a life numajikk, 1
Mo'NtVMATTER. »./. [money inA mat His talents to employ for nobler ends.
And wore a veil ecdcfiatVick; \ He turns to politicks his dang'rous wit.
Now in your «ge you grow fantaftick. DtrJ-am. ^ ter.] Account of debtor and creditor. Svift.
What if you and I, Nick, IhoJd enquie how Mo'nitor. [Latin.] One who
n. /.
Mona'stic ALLY. oJ'v. [hom mona/firi .] mcneymattirs Itand between us ? jirluthnot. warns of faults, or informs of duty ;
Reclufely in (he manner of a monk.
;
Mo'nevscrivener.»./. [mmey anA/cri- one who gives ufeful hints. It h ufed
1 have a d^zen years mote to anfwcr for, all mo.
racially palled in this country of liberty and de-

•vener.] One who raifes money for of an upper fcholar in a fchool com-
light. Siulfr, others. miffioned by the mafter to look to the
Mo'kuay. [from moon and r/<yi.]
n. Suppofe a young unexperienced man in thr boys in his abfence.
J",
'1 he fecohd clay of the week.
hands af noney-Jcri'VLn.rs ; fuch fellows arc like Yoii need not be a monitor to the king ; his learn-
your wire drawing mills, if they get hold of a ing i> eminent : be but his fcholar, 'and you are
Mo'ney. n y". [monnoye, French; mcneta, man's linger, they will pull in his whsh body a! fafe. Baecn*
Latin. It has properly no plural except lall. Ariutbnot's UiJI. of Jthn Bull. was the privilege of Adam innocent to have
It
when money is taken for a fingle piece Mo'nevwort. »./ A plant. thefe notions alfo firm and untainted, to carry his
Vol. U. U mmititr
; : ! ;
M O N M ON M O N
wnniter in his bofom, hit l«w in Kji heart, iri to MoKltS-HOOD, n. f. [ecnfoliJa rtgalil.'] One who by engroffing or patent ob-
kivf fuch a confcientc as might be U« own cafulft A plant. Ainfivorth. tains the fole power or privilege of
Stutb'l Sertitn''
We can but dirine who it is that fptaks; whe
MoKKS-RHUPARB. n. f. A fpecies of vending any commodity.
ther Pcrfius himfclf, or hit firiend and mcmtf, oi dock : its roots are ufed in medicine, To MoNo'poMZE. v. a. [ii<i>(^ and ickMiV;
a third perfon. OryJin. Mo'nochord. a./. [.u*»^ and x''i^'''-'\ mono}oler, French.] To have the fole
The pains that come from the nccclTities of na- 1. An inftrument of one firing: as, the power or privilege of vending any
ture, art numteri to us Co beware oi greater tnif-
trumpet marine. Harris. commodity.
chieia. LuU. He has fuch a prod'gious trade, that if there is
2, A kind of inllrument anciently of fin-
MoNiTORY.* adj. [monitoire, Fretich ;
guKir ufe for the regulating of founds:
no: fome ftop put, he will mempoUze; nobody will
Conveying ufeful fell a yard of drapery, or mercery ware, but him-
tncnitoriui, Litin.]
jnftruilitin giving admonition.
the ancients made ufe of it to deter- felf. A tut/ not.
;
mine the proponirn of founds to one MoNo'roLY. n. f [êwws-Xia ; monofole,
I-olIis, mifcaniigcs, and difap;>ointments, arc
and inrtructivc.
*l5wi.'5f_y L KftrafiT^t-. another. When the chord was divided Fr. fi.ir&. and trwîoi.] The exclufive
He fo taken up ftll, in fpite of the mo/i;.'r>/y
is into two equal part5, fo that the terms privilege of felling any thing.
hint in my tflay, with particular men, that he nc- were as one to one, they called them If 1 had a tntrnfiily on't tliej would have part
mankind. Papi.
gle<5l)
unifons ; but if as two to one, they on't. Shaêjpearu
Mo'KiTORy. Admonition warn- Hr,w could he anfwci't, (hooldthc (late think (it.
n.f. ;
called fhem oftaves or diapafons: when
ing. To quclHon a mon-^fcly o( wit ? C'.'wley.
they were as three to two, they called of the mod oppredivewsKf-^'//'! imaginable
One
A k'ng of Hungary took a blflnp in and battle,
them fifths or diapentes ; if they were as all others can concern only fomething without us,
kept him prifuner whereupon the pope writ a no-
;
Hilary to him, for that he had broken the privilege four to three, they called them fourths but this fi&tai U|ion our nature, yea upon eur
' Bann. or diatelTerons ; if as five to four, they realbn. Cirjern. tf tbe'i'-.rgue.
of holy church.
Sh.ikpfpeare rather writ happily than knowingly
MOiNK. »./. [monec, Saxon; monachus, called it diton, or a tierce-major; but
and judly J andjoolbn, who, by (tudving; Horace,
Latin; ^'.myl..'\ One of a religious if as fix to five, then they ca/led it a had bc^n acquainted with the rules, )ct feemed to
community bound by vows to certain demi diton, or a minor ;
tierce and envy to p«(leiity that knowledge, and to make
'
obfervances. lallly, if the terms were as twenty- a m.Kop')ly of his learning. Diyd.n's ^Lvcn.it.
'Twould prove the verity of certain words, four to twenty-five, they called it a de- MoNo'rxoTE. n.f [ftj.©- and ©.airi,:.] A
Spoke by a holy mani. SttihJ;> are'i Hufy VIII. micon or dieze; the monochorJ being noun ufed only fome one oblique
in
AbJem-lcck, as one weary of the world, gave darkens Latin Grammar.
overall, and betook himfclfto a folitary life, and thus divided, was properly that which cale.
became a melancholy Mahometan njMti. Ki-ill::. they called a fyftem, of which there MoKo'sTiCH. n f £..H»;ri;c'' ] •^ com-
Tbe'dronilh monks, the fcornand fliamcof man- weremany kinds, according to the differ- pofition of one verl'e.
• hood, ent divifions of the monecbord. Harris. Monosylla'bical. adj. [from rKonofyU
Roufe and prepare once more to take pofleflion. Confining of words of one lyl-
Rowe. MoNo'cuLAR. \adj, [p.i,»2>- and oeulus ^
labU.'\
And neftle in their ancient hives again.
Mcnks, in fome rcfpofts, agree with regulars, MoKo'cuLOUs. J
One-eyed; liaving lable.
vows of religion ; but in other
as in the fubftantial only one eye. MONOSY'LLABLE. n.f [monofyllabi,
refpefl^ mîib and regulars differ ; for that regu- He was well fcrved who, going to cut down an French j jxic©- and <7uXKuZr,.'\ A word
lars, vows excepted, are not tied up to fo ftrifl a ancient white hawthorn tree, which, bccau(e (lie of only one fyllable.
rule of life as monki are. Ayl.fft'i tartrgnn. budded before others, might be an occafion of fu- My name of Ptolemy
man.] perftition, had fome of the prickles flew into his
Mo'nkey. n.f. [momiin, a little It is fo long it alks an hour to write it
eyes, and made him mcnicuhr. lictvel.
change it into Jove cr Mars
1. An ape; a baboon; a jackanapes. 1 il I
Thofe of China repute the reft of the world n:o- Or any other civil m:n-(yUjihle,
An animal bearing fome refemblance of nocuLus. damille's Sicfjis.
That will not tire my hand. Dryder'i C/ccmeaes,
inan. Mo'nODY. »./. [fu.tuiia ; menadie, Fr.] Poets, although not infenilble how much our
One of them (hewed me a ring that he had of A poem fung by one perfon not in dia- language was already over- (locked with m:nifyU
your daughter for a mcukey. —
Tubal, it was my
logue. lai/ts, yet, to fave time and pains, introduced that
turijuoife ; 1 would not have given it for a wilder- barbarous cuftom of abbreviating words, to &t them
neh of monkey!. Shakcjpcari. Moxo'cAMisT. n.f [m>^ and yar/n.©; to the meafure of their verfes. Siaift.
More new. far>gled than an ape ; more giddy in monognme, Fr.] One who difallows fe- Afirm/yllalle lines, unlefs artfully managed, are
roy defires than a nmnkty. Shaktfp. At y>« like it.
cond marriage?. dilF or languKhing ; but may be beautiful tu ex-
Other creatures, as well as mertkeys, dcftroy their
yourg ones by lenfclefs fondnefs. Locke en EJuc. Monogamy, n.f [monngamie, French; prcfsinelancholy. Pof-r.
and yaîu.] Marriage of one Monosy'llabled. «<^'. [monofyllabi, Fr.

With flittering gold and fparkling gems they (*oy©-
fliine, wife. from monojfyJIable.] Confiding of one
But apes and monkeys are the gods within. Cruvville. Mo'nogram. [uAt^ and yâftft*;
n.f. fyllable.
J. A word of contempt^ or flight kind- monogramme, French.] A cypher; a Nine taylors, if rightly fpeU'd,
Into one man are mericfyllubled. Cle.Tvetpnd.
defs. char<-ifter compounded of feveral letters.
and
This the monkey's own giving out (he is
and ôy®-
Mono'tony. n.f [jt-iiroloiia; v.:.^'^
is ;
Mono'locue. n.f [ftoi*^
Uniformity
perfuaded will man) her. SbakeJ)iiare. rot^ ; nionotonie, French.]
I
monologue, Fr.] A fcene
which a per- in
Poor rnenkry ! how wilt thou do for a father ?
of found ; want of variety in cadence.
Sbakeff'-ari: fon of the drama fpeaks by himfelf ; a I could objccl to the repetition of .
the f-ime
Mo'kkery. a. / [from mcni.] The foliloquy. rhimes within four lines of each other as tircfonie
monadick life. He gives you an account of hiinfelf, and of his to the ear through their m.n.tcny. P.fe's Lititri.
Neither do I meddle vrith their evangelical per-

returning from the country, in monihgue ; to which MO'NSJEUR. n.f. [French ] A term
unnatural way of narration Terence is fubjeft in
feftion of vows, nor the dangerou* fervitude of of reproach for a Frenchman.
all his plays. Drydtn.
their ralh and impotent votaries, nor tlie inconve- A Frenchman his compamon:
niences of their monkery. Wall, Mo'nomachy. n.f [MO»f«»;fie; |m.»®- and much
An eminent narfuur, that, it fccms, lovej
Mo'nkhood. n.f. [«Mi{ and i6W.] The fta'jjr. J Aduel; a fingle combat. A Gallian giri. Sbekejfenrc' s Cymhclim.
character of a monk. Mo'nome. n.f [monome, Fr.] in alge- MoNSo'oN. n.f [monfea, monfon, Fr.]
He hadoff hii msnkbcoJ too, and was no
left bra, a quantity that has but one deno- M^rfoyns are (liifting trade winds in the Ead In-
longa obliged to them. jitterhwy.
mination or name ; as, a b, a a b, dian ocean, which blow periodically J fome for haif
Mo'ft'KisH. atlj. [from monk.'] Monaftick ; Harris. a year one way, others but for three months, and
a a a b.
then (hift and blow for fix or three montlis direilly
pertaining to monks ; taught by monks. Monope'talous. [monopetaU, Fr.
adj. Harris.
ornament contrai y.
Thcfe publick charitiea aie a greater
and is "fed for fuch
5:fTa^"••] It The and trade winds are contlant and
nanjoer.i
ft3,(^
fo this city than all its wealth, and Jo more real
flowers as are formed out of one leaf, perioiiicaleven to the thirtieth degree of latitude
honour to tlK reformed religion, than redounds to
all around the globe, and feldoro tranfgrcis or fall
the church of Konie from all thofe mrkifr and howibever they may be fecmingly cut
fhort of thofe bounds. R"^.
fuperftitioui foundations of which (he vainly boafts. into many fmall ones, and thofe fall off
A'Urhury.
together. S>uincy. MO'NSTER. n f. {monjlrt, Fr. monjiiumy
Rife, rife, Rofcommon, fee the Blenheim raule. Lat.J
MoNo'poLisT, n.f [mtnof'^leur, French,]
The duUtocdiaiiit of n^nkJhthynK rtfufe. Ssstiib,
I. Something
; ; :
M O N M O N MOO
Oil of vitriol and petroleum, a dr*m of each, The yooth of heav'niy birth I view'd.
1. Something out of the common order
For whoai our monthly vidlims are reiiew'J.
turn into a mouldy fubllance, there refiding a tair
of nature. cloud in tlic bottom, and a mo-^fiisus thick oil on
Prydtn.
Meihinks heroic podie till now. the top. Bjc^n, Mo'nthly. ad'u. Once in a month.
Like fame fantaftic fairy land did Shcsv, put off the hooks, and mmfiroti If the one may very well monttly, the other may
She was eafily
Cods, dcviU, nymrhs, witches, and giants race, L'E^range. as Well even daily, be iterated. Hooker,
hard to be pleafcd again.
And all bat man in man's chief work had pbce. Add, that the rich liave ftiU a gibe in (lore, Ofwear not by the moon, th' inconftant moon.
Thou like fome wortJiy knight with (acred arras, And wiil be monjlnus witty on the poor. Drydcn. That changes frontbis in her circled orb
Oolf drive the morjlcrs ihencc, and end ihe charms. Left that thy love prove likewife variable. Shakefp.
^. Co*iv!ey-
Mo'kstrousi.y. aJ-v. [from monjlrous.']
ought to be determined whether mcnjfers be
It 1. In a manner out of the common order MONTO'IR. n. /. [French.] in horle-
really a dillindl fpecies ; we find, that fome of of nature ; (hockingly ; terribly ; hor- manlhip, a ftone as high as the ilirrups,
thefc monftrous produfiions have none of thofe ribly. which Jtalian nding-mallers mount
qualities that accompany tlie eifciice uf that fpecicf Tiberius was bad enough in his youth, but their horfes from, wiihoat putting their
from whence they derive. Lccke fupcrlatively and mrjti '.ujly (> in his old age. foot in the ftirrup. Did.
2. Something horrible for deformity, Sourbî Sc:»t3TIS,
MoNTRO^s. An
under-gunner, or
n /.
wickednefs, or inifchief. 2. To a great or enormous degree. aflillant to a gunner, engineer, or fire-
If ftc live kng. He walks
And, in the end, meet tiic old couife of death. And that felf chai/i about his neck,
m after. Dia.
Women will a'l tjrn mDrfiirs. iiaicff. King Lear. Which he forfwoie raoft manjln-tijl} to have. MO'NUMENT. n. /. {monument, Fr.
All human virtu; to its latcft breach. Shakefpcare. monumentum, Latin.]
Finds envy never conquer'd but by death : Tbefe truths with his example you difprove, 1. Any thing by which the memory of
The grc^t Alcides, ev'ry labour palt. Who witli liis wife is monjlroujly in love. DiyJ-n.
perfons or things is preferved; a me-
Had flill this m^njler to fubdue at laft. r<>fe. Mo'ksi ROUSNtss B./. [from mo/i/iroifj.]
noun] morial.
To Mo'nster. -u. a. [from the Enormity irregular nature ot beha-
;
In his time there remained the morument of
To put out of the common order of viour. his t^^mb in the mountain Ra/iigh.
Jafius.
things. Not in nfe. See tlie monJlroiJn.fi of man. He is become a notable monument of unprofperous
Her
cficrce When he looks out in an ungrateful lha;>c '.
difloyalty. King Cbarla.

Muft be of fuch unnaturd degree Shjki'fpcare. So mmy grateful altars I would rear
That morf.r:
it. Sbjt,-Jf;are's King Lear. MO'NTANT. n.f. [French.] A term in Of grali'y turf; and pile up every ftone
had rather h JVC one fcratch my head i' th' fun.
I Of luftre from the brook; in memo.-y.
fencing.
When the ala:um wc.e ftruck, than idly fit Vat be all you, one, two, tree, four, come for? Or m-jrument to ages : and thereon
To hear my nothings m/;|/7c'</. Stakcff. C-,rKl,inui. ^To fee fife thee pafs thy pundto,
thee fight, to Ofliir fwcet-fnjcUiiig glims. Milton sParadiJeLcJt,
MoNSTRo'siTY. ) [from monJlrous.'\ »/ thy (lock, thy traverfe, thy dirtince, thy monrant.
Of ancient Britilh art
MoryiTiuo'siTY. 1 The flate ot being Sttiktjfeare. A pleafing monument^ not lefs admir'd
Than what from Attick or Etrufcan hands
monllrous, or out of the common order MONTE RO n /. [Spanilh,] A horfe-
Arofe. Philif!.
of the univerfe. Monjlrojiiy is more man's cap. Colledl the heft monument! of our friends, their
analogous. His hat was like a helmet, or Spanifli motii.r^. Pope to Stvift,^
own images in their writings.
Bacon.
This the mcnfiruiijlty in love, tint the will is
is
name of
2. A tomb; a cenotaph; fomelhing erea-
infinite, and the execution confin'd. liioi.'Jfeare. Monte'th. »./. [from the the
ed in memory of the dead.
Such a ucit Icagus is agiinll fuch routs and
degenerated from
inventor.] A veffel in which gUflls are Onyour family's old monument
Dioals of people, as have utterly
wafh'-d. Han;- mct:rnfiil epitaphs, and do all rites
nature, as have in thcif very body and frame of
,
BJion.
New tilings produce new words, and thus Manletk That appertain uîto a hurial. Shalefpmre.
cliatc a itr'.rjirafi-y*
Has bv one vctTcl favd his name from death. îV;- The flowers which in the circling valley grow.
We read of monftrous births, but we often fee A m mmenl
a greater minfiitifuj in educations: thus, vwhen a
MO>iTH. ». / [monaS, Saxon.] Shall on his throw. Savdyi.
their odours
In a heap of ibin,
father bas begot a man, he traiju him up into a fpace of time either meifdred by the
Two youthful knights they found beneath a load
|)ca(l. S'.uth'i ScrtKli:!. fun or moon : the lunar month is the oppreft
the fame law m-jrjlriji'y could not incapaci-
By time between the change and change, Of (laughter'd foes, whom fi.ft to death they fcnt,
tate from marriage, witncfj tiK cafe of hcrm.iphro-
or the time in which the moon comes The trophies of their rtreiigth, a blojdy tr.onum. rt.
dites. A! tilth, jnd Pfc.
to the fame point : the folar month Drydcn.
Mo'N5TB0t;s. ad/7 \_mmjlrettx, Fr. msn- miurn.
is the lime in which the lun p.iflei
With tl.ee on. Raphael's mcnument I
Jlro/us, Lat.] Or wait ini'iiiting dte.ims at Marj's urn. Pope.

through a fign of the zodiack : the ca-
1. Deviating from the dated order of na- Monume'ntal, «d)' [from monument.]
lendar months, by which we reckon
ture. 1. Memorial; preferving memor) .
Kature there perveri'e, time, are unequally of thirty or one- When the fun bjgins to fling
Brought forth muf-rcm, all prodigious thing?,
all and-thiriy days, except February, which His daring beams, me, goddefs, bring
H)Jrjs, and gorgons, and chimeras dire. Mit:on, is of twenty-eight, and in leap year of To" arched walks of twllij,ht groves,
Eve y thing that «i(l« has its particular con- twenty- nine.
'''
A.id jhadows brown that .Sylvan loves.
ftituti"n ; and yet fome mirftr-.us ptoduflions have Of pine or mtniimeninl oak. Milton.
Till tlweipiration of your mcnih,
fcw oi thofe qualities which accompany the cfi'ence S.jjourTi with my futer. Shakrffnar.'s King Lear. The dvftruclion of the esrth was the moft n.orn-
'
of that fpcciea from whence they derive tlitir ori- m.ntal proof that could have been given to all the
From a month old even unto five years old.
ginib. L'/iK. fuccceding ages of mankind. fiô^diiind.
L'V. xxvli. 6.
a. Sirange; wonderful. Generally with Mon.l-s aie not only lunary, and mc'fured by The polifh'd pillar diftcrent fculptures grace,
fome degree of diillke. the mmn, but alfo fola;y, and terminated by the A work outlafting tKOnuK< ntal brafi. Pope,
Is it mt nonJ}i',iii t'lat this player here re itiin of. the fun, ia thirty dcgiees of the eciip- 2, Raifed in honour of the dead ; belong-
Tut in a fiftiun, in a dream of [aflion. tiJc. Brmuni Vulgar Zrnurt. ing to a tomb.
Could f >rcc his fool fo to his conceit, As many mmtbt as I fuftain'd her hate, Perfeverance keeps honour bi ight
.Si) many years is flie conJenii.ed by late
That, from her working, all bis vifage wanM ? To have done, is to hang ijuite out of falhion
St.il..Jl>(.-:te. To daily death. Drydtnt '/iw. and Honnria. Like rufty mail in m.numcntal mockery. ShaieJ^
O mmjiritt! ! but one halfpenny worth ol bteul MonTH'i minJ. It./. Loni-iag dcfire. Ml not fear that whiter flcin of hcr's than fnov^
to this intolerable ileal of facie Shuk.Jfta-t. V'lU have a mmih't mind to t!icm. ULuhrjp ,;re. And fmootii as monumental alabalVcr* Hbahdpcare,
3. irregoliirj enotmouj. For if a trumpet found, or drum beat. Thercf'rc if he needs muft go.
No ff-ii^roiij height, or breadth, or 1« gth ap Who iui n')i a month' i mird to comh.it ' Huditra:. And the fates will have it fo,
p/ar. Mo'nthly. [from month.l

tiJJ Softly may he be polfeft
The whole at once is boid arid regular. Pupe-
1. Continuing a month ; ptiformed in a Of his monumental reft. Crajl^r.tu.
4.. Shocking; hateful. month. MOOD. »./. {mode, Fr. modui, Lat.]
This was an invc;ition given out by the Spa- 1 would allcconcerning the mmihly revolutions of I. The form of an argument.
niards, to fave the m'.njtrmi fcorn their natioT re- the moon about the earth, or the diurnal ones of Mfid is the regular determination of propofi-
JJjC'.P.
ceived. the earth upon its own axis, whether tiiefe have tlons according to their quantity and qualify, i. t.
Mo'mstrous. aJ'v. Exceedingly; very bien finite or infinite. Benihy, their univerfal or pattkular afiirmntion or nega-
month. Log ci.
much. A cane term. 2. Ilappeiiiiig every tion, ff-'atti's
Ariftotls
IT z
! : : ;
MOO MOO MOO

It is ufed in com- Mo'oNlTRUCK. adj. [moon and /rif*.]
AriAotle rrfoced our losfc retfinj'vogs to terUln 3. [In fortification.]
rufcf, and made thtm cooclodc In mtde and figate. pufition to denote a figure refembling a Lunatick; afFedled by the moon.
Bjkir SB Liaini'g- Demoniack phrenfy, moaping melancholy.
crefcent: as, ahalfwoo*.
2. Style of muftck. And mo^Jiruck madnefa. Miliun'i Paradife L'Jl'
Moo.N-BEAM. n. /. [moon and team.']
They move MooN-TREFOiL. »./. [medicaô.Lzna.}
RHys of lunar light.
In prrfcQ philjnr, to iht Dorian rnxd
The divifinn and quavering, which pleafc fo A plant.
Of flutes, and folt recoiden. MJiii*'s Var. Ixf- The mon-trefoil hath a plain orbicuhted fruit,
much in mu(i>:k, have an agreement with the glit-
Tbeir fuund iectns a tune fliaped like an half-m ion. Miller.
tering of hght, as the KscaiMW! playing upon a
Harft, and of dllTonanc «(«.</ from his condt'l'i'"-
Mo'oNWORT. n.f. [moan aad over/.]
Milnn. wave. SMir'x Natural Hiflory.
On the water the meon-biuvu played, anJ made Stationflower ; honeity.
The change the verb undergoes in fome Urjd^n.
3. it appear like floating quickillvcr. Mo'oNY. adj. [from moon,] Lunated
languages, the Greek, Latin, and
as
M00N-CAI.F. n./. [moon and ta//} having a crefcent for the ftandard re-
French, 10 fignify various inceniioos of A mender; a faife conception fup-
:
fembling the moon.
the mind, is called mcoJ. pofed perhaps anciently to be produced Encountering fierce
Clarke' i Latin Grammar.
by the influence of the moon. The Solymean fultan, he o'erthrew
4. [From mod, Gothick ; mob, Saxon ; How cam'ft thou to be the fiege of this moon- His miony troops, ittufhing bravely fmcar'd
iHQtd, Dutch; andgenerally in all Teu- calf f Stak.Jftart. With Paiiipn blood. PHl^ps,
Temper of mind ; A
dolt; a ftuptd fellow. The Sân galls th' Illyrian coaft ;
tonick dialefts.] 2.
But foon the mifcreant w^-n^ hoft
ftate of mind as affefted by any paflion ; The potion works not on the part dcfign'd. Finton,
Before the viSor crofs fliall fly. •
But turns his brain, and Ihipilics his mind ;
difpofition.
The fotted moon-calf gifa. Drydeni Juvenal. MOOR. /. [moer,
«. Dutch j modder,
The trembling ghofts, with fad amaz-^d v.Ki,
Chattering their iron Ucth, and liaring wide Moon-eyed. adj. [moomnd eye.] I'eutonick, clay.]
With ftony eyes, f»i<y Siuttn. 1. Having eyes aif'eiled by the revolutions 1. A marfli ; a fan a bog ; ; a traft of
The kingly beaft upon her gazing ftood. of the moon. low and watry grounds.
With pity calmd, down fell his angry mcoJ. While in her girlifti age (he kept flieep on the
FairJ S(ueeH.
2. Dim eyed ;
purblind. Ainfttjortb.
chanced that a London merchant pafliirg
^ tnoor, it
Moonfe'rn. «. / \hemionitis , Latin.]
Eyes unufed to the melting mtoil. by faw her, a.id liked her, begged her of her poor
Drop Arabian trees
tears as faft as the A plant. Ainpuiorlh. parents, and carried her to his home. C<Jnw.
Their medicinal gum. Sbakrfp. Othello. MOON-FISH. n- f. In the great level near Thorny, fcveral trees of
Clorinda changed to ruth her warlike ir.cod. is fo called, becaufe the tail fin is^ oak aind fir ftand in firm earth below the moor.
Moon-fip)
Few filver dropsher vermil cheeks depaint. Fjirfax. fliaped like a half-moon, by which, and his odd Hall.
Solyman, in a melancholy mood, walked up and ttuffed fliape, he is fufficiently diftinguifhcd. Let the marlh of EUham Brugts tell.
down in his tent a great part of the night. Kmlles. Grrzv'i M-utaum. What colour were their waters that fame day.
She was in fitted moal Mo'oNLESs. adj. [from «u>«B.] Not en And all the moor 'twixt Elvcrlham and Dell.
For cutting corns, or letting blood. hudibras. Speif.r.
lightened by the moon.
Thefe two kids t' appcafe his angry mood Aflifted by a friend, one mooKleji night, z. [Mauruj, Latin.] A negro ; ablatk-
I bear, of which the furies give him good. Dryden. This Palamon from prifon took his flight. Drydcn. a-moor.
He now profufe of tears,
anfwer that better than you can the
In fuppliant m'.od fell proftrateat our feet. Addifoti. Mo'oNLicHT. «. /. \fnoon and light.] I (hall
getting up of the negro's belly the moor is with
5. Anger; rage; heat of mind. Mod, The light afforded by the moon. child by you.
;
Shakcjpetrt.
Their biftiop and his clergy cing departed from
in Gothick, fignifies habitual temper.
them by mocn choofc in his room any
tight, to To Moor. v. a. [morer, Fr.] To iaften
That which we move for our better inftruflion's had been altogether impoflible. by anchors or otherwife.
other bifliop,
(ake, turneth into anger and choler in them yet ;
//ocjtn-.' Three more fierce Euras in his angry mood
in their mood they caft forth fomewhat wherewith, Thou haft by moonlight at her window fung Da(h'd on the (hallows of the moving land.
under pain of greater difple^fure, wemuft reft con- And in mid ocean left them moor'd at hand.
Hooker.
With feigning voice, verfes of feigning love.
tented. Shak/jpearc. Dryden.
Mo'ODY. adj. [from mood.'\ Mo'oNLiGHT. adj. Illuminated by the To Moor. v. n. To be fixed by anchors;
1. Angry; out of humour. moon. to be Rationed.
How now, moody? If you will patiently dance in our round. /Eneas gain'd CajeU's bay
"What ist thou can'ft demand ? Shakiff. temfijt. And fee our mootiUght revels, go with us. Sbakiff. At length on oozy ground his gallies moor.
Chide him rcv"iently. W hat beck'ning ghoft along the moonlight ihade Their heads aic turn'd to fea, their ftemj to
When vou pei'Ceivc his blood incline to mirth ; Invite; my fteps, and points to yonder glade ? P-^pc. (hore. _
Dryde»,
But be'.rg m-jody, give him line and fcope. Moon-seed. ». /. [meitijpermum, Latin ] My veflTel, driv'n by a (Irong guft of wind,
Till that his paflions, like a whale on ground. Mo:r'd Chian creek. j4ddifcn'i Ovid.
The mcon-feed hath a rolaceous flower : the in a
Confound themfelves with working. Shaktjfcare, He the top of Taurus and the famous
pointal is divided into three parts at the top, and vi/itcd
Every peeviOi, moidy malecontent Ararat, where Noah's ark moor'd.
afterwards becomes the fruit or berry, in which is firll
Shall fet the fenfclefs rabble in an uproar. Ho^ve. Arbuiin^t and Pofe'i Marl. Scrih.
included one flat feed, which is, when ripe, hol-
Mental; incelleflual mob, ia Saxon, bloiu a Moor, [at the fall of the deer,
2. lowed like the appearance of the moon. Miller. To
:
fignifies the mind. Mo'oNSHiNE. »./. [mooit and Jhine.] corrupted from a mart, French.] To
Give me fome mufick: mufick, woody hoi The lullre of the moon. found the horn in triumph, and call in
1.
Of us that tra^ in love. Shekiff. jint. amlClnp.
Pinch him, and burn him, «nd turn him about. the whole company of hunters.
MOON. n. /. [mi; '"""'. Gothick; Till candles, and ftarlight, and mxnjhlnc be out. Ainfvjorlb.
flandick tnaane, Sbakifpeare.
mena, Saxon ; »««««, I ;
Mo'oRcocK. n.J. [moor zx^d cock.] The
Danifh; mane, German; maen, Dutch.] by the moonjhme, to the windows went
I,
And, ere 1 was aware, figh'd to myfeif. Drydcn. male of the moorhen.
I, The changing luminary of the
night,
2. [In burlefquc] A month. Mo'oRHEN. n.J'. [moor iXid hen.] A fowl
called by poets Cynthia or Phcebe. 1 am fome twelve or fourteen mocnjhinei that feeds in tne fens, without web feet.
The man (hints bright 'iwas fueh a niglK as
:
Lag of a brother. iStak^J'p.-art's King Lear. Water fowls, as fea-gulls and moorbcni, when
this.
Mo'oNsHiKE. [moon and jAine.] II-
1 fl^'. thcv flock and fly together from the fca towards
When the fweet wind did gently kifs the trees,
luminated by the moon the Ihores, fore(hew rain and wind. Bacon.
And they did made no n)ife. Stakrjfcare. Mo'oNSHiN Y. J
:
Mo'oRisH. adj. [from moor.] Fenny;

Diana hath her name from moiften, which is the both feem a popular corruption of moon-
marfliy watry.
property of the »i53», being by nature coW and moiit,
;
Jhiniug.
In the great level near Thorny, feTeral oaks and
and it feigned to be a go-IJeis hontrefs. Ptacham. Fairies, black, grey, green, and white.
firs have lain there till covered by the inundation
Beneath the mighty ocean's wealthy caves, You mionlbine revellers, and ftades of night.
of the fre(h and (alt waters, and moerijh eaith ex-
Pencath th' eternal fountain of all waves. Hbaktjpeare.
aggerated upon them. tlnle.
Where their vaft court the mother waters keep, Although it was a fair m'êtijh'mi night, the
Along tile moortjh fens
Aad undifturb'if by motm, in filence Beep. Coivlcy. enemy thought not lit to afl'ault them. Clarendon.
Sighs the fad geniu« of the coming ftorm. Thomjon.
Ve mein and ftaii bear witoeft to the ttutl> 1 went to fee them \n ttntionjkiny night. Mdifin.
Dryden.
Mo'ONSTOWE. n /, kind of Itone. A Moorland, n. /. [moor and land.]
Marfli fen watry gro»nd.
a. A month. Jin/wert/>. AixJiMorth. ; ;
la
8
; ; ;
MOP M OH M O R
Id th« fouth part of SufFordlhire they go to the and ulcer, choUclc pangs,
Intciline ftone, Benedi(!his ? why bencdiûs you have foOie
.'
north for feed corn, and they of the north to the Demoniack phrenfy, mofing melancholy. moral in this benediftus.
foiith, eiccpt in the moorlardi. M^rtimerî Hufo* And moon-ftruck madnefs. Miltcn's Paradife Lo/l. — Moral ! No, by my troth, I have no moral
Or fikc a bridge tiiat joins a mariih The bufy craftfraan and o'erlabour'd hind, meaning ; I meant plain holy thiftle. Shakefpeari.
To moorUril! of a different parifli. S'wif:. Forget the travel of the day in flcep ; Expound the meaning or moral of his figns and
Mo ORSTONE. n. /. A fpecies of granite. Care only wakes, and mofing penfivcncfs tokens. Shakefpeare'i Taming of the Shretu,
The third ftratum is of great rocks of mxrjiim With me-igre difcontented looks they fir. The moral is the firft bufinefs of the poet, as
pf^Kiiivard on Fojjiii. And watch the waiting of tlie midnight taper. being the groundwork of his inftrudtion ; this be-
and fandy earth.
Rowe, ing formed, he contrives fuch a defign or fable as
Mo'oRY. adj. [from imir.] Marlhy ;
ferny ; watry.
To Mope. 'v. a. To make fpiritlefs ; to jjjay be moft fuitable to the moral. Dryden's D-jfref.
1 found a moral iirft, and then ftudicd for'a
The duft the fields and pafturej covers, deprive of natural powers.
fable, but could do nothing tliat plcafed mc. Siuift,
As when thick mills atife from rr.Kry vales. They fay there arc ciiarms in herbs, faid he,
and fo handful of grafs; which was fo
threw a
To Mo'ral. 1/. n. [from the adjedive.]
Fairfax,
In Eflex, moirj land is thought the moft proper. ridiculous, that the )ciing thief took the oid man To moralize ; to make moral refledions.
M:r:irrer. to be moped, L'EJiiang.; Not in ufe.
Severity breaks the mind; and then in the place When I did hear
Moose, n. /. The large American deer
of a diforderly yoving fellow, you have a low. The motley fool thus moral on the time.
the biggeft of the fpecies of deer. fpmted nicped creature. Lcckc. My lungs began to crow like chanticleer.
To Moot. a/, a. [from moTian, mor, Mope-eyed, flrtjr. Blind of one eye. That fooli fliould be fo deep contemplative, Sbai.
jêmor, meeting together, Saxon j or per- Mo'ralist. »./.
Ainjiuortb. \_moralifte, Fr.] One
haps, as it is a law term, from mot, Mo'pi'ET. \n./. [perhaps from tnop.'\ A who teaches the duties of life.
French.] To plead a mock caufe ; to Mo'psEY. V puppet made of rags, as a The advice given by a great moralifi to his friend
Hate a point of law by way of exercirc, mop is made ; a fondling name for a>
was, thit he fliould compofe his paifions ; and let
as was commonly done in the inns of that be the work of reafon, which would certainly
girl- be the work of time.
court ac appointed times. Addifin.
Our fovereign lady made for a queen ? :
Mora'lity. n.f. [moralite, Frsnch; froia
Moot cafe or point. point or cafe un- A With a globe in one hand, and a fcepcre in t'other ?
morai.^
fettled and difpucable, (uch as may pro- A very pretty moppet ,' Oryilens Spar.ifh Ftyar,
perly afford a topick of difputaiion. Mo'pus. It./. [A cant word from mofe.] 1. The doftrine of the duties of life;
In this moct cafe your judgment to refufe. A drone; a dreamer. ethicks.
Is prefcnt death. DryJn't "JuvtraU I'm grown a mere mopui ; no company comes The fyftcm of morality, to be gathered out of
the writings of ancient fages, falls very Ihort of that
Would ymi not think him cracK'd, who would But a rabble of tenants. Stvift^s Afifcel.
delivered in the gofpel. - Swift's Mifellaiy,
reqnire another to make an argument on a m-M MO'RAL. at/;, \iiioral, French ; moralis,
A neceflity of finning is as impoflible in mo.
^'*iitt, who underllands nothing of our laws ^
Latin.] raliiy, as any the gteateft difficulty can be in na.
Lscke on EJucation,
1. Relating to the praftice of men towards ture. Baker en Learning.
Let us drop both our pretences ; for 1 believe
It ii a mM
foir-t, whether 1 am more likely to
each other, as it may be virtuous or 2. The form of an a£lion which makes it
make a maftcr Bull, or you a mailer Strutt. criminal, good or bnd. the fubjeft of reward, or punifliment.
Arl>u:hr.o:'i Hifl-.ry of Joka Rut!. Keep at the tcaft within the compafs of mcral The vioraltty of an aftion is founded in the free-
Mo'oTED. eiij. Plucked up by ihe root. adions, which have in them vice or virtue. Hosier. dom of that principle, by virtue of which it is ia
Ain/nuorlh. Laws and ordinances politive he dtftinguiihcth tl>eagent's power, having all things ready and re-
from the laws of the two tables, which were mom/. quiCte to the performance of an aftion, either to
Mo'oTER. n. /. [from moot ] A dif-
fliOker. perform or not perform it. Sotith's Sermons.
puter of moot points. In mifal a£liona divine law helpeth exceedingly To Mo'ralize. f. a. [morali/er, Fr.]
Mop. »./. [mofpa, Wellh; mafpa, L^t] the law of reafon to guide life, but fupcrnatural m 1. To apply to moral purpofcs ; to ex-
1. Pieces of cloth, or locks of wool, fix- it alone guidcth. Hooker.
Vow, braodifh'd weapons glitt'ring in their hands. plain in a moral fenfe.
ed to a long handle, with which maids He has left me lieie behind to expound the
Mankind is broken loofc from mora/ bands
clean the floors. meaning or moral of his figns and tokens,
No rights of hofpitality remain.
Such is that fprinkling which fome carclefs quean .—1 pray thee moralize them.
The guell, by him who harbour'd him, !s flain. Shtkcjpeare,
Flirts on you from her mop, but not fo clean. Did he not moralize this fpcâcic }
Dryder.
You fly, invoke the gods then turning, Hop ;
2. Reafoning or inftrufling with regard — O yes, into a thoufand fimilies. Shakefpearcr
To rail ; flie tinging ftill whirls on hertno^. Hvnft. This fable is moralized in a common proverb.
to vice and virtue.
2. [Perhaps corrupted from OTOf/f.] Awry France fpreads his banners in our noifelefs land,
L'Eflrange.
mouth made in contempt. With plumed helm thy flay'r begins his threats,
2. In Sfen/cr feems to mean, to
it turnifli
Each o"ne tripping on his toe with manners or examples.
Whilft thou, a moral fool, fit'ft ftill and cricft.
Will-be here with mbp and mow. Shakrfpeare, Fierce waires and faithful iovesHiall moralize my
Sbakefp£jre.
7'e Mop. -v. a. [from the noun.] To rub
3. Popular; cuftomary ; fuch as is known, fong. Fairy Sûeen,
with a mop. or admitted in the general buiinefs of 3. In Prior, who imitates the foregoing
To Mop. -v. n. [from mock.^ To make life.
line, has a fenfe not eafilydifcovered,
it
wry mouthi in contempt. Phyfical and mathematical certainty may be if indeed it has any fenfe.
Fi»e fiends have been in poor Tom at once ; of filled infallible ; and moral certainty may pro|)eT]y High as rheir trumpets tune his lyre he ftrung.
luft, as Obdicut ; Hcbbididcn, prince of dumb- be ililcd indubitable. fytlklrs. And with bis prince's arms he moraliiatd bis fong.
net's; Mahu, of ftcjling ; Mohu, of murder; and We have found, with a moral certainty, the \'ci\ Pnur.
Flibbertigibbet, of rr.pjt'ing and mowing, who fince of the Mofaical abyfs. Burnit': Theory of ike Earth. 7« Mo'ralize. v. », To fpeak or write
poircdcs chamber. maidt< Mathematical things arc capable of the ftriftcft
i>htikt(frarc. on moral fubjeds.
An al's fell a i/npfirt^ and braying at a lion. demonftration ; conclufiuns in natural philofophy
L'E/rangf. are capable of proof by an induction of cxpeii-
Mo'rahzer. » /. [from mdralize.] He
To MOPE. 'u. n. [Of this word J can- ments ; things of a m.ral nature by m^rat argu- who moralizes.
not find a probable etymology.] To be ments, and matters of (i£t by credible teftimony. Mo'RAr.LY. Wi/. [from morai.}
Tillitfon. 1. In the ethical fenfe.
ftopid droafe ;
; to to be in a conllant
Amoral univcrfality, is when the predicate aijrees By good, good morally fo called, bonum honef-
day-dream ; to be fpiritlefs, unaftivc to the grcatcft part of the particulars which are turn, ought chiefly to be ;
underload
.ind that the
and inattentive ; to be flopid and de- contained under the univcrfal fubjc£l. IVutis. good of profit or plealure, the bonum utile or ju-
lirious. I
Mo'ral. ft./. cunduin, hardly'come into any account Iv.re. South.

What a wretched and peevilh fellow is this king 1. Morality; praftice or doflrine of the Bccaufe this, of the two brothers killing each
sf England, to mojn with bis fat-brain'd followcri. other, is an ailjnn morally unnatural ; therefore,
duties of life this is rather a French
:
atuk^jpearc, by way of preparation, the tragedy would have
'Eyes without feeling, feeling without light.
than Englilh fenfe. begun with heaven and earth in difordcr, fomething,
Ears without hands or eyes, (melling fans all,
Thcii moral and economy, phyfically unnatural. JRjmer.
(>r but i fickly part of
one true fer-lie Molt pcifcdtly they made agree. Prior.
2. According to the rules of virtue.
Oiuli n:it fo maffc, Stitkiffearc' t Hamht. 2. The doftrine incuUated by a fiftion j To take away rewards and punlflimentf, is only
hv n in a dream were we dividci iiom them, the accommodatioti of a fable to form pleaiinj to a man who refolvcs not to live morally.
Atid werl btought iccî'i^ hither. itaiefj^farc. the morals. . Dryden.
3. Popularly! -f
;
M O R M OR M O R
Popularly; according to the common and biting doth provoke the part to expel,
is flitrp .From hence the greated part of ills defcend, ''
J.
• occurrence? of life; according to the and mudard provoketh fneezing. Sfccn. Wlieii lud of getting nnire will have no end. Dtji.
common jucigment made of things. MORE. adj. [majie, Saxon ; the compa- ' They that would have more and more can never
have enough no, not if a raitacle fliould interpole
It is mcrally imf'^liible for an bypgtrite to keep, rative oi fame ox great ;
] to gratify tlicir avarice. VEJIrd»ge.
himfdf long upon hU guar-i. l,'£Jlrar^f', 1. In greater quantity ; in greater degree. A
mariner having let iown a large portion 6f
I am from ihc nivjie of the ;thing$ thnnfclvcs Wrong not that wrong withir;;'; Crjutempt. his founding line, he reaches no bottom, whereby
mtral'y i^ruin, and cannot inakc any doubt of it, .,.-
, ,
Shiiktjêre* he knows tlic depth to be fo many fathoms and
kut that a mind (etc frun pa:1i>n and prejudice is Thefe kind of knaves in this pl.>inn.-fs mure but bow much Uiat imre is, he hath no dj -
-,
more iit to pafs a true judgment than fudi aônc Harbour-iwrr craft, aud mrt corruj>UT ends dindl notion. Ltcitm
Ks is byajled by aê^tions and intercfls. JVilhivu^ Than twenty (ilky ducking obfcrva.its. Shtlefp.
z. Greater thing; other thing.
The concurring accjunt> of many fu^h wi?ncfli:s Tlicir riches were mre than thiit they might
They, who fo date a qucftion, do no more but
Knder it m-rally, or, as we mijilit fpcak, abfolutely 'dw*!l together. Gen. xxxvi. 7.
fepirate the parts of it one fiom another, and lay
inijwGiblc tliat thcfe tliinjjs fliuul^ be fah'e. . Let mre work be laid upon the men, that they
them fo in their due ocdcr. ialr.
jlrttrhuiy^s Strmofji, may labour. - . Exoflut, v. u.
Then crown my joys, or cure my pain J. Second time ; longer time.
Mo'rai.s. ft.a fiiigular.]
/. [without ;
Give me imrr love, or m^rt difdain. Curitv. They, ttcei'd their courfe to the fame quiet iboic.
The praflice of the duties of life;, be- Not parted long, and now to part no more. Pope.
haviour with refpcil to others.
2. In greater number. [The compara-
4. doubtful whether the word, in ibis
It is
Sonie, as corrupt in their rmrtih as vice could
tive of /ciê or Wfiny.]
He had fo many lai^guafes in dorc. ufe, be a noun or adverb.
make them, have yrt been felicitous to have their
That only fame Ihall fpeak of him in more. Ccivley. The dove returned not again unto him any mire.
children fobcrly, virtuoofly, and pioudy brought
lip* Scufh^s SttmoHi, 3. Greater. Now out of ufe. Pr'ythee be fatisfy'd ; he ihall be aided,
Gcit. viii.
Learn then what niora/t criticks ought to Ihcw : Of India the more and the /</>. i ManJi-vilU.
Qr I"ll no mjie be king. Orydeni Cletmen.-),
*Tis not enough wit, art, and'learning join ^ Both m^rc and iji b^ve given him tlic revolt.
Delia, the queen of love, lit all deplore!
In all you fpeak, let truth and candour iliinc. Pcji:.
is now no more. HâUb.
Delia, the que-'n of beauty,
Mora'ss. a./, [wora//, French.] Fen; The more part advifcd to depart. Aiii,xxî: ii.
4- Added to foine former number.
More'l. n.f. [foianum, Latin.]
bog moor. ;
I.' The morel, is a plant, of which there
Landfcapes point out the faircft and moft fruit- One more citizen to S)'l>ii give- Diyden.,
ful fpots, as well as the rocks, and wildemefliss, and
I'm tir'd of rhiming, and would fain give o'er, ,
are iftveral fpecies : when the flower
mirajfti of the country. Wain shcMiiii. m But Montague demands one labour more. AdiViJon. ftieds there fucceedj a fpherical fruit,
Nor the deep morafx Great Dryden's friends before, pretty hard, at firft green like an olive,
Refufc, but through the Aiaking wildernefs With open arms recciv'd one poet more. Pope.
then black, full cf a limpid juice and
Pick your nice way. Thtmpti's AutuniK. More. adv.
a great number of feeds. Trevoux,
Mo'rbid. adj. \morbtduT, Latin.] Dif- t. To a grer.ter degree.
Spungy morelt in drong ragouds are found.
cafed in a Date contrary to health. He loved Rachel norc thnq I.eah. Gerti xt\x'. 30. And in the foup the flimy fnail is
; '
drown'd. Gajt
1'he fpirits of animate bodies are all. in fume
'Though every human conibtution is murh'jd; yef
degr^, itierf or lefs kindled. fiacsn'i Nat. HijI.
2, A kind of cherry.
are there difeafes confident with the common func- More/ is a black cherry, fit for the confcrvatory
tions of lite. Arhutbmt .\ Some were of ojiinion, ,tiiat feeling move and,Kcr^
^ before it be thorough ripe, but it is bitter eaten
in himfelf the weight of time, be, yva^ not unwilling
Mo'rbidness. n.f. \i\oia Huirbid.'\ State
to bedow upon anotlrer fame part of the pains.
raw. Mcriimcr.
of being difeafed. '
_
. mtton. MoRELAND. [moplanfe, Saxon;
«. /
Morbi'fical. 7 /7<^'. \morbus and facia, The wDcf the kindled combat rifes higher, mop, a mountain, and lanb.] A moun-
Morbi'fick. J i,at« marhijique, Fr.] Tlie mcrt'with fury burns thelilazlng fire. Dryaen. tainous Or hilly country : a traft of
Caufing difeafes. ,.
As thîj>jiiod palTethjhiougli narrower channels,! StafFordlhire is called the Morlanis,
„ i
the rcdne(^ difappears VKre and m'.re. ^rhuibiroi.

The air appealing fo malicious in this iturhifici .
'from being hilly.

'
eonf|i> acy, exaftS a m>ri!'pjrt!cular regard where-
Themore Cod has bicflird any, man witli e'dard
;
or.quality, juftfo much lefs in p^roportion is the MoREo'vER. adij. [/wer* and evrr.] Be-
fore initiate confumptives miift cliange their air. ,
J '' '. " Harvey or Caftjumf'liom.

care he takes in il^c educatî^n of his. children. ; yond what has been mentioned ; be-
'
Thii diAafe' 'it "cored by the critical rcfolu¥ion,| , '

Sw]ft'sM:f:rnanks.i fider- ; likewife ; alfo ; Over and above.
COACOîon, and evacuation of the m'yrhijick matter.! 2., Theparjicle.that forms t|ie,c.c>mpara-j . Moreover, he hath you
left all his walks. Sbei,
Arh-thmt. live degree. He did hold me dear
MoRBo'sE. adj. [morbo/ttt, Latin.] Pro- I ;am fall'n out with my »r»r» headier "WiH, Above this world adding tliereto, moreover.
;
To t.ike theindifp,is"d .ind licklyfit That he wouW wed me, or elfe die my lover.
ceedin^ from difeafe ; not health;^. .
,,,
Malphighi, under galls, comprehends For the found man. Hkekifptare'i King Le.ir. '
Shnheffeart,
all preter- ^
natural and morbvp tumours 1»nd excrefcciccs "tf

May you long live a happy inilrumcnt for jour MorevBcr byithem it thy fertant warned.
king and country! happy here, and more happy Pja!m,j\x. Ii«
plants. Rcty in Crciri^n.^.
MoRco'JiTY. n./. [from morbofns, Lat.],
hereafter. "
T he advantages of learning ^re mre lading than

Buc^-n* Morcla'y. «. / A deadly weapon.
Difeafed ftate.^ A word not in ufe. thofe of arms. CoJ/ier en VriJe.
Ainfworth. Clai'ire and morle, French ;
The inference is fair, from the drgin fo thet Again ' and glay mobr, Erfe a two-handed ;
3. fccond time'.
; a
aflion, that they have eyes, therefore lome fight
think I drould ever have bufinefs of
Little did 1
broad-fword, which fome centuries ago
was dcligned, if vvc except the' cafual imperii mcnts was the highlander's weapon.
this kind on my hands ma/e. *l\itUy.
or *orô^r/« in individuals. Btc.vn.
.
4. Longer; yet continuing: with the ne- MORi'cEROus. adj. [moriger, Laiip.]
Morda'cious. adj. [mordax, Latin.] gative particle. Obedient; obfequious.
Biting apt to bite.
; Caflius is no more! Oh, fetting fun ! Mo'rion. h. /. [Ficnch.] A helmet;
Morda'city. n.f. \mordacite, Fr. mor- As in thy red rays thini dod fink tp nightf. armour for the head ; a cafque.
dacitas, from mcrdax, Latin.] Biting So in his red blood Crrdiiis' dav is fet. Sbairfp. For all his majedy's fliips a proportion of fwords,
qoafity.' More. n.J'. [A kind of comparative from targets, mo i lis, and cuiras of proof Ihould be al-
It it to be inquired,whether there be any men- feme or inuch.^ lowed. Rc/eigb.
ilruum any metal 'that is not ft^ting or
to diffolve I. A greater quantity ; a great:'r degree. I'olidi'd ftecl that cad the view afide.
corroding, and opeoeth the body by fympathy, and And crcfled «:orkr.s with their plumy pride. Drydtn,
Perhaps fome of thefe examples which
not by mordacity y or violent penetration. Ba^cn,
are adduced under the adverb, with ike
MoRi'tco. n.f. \morijco, fa'panifh.] A
Mo'rdicant. adj. [mordeo, Lat. mordi-
before more, fliould be placed here ; but
dancer of the morris or moorifh dance.
cant, French.] Biting; acrid. I have fcen
I rather think the more to be adverbial. Him caper upright like a wl,l ir.or'po,
He prcfurtics, t'lat the mtrdiccnt quality of bodies
Were 1 king,
mud proceed from a fiery ingredient whereas the Sh.rking the bloody darts, as he his bells. Siaie^f.
;
Oiould cut ofT the nobles fur their lands
and Inflamm.rble parts mud be driven away
liglit
I
And"my n:ore hating wauld bk as a fauce
Mo'rkin. n. f [Among hunters.] "
A
by that time the fire has reduced the body tu aHie^. wild beall, dead through licknefs or
To make me hunger more. Stak-fpeare's M.Jelch.
B.ylt.
An heroick poem requires fome grc^t aiflion of mifchance. Bailtj.
MoRDic a'tion'. h. / [from mordicani.] war; and as much or imre of the aAive virtue than Mo'riing. 7 n.f. [mirt, Fr.] Wool
The aft of corroding or biting. tlie fuffering. Dry<Un. Mo'rtmko.) plucked from a dead
Another caufe is martll: atkn of tlie orifices, efpe- The Lord do fo, and mtiffc mtrt, to Jonathan.
any thing Uiat
Iheep. yiinfivirlh,
cUUy of the melcatcry veins j as I SoKucl.
M&RMO.
; ; ; ; : ;
M O R M O R MOR
Bugbear Why then be fed. mean originally morning : as, to night ;
MO'RMO. «. /. [>)' fMfftw.] J
Butentertain no mtrofity, brothers, other 10 day.] On the day after this current
falfe terrour. Than a joint burthen laid upon us. Shahcfptart.
dav.
MORN. /.[mapne, Saxon.] The
ft. Some m'jr:Jinei
to morrow comes ; 'tis noon ; 'tis night
firft day ; the morning. Mern
part of the We mud cxpeift, fince jealoufy belongs
This day like 41 the former flics
is net ufed but by the poets.
To age, of fcorn, and tender ienfe of wrongs. Yet on he nms to feck delight
Di:nham.
The cock, th^t is the trumpet to the morK, to morrow, till to night he dies. "
Prior,
and flirill-fnunding throat The pride of this man, and the popularity of
Doth with his lijfty
3. To morroiu fometimcs, I think im-
is
Shairffcarei Hamlet, that; the levity of one, and the morofity of another.
Awalte the goil of day. properly, ufed 3s a noun.
Clarendon.
Can you forget your golderfWds,-.
Mo'rris. [that is, mocrijh Our yefterday's to morroio now is gone.
Where you might fieep beyond the KorB ? iff. 7 »•/•
And ftill a new to morroiu d(3cs come on.
FriendAip fliail ftiU thy evening feafts adorn, Mo'rris-dance. or morifco-dance.]
\
We by to morroivs draw out all our ftorc.
And blooming peace ftiall ever biefs thy morn. Prior.
1. A dance in which bells are gingled, Till the exhaiAd
auA( well can yield no more. Cowley,
Mo'rning. [morgen, Teutonick
n. /.
or ftaves or fnords clafhed, which was
but our morning feems rather to come learned by the Moors, and was pro- SpeSlator*
from morn.] 1 he firft part of the day,
bably a kind of Pyrrhick or militar> Morse. [phoca.]
». /. A fea-horfe.
from the firft appearance of light to the That which is commonly called a fca horfe is
dance.
fourth part of the fun's properly called a morp^ and makes not out thai:
end of the firft Tlie queen flood in fome doubt of -a Spani/h
fhape. Brown*
daily courfe. invafion, though it proved but a morris-dance upon
It fcems to have been a tuflc of the morfe or
One mafter Brotjk hath fent your worfhip a mrn- our waves. IVoiton.
waltron, called by fome the fea-ho;fe. IVoodwarJ,
jrg'i draugiit of lack. Shai,jj^caic\' M,ny Wiva. One in his catalogueof a feigned library fets
By the fecond hour in the unrv'aig down tliis title of a book, 1 he rr.orris-dance of
Mo'rsel. n. /. [mor/elius, low Latin ;
Dcfire the eatl to fee nie. SbakeJ'p. Rkfard III. hercticks. Bacon. from morjus.]
M-rrirg by morning fliall it pafs over, The founds and feas, W'th all their finny drove, 1. A piece fit for the moutji ; a m-uthful.
Ifaiah, Txviii. 19. Now t:> the mcon in wavering morris move. Milton. Yet cam'ft thou to a morjd of this feaft,
What Ihall become of us before night, who are I took delight in pieces that (hewed a country Having folly din'd before. Shihtfp. Coriolamis,
weary fo errly in the mcrnitig ? village, morris-dancing, and peafants together by And me his parent would full foon devour
Taykr's Guide ta Dmction. the ears. Pcacbam. For want of other prey, but knows that I
The marn'.ng is the proper part of the day for Four reapers danced a morris to oaten pipes. Should prove a bitter mcifcJ, and his banc. Milton,
ftudy. Drydcn. apfâtor. Every m:irf<l to a fatisJied hunger, is niiJy a new
Every mirring fees her catly at her prayers, /he 2. AVt? wfn'r Mo'rris. A
kind of play labjur to a tired digeftion. S:utb's Sermons,
rejoices in the beginning of every day, becaufc it with nine holes in the ground. He b.'ils the fle(h.
begins all iier pious rules of holy living, and brings The folds ftand empty in the drowned field, And lays the mangled k rfels in a diHi. Dryden,
the frefh pleafures of repeating them. Laiv.
And crows arc fatted with the murrain flock A wretch is prisoner made,
Mo'viKinG. adj. Being in the early part The nine nuns mtrris is filled up with mud. Whofe flefli, torn oft" by lumps, the rav'nous foe
of the day. Siakeffeere. In morfeti cut to make it farther go. Ta::'s Juv.
She looks as clear Mo'rris-dancer. ». / [mcrrit and Aletter to the keeper of the lion rccûeftcd that
it may be the firft moi/J put into bis mouth.
As »i3r»i«f rofes newly wafli'd with dew. Shciktfi>.
Jance.] One who dinca a la\more/ca,
Your goodnefs is as a rrorring cloud, and as Addifon.
the moorifh dance. r
A piecea meal.
the early dew it goeth away. Hofea, vi. 5. 2. ;
There went about tlie country a fetof m'.rris-
Let us go down after the Philiftincs by night, and On thefe herbs, and fruits and flowers.
danccrs, ccnipofed of ten men, who danced a maid
fpoil them until the morning light, i Ham. xiv. 36. Feed firft ; on each beaft neitt, and fifh and fowl.
marian, and a ubor and pipe. Temple.
The twining jclt'amine and blulhlng rofc, No homely mo'f,h ! Mi/ton's Paradijc L-Jl,
With laviih grace their morning fcents difclofc. Prior. Mo'rphew. n. /. [morpbee, -French; A dog crorting a river with a m:rfcl of flcfli ii>
AU the n ght they (icm the liquid way. morphcva, low Latin ; mcrfia, Italian.] his mouth, faw, as he thought, another dog un-
And end their voyaîc with the morning ray. Pope. A fcurf on the face. der the water, upon the very fame adventuie.
Mo'rnikcgown. «. /. A loofe gown Mo'rrow. n f. [mopjcio, Saxon; mor- L'EJirange.
worn before one is formally drefled. ghen, Dutch. The original meaning 3. A fmall quantity. Not proper.
Seeing a great many in rich morning gcvfrts, he Of the mcrfrls of native and pure gold, he had
oi morroiu feems to have been morning, fecn fome weighed many pounds. B^yle,
was am.ized to find that perfons of quality were up
which being often referred to on the
fo early. MiliJ.n. Mc/rsure. n.f. [morj'ure, French; mor-
Mo'rninc-star. »./. The planet Venus preceding day, was undcrftood in time
fura, Latin.] The aft of biting.
when (he fhinrs in the morning. to lignify the whole day next follow-
Bright as doth the mornirg-Jtar appear. ing.]
MORT. n.f. [morle, French.] .
1. A tune founded at the death of the

Out of the Eall, with flaming locks b-disht, 1. The day after the prefent day.
To teil the dawning day is drawing near. I would not buy
game.
fairy Sineen. Their mercy at the price of one fair word ; ,
To be making praflis'd fniiles.
MORO'SE. adj. ^morofus, Latin.] Sour To have "t with faying, good morrow. ShakefpOfre. As in a looking-glaO, and to figh as 'twere
'1 hou
j
The mori 0' th' deer ; oh tlwt is entertainment

of temper; peevifh ; fullen.
My bofom r.kcs not. ShaUcJf. Winter's Tale.
Without ihcfe precautions, degene- the man Canrt pluck nijht from me, bat not lend a m.rroio.
rates into a cynick, the woman into a coquette ;

Shakffpear'e. 2. {Morgt, Jdaridick.] A great quan-
the man growt fullen and monjcy the woman im- The Lord did that thing on thB-morrow. tity. Not in elegant ufe, butprelerved
£jcod. ix. 6.
pertinent. Addison t iipcH«tir. colloquially in many parts.
Some have defcrved ccnfure for a m'.rojf and af- Peace, good reader, do, not weep,
Mo'rtai,. adj. [merlalis, Latin; mortel,
h(\ii taciturnity, and others have made fpeechcs, Peace, tlic >VL'rs are aflcep ;
1 ^
Let them flc-p, let them lleep on, French.]
thcugi. thiy had nothing to fay. Ifj//i on tbeMirJ.
Ti.l this Hormy night be gone. I. Subjeft to death; doomed fome time
MoRo'sELV. etd-u. [iiOiamort/i.] Sourly ;
And the eternal morroiv dawn. to die.
peevilhly. Then the curtains will be drawn, Nature docs require
Too many are as mrrfily pofitive in their age, And they waken with the light, Her times of prefervation, which, perforce,
ai tliey were chjldilhly fo in their youth. Whofe Jay fhUl never fleep in night. Cr.ipav/.
1 her frail f^n amongft my brethren m'^rtal
Co^'crryr.ent of the T'onûc.
'
To morrow you will live, you always cry, Mud give my attendance to. Sbakefp. Henry VWX,
.'oRo'sENEss. n./. [from morofe.] iiour- In w hat far country doth this morroiu lie ? This coriuptible muft put on intorruptlon, andl
nefs ; peevifhncfs. That 'tis fo mighty long (;"« it arrive ; tliis jnortat muft put on immortality, Cor, xv. 5 3. i
Take care that no foumefj and mnfeacfi m'mgle Beyond tlic Indies does this morruiv live ? Hcav'nly powers, where ihall we find fuch love 1
with our fcrious frame of mind. Nc/fin. 'Tis fo far-fcich'd this morrow, that I fear Which of ye will be mortal to redeem
Learn good humour, never to oppofc without 'Twill be both very old, and very dear. Man's mortal crime ; and juft, th' unjuft to fave.
juft reafon j abate fome degree of pride and mo- To morrow will I live, the fonl docs fay, Milton,
rijcn-fi. Hâtis. To day itfelf's too lite, the wife liv d ycftcrday. The day thou eat'ft thereof, my folc command
MoRo'siTY. ft./, [merc^'aj, Lat. from Coiv'.ey. Tranfgreft, inevitably thouAalt die
morc/i.] Morofenefs ; fournefs; peevith- 2. To Mo'rrow. [This is an idiom o( From that day nartai ; and this happy flats
Shalt lof«. Milton's Paradife Loft.
nelt. the fame kind, Joppofing mirroiu to
2. Deadly
; ,
M O R MOR M O R
Take têfe tears, mirlalitj'i relief, Their not abating of their exrenTirt way of
1, Ceadly; deftruftive ;
procuring death. I
living, has forced them to mortgage their beft
Com* «11 yi>u fpiritj
And till' we (hare your joyi, forgive out grief. Poft,
manors. Artmbmutt
That tend on morinl thoughts, unfcx im; h«re,
Mo'rtally. flrfV. [from mortal.] Some hav his lands, but none his tteafur'd ftorc.
And fill m« from the crown to th' toe, top full I. Irrecoverably ; to death.
Lands unmaudr'd by us, and mortgag'd o'er and
Of cruelty. Stak^'f.arr'i MaiUth. In the battle of I.anden you were not only dan- o'er. L'arie.
The tmrtaltji (loifens praaifed by tlie Weft In- geroufly, but, in all appeaiance, mortally wounded.
dians, have tome ro'uture of thf blood, fjt, or ^_ Drydcn.
MoKT a A oe' t. n./, [from mortgage.] He
that takes or receives a mortgage.
flelh of mtn, Bacen.
z. Extremely; to extremity. A low lu-
An att may pafs for publick regiftries of land,
The fruit
dicrous word.
Of thatforbidden trej, whofe Kortal tafte by which all purchafcrs or mortgagcts may be fecured
Adrian mortally envied poets, painters, and arti-
Brought death into the world, and all our woe. of all monies they lay out. 'Temple's Mifeell,
ficers, in works wherein he had a vein to excel.
Milltn. Mo'rtg ACER. ». y. [from mortgage.] He
Bacon's EJfjys.
Some circumftances have bwi great difcou- Know all, who wou'd pretend to my good grace that gives a mortgage.
raeen of and others are abMltcly mtrtnl to it.
trade, mortally diHike a damning face. Gram'ille, MoRTiFEROus. aJj [morti/er, Latin.]
I .
Temple.
Hope not, bafc man ! unqueftion'd hence to go.
Mo'k TAR. n.f. [morlarium, Lat. mortier, Fatal ; deadly ; dellruciive.
DryJen. French.] What is it but a continued perpetuated voice
For I am Palamon, thy moiiji foe.
from heaven, to give ti>ei\ no reft in their fins,
3. Bringing death. 1. A which materials are
(Irong vefTel in
no quiet from Chrilt's importunity, till they awake
Safe in the hand of one difpofing pow'r. broken by being pounded with a peftle. from the letharglck ftccp, and arife from fo dead,
Or in the natal, or the miriiil hour. Pê. Except you could bray Chrirtendom in a mcrtar, him
fo mortifercas a ftate, and permit to give.them
condemnation not and mould it into a new paAe, there is no poflibility
4. Inferring divine ; life ? ylammwtd,
' of an holy war. Baeon.
venial. Thefe murmurlngs, like a moriiferous herb, aie
The aition of the diaphragm and mufdcs ferves polfonout even in their
Though every fin of itfclf be mortal, yet all are firft fpring.
for the comminution of the meat in the ftomach
not ecjually menjl ; but feme more, fome lefs. Government of the Torgue,
by their conlUnt agitation upwards and downwards,
Perkhi.
rcfenibling the pounding of materials in a mcrtar.
Mortifica'tiom. ». /. [mortijicaticn,
5. Human ; belonging to man. Ray on CrCMion. French ; from mortify.]
They met me in the day of fucccfs and I h.ive
The Hate of corrupting, or lofing the
they have more in
learned by the petfcfled report,
:
2. A Wide cannon
fliort out of which 1.
bombs are thrown. vital qualities ; gangrene.

them than mcrul knowledge. Stakiff.are^ s Math.
Thofe arms which for nine centuries
had brav'd It appca:eth in the gangrene, or m^trtifcation of
Macbeth
The wrath of time on antique ftone engravd. (le(h, either by opiates, or intenfe colds. Sjctist
Shall live of nature, pay his breath
the" leafe
To time and marta! cuftom. Shakcffearc'i Macbeth. Now torn by mortars ftand yet undefac'd My ferment and rage.
griefs
On nobler trophies by thy valour rais'd. Granville. Nor than wounds immedicable.
lets
The voice of God
Mo'rtar. [morter, Dutch ; mor- Rankle and tetter, and gangrene.
To mcrtal ear is dreadful ; they befeech, ». /.
To black moriifi.:aticn. Milion'i jlgon'ifteu
Thjt Mofcs might report to them his will. tier,French.] Cement made of lime
And terror ceafe. Milion'i Paradije Left. z. Deftruflion of aAive qualities.
and fand with water, and ufed to join Inquire what gives impediment to union orrefti-
Succcfs, the mark no mortal wit.
ftones or bricks. tution, which is called moriifcation as when quick-
Or fureft hand can always hit. Butler. ;
Mortar, in architefture, is a preparation of lime filver is moitifieo with turpentine. Bacon.
No one enjoyment but is liable to be loH by ten
mortal power to pre-
and fand mixed up with water, fcrving as a cement, he a£l of fubduing the body by hard-
thoufand accidents, out of all j. "J
and ufed by mafons and bricklayers in building of
vent. Souti^s Sermof:i. fhips and macerations.
walls of ftone and brick. Wolfius obfervcs, that
6. Extreme ; violent. A low word.
the fand fhould be dry and fiiarp, fo as to prick the
A
diet of fome filh is more rich and alkalefcent
Thebirds were in a mortal apprehenfion of the than that of flefli, and therefore very improper for
hands %yiicn rubbed, yet not earthy, fo as to foul
beetles, till the fparrow leafuned them into under- he aif) finds fault with
fuch as pradtifc mortification.- ^rbuib. on Aliments,
the water it is waflied in :
fianding. VEflranê.
mafons and bricklayers committing a great error,
as 3. Humiliation; lu'ojeftlon of tliepaffions.
The nymph grew pale and in a mortal fright.
in letting their lime flacken and cool before they The mortification of our Itifts has fomething init
Spent with the labour of fo long a flight; that troublefome, yet nothing that is unreafon-
malce up their mortar, and alfo in letting their is
And now defpaiiing, call a mournful look mortar cool and die before tliey ufe it ; therefore able. Tillotfon.
Upon the ftrcams. Drjdin. Vou no real mortification, or felf-denial, no
he advifes, that if you cxpcfl your work to be well fee
Mo'rtaL. n. f. done, and to continue long, to work up the lime eminent charity, no profound humility, no heaven-
ly aft'edlion, no true contempt of the world, no
1. Man; human being. quick, and but a little at a time, that the mortar
Warn poor mortals left'behind. Tuhtl. may not lie long before it be ufed. Chriftian weaknefs, no fincere leal, or eminegt
will tread this unbolted villain into mtrtar, and piety,in the common lives of Chriftians. Lent).
2. This is often ufed in ludicrous lan- I
daub the wall of a j akcs with him. Sbaktffi. K, Lear, 5. Vexation; trouble.
guage.
They had brick for ftone, and (lime lor mortar. It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a ftu-
I can behold no mortal now
Genejis, xi. 3. dious man, to have bis thoughts difurdered by a
For what's an eye without a brow .' Prior,
I.ime hot out of the kiln mixed foft witli water, tedious vifit. L'Ejirange,
Morta'lity. »./. [from mortal.'^ putting fand to it, will make better mortar than We mcrtifcation to lofe the fight of Mu-
h.id the
I, Subjeftion to death ; ftate of a being other. Mortimer. nich, Augft)urg, and Ratilbon. Mdijon on Italy,
fubjeA to death. Mo'rtgace. n.f. [mort ind gage, Fr.] To Mo'RTiFy. V. a. \jnortijier, French.]
When
faw her die, I
1. A dead pledge ; a thing put into the 1. To dellroy vital qualities.
1 then did think on your mortality. Carnv.
I point out miftakes in life and religion, that
hands of a creditor. 2. To deflroy aftive powers, or eflential
Th' runs out, and mortgages are made,
eftate qualities.
we might guard agalnft the fprings of error, guilt, Their fortune ruin'd, and their fame betray'd.
and forrow, which furround us in every ftate of What gives union or reftitution
Impediment to
Dr\den. Is called mortification, as when
quickfilvcr is mor-
mortality, ffalti'i I^gick,
The Romans do not feem to have known the tified with turpentine or fpittle. Bacon,
z. Death. of paper credit, and fecuritics upon mort-
fecret He mortified pearls in vinegar, and drunk then
beg mortality.
I
gages. Arl-utbnot. up. Hakeôith
Rather than life prefcrv'd with infamy.
broker. The Oil of tartar per deliquium has a great faculty
ShaktJîcare.
Bent on fome mortgage, to avoid reproach. to find out and mortify acid fpirits. Bvflt,
Gladly would I meet He feeks bye-ftreets, and faves th' expenlivc coach.
Mortally my fentcnce. Milton's Paradije Loji.
Cay.
3. To fubdue inordinate paflions.
The breath no fooner left his father's body.
3. Power of deftruftion. 2. The ftate of being pledged. him,
But that his wildnefs, mortif.d in
Mortality and mercy in Vienna The land given in mortgage only, with full
is
Seem d to die too. Shakcjf care's Henry V.
Live in thy tongue and heart. Sbaieffeare,
Intention to be redeemed within one year. Bacon, Supprefs thy knowing pride.
4. Frequency of death. To Mo'rtgace. t. a. [from the noun.] Mortify thy learned luft.
The rife of keeping thofe accounts firft began In
Vain arc thy thoughts, while thou tbyfelf art duft.
the year 1 592, being a time of great mortality.
To pledge ; to put to pledge; to make
Prior.
Greunt.^ over to a creditor as a fecurity.
He modcftly conjcdutes.
Human natui*. Let men contrive how they difentangle their
His pupil inight be tir'd with loflures.
J. mortgaged £om\s. Decay of Piety.
A Angle vifion fo tranfports them, that it makes Which hclp'd to ir.irtify his pride. Stv'ifit.
morialiiy cannot They make the widow's mtrtâg'd ox their
up the happinefs of their lives ;
Drydn. prey. Sandys. 4. To macerate or harafs ; in order to re-

bear iroften.
duce
} ; ;
M O R M O S MOT
duce the body to compliance with the man at his death to his parllh church He thinks moji forts of learning flouti(heJaii*ng
mind. for the recompence of his perfonal them, and I, that only fo.me fort of learning was
Their dear caufu kept alive by them.
tythes and ofterings not duly paid in Pope,
Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm
Greateft.
his lifetime. 2. Obfolete.
licltc the mirtijiid majl. Stakffcare\ Macbcih. Harris.
^They all repair d both moft and leaft. Spcrfcr.
We mirtify ourfelves with fift, and think we Mosa'ick. adj. [mc/aijue, French: fup-
Mo'sT. adv. [maijls. Got .ick ; ma-j-r,
fare coarlely i/ we abftain from flefli. Brc-uin, poled corrupted from mu/a-us, Latin.]
Msrtiffd he was to that degree, Mojakk
Saxon; mee/i, Dutch; meji, Danish]
is a kind of painti.ng in fmall pebbles,
A poorer than bimfelf he i||tiid not fee. Dry.'.eti. cockles, and (hells of fundry colours j and ,of late I. In the grcateft degree.
W'ith fifting mortify'd, worn out with tears, days likewife with pieces of glafs figured at plea- Coward dogs
And bent beneath the load of fev'nty years, liarle. fure; an ornament, in truth, of much beajty, and Mrjl fpend their mouths, when what they fecm to
5. To humble to deprefs ; to vex.
;
long life, but of molt ufe in pavements and fljor- threaten
Let my 'ngs. Runs ftr before them. Sbaktfpian.
Than
liver rather
hcaf with wine.
zny heart cool with nunifylrg groans. Each beauteous flowV,
]ns all hues, roics, and jeflamin.
fyonnn.
Or
W for whofe only fake,
moft for his, fuch toils 1 undertake. Drydn:,
Shukfjpcare.
He controuled by a nod, mornfiai by a Irown,
is Rear d hi^h the.r flourijhd heads between, and Whilft comprehended under that confciouihels,
and tranfportcd by a (mile. / wrought the little finger is as much a part of itfelf as what
Adiiijoiii Guardian.
How often is the ambitious man Kortfitd with Mcfakk. AfUtan'i Paradlfr LoJ}. is Kcft fo. Locii^
the very praifes he receives, if they in not rife fo I'he moft remarkable remnant of it is a very That which will m<ft influence their carriage will
high as he thinks they ought. Aui/en't Sfcifntor. beaut. rul mj'ank pavement, the fined I have ever be the company they converfe with, and the falhion
of thofe about them.
T'o MoRTlFi-. 1/. n. leen in maible ; the parts a;e fo weil joined tjge Locke,
I. To gangrene to corrupt.
ther, that the wliole piece looks like a continued 2. The particle noting the fuperlative de-
;
P'^ture. Addipn on luly. gree.
Try with capon laid abroad, to fee whether it
it
will mcriify and become teoder fooncr ; or with Mo'sCHATEL. n.j. [mo/chatelltna, Lat.J Competency of all other proportions is the mcft
dead, flies with water cali upon them, to fee whe- A plant. Miller. incentive to indultry ; too little makes men de.
ther McscyjE. fferaie, and too much carelefs. Decay of Piety,
it will putrify. Ba^cn. n.f. [mo/quee, Frenvh ; mo/chit,
Vo be The facultiesof the fupreme fpirit moft certainly
2. liibdued ; to die away. Turkilh ] A Mahometan temple. may be enlarged without bounds. Chcynt.
3. To pradife religious (everiiies. MOiS. n.f. \_mu/cut, Lat. meoj-. Sax.]
Most. [Th-s is a kind of fubftantive,
This makes him careful of every temper of his A plant.
being, according to
heart, give alms of all that he hath, watch, and its fignification,
Though Mo/i was formerly /uppofed to be only
ftft, and m'.riify, and live according to the ftrifteft an excrefcence produced from the earth and ttties, fingular of plural.] •
rales of tcmpciauce, mcelcnefs, and humanity.

yet it is no lefs a perfeil plant than thofe of greater I. The greateft number: in this fenfe it
magnitude, having roots, fioweis, and feeds, yet is plural.
Mo RTISE. »./. [mor/ai/e, mortoife,
Fr.] Cannot be propagated from feeds by any art the :
Many
of the apoftlej immediate difciples fent or
A hole cut into wcod that another piece botanifts diftinguifli it into many fpecies : it chiefly carr.cd the books of the four evangelifts to moft of
may be put into it and form a joint. flouriflies in cold countries,
and in the winter fea- the churches they had planted. Addifon.
fon, and is many times very injurious to- fruit
A (hook our battlements
fuller blaft ne'er trees :
Gravitation, not being elTcntial to matter, ought
If it hath ruffian'd fo upon the fea. the only remedy in fuch cafes, is to cut down part not to be reckoned among, thofe laws which aiife
What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them, of the trees, and plough up the ground between from the difpofition of bsdies, fuch as moft of the
Can the thofe left remaining ; and in the Spring, in moiil laws of motion are.
h.)ld f SLakeJptarc's Oihcllo.
tr.ort]Jc Cheyr.e,
Under one weather, you ftould with an iron inilrument fcrape The
/kin are parts varioufly mingled, fome '.. greateft value : in this fenfe lin-
with cavities, as jmrttjfti to receive, others with offthcm/i. MiUer.
_
gular.
tenons to cavities. Moft is a kinl of mould of the earth and trees
fit
j^^y,
but it i.iay be better forted as a rudiment of ger-
The report of this repulfe flying to
London, the
Tff Mo'rtise. v. a. mft \vi, and many
m.ide of that which was true,
mination. Bacon.
1. To cut with a niortife; to join with a Houfes then were caves, or homely flieds.
falfities added. Hayiuard,
mortife. With twining oziers fenc'd, and cto/j their beds.
A covetous man makes the moft of what ha
has, and can get, without regard to Providence or
'Tis a malTy wheel. Drydin,
To Nature. VEftrange.
whofe huge fpoke ten thouiand leflir things Such mcjfit as grow upon walls, roofs of houfes,
Are mcrtiCd and adjoin'd. Skakfpfare'i Hamlei. and other high places, have feeds that, when 3. The greateft degree; the greateft quan-
The walls of fpiders legs are made. thaken out of thvir vefleis, appear like vapour or tity ; the utmotl.
Well mcr'ijcdtni finely laid. DraytonS Nympfid. fmake. B^y ^n il^ Creation. A
Spaniard will live in Iri/h ground a quarter of
2. It feems in the following paflage im- To Moss. v. a. [from the noun.] To a year, or fome months at the moft. Bacon.
properly ufed cover with mofs. Mo'sTicK. n. /. A painter's ftafF on
1 he one half of the being fini/hed, and by
fliip An whole boughs t»«re w^Vwith age.
0.1k which he leans his hand when he paints.
htlp of a fcrew launched into the water, And high top bald with dry antiquity. Sbaktjpean.
the other ./în/ivorth,
hx'( w.^ joined by great brafs nails monjfd Will thefe mJCd trees.
with Mo'sTLY. adv. [from mofi.] for the
j*",**' Arhuthna «K Coini. That have out-liv'd the eagle, page thy heels.
greateft part.
Mo RTMAIN. »./. Fr.] [/n<jr/if and OT<j/V,
And (kip when thou point 11 out ? Shjkcjpiarc. This image of God, namely, natural reafon, if
Such a ilate of poffeflion as raakej it un- Mo'ssiNES.s. n. f. [from mojfy.^ The totally or moftly defaced, the right of government
alienable ; whence it is faid to be in a ftate of being covered or overgrown doth ccafe. Bacon,
deud.hand, in a hand that cannot fhift with mofs. Mo'srwHAT. ij^-y. Zmoft indnuhat,'] For
away the property. The heibs withered at the top, (heweth the the moft part. Obfolete.^
e,irlh to be very cold, and fo doth the
It weremeet that fome fmall portion of lands mojjin.-fi of God
promifcs being the ground of hope, and
5
were allotted, fince no mote m^rimaini are to thofe promifes being but f.:ltlom abfolute,
be
looked for.
Sf,„j-.^.
Mo ssY. adj. [from mo/s.'] Overgrown ivbat conditionate, the Chriitian grace of
mift-
hope
MoKrtAY. [wfr/ and/ay.]
n.f. Dead with mols ; covered with mofs. mud be proportioned and attemperate to the pro-
pay Old trees are more mc^y mife; if it exceed that temper and proportion, it
; payment not made. far than young j for
that the fap is not fo (rank as to rile ali to becomes a tympany of hope. Hammnd.
This parlijmcnt was merely a parliament of the
war, with fome ftatutes conducing thereunto; boughs, but tireth by the way, and puctet.'i out Mota'tion. ».y; Art of moving. Dia.
as
the fevere punifliing of mortpayes,
and keeping
'"o's- Ba'sn't Natural Hiftory. Mote. »./ [mor, S.ixon ; aiomiis, Lat.]
About the mrffy brooks and fprings.
bick ot foldie.-; wages.
Baccn And all inferiour beauteous things. A fmall particle of matter; anything
Mo'riress. CotvUy.
n.f. [from mortier de/agefe 'I he wojfy fountains and the proverbially little.
fylvan ihadcs
SiiHKfr.] A
dilh of meat o\ various Teli-ht no more. Pop,', Mejfah.
You found his mote, the king your mute didfce
Itinds beaten together. MOb 1'. adj.the fuperlative of more.
But I a beam do find in each of three.
A mcrtrtfx made with the brawn of capons, . i: l/akcfpet[e.
[ma:f-r, tJaxon ; mieji, Dutch] The
.
ftamped, ftraimd, and mingled with like quantity motes in the fun do ever ftir, though
little
I. Cohlidiiigof the greateil number;
of almond butter, is excellent to nourish the weak. con- there be no wind. Bacons Natural H.lloty.
£aroii'i Natural HiJI.ry.
filliiip of the gre.itell quantity. Mote tor miglf, 01 nm/f. [»w/, Dutch.]
Mo RTUARV. n. /. [mtrtuairt, French;
Garden fruits which have any acrimony in them,
Obfolete.
and mjl forti of bcrriei, will produce diarrhieas.
moriuarium, Latin. J A yitt left by a Mod ujty Oiipft,
Vol. IJ. * ' / Arbuihnol, Such as dame Nature feif mite fear to fee,'
X Or
;
MOT MOT MOT

Or fliime, that ever fliouM fo foul defcdi To Mo'ther. * ». To gather concre- Immediate are the i&i of God, mote fwlfl
From her moll cunning hand efcaped b!:. Fai'-y
NloTH. n. /. [moti, Saxon.] A (mall
^ tion.
Than time or motion.
The fedentary Earth,
MHim,
They oint their naked limbs with mttber'J oil.
Serv'd by more noble than herfelf, attains
winged infe£t chac eats cloths and hang- Dryder.
Her end without lead motion. Milien,
ings. Mother in laiv. n.f. \mtthtr and /aiv.]
;. That part of philofophy which con-
All the yarn Venclope fpun in UlyfTes's abfence, The mother of a hufband or wife.
fiders bodies as adlingon each other;
did but till Ithaca full of m;rij. Slakrfftart. I am come to fet at variance the daughter in
Every foldicr in the wars fhould do as every fiik law againft the mother in law* Mettth. x. 35- to which belong the laws oi motion,
man in his bcJ, walh every moth out of his con- Mo'ther of ftarl. A
kind of coarfe [. Animal life and a£lion.
icience. Shaktfpearc. Devoid of fenfe and motion. Milton,
pearl ; the (hell in which pearls are ge-
He as a rotten thing confumeth, as a garment The foul
nerated.
thatis moib eaten. J'ti ^M, 28. O'er miniderial members does prcfide.
Let mo'hi through pages eat their way, His mortal blade To all their various provinces divide,
In ivory fheath, ycarv'd with curious (lights,
Your w.irs, your loves, your prai(c3 be forgot,
Whofe hill was burnilh'd gold, and handle ftrong
Each member move, and ev'ry motion guide. I
And make of all an univei fa! blot. DryJtn'i Juv. Blackmore.
MO'THER. Of mttier -f far I. Fa':ry S}utcv.
Manner moving the body; port;
u.f. [moiiop, Saxon ; mo- They were of onyx, fometimes of mother ofpcayl.
(. of
der, Danifli; moeder, Dutch.] Hakcioil* gait.
1. A
woman that has born a child ; cor- Mo'therhood. »./. [from we/^^r.] The S|>eaking or mute, all comciinefs and grace
Attend thee, and each viozS, each moii.n form.
relative to fon or daughter. office or chara£\er oKa mother.
Let thy methn rather feel thy pride, than fear Thou (halt fee the bleflcd mother-maid Virtue too, as well as vice, is clad
Thy dangerous ftoutnefs. Shah/^care'i Cwwlanus. Exalted more for being good, In flelh .ind blood fo well, that Plato had
Come fit down every mothers ion, Than for her intereft of motherhood. Vvrne. Beheld, what his h:gh fancy once emb:ac'd.
And rchearfe your parts. Sbaktjpejrt.
Mo'therless. a<^'. [irora mother. '\ De- Virtue with colours, fpeech and motioi: grac'd.
I had not fo much of man inme.
But my mctber came into
all mine eyes, ftitute of a mottier ; orphan of a mo- Ifâ/ler.
And me up to tears. Sbaieff care's Hinry V.

gave ther. J. Change of poflure; adion.
2. That which has pro^luced any thing. I might ihew you my children, whom the rigour By quick inftinflive motion up I fprung. Milton.
of your juilice would make complele orphans, be- Encourag'd thus /he brought her younglings
Alas, poor country It cannot !
ing already mîherlejs. ffal'er's Hfcecb to the H. ofC. nigh.

Be call"d our mother, but our grave. Sbakijpearc.
The refemblance of the conftitution and diet of My concern for the three poor mothcrlrfs chil- Watching the motions of her patron's eye.
the inhabiunts to thofe of their m'Aher country, dren obliges me to' give you this advice. ArLutbnct. Drydin,
occafion a great affinity in the popular difeafes. Mo'therly. ad/, [from mother and like.'\ ). Military march ; or remove.
yhbulbnot c« Air. Belonging (o a mother fuitable to a See the guards
;
The ftrongeft branch leave for a ftandard, cut- By me encamp'd on yonder hill, expeft
mother.
ting rtS the reft clofe to body of the muhtr
tiic Their motion. Milloi
They can owe no icfs than child-like obedience
plant. Mortimjr'^ llnJhanJry* her that hath more than mjfherl)
'rty powe Hooker.
'. Agitation ; intelline aflion.
to
3. That which has preceded in time: as, They termed her the great motner, for her mo- My womb
Prodigious motion fdt, and rueful throes.
a mother church to chapels. therly care in chcnlhing her brethren whilft young.
Kaleigh.
M.lton.
4. That which requires reverence and Ceafe, ceafe thou foaming ocean,
Within herbrcaft though calm, her breaft though
obedience. For what's thy troubled motin
pure,
The good of motber church, as well as that of
Motherly cares and fears got head, and rais'd To that within my breaft .'
Cay.
civil fociety, renders a judicial practice necefl'arv- Diredlion tendency.
Some troubled thoughts. Milftn's Par. Regained. 3. ;
ji-^liffet Parergon*
When I fee the motherly airs of my litde daugh- In our proper m:t:on we afcend. MJton.
5. Hyfterical paffion ; fo called, as being ters when playing with their puppets, 1 cannot 9. Impulle communicated.
imagined peculiar to women. but flatter myfelf that their hulbands and children Whether that «£//''», vitality and operation, were
This flopping cf the flomach might be the will be happy in the poffeflion of fucli wives and by incubation, or how clfe, the manner is only
rnotber forafmuch as many were troubled with
; mothers. Addjor's HpiClator. known to God. . Raleigh.
mother fits, although few recurncd to have died of Though (he was a truly good wo.Tian, and had a Carnality within r^fes all tlie combuftion with-
them. Grjunt^t Bills. fincere motherly love for her fon John, yec there out : this is the great wheel to which the clock
6. A familiar term of addrefs to an old wanted not thofe who endeavoured to create a mif- owes Its motion. Duay cf Viety.
woman or to a woman dedicated to underAanding between them. Ariuthnot. Love awakes the fleepy vigour of the foul.
;
religious aufterities. Mo'therly. ad-v. [from mother.^ in And brufhingo'er, adds M^ricir to the pool. Drydeir.
manner f a mother. 10. Tendency of the mind thought im-
[Mnedtr, Dutch, from modtlir, mud.] ;
<
7.
Th' air doth not motherly fit on the earth, prefled.
A thick fubllance concreting in li-
To hatch her leafons, and give all tilings birth. Let a gtjod man obey every g-od motion rifing in
quoiirs ; the lees or fcum concreted. Djr.ne. his heart, knowing that every luch motion proceeds
if the body be liquid, and not apt to putrefy
totally, it will caft up t.mfiler, as the mtibers of
Mother of thyme, n.f. [ferpyHum, Lat.] frjm Cod. South.
It hath trailing branches, which are 1 1. Propofal made.
diftilled waters. Jiaan.
not fo wocdy and hard as thofe of What would you with me ?
Potted fowl, and fifli come in fo faft.
—.your father and my uncle have made motions ;
That ere the out the fecond ftinks,
firft is thyme, but in every other refped is the my tuck, fo if nut, happy man he his
if it be ;
And mouldy mother gathers on the brink?. Drydcn. fame. Miller. dole. Shakcjfeare.
8. [More properly madder; mcdde. Out.] IVIo'therwort. »./ [cardiaca, Latin.] If our queen and this young prince agree,
A young girl. Now totally oblbleie. A plant. I'll join my younger daughter, and my joy.
A fling for a mother, a bow, f.ir a boy, To him forthwith, in holy wedlock bands.
A whip for a carter. Tuffir's Hu/hardry.
Mo'THEitv. ad/, [from 'mother."] Con- — 'V'esy 1 ag:ce, ar.d thank you foi foaT motion..
creted; full of concretions; dreggy;
Mo'ther. adj. Had at tlie birth ; na- , Khak'jpciirr.
feculent: ufed cf liquours. [In old language A puppet-lhow.
tive. 12. ]
For whatfoever motbir wit or art Motiimu'llein. a /. [iJattaria, Lat.] He eomp.illed a motion of the prodigal fon, and
Could work, he put iiv proof. Huiitrd's Tale. A plant. Miller. married a tinker's wife, within a mile where my
Where did you ftudy 4II this goodly fpeech ? Mo'thwort. tt.f. [moth and ivort.] An land Itcs. Sbakijpcare.
—.!t is extern ore, from my naibf wit. Shaitfp. herb. To Mo'tion. 1;. a. [from the noun.}
Boecacc Iiv d' in the fame aê with Chaucer,
had the fan-.e gcni is, and followed the fame ftudies :
Mo'thy. adj. [from moth.] Full of To prapole.
both wiit nrveis, and each of them cultivated his moihs. Mo'tion LESS. a<^'. [from «»//««.] Want-
His horfe hipp'd with an old molby faddle, the
twther tongue. Dry,leii, ing motion ; being without motion.
At lergt'i d'.vine Cecilia came, ftirrunsof no kindred. Sbukojpejre. CJmiot free the lady that fits here.
'Vv'e
JnventreU of the vocal frame, MO'TION. n.f. i»io/j<M», French J motio, In ftony betters fixt, and motionltfo. Mtltw.
Knlarg'd the former narrow bounds, Ha Do I dream ? Is this my hop'd fuccefs ?
Latin.} 1
And added length to folemn founds, I grow a ftatue, ftiff and motionlefs. Dryden^
WitK nature's muher wit, and arts unknown be-
I. The adl of changing place: oppofed
Should our globe have had a gieatcr (hare
iun. Dryiltii. to rtji.
Of this •ong force, by which the parts cohere
Tbiagi
; ; ;;
MOT MOV MOV

Things had been bound by fuch > pow'rful chain, It was the motto of a bilhop eminent for his piety 6. To make angry.
That all would fix'd and moiionl/fi remain. and good works in king Charles the fecond's ieiL;n, From tiiofe bhody hands
Bfiiilmorc. Irfervi Di.0 ^ litiaie, Serve God and be chearful. Throw yosr diftemperd wcîpons to the griund.
Mo'tive. aJj. \^moti'vus, Latin.] Addifn'i t'rethJder. And hear the fentence of your tttjved prince.
1. Caufing motion ; tiaving moment. To Move. i/. a. [r/toveo, Latin.] Shakeff-eare,
Shall every motive argument uled in fuch kind 1. To pat out ot one place into another ; 7. To put into commotion,
of conferences be made a rule for others iiWl to to put in motion. Vj'hen they were come to Bethlehem, all the city
conclude the like by, concerning ail things of like Sinai itlelf was m^n/fi/ at tlic prcfence of GoJ. was Pi&T/../ abjLit them. Ruth, i. 19.
nature, when as probable inducements may lead P/j/. Ixviii. 8. To incite ; to produce by incitement.
them to the contrary > Hi^kir. At this my heart trembleth, and is Ki.vrd out of Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary nov^:
2. Having the power to move; having his place. Job, xxvii. i. Harmonious numbers. ASiiion*
power to change place ; having power 2. To give an impulfe to. 9. I'd condud regulirly in motion.
to pafs foremort to motion. Heforrows now, repents, and prays contrite, They, .as they rnove
The ner\T5 fervc for the conveyance of the ni- My moticns in him ; longer than they move; Their ftarry dance in numbers that compute
His hea 1 1 know, how variable and vain Days, months, and years, tow'rds his all cheering
ttve faculty from the brain j the ligatures for the
ftrengthening of them, that they may not flag in
Self-left. Mtlton. lamp
notion. Wilkiii. The pretext of piety
but like the hand of a
is Turn fwift their various motions. Ahlton,
We aik you whence does moiivc vigour flow ?
clock, fet indeed more confpicuoiifly, but dircSeJ To Move. ii. ».
wholly by the fecret mo-vings of carnality within.
Blackm:,re,
Decay ofPie'y,
1. To be in a ftate of changing place ; not
That fancy is cafily difproved from the moti-uc
The wiP being the power of dirc£ling our ope-
to be at re II.
power of fouls embodied, and the gradual incrcafc Whether Heav'n move or Earth
rative faculties to fome aition, for fome end, can-
cf men and animals. BifttKy-
not at any time be moved towards what is judged Imports not, if thou reckon right. Mil;<n.
Mo'tive. »./. [motif, French.] at that time inattainable. The fenfes leprefent the earth as immoveabl^r
Lo^ke.
1. That which dettrmines the choice; for though do move in refts to us wh)
3. To propofe ; to recommend. arc carried with
it itfelf, it
Glanvil e.
that which incites the aftion. If the firft confultation
be not fuflicicnt, the
it.
Hereof \>'C have no commandment, cither in

will may m.vc a review, and require the under- 2. 1o haveaparticuhirdireaion ofpaflage.
nature or fcripturc, which doth cxa£i them at our ftandlng to inform itfelf better. The fun
hands ; yet thofc mothvis there arc in both, which BifoLp Bramhall ag^tnf Hobbes,
Had firft his precept fa to move, f) Ihine,
draw molt elfedlually our minds unto them. They are to be blamed alike, wno move and As might artetS the earth with cold and heat.
H.oHr. who decline war upon particular refpeiSs. Milton,
Why in tiwt riATiefs left you wife and cliildren, Iiayit;ardi Ediuaid VI. 3. To go from one place
to another.
Thofc precious moii'ves, thofc ftrong knots of love, They find a great inconvenience in m vine their I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought,
Without leave-taking ? Sbakejfrnre'i Mccbuh. fuits by an interpreter. Daviei on Ireland. The wood began to move.
What can be a ilronger motive to a firm truft on To indamora you my fuit muft move. Drydcn. Within this three mile may you fee it coming
our Maker, than the giving us his Son to fuAet for To
perfuade ; to prevail on ; to dif- I fay a mo'Sing grove. Shakejpeare's Macbeth,
4.
us ? Adilijiit.
pofe by fomething determining the On the green bank
liften'd long.
I fat and
The motive f:>r continuing in the fame itate is Nor her lay was ended could I move.
till
only the prefent fatisfaflion in it ; the motive to choice. But wilh'd to dwell for ever in the grove. Dryden,
citange is always fome unealinefs. Locke, A thoufand knees. This faying, that God is the place of fpirits, l)elng
2. Mover. Not in ufe. Ten thoufand years together, naked, falling. literal, makesus conceive that fpirits move tip and
Heaven brought me up to be my daughter's dower Upon a barren mountain, and rtill Winter down, have their dilUnces and intervals in
an>l
my In ftoim perpetual, could not move the Gods
Ai it hath fated her to be motive God, as bodies have in fpace, Locke.
And helper to a hulband. Sbakefptare*
To look that way thou wert. Sbukcffeare. When we are come to the utmoft extremity of
Her wanton Crittus offered the Tranfylvanians money ; but
look out
fpirits body, what isthere that can put a ftop, and fatisly
At every joint, and motive of her body* Statefp.
minds defiroui of revenge were not moved with gold. the mind, that it is at the end of fpace, when it
Kr.olU:,
Mo'tley. at(;. [filppofed to be corrupted
Sometimes the
is fatisfied that body itfelf can move \ntu h? L'.cke.
of preferment prevailing
poflibility Any
thing that m'jvei round about in a circle in
from mtdley, perhaps from mothlike co- with the credulous, expectation of lefs expence lefs time than our ideas are wont to fuccecd one
loured, fpotted or variegated like a gar- with the covetous, opinion of eafe with the fond,
Another in our minds, is not perceived lamive, but
den meti.] Mingled of various colours. and alfurance of remotenefs with the unkind pa- fecms to be a perfefl entire circle of that matter.
They that come to fee a fellow rents, have moved them, without difcretion, to
. LicAe,
In a long motley coat, guarded with vellow. engage their children in adventures of learning, by
The
goddefs moves
Will be deceivd. Shakejfcare'i Henry VIII. whofe return they have received but iituU content- To vifit Paphos, and her blooming groves.
Pope,
Expence and after-thought, and idle care. ment,
Could any power of fenfe the Roman move
ff'otton.
4. To have
vital adlion.
And doubts of motl-y hue, and dark defpair. In him we live, move, and have our being.
DryJen. To burn his own right hand ? Davi s.
That which mcv:s a man to do any thing, muft yâs, xvii. iS.
Enquire from whence this motley ftyle
Every moving thing that liveth (hall be meat for
Did firft our Roman purity defik. DryJtn. be the apprehcnfion and expcftation of fome good
you- Cemjh,
Traulus, of amphibious breea. from the thing which he is ab u: to do. Stutt.
Motley fruit of mungril feed ; When (he faw her reafons idly fpent, 5. To walk ; to bear the body.
dam from And could i)ot move him from his fix'd intent.
See great Marcellus how inur'd in toils !
By the lordlings fprung.

from dung. She flew to rage. DryJen's JEniis. He moves with manly grace, how rich with regal
By d>f flic ejhal'd Swift.
But when no female arts his mind could move. '>jils> Dryden's Mn.is.
Mo'tor. «. /. [mcteur, French; from
To march afmy.
She turnM to furious hate her impious love. 6. as an
acjeo, Latin.] A mover.
Dryden^s j^reii. they mrve Anon
Thofc bodies being of congenerous nature, do
a
Wlut can thy mind to this long journey iso-r.f, In petfe£l phalanx to the Dorian mood. Milf.n,
readily receive the imprelTieni of their j»vfor, and,
if not fettered by their gravity, conf:irm themfelves
Or need'ft thou abfence to renew thy love ? yd D 7. To go forward.
to fituations wiiereia they beft uni^c unto their 5. To afFeft J to touch pathetically; to Through various hazards and events we mcve
animatdr. Brotvn't yulgur Er-ioari, ftirpaflion. To Latium. Mm].. Dryrfen's
Mo'roRY. <r<^'. [mot oritu, Latia.] Giving If he fee aught In you that makes him like. 8. To change the pofture of the body in
That any thing he fees, which movci his liking, ceremony.
motion.
The b'jnej, were they dry, conld not, without
1 can with eafe tianflate it to my will, Hhakflf. When Haman faw MordeCii that he ftond not
It was great ign'tance, Glofter's eyes being out, up, nor m.vrd for him, he was full of indignation.
great difficulty, yield to the plucks and attraftions
Ray
To let him live ; where he arrives he moves Ffhrr, v, 5.
of the motiry mufcles* on the Creation.
Mo'tto. n. /. [motto, Italian.] A fen-
All hearts againft us. Stakefpeare's K:rg Lear. Move. n. f. Thp aa cf moving, com-
Should a fhipwreck'd failor fing his woe.
tence or word added to a device, or
monly uieJ at cheTs.
Would ft thou be mov'd to pity, or beftow
law two angcU play'd the mate
I
prefixed to any thing written. An alms ? Dryden's f erfus.
With man alas no othcrwife it prov'j,
It may be faid to be the motto of human nature, Images are very fparingly to be introduced : tlieir
An unfecn hand makes all their moves. Civuy.
rather to fuftcr than to die. L'EJIrarge. proper place is in poems and orations, and their ufe
We ought to be meek-fpirlted, till we arc alTurcd i> to mstit pity or terror, companion and rerent-
Mo'vHABLE. [from mo-ve.] aJj.
of the hor.erty of our anceftmj ; for covetoufnefs ment. l\lion on ibe Clajfcks. I. Capable cf being moved; not fixed ;
and ciicumvention make no good motto Sot a coat. O let thy daughter, handmaid move.
fifter, portable ; fuch as may be carried from
<h/lia: Or all thole tendtr namei in one, thy love, foê. place to place.
X z la
MOV M O U M O U
In the vaft wiUernefs when the pe«p)e of God You as the foul, as the 6rft miKifr, you 4. [Mo/</^ Spanilh ; moule, French."} The
fftiUtr.
hud no fettled hibitation, yet a moviuilt tabernacle Vigour and lite on ev'ry part bellow. matrix in which any thing is caft ; in
they «xre commanded of God to make. Uooktr. So orbs from the firft mover motion take. which any thing receives its form.
When he made his prayer, he tound the boat he Yet each their proper revolutions make. Drydeii.
If the liturgies of all the ancient churches be
was iamoveailt and unbound, the reft remained ftill 3. A propofer. compared, it may be perceived they had all one
faft. ' Ba.m. See here thcfe mtven, that do priie their honours original mould. .
Hooker,
heat whatfoevct promote? the afcent of mi-
Any At a crack'd drachm; cuOiions, leaden fpoons, A dangerous prefident were left for the cafting
neral maitcr, which is fubiile, and is confcquently £re yet tbj fight b( done, pack up. Hhakejpeare. Iloohr.
of prayers into certain poetical mcu'lJi.
mmratli more catily. Naiural Hijiiry.
Hôtidtcjrd'i If any qucltion be moved concerning the dotlrine French churches all caft according unto that
Any who fcei the Teverone rnuft conclude it of the church of England cxpiefTed in the thirty- Hooker.
mculd vihich Calvin had made.
leall ear to the rx-ve'
to be one of the moft mraiahle rivers in the wcrlci, nine articles, give not the 1
My wifr comes fotemoft ; then the honour d
that it is fo often fljif:cd out of one channel into thereof. Bacon. mould
_
anather. Aidim 'n Ii<uy. .Mo'viNG. pari icipial adj. [from move.] Wherein this trunk was fram'd. Siakefpeare.
2. Changing the time of the year. Pathetiik; touching; adapted to alfcct You may have fruit in more accurate figures,
The lunar month is natural and periodical, by according as you make the mjulds. Bauon*
the paflions,
which themcvcall^ feftivals of theChriftian church Great Jupiter The liquid ore he drain'd
are regulated. H'.ider. Into fit moulds prepar'd from which he form'J
The msving pray'r of âcus did grant. j
Mo'vEABLES. ». /. l^meubUs, French.] Firft his own tools : then what might eJfc be
And into men and women turn'd tlie ant.
wrought
Goods; furniture: dillinguifhed from Biiicktftire,
Mihon's Pandife hef.
Fufile, or grav'n in metal.
real or immoveable polTeiTions, as lands Mo'viNOLY. ad'v. [from moving] Pa-
We may hope for new heavens and a new earth,
or boufcs. thetic.illy in luch a manner as to feize the forir.er as if this
more pure and f erfcfl than
; ;
We feiz*- the palfions. was a refinei's fire, Co purge out the diofs an4
The plate, coin, revenues, and tncvcaUfS, The choice and flower of all things profiuble in coarle parts, and then caft the mafs again into a
Whereof our uncle Gaunt did ttand poflijfs'd. other books, the Ffalms do both more briefly and new and better mould. Bttrntt.
Sbakrffiare. moie mmingly cxprel's, by reafon of that poetical Sure our fouls were near allied, and thine
Let him that moved you hither, form whercv/ith they are written. Hxkcr. Caft in the Came poetick mculd with mine. Dridev.
Remove you hence ; I knew you at tlie fiifl: I would have had them write more movingly. Here in fit moulds to Indian nations known,
You were a mtv-:tiblt^ Shckcjpeare. Are calt the feverai kinds of precious ftone.
—Why, what's a mcveahie ? His air, his voice, his looks, and honelt tbul. Biackmcrt,
—A join'd ftool. Sltik-fp. Taming tf the Slrcio- Speak all fo m'.-vir.gly in his behjlf,
5. Caft ; form.
Surveys rich mrjcahki with curious eye. I dare not truft mjlelf to hear him talk. Addijan. No mates for you,
Beats down the price, and threatens ftill to buy.
Drydcn, MooGHT. ior might. Obfolete. Unlefs you were of gentler, milder mculd.
• Shakefpeari.
Mo'vEABLENESS. SJîm moveable.'\
». /.
Mould, n.f. {moegil, S^vedifh.]
William of Pembroke was a man of an-
earl
Mobility ; poffibility to be moved. 1. A Idndof concretion on the top or out-
other mould and making, being the moft univer-
Mo'vEABi.Y. adv. [from mo'ueablt.'\ So fide of things kept motionlefs and damp; fally beloved of any man of that age ; and, having
as it m»y be moved.
now difcovered by microfcopes to be a great office, he made the court itlelf better
perfeft plants. efteemed, and more reverenced in the country.

His back-piece is cnmpofed of eigiiteen plates,
Clarendtn*
moveahly joined together by as many intermediate All m'yulds arc inceptions of putrefaclion, as the
of pies and flelh, which moulds turn into
Nor virtue, wit, nor beauty, could
Ikins. Grfw. m'ytfds
Baan. Preferve from death's band this their heav'niy
Unmoved; not to be worms.
Mo'vELESS. adj. m.uld. Carew*
Mofs is a kind of mculd of the e.irth and trees,
pot out of the place. but may be better forted as a rudiment of germi-
Learn
The lungs, though untouched, will remain minic-
nation. Bacon. What creatures there inhabit, of what mould.
tfs as to any expanfion or contradVion of their fub- Another fpecial afEnlty is be*ween plants and Or fubftance, how cndu'd, and what their pow'r.
itance. BoyU. putrefaOion, if it And where their wcikncfs. Milton's Paradije Lcfi,
nmiUy or putrefaftion ; for all
The Grecian phalanx, mwelffi as a tow'r. dilTolve not in arefaftion, in the end, iffuc
will, So muft the writer, whofe produftions Ihould
On all fides batter 'd, yet refifts his pow'r. Pope.
into plants. Bacons Natiira! Hiftory. Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. Hâlltr,
Mo'vEMENT. n.f. \^mouvimeut , French.] The malt made in Summer is ant to contraft
From their main-top joyful news they hear
Manner of moving. Mirtim-.r. Of (hips, which by their mould bring new fupplies.
1. mould. _
DrydcB.
What farther relieves defcriptions of battles, is A herinit, who up in his cell in
has been fliut
Hans Carvel, impotent and old,
the art of introducing patlietick circumftances about a college, has contrailed a fort of moulj and tuft
Married a lafs of London mould. Prior,
the heroes, which raifc a different mo^rmt/w in the upon his foul, and all his airs have aukwardnefs in
mind, compaflion and pity. Pope's ££""•)• therf. K'jtti. ,6. The future or contexture of the fltull.
Under workmen are expert enough at making a 2. [Molb, Saxon.] Earth ; foil ; ground Ainfworth.
fingle wheel in a clock, but arc utterly ignorant ufed in a fenfe a little fltained by
in which any thing grows. 7. It is
how to adjuft the feverai parts, or regulate the
Thofe miu'ds that are of a bright chefnut or Shake/peare.
mc-Uemint. Swift.
hazelly colour are accounted the bcil ; next to that New honours come upon him,
2. Motion. the dark grey and rufl'et mo:ilds are accounted beft ; Like our ftrange garments cleave not to their moidj.
Could he whofe laws the rolling planets bind, the light and dark afli-colour are reckoned the But with the end of ufe. Shakefpiare's Macbeth.
Defctibe or fix one vii-viment of the mind. Pipi. worft, fuch as are ufually found on common or To Mould, f. ». [from the noun.]
Mo'vENT. adj. [mei/ins, Latin.] Mov- heathy ground the clear tawny is by no means to
:
To contrail concreted matter ; to ga-
ing. be approved, but that of a ycUowilh colour is reck-
ther mould.
If itbe in fome part mmeitt, and in fome part oned the worft of ail j this is conr.monly found in
In woods, in waves, in wars (he wants to dwell,
quiefcent, it mud needs be a curve line, and fo no wild and wafte parts of the country, and for the
moft part produces nothing but gofs, furz, and fern.
And will be found with peril and with pain ;
radius. GrtivA Cofmo/.
All good lands after rain, or breaking up by the
Ne can the man that moulds in idle cell
Mo'vENT. n.y. [mo'vens, Latin.] That Unto her happy manfion attain. Fairy S}ufen,
fpade, vrill emit a good fmell; that being always
which movfes another. the beft that is neither too undtuous or too lean,
There be fome houfes wherein fwcct meats will
That there is a motion which makes the »icifli- relent, and baked meats will mould, more than in
but fuch as will eafily diflblve ; of a juft confid-
tudes of day and night, fenfe may aifure us ; but Miller. others. Bacon,
ence between fand and dn.y.
whether the fun or earth be the common mnveai,
Though worms devour me, though I turn to To Moold. f a. To cover with mould;
cannot be deteimined but by a further appeal. to corrupt by mould.
p;ouldf
GlaifvilU's Scrpjis.
Yet in my
flelh I fliall his face behold. Sandys. Very coarle, hoary, moulded bread the foldiers
Mo'vER.. n./. [frgai move.] The b'ack earth every where obvious oni the thruft upon their fpears, railing againft Ferdinandi
1. The perlon or thine that gives motion. furfacc of the ground, we call mould. H'xdûard. who made no better provifion. Kndles,
O thou eternal moîer of the htav'ns, 3. Matter of which any thing is made. To Mould, v. a. [from the noun.]
Look with a gentle eje upon this wretch. Shakcfp. When the world began. I. To form ; to Aiape ; to model.
The ftrengih of a Ipring were better aflifted by One common mafs composd the mould of man. 1 feel
the l^tiour of fome intelligent mtmir, as the hea- Dryden. Of what coarfe metal ye are moulded, Shai/jf,
venly orbs are fuppofed to be turned. W.lLins. Nature form'd me of her fofteft mnild. Here is the cap your worlhip did befpeak.
2. Something tbat moves, or Aands not Enfeebled my
all foul with tender paffions, —Why this was moulded on a.poringer,
. ftiU. And funk me cvsn bclgw jny weak fex. AdJ'fon. A velvet dilh j fie, fie, 'tis lewd. Sbakelpcare.
8 The
;
M O U MOU M O U
had taken fuch liking of his perfon, Above the reach of loathful finful luft, Thefe examples confirmed me in a refolution to
The king
make him a mafter- piece, and Whofe bafe eS'eft, through cowardly diftrull fpend my time wholly in writing j and to put forth
that he refolved to
own Of his own wings, dare not to heaven flie, that poor talent God hath given me, not to par-
to ateulil him pUtonically to his idea, ffotron.
But like a mould-warp ia the earth doth lie. SfetiJ. ticular exchanges, but to banks or mounts of per^
Did I requeft thee. Maker from my clay !
While they play the Inmld-warps, unl'avory damps pcculty, which will not break. Bacons
To KculJ me man ? Milton's Parjdife Laji.
He forgeth and mculdeth metals, and builds diftemper their heads with annoyance only for the To MOUNT, t;. n. [motiter, French.]
houfes. Hale. prefent. Car.tc.
1. To rife on high.
By education we may mculd the minds and With gins we betray the vermin of the earth, Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and
namely, the fichat and the mouldivarp, ffâlicn.
manners of youth into what ihape we pleafe, and make her neft onJiigh Jcb, iii. 27.
.'
give them the impreffionsW fuch habits as ftiaii Mo'uLDY. adj. [from mould.] Over- ril drive, with troubl'd thoughts, to take a nap;
e%er afterwaids remain. Aurhury. grown with concretions. Left leaden flumber poize me down to-morrow.
Then rufe the feed of chaos, and cf night. Is thy name Mouldy ? When I'lliould mount with wings of viiVory.
Of dulland venal a new world ta mou'd^ —Yea. SLakcJpeare^
And bring Saturniaa days of lead and gold. — 'Tis the more time thou wert us'd. A
b.ife ignoble mind,
—Ha, ha, ha j moft excellent. Things that are That mounts no higher than a bird can foar.
A faftion in England, under the name of pu mcu/dy lack ufe. Well faid. Sir John. St.riffpcar-: Shakejptarl.
rltan, miuluci up their new fchemes of religion The marble looks white, as being expofcd to the The fire of trees and houfes mounts on high,
with republican principles in government. Swift. winds and fait lea-vapours, that by ajntinually And meets half-way new fires that Ihow'r from (ky.
For you alone he ftole fretting it preferve it from that mouldy colour which Coivhy^
The fire that forms a manly foul others contract. Addi/'jit. If the liturgy fliould be offered to thein, it would
Then,\o comrleit it ev'ry way. kindle jealoufy, and as the firft range of that lad-
He m:ulded it with female clay. Stvi/t's Mifcel/.
Te Moui T. -v. n. [muyien, Dutch.] To der, which fiiould ferve to mount over all their
Fabellus \v>uld never learn any moral leflbns fhed or change the feathers ; to lofe cultoms. Clarendcn.
till tliey were moulded into the form of fome ficSion feathers. Ambitious meteors fet themfelves upon the wing,
or fable like thofe of ^f^p. IVatts. Some birds upon moult'mg turn colour, as Robin- taking every cccafion of drawing upward to the
z. To knead ; a«, to ctokA/ bread. Ainfvj red-breafts, after their moulting, grow to be red fun ; not confidering, that they hive no more time
again by degrees* Bacon, allowed them in their mûntirg than the fmgle re-
Mo'uLDAELE. a^'. [from CTca/</.] 1 hat
Time ih ^11 moult away his wings. volution of a day j and that when the light goes
may be moulded. E'er he ihall difcover from them, they are of neceflity to fall. Drydtn.
The differences of figurable and not figurablf,
In tê whole wids world again
tauldttili and not mculJable, are plebeian notions.
2. To tower ; to be built up to great ele-
Such ?. conftant lover. Suckling.
Baccn's Natural Htji.ry. vation.
The widow'd turtle hangs her moulting wings,
Mo'uLCER. n.y. [from mould.^ He who And to tlic woods in mournful, murmur lings.
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens,
and his head reach unto the clouds, yet he fliall
moulds. Garth.
perilh. Job, xx. 6.
yi Mo'utnER. 11. n. [from mould.'\ To ToMouNCH. 7 -v. a. [mouch, to eat much.
3. To get on horfeback-
be turned to dull; to perilh in dull ; roMAUNCH.j .Aitt/'Morjh. This word He cry'd, oh and mounted. Staiefp. CymbeHr.e^
!
to be diminilhed ; to wear or waftr is retained in Scotland, and denotes the

4. [For amount.] To attain in value.
sway. obtunded aclion of loothlefs gums on a Bring then thefe blefllngs to a ftrift account,
If he had fat ftill, the enemy's army would have hard cruli, or any thing eatable it : .Make fair deductions, fee to what they mount ?
m.uidcrtd to nothing, and been expofcd to any ad- feems to be a corruption of the French Pope.
vantage he would take. C'trfi-rtdcn,
word manger. Macbean.] To Mount, -u. a.
Whatfoevei moulders, or is wafled away, is car-
rieînto the lower grounds, and nothing brought
A failor's wife had chefnuts in her lap, 1. To raife aloft ; to lift on high.
back again. Burntt.
And mûneht, and motinrhr, and m:unttt. Shahfp. The fire that m unis the liquor till it runs o'er,
Movvn.tt.f. [munbian, Saxon, to de- augment, waftes it.
Seeifling to Sbakejpeare.
Thole formed flcnei defpoiled of their rtielli,
fend.] Any thing raifcd to fortify or What power is it which mounts my love fo high.
and exppfed upon the furface of the ground, in
That m^kes me fee, and cannot feed mine eye ?
time decay, wear, and mculder away, and are fre- defend : ufually a bank of earth or Sbakefpijre.
quently found defaced, and broken to pieces.
Hone. The air is fo thin, th.it a bird has therein no
ffcodward"! Natural Hiflcry.
His broad branches laden with rich fee. feeling of her wings, or ajiy refiilance of air to
T^ .%.~, I., frr.iiing Jove 'twas giv n, Did Ilretch themfelves without the outnnoft bound mount ficrfelf by. Raleigh.
Gr- glories to rec.ill,
Of this great garden, compafs'd with a moi.nd. 2. To alcend ; to climb.
Wl and when arches fall. Prbr,
/ifcr,
Fairy Sluetrt.
Finding his congregation weu/der every Sunday, Shall we inunt again the rural throne.
The fea's a thief, whofc liquid furge refolves
And rule the country kingdoms, once our own?-
and hearing what was the occafion of ir, he re-
folved CO give bit parilh a little Latin in hia turn.
"Tht niourds into fait tears.
Ond had thrown
Stairfpcare.
... I
Dry den.
j^diiifons Speâtor,
That inountain as.hrs garden mound, high nris'd.
3. To place horfeback
oii ; to furnifli
7^0 Mo'vLDEs.. V. a. [from mould.] To Milton. with horfes, ,
turn to dull ; to crumble. Such as broke through all mulrtdi of law, fuch Three hundred horfes, in high ftables fed.
The natural biftoiics of Switzerlind talk of the as laughed at tl.e fword of vengeance which dfvinc Ofthcfc he chofe the fairal and the beft,
fallof thofe rocks when their fonnditions have juftice brandiflied in their faces. South' i Serm.vs. ToKourt the Trojan troop. Dryden's A^nrJ.
6«en mcUldei ed with age, or rent by an eirtl-.quake. Nor cold fliail h:natr m- with horns and lioUnJs Cle « -cafin, acting in conjunftion with a wpil-
Addif^ff iti Italy. To tbrid Che thiv '.:
:-ap the ftmindt, difciplirled, but ftrong and vigorous tancy, feldonx
With nodding arches, broken temples fpread. ,..,,. Drydn. fail to attain theii end: faiicy without real'on is
The very tomhs n'jw vanifli'n like thVir dead ; The of VM^;\ '.s Hke a vaft garden Xur-
ftaie like a horfe without a rider ; and reafon without
Some felt the filent rtroke of mtitild'ring age, rounded by n noble sroiuiii work of rocks nnd ,'faB<;y is not well mounted, Grc-iu's C-ijiml.
Some, hoftile fury. P-fc. mountains. AddiJ'.ii. 4. To cmbellilh with ornaments.

Mo't'LDiNESS. n. / [from »!«»/(/)'.] '^J'he To ^lovuTi. V. ti. [from the nouD.] 1o 5.^ To Mount guard. To do duty and
ftaie cf being mouldy. fortify wiih a mound. watch at any particular poll.
FIclh, fiih, aid plants, after a miuWiVy;, ro'.ten- MOUNT. f». /. [mvnt, French j mons, 6. To Mount a cannon. To fet a piece
iiefs, or co.-rupiin^, will fall to breed worm?.
Latin.] on its wooden frame for the more cafy
Btteott's Natural IllJItiry.
Mo'uLDlnc. ».y [from mould ] Orna- 1. A mountain ;'

• hill. carriage and management in firing it.
Jacob cftcred facrificc upon the »5»nf. Mo'untain. h./. [^moHtaigne, Frencn.]
iPtnral caviiiei in wood or llote. Gip.iixx\. 54.
I. A large hill; a vaft protuberance of
Hollow atinld'mg: arc required in the work. EehoH yon mountain's Tioary hrfght,
Mcx'.n. the earth.
Made higher with new mounts of fnow, Vrjdcn.
Mo'ui DWARP. a./, [molb and Jieoppan, And hy his falfc worlhip fuch pow'r he did g.xn.
2. An artiAcial bill raifcd in a garden, or
As kept him o' th' mountain, and us on the plain.
Saxf n. This is 1 believe the proper and ether place. Raldgb.
original name of the talfa : a mouldnuarf He might fee what mounts they bad in /hort time The ark no more now flotes, but feems on
15 a creature that turns mculd. The word and what number wa» of warlike
call, » there fbl-
ground.
Kmllei,
is ftill retained, though fometimcs pro
diers. Fad on the top of fome high mountain fix'd. Milton.
nûnced mouldy-warp. ] A mole ; a fmall 3. A publick trcafure ; a b;>nk. Mow From Atinon's hands a rolling ftonc there came.
obfolcie. So large, it halt defctv'd a mtunlaiid name Diyd. I
animal that thrown up the earth.

I
2. Any
, ; ];
M O U MOU M 0,iU
t. ,Any thing provtrbiallv huge. Only to (hew with how fmall pa'n to which the fteel part is fixed, or
I had been drowned ; a de aih (hat
I abhor j for The tores of faith are cur'd again. fludiims. where it is taken ofF.
the warcr IwelU a nun, and what (htuld I have But >E('chyliis, lays Horace in fome paje,
He carried his lances, which though ftrong to
been when 1 had been Iwclled ? I ftouid have been Was tke firft mounlrhatik that trod the ftage.
give a lancely blow indeed, yet fo were they co.
a umirtjm of mummy. Shakifptarc. Dtydrn. loured with hooks near (he mourni, that tliey pret-
She did corrupt frail nature with fome bribe, It looks like a mounleiank to boaft infallible cures.
tily reprefented flieep hooks. Sidney,
To make an envious m:untam on my back, Baker.
Where fits deformity to mock my body. Sbaifp. 2. Any boafiful and falfe pretender.
Mo'uRNER n.f. [(rom mourn.]
1. One that mourns; one that grieves.
Mo'uNTAiN. at/j [moKtanui, Latin.] As nimble jugglers, that deceive the eye,
The kindred of the queen muft die at Pomfrrt.
Found on the jtiountdins ; pertaining to Difguifcd cheaters, prating n.ounl'lenkt.
—Indeed I am no m'wntr for that news,
the mountains; growing on the mouii
And many fuch like libertines of fin.
Bccaufe thty have been ftill my advcflaries. Sbak,
Sbak/f'tflre.
tains. There are mountebanks, and fmatterers in (late. To cure thy woe, (he fliews thy fame
Nnw for our mmnia'm fport, up to yond hill,
L'Kftrange.
Left the great mourner fliould forget
Your li;gs ire youn^. Shakcjptare's Cytric/ine.
,
Notliing fo impolTible In nature but mourtiianks That all the race whence Orange came.
You may a: well forbid the tr.ountyw pines will undertake. Arhutbnot'i liijlory of John Bull. Made virtue triumph over fate. Prior,
To wa| their high tops, and to make a no'.ie,
To Mc'uN TEBANK From noife and riot he devoutly kept,
"u. a. [from the
Wlien they are fretted with the gufts of heav'n. Sigh'd witli the fick, and with the mourner wept.
noun.] To cheat by falfe boafts or lljrtt.
Mountain e'er. pretences. One who follows
n.f. [from mounlain.] 2. .a funeral in black.
I'll mountebank their loves, A woman
1. An inhabitant of the mouniains.
Cog their hearts from them.
that had two daughters buried one,
Sbeieffisare't Coriolan. and mourners were provided to attend the funeral.
A few mcutitawttrs may
efcape, to continue hu-
man race ; and yet illiterate rufticki, as mount mnetr^
Mo'uNTENANCE. «. /. Amount of a L'EJl.'ange.
always arc. Bentiey.
thing in fpace. Obfolete. He lives to be chief mowner for bis fon j
Amiternian troops, of mighty fame. This faid, they both a furlong's mour.tenanee Before his face his wife and brother burn. Dryden,
And tnnuntiiirieers, (hat from Severus came. Dryden, Retiv'd, their rteeds to runne an even race. Spenf. 3. Something uled at funerals.
2. A lavage; a free booter ; a ruftick. Mo'uNTER. n. f. [from mount.] One The mourner cugh and builder oak were there.
yield, ruftick moutifaitteer. Skakifptcrc'i Cyyr.bel. ihat mounts. Dryden,
No
favage, fierce bandit, or mountahecr, Though they to the earth were thrown, "^
Mo'u R K F u L . adj. [mourn and full ]
- Will dare to foil her virgin purity. Milton. Yet quickly they regain'd (heir own, K 1. Having the appearance of forrow.
Mo'uNTAiNET. n.f. [from mountain.] Such nimblcnefs was never ihown 3 ;
No funeral rites, nor man in mournful weeds,
A hilioci4; a fmall mount.
They were two gallant mounters. Drayton's Nymp. Nor mournful hcW (hall ring her burial. Sbakefpeare.
Elegant,
Ttw bankers will to heav'n be mounters. Sioifi. The winds within the quiv'rlng branches play' J,
but not in ufe.
Her breafts fweetly rofe up
Mo'uNTY.»./. [mountee, French.] Ihe And dancing trees a mournful ru'dfick made.
like two fair moun-
rife of a hawk. DrydeM,
tahiis in the plealant vale of Tempe. Sidney.
The fport which Bafilius would (hew to Zelmanc, 2. Cau/ing forrow.
Mo'uNTAiNOus. adj. [from mounlain.]
was the motmty at a heron, which getting up on h?s Upon his tomb
1. Hilly; full of mountains. waggling wings with pain, as though the air next Shall be engrav'd the fack of Orleans
The afcent of the land fiom the fea to the foot to the earth were not fit to fly through, now di- Xhe treach'rous manner of his mournful death.
of the mountains, and the height of the mountains miniflied the fight of hlmfelf. Sidney. Sbakefpeare,
from the bottom to the top, are to be computed,
when you meafure the height of a mountain, or of
To Mourn, 'v. n. [mupnan, Saxon.] 3. Sorrowful ; feeling forrow.
I. To grieve; to be forrowful. The mournful fair,
a meutitainous land, in refpeft of the fea. Burnet* Oft as the rolling years return.
Large as mountains Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep.
2. ; huge ; bulky. With fragrant wjeaths and flowing hair,
What cuftom wills in all Genefis.
things, Ihould we do't, Shall vifit her diftinguifli'd urn.
Mouriainous error wou'd be too highly heapt
My vineyard being defolate, mournelb unto me. Prior.
For truth to o'erpeer. Jer. xii. \. Betokening forrow ; expreflive of grief.

Shakefpeare.
They made an appointment to mourn with him, Nomournful bell (hall ring her burial. Sbakefp,
On earth, in air, amidft the feas and Ikies,
Mountaincui heaps of wonders rife
and to comfort him. ^c^, ii. 11. Onyour family's old monument
Wbofe tow'ring ftrength will ne'er fubmit
;
They icjoice at the prcfence of the fun, and Hang mournful epitaphs. Sbahefpeare,
To reafon's batteries, or the mines of wit. Pmr.
mourn at the abfence thereof. B.ncn's Nat. Hijlory. Mo'uRN FULLY, ad'v. [ from mournful. ]
Next came one
3. Inhabiting mountains. Sorrowfully ; with forrow.
Who mcttrn'd in earneft, when the captive ark
Beat the drum, that
In deftruftions by deluge and earthquake, the it fpeak mournfully
Maim'd his brute image, head and hands lopt oft'.
remnant which hap to be referved are ignorant and Hhak.jpeare,
Milton.
mcuntainout people, that can give no account of the Mo'uRNFULNESs.
time part. Bacon's Effiys.
z. To wear the habit of forrow. »._/'. [from mournful.]
We mourn in black ; why mourn we not in blood ?
I. Sorrow ; grief.
Mo'uNTAiKOUSNESs. n /. [from mouii Shitkefpeare. 2 Show of grief; appearance of forrow*
tainous.'\ State of being full of moun- Friends in fable weeds appear,
Mo'u R N N c ». / [from mourn.
I .
tains. Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year;

And bîar about the mockery of woe 1. Lamentation ; forrow.
Armenia is fo called from the mount a'wo-jfnef! of Wo is mfc, who
me inxhofc days?
will deliver
It. BrereiVbod.
To midniijht dances, and the puppet. (how. Pope,
the beginning of forrows and great mournings.
Mo'uNTAiN- PARSLEY. 3. To preferve appearance of grief.
»._/ [orto/oUnum Feign thyfcif to be a mourner, and put on mourn-
2 Ejdras,vi\, 18.
Lat.] A plant. ing apparel. 2 Sjm. xiv. 2.
2. The drefs of forrow.
Mo'uNTAiN-RosE. /. [cbamarboda-
They through the mafter-ftreet the corps con-
tt. Publifli it that rtic is dead ;
vcy'd.
dendron, Latin.] A plant. Maintain a mourning oftentation.
The houfes to their tops with black were Iprcad,
Mo'wNTANT. adj. \ntontant, French.] Hang mournful epitaphs. Shakefp. Much ado.
And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid.
Rifing on high. To MouRK. v a. Dryden.
Hold up you (luts, 1. To grieve for ; to lament. Mo'uRNiNGLY. adv. [from mourning.]
Your aprons mountant ; you 're not oathable, A flood thee alfo drown'd,
With the appearance of forrowing.
Although, I know, you'll fwear. Sbakrfpean, And funk thee ai thy fons ; till gently rcat'd
By
The king fpoke of him admiringly and mourn-
th' angel, on thy feet tiiou ftoodll at lad.
Mo'vNTEBANK. tt. /. [moitfare in ianco,
Though
ingly. Sbcikfp,
comfortlefs, as when a father n::urm
Italian.] Mouse,
His children, all in view deftroy'd at once. Milton. plural mice n.f. [mup, Saxon ;
I. A doilor that mounts a bench in the' The mufcthatmcB/TU him now his happy triumph »!«r,Latin.] The fmallellofal! hearts;
market, and boafls his infallible reme- fung. Dryden. a little animal haunting houfes and
dies and cures. Fortius hinifcif oft falls in tears before me.
.
As he mourn'd his
corn fields, deftroved by cats.
I bought an unflion of a mounteiaak
if rival's ill fuccefs. Mdijon.
The eagle England being in prey.
So mortal, that but dip a knife in it.
2. To Utter in a forrowful manner. To her unyuarded nell the wcazel Scot
Where it draws blood, no cataplafm fo rare. The love-lorn nightinîale
Comes fneaking, and fo fuck;> her princely eggs ;
Can fave the thing from death. Skakr/p. Hamltl. Nightly to thee her fad fong mournelb well. Milton.
Flaying the moufe in abfence of the cat. Shttktfp,
^he, like a tKOunlithank, did wound MouRN^. ». / [morne, French.] 'I'he Where mice and rats dcvour'd poetick bread.
And Sab herfclf with doubts profound, round end of a ftafF; the part of a lance And with heroick verfe luxurioully were fed, Dryd,
This
] . '
M O U MOU MOW
This ftrnflare of hair I have obferved in the 4. A fpeaker; a rhetorician; the princi- 2. In compofition, foul mouthid ox contu-
hair of cats, rats, and m.Vtr. Verham'sFhyJlto-^Thi:'!* pal orator. In burlefque languape. melious; xx\eA\y mouthed or bafhful ; and
To Mouse, v n. [from the noun.] Every coffee-houfe has fome particular ftatefman a hard mauthed horle, or a horle nui:
1. To catch mice. belonging to it, who is the K.-os.'i of the rtreet
obedient to the bit.
A falcon t wring of place, where he lives. Addiji,n.
in his pride Mo'uTH-PRiEND. n. f. \mouth and
Was by a tnmfirg owl haivk'd and kill'd. Shafeff. 5. Cry i
voice.
friend.] One who profefles fnendlhip
2. 1 fuppofe it mean', in the followirg Coward dogs
Moft fpend their m<,mhi, when what they feem to without inteniiing it.
paflage, fly; infidious, or predatory;
threaten May you a better feall never behold.
rapacious interefiejT'
; Yon knot of moutb-friendi fmoke and lukewarm
Runs far before tiiem. Sbakejpeare's Henry V. :
^
A whole afTfmbly of vanfrg faints, under the The boar water
maflc of zeal and good nature, lay many kingdoms Deals glancing wounds; the fearful dogs divide. Is your perfection. Shahefpcare.
in blood. VEfirange. Mo'uthful. n. /. [mouth and_/a//.J
All fpend their n::ttfh aloft, but none abide. Dryd.
Mouse-ear. n. /. [wyoyoz/j, Latin.] A You don't now thunder in the capItol, 1 What the mouth contains at once.
.
plant. Miller. With all the mcuths of Rome to fecond thee. 2. Any proverbially fmall quantity.
Mouse-hunt. [mou/e and />u«t.]
n. /. j^ddifcn.
A goat going out for a mcutbful of fvelh grtifs,
Moufer; one that hunts mice. 6. Diftortion of the mouth; wry face, in charged- her kid not to open the door till ihr came
You have been a mouje-huvt in your time. this fenfe, isfaid to make mouthi. bsck. L'' Fjireinge.
But 1 will watch you. ShaKeJp. Rsmio cndjnl'it. Pcrfevere, counterfeit fad looks, You to your own Aqui.'vum fliall repair.
Mouse-hole, n. f. and kok.]
[mou/e Mjke Kiulhs upon me when I back.
turn my To take a mouthful of fweet country air. Dryden,
Small hole; hole at which a moufe ScaUfpeare. Mo'uTH-HONOUR. jt. /. [mouth 31X11 ho-
Againft whom make ye a wide mcutb^ and d;aw
only may run in. nour.] Civility outwardly exprefled with-
out the tongue.? J/aiaby Ivii. 4.
He puts the prophets in a wott/^r-io/^ ; thelaft man Why they Hiould keep running afies ac Coielhill, out fincerity.
ever fjieaks the beft reafnn. DrydtnenJ L-e t Or.-iif. or how miking mauihs turns to account in War-
Honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
He can cicep in at a m'.rifi-holi, but he foon wickfliire more than any other parts of England,
I muft not look to have; but in their ftead,
grows t03 big ever to get out again. StiUingfcet,
1 cannot comprehend. Adeifon.
Curfes not loud but deep, miutb-bon(.ur, breath.
Mo'usER. »./. [from mou/e.l One that 7. Dcnva in thi Mouth. Dejefted ShakefpcartM
j
catches mice. clouded in the countenance.
Mo'uTHLEss. adj.Be- [from mouth.]
Pufs, a madam, will be a maufrr ftill. L'EJiran. But, upon bringing the net alhore, it proved to
ing without a moulh.
When you have fowl in the larder, leave the be only one gre.it ftone, and a few little filhes :
Mow. »./. [mope, Saxon, a heap.] A
door open, in pity to the cat, if flie be a good upon this difappointment they weie dinvn in lbs loft or chamber where hay or corn is laid
moufir. S'.i'lf!.
mcufb. L^ EJirange, up: hay in moiu, is hay laid up in a
Mo'usETAiL. »./ [iKjo/ura.] A heib.
To Mouth, n/. n. [from the noun.] To houfe ; hay in rid, is hay heaped to-
Mo'us.l-TR.AP. [mcufe and trap.]
n./. fpreak big ; to fpeak in a llrong and gether in a field.
A fnare or gin in which mice are taken. loud voice ; to vociferate. Learn /kilfuUic how
Many anal^gri motions in animals, I have reafon Nay, an thou'lt mtuih, Each grain for to laie by itfelf on a mow. fiijfer.
to conclude, in their principle are not limply me-
rU rant as well as thou. Shakefpedrc's Hamlet. Where'er 1 gad, I Blouzclind (hall view.
chanical, although a movft-trofi or Architas dove, When Frcgne's or Thyeftes* feaft they write. Woods, dairy, barn, and matvi our paffion knew.
mcved mechanically. Halt.
And for the miulthg aftor verfe indite ; Gay.
Madam's own hand the msufttrap baited. Prkr. Thou neither like a bellows fweU'ft thy face. Beans when moiftgive in the mow^ Mortimer,
MOUTH. «./. [mu%, Saxon.] Nor can'ft thou Itrain tiiy throat. Dryden's Verjiui. To Mow. 'u. n. [from the noun.] To
1. The aperture in the head of any ani- ril bellow out for Rome, and for my country.
And mcuth at Cafar till Hiake the fenate. Addtj^n.
put in a mow.
mal at which the food is received. I
To Mow. preter.
To Mouth, -v. a. It. a. mo^xed, parr.
The dove came in and lo, in her mtKib was an
;
mo'wn. [mapan, Saxon. Aloiti the nouti,
olive leaf. Crtî, viii. ii. 1. To utter with a
voice afFeftedly big ;
There can be no rcafon given, «hy a vifagc and mouu the verb, meaning to put in
to roll in the mouth with tumult.
foniewhat longer, or a wider mouib, could not have Speak the fpeech as I pronounced it, trippingly a mo'w, is pronounced as nonu; moij*
conHfled with a foul. Loxkf.
on the tongue but if you mcutb it, 1 had as
: to cat, as mo.]
2. The opening; that at which any thing lieve the town crier had fpoke my lines. Shuhfp. 1. To cut with a fcythe.
enters; the entrance; the of a
part Twltch'd by the flceve he mtutbt it more and Of all the feed th.it in my youth was fowne,
vcflel by which it is filled and emptied. more. Was nought but brakes and brambles to be miitm^
He camrand lay at the mmtb of the haren, dar- Till with white froth bis gown is llaver'd o'er.
afUf.r.
ing them to fight. Kn-Jlci, Dry den. The care you have
Set a c>ndie liglited in the bottom of a bafon of 2. To chew; to eat; to grind in the To mtnv down thorns that would annoy our foot,
wafer, and turn the trouth of a glafs over tht- mouth. Isworthy pvaife. Hhaksfpeare s Htnry VI.
candle, and it will make the water rile. Corne carried let fuch as be pooie go and glenn. Forth he goes,
Bacon'i ffalura/ H:/!ory. And after thy tartle to mourb it up clean. luH'tr. Like to a harveit m^tn, that's tafk'd to moiu
The >«ofi is low and rarrow ; but, after li.iv- Dcjth Hneii his de.id cha;is with (tcei, Or all,_orlofe his hire. Sh^f-cfpeare's Conolnnus,
ing entered pretty far in, the grotto opens itfelf in The fwords of loldiers are his teeth, his phangs it was the latter growth after the k\n^'itno':v'ngi*
;
an oval figure. j^J(/ift,K, And now he I'calls nicutling the tleih ot' men. Amoi .
The navigation of the Arabitk gulf being more SbaJteJpearL'. Whatever

dangerous tovvatds the bottom than the mourh, I'to-
3. To feize in the mouth. The fcythe oftlme moiui down, devour unfpard.
lemy built Berenice at the entry of the gulf.
He keeps them, like an apple, in the corner of
ArLuthKOt in C'jnt.
bis jaw ; lirll m(.uib'd to be laft lw,dlovv d.
Beat, roll and m'rM carpet-walks and cammo-
J.
The inftrument of fpeaking. Sbiikifpeare 5 Hamlet.
mile. E-'ilyn.
Riotous madnefs. Lucilius never fear'd the times ; 2. To cut down wirh fpccd and violence.
To be'entsngled with thtfe aoaihmiic vows. Mutiuo and Lupus both by naiTiche brought, He will tmiv down all before him, and le.ive his
Which break thcmfelvti in fweariog. Sbattjffare. He mcutb^d them, and betwixt his grinders ciught. paffige poIV'd. Sbahffieare's Ccrklanus,-
Bitlierourhiilory fhiU wi'h full mMib D'yden, What valiant foemen, like to autumn's corn,
Speak freely of our ails ; or clfe our grave.
4. To form by the mouth. Have we nww'd down. Hhakefpearei H^nry VU -
Like Turkifh mute, fiiali have a toaguclefs mouthy 'I hou and I, niavching before oui troops,
In regard the cub comes forth involved in the
Not worlhipp'd wl:h a waxen epitaph. Ukahjpiare, chorion, a thick membrane oblcuring the fnima-
May taftc lata to 'em ; mmu 'enn out a pallage,
Call the damfel, and inquire at her m!,uih. Beg.irthe nohU: harvcft of the fi^-ld. Dryd-n,
tion, .ind which the darn doth al'tt-r teat afundi-r;
Gtnefii, xniv. 57. Stands o'er the profh'ate \fc.etch, and as he lay.
the beholder at firrt fight impure^ tlie enfuiog
F.very body's moutb will be full on it for the firft Vain t^lcB inventing, and prepar'd to pray,
form to the mûfhmg uf tlie dam. Brown.
/rmr day;., and in four more the llory wiil talk itfell AUivi ofrhTs head. Diydcns Mneul,
êep. L' EJIrarfre, Mo'uTHtn. aJJ [from »7«a/^. To Mow. 1/ n. To
gather the harvtrit.
H.ivirg frequently in our vnufbt the name e-er- 1. Fiirn (lied with a mouth. Gold, though the heavicll mcfal, hither fwims:
DJty, we think w- have a pofrive idea oi it. Iîkf One trag'ck fentence if I dare ile'-Me, Ours is the harvell where the Indians woif.
There is a certain frntence got into every mm';, Which Bcttcrton's grave afll.jn digiiify'd. We plough thc-deepj and reap what othûrs fow.
mcttlh, thai: Cod accepts the will for the deed. Or well nmitb'd Baoth i»ith.cmphafii proclaims.
5 iiuib^t Strmsnt. P'lpe.
; ;
MU C M U C MU C
Mow. a. f. [probably corrupteJ from turn »way from bim that (ipe«Ucth from hea- 4. An anrommon thing; fometîng
ven. Jlebi eivif xii. £5-
miktb ; mou'-, French.] mouth; Wry Full of doubt (land.
(Irange.
It was naeh that one that was fo great a lover of
I
ditlorted face. I'bis word is now ou; Whether I (hould repent me now of fin peace (hould be happy in war. Ba cn't Hcr:ry Vll.
uf life, but retained in Scotland. By roe dune or occafioned, or rejoice It 'umuch, if men were from eternity, that they
Tery abjedi cime togtther agiinll me
Tl-.e ilTuch mate, that much more £ojd thereof (hall
(hould nut find out the way of writing all that long
uns'.vjrcs, making; tt:o%in at me. fpring. Minn. duration whith had part before that time, 'liihryn,
Pjal, XXXV. 1 5. Cimmn Prayrri Patron or iiiterceffor none appear'd.
5. To make Mt;cH of. To treat with
Apes ind monkryi, Much lefs that durft upon his own head draw
regard tn fondle ; >o pamper.
'Twixt two Aich (he's, woulJ chitierthis way, and 7 he deadly forfeiture. Milton. ;
1 hough he knew his difcuurfe was to entertain

Contemn with mcto^ the other. .VA,a,(,.|M«.
2. To a certain degree.
him from a more (Ircight parley, yet he diir(t not
Thole that would niak; mmvi at liim while He charged tlirm that they Ihruld tell no man ;
my father lived, give twenty ducats apiece for hii but klfs his rod, and gladly make much ot that
but the more he charged them, fo much the more
picture in Stat-fieare, entertainment which (he allotted unco him. Sidn.y.
little.
a great deal they publilhed it. Marh, vii. 36.
To The king, underftanding of t-ielr adventure, lud'-
To Mow. 11. n. [from the noun.] There is, faid Michajl, if thou well obfcrve,
dcnly falls to take a pride in making much of them,
make to diftort the face.
moutfts ; The rule of not too much, by temp' ranee taught. extolling them with infini;e praifcs. Sidnjm
Some Smithfield ruffian takes up fome new Milnn.
When thou cameil (irft.
mitohg with the mouth. Come wienching with the 3. To a great degree. Thou ftroak'rt, and mad'ft much of roe; and
ihoulder, fome freOi, new oath, that will run Henreforth I (ly not death, nor would prolong would'd give ii.e
round in the mnuth. jljcham. Life Ktich, bent rlther how I may be quit Water with berries in't. Skakefpeare't Temp^.
For every triO are they fet upon me Faired and of this cumbrnus charge. MUcn.
Sometimes like ajês that mito and chatter « me. So fpakc,
eafieft
fo wilh'd much humbled Eve, but fate
Much at one Nearly of tqual value'}
And after bite nic. .Ihai'/peare's timfrfl. Subfcrib'd not. Miinr.. of equal ir fiuence.
Then prayers arc vain as curfes, much at one
TsMo'wBURN. -v. n. [«sao and iarn.] Somc'.vhat aw'd, I rtiook with holy fear,
In a Have's moutli, againll a monarch's pow'r.
mow not fo mnii but that noted well
To ferment and heat in the for li'et I
DryJent
Who did t!ie moil in fong and dance excel. Drjii.
want of being dry. To thee thy «»<'/ -afSiflud mother flies, Mu'CHWHAT. aJv. [much and 'what.'\
Houie it net green, left it miwinrn. M^rt'mcr.
And on thy fuccour and thy faith relies. Dryden. Nearly.
Mo'wER. n./. ; founded as
[from mo-w Your much-\n\'d fleet fliall fnun The motion being conveyed from the brain of
moir.^ One whocu'swith a fcythe. Befiegc the petty monaichs of the land. Dryden, man to the faocy of another, it is there retiived ;
Set moweri a mowing, where meadow is grown. if his rules oi rcafon bv not better tl^n his rules and the fame kind of diings being moved, anj
luffer. for health, he is not like to be much followed. muchiohai after the fame manner as in the firll
The ftrawy Greeks, ripe for his edge. Saker oyiLcarmng, imaginant. GlaffvilWs Sccpjiu
Fall down before him like the nurjuer'i fwath. Oh much experienc'd man Pofc's Odyjpy. I
The bignefs of her body and bill, aslikewife the
Sbakcfpearc. Sad from my natal hour my days have ran, form of them, is much*iubc2t as follows. Mote.
Ail elfe cut off A much afHicled, much enduring man. Pope. If we will di/bclieve e\ery thing, bscaufe we
As Tarquin did the poppy-heads, or mim'ert 4. Often, or long. cannot kn ;w all things, we (hall do mucbvilat as
A field of thirties. Ben Jjk'cx's Cal'iHne. You pine, you languiih, love to be aline. wifely as he who would not ufe his legs becaufe
Mvmert and reapers, who
fpend the moft part of Think much, fpeak little, and in fpeaking, figh. he had no wings to fly. Locke*
the hot Summer days cipofed to the fun, have the J^rydctt. Unlefs he can prove cxiibatum a man or a wo-
fl;in of their hands of a darker colour than before. Homer (hall laft, like Alexander, long. man, this Latin will be muchtuhat the fame with
Hoy/e. As much recorded, and as often fung. Granville. a folecifm. Atterhury%
Mo'xA. An
Indian mofs, nfed in
tt./. 5^ Nearly. Much is kind of com»
often ufed in a
the cure of the gout, by burning it on All left the world mu:h as they found it, ever pofiiion with participles both ailive and
the part aggrieved. Temple. unquicr, fubjeiS to changes and revolutions. Temple. paflive : when it is joined with a pafiive,
RÔYLE. n. /. A mule; an animal gene- Much, n / as much lo'ved, it feems to be an ad-
rated between the horfe and the afs. I. A great deal; multitade in number; verb ; ,when it is joined with an a£tive,
Ordinary hulbandmcn ihould quit breeding of abundance in quantity: oppofed to a as much enduring, it may be more pro-
horles, and betake themfclyes to moylti ; a heart little. perly confidered as a noun.
W/lich will fare hardly, live very long, dr.iw in- They gathered agalnd Mofes and Aaron, and
(Tifferently well, carry great burthens, and hath
Mu'cHBL. adj. for muckle or mickltt
faid, Ye take too mfffi upon you. Numien, xv\. 3.
Much.
alfo a pace fwift and eafy enough. Care^M* [mycel, Saxon.]
Nor grudge I thee the much the Grecians give.
'Twould tempt a miylt to fury. May. He had in arms abroad won muchcl fame.
Nor murm'ring take the little I receive. Dryden,
Much. [mjder, Swedilh mucho, And iiU'd far lands with glory of .his might.
adj. ; They have much of the poetry of Mecxnas,
fairy Sueem
Spanifh.] but little of his liber.ility. Dryden.
Large in quantity ; long iti time : op- The fate of love is fdch.
MU'CID. [mucidus, Latin j ad;, nucre,
).
That ftill it fees too Dryden.
little or too mucbt Fr.] Slimy
mufty. ;
pofed to little.
Much fuff'ring heroes next (heir honours claim ; Mu'ciDKEss. n.f. [from WKf/V.] Slimi-
Thou ihalt carry much feed out, and JhaJt ga- Thofe of lefs noify and lefs guilty fjme.
ther but little ui for the locult fliall confume it. refs ; muflinefs. Ainfiuortb.
j
Fair virtue's filent train. Pojie's Tempk of Fame.
Dcut. xxiv. 38. MU'CILAGE. n.f. [OTHc/%f, I-'rench.]
I am well fenred, to take (o muck pains for one I. More than enough ; a heavy fervice or A flimy or vifcous mafs ; a body with
tefislved to make away with himfelf. L'Efiratigc. burthen. moiliure fufficicnt to hold it together.
You were prelTed for the fea fervice, and got off Thou think'ft it much to tread the ooze DKfMlution of gum tragacanth, and oil of fweet
with much ado. Svîft^s Rules to Sirvarti, Of the fait deep. !• halicffeare' s Tempeft.
almonds, do commingle, the oil remaining on the
2. Many in number : oppofed to/riy. He thought not much to clothe his enemies.
top till they be ftirred, and make the mucHagt
'
Milton. Bacon.
Let us knr)w fomewhat more liquid.
This gracious aA the ladies all approve. Your ataternus feed move with a broom, (hat
It 'twill tie up thy difcontcnted fword.
And carry back to Sicily much tall youth, Who thought it much a man (hould die for love.
the feeds clog not together, unlefs you will fepar.itt
That elfe mull peri/h h«re. Shjk, Am. and CUof.
And with their miftrefs join'd in clofe debate. it from the mucilage, for then you mutt a little
Dryden. Evelyn.
bruife it wet.
Much. adv.
3. Any affignable quantity or degree. Both the ingredients impro»e one another ; fcf
1. Ina great degree; by far: before The waters covered the chariots and horfemen the mucilage adds to the lubricity of the oil, and
fome word of comparifon. there remained not fo much as one. Exod. xiv. 2S. the oil prefenes tlie mucilage frem infpillation.
Ifaac, thou art much mightier than we. We will cut wood out of Lebanon as mud as thou Ray on the Otation.
Ctmfis, xxvi. 16. (halt need. t Chrcn. ii. 1 6. Mucir, a'ginous. adj. [mucilagineux, Vr,
Excellent fpeech becometh not a fool, much leb matter of the univerfe was created before
The
from mucilage.'} Slimy ; viicous ; fott
do lying lips a prince. Prcv*rhs^ xvii. 17. the flood ; and if any more was cre.ited, then
We have had fathers of our flcOi which Tor- (here mud be as much annihilated to make room with fo.-ne degree of tenacity.
refied us, and we gave them reverence ; Ihall w-. for it. Burmt'i Theory. There is a twofold liquor prepated for the m-
not much rath'r be in fut>je£tion unto the Father Who is there of whom we can with any ra- unOion and lubrilication of the hsads or ends of
of fpirlts, and live? Htlt-nn^ xii. 0. tional affurance, or perhaps fo much as likelihood, the bones j an oily one, furni(hed by the marrow ;
If they efcaped not who refufed him that fpoke affirm, here is a man whofc nature is renewed, and a muc i.'aginous, fupplied by certain glandules
on earth, much moie Ihall not we cfcapc, if we whof* heart is changed.
'
Siuih. fcated in the trticulations. Say on Crentior,

There
: ; ; ;
Thye of mjjnetifm
ij"» fort in all, not mucli The
MU
falamander being cold iii the fourth, and
p MUD
will not lofe one drop, and ^he froth will .conceal .
Jaginsus biit reCnous gums, even in common roiin. moift in the third degree, and having alfo a muccus the n.uddhcfi.
humidity above and under the Ikin, may a vvhile
^^jft.
To Mv'dule. -v. a, [from mud] '
.,
Wucn, a'cinous j'/a»y/. endure the flame. Broiun.

1. 7o make turbid; to foul;
Muc':hgirc:is glar.Js arc of two About thefe the nerves and other make to malce
forts : fome are vefle'.s a
litwli, and in a manner miiJiary glands; the ocher fine web, covered over witii a kuchus fuhftancc, to inuddy.
fort are conglomerared, or many glandules coll^dlcd moiften thcCe papilix pyramidales. Cb:<ii:e.
The neighbourhood told him, he did 111 to muddle
the water and fpoil the drink.' L
and planted oije upon another. Shtlnry, Mu'tousNEss.».y. [ifOtti mucous.] Sliine; tjlrajigc.
Yet let the
goddefs fmile or frown.
MuciLAGi.sousKeSS^/r.y; [from jnuc/- vifcofitv.
Bread we ihall eat, or white or brown
iaîttous.] Sliminels ; vifco/ity. MUCRO. n.f. [Latin.] A point. And in a cottage, or a court,
J
Muck. n./. [meox, 6a2;on ; ay^r, Iflan- The

muiro, or point of the heart jcciinelh unto Drink fine champagne, or muddld port. Pair.
the lett, by this polition it giving way unto the To make
dkk.] 2. half drunk ; to cloud or
afcenllDn of the midriff. Broivn 's Fulgur Errcurs.
1. Dung for manure of grounds. ftupify.
Hale out thy and plow out thy ground.
mitcke,
Mu'cRONATED. adj. [mucro, Lai.] War- I wa5 for five years often drunk, always mud-
lujpr. rowed to a fharp point. dled; they carried me from tave:n to tavern.
It is ufual to help the ground with muck, and Gems arc here Ihot into cubes confining of lis Arhuthmt's iiijlay ofJdnBull.
likewile to recomibrt with wutk put to the roiits ; fides, and mucrcnarcd or terminating in a point. Epicurus feems to have had his brains fo muddled
but to water it with muck water, which is like to ffûod'ward, and confounded, that he fcarce ever kept in tke
be more forcible, is not pra£tifcd. Bacf^n, Mu'cuLENT. ad/, [from macus, Latin.] right viay, though the main maxim of his pl.il. >-
The fwine may fee the pearl, which yet he va- Vifcous ;.flimv. Dia. fnphy was to trull to his fenfcs, and follow his
lues but with the ordinary truck. Clar.v. Afdogy. "of^-
MirCUS. n.f. [Latin.] It is more pro- Binlky's Sermons.
There are, who
perly ufed for that which flows from the
Mu'ddy. [horn mud.]
adj.
Rich foreign mold, on their ill-natur'd land
1. Turbid; foul with mud.
Induce laborious, and with fat'ning muck papillary procefTes through the os cribri-
A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled.
Befmear the roots. Fhil'ips. forme into the nollrils ; but it is alio Muddy, ill-feeming, thick, bereft of beauty.
Morning infe£Vs that in rvuck begun. ufed for any flimy liquor or moiflure, as
Sbakcfpiârf*
Shine, buz, and fly-blow in the fetting fun. Poft. that which daubs over and guards the Her garments, heavy with their drink,
2. Any thing low, mean, and filtny.
bowels and all the chief paflages in the PuU'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
Reward of worldly nruck doth foully blend. To muddy death. Sbakfpearc's Hamlet.
And low abafe the high heroick fpirit
body ; and it is feparated by the muci-
Carry it among the whitflers in Datchet mead,
That joys for crowns. Fa'ry ^nn. laginogs glands. Sijfincy. and there empty it in the muddy ditch dofe b> the
3. To run a Muck, (ignifies, I know noi In the aOion of chewing, the wuius mixeth Thames. Shakefpeare.
with the aliment: the b:ucui is an humour dif- Who
from what derivation, to run madiy and can a pure and cryftal current bring
ferent from the fpittle, and the great quantity of From fuch a muddy and polluted fpring
attack all that we meet. air which it contains helps to diflblve the aliment.
Sarjys. .'
I flrove in
vain th' infiefted blood to cure.
Frontlefs and fatire-proof he fcow'rs the ftrects.
AchuthnrA on Aimcnti. Streams will run muddy where the fpring's impure.
And rum an Indian muck at all he meets. Dryden.
Satire'smy weapon, but I'm too difcreet
MUD. n.f.\modder,\)Mr.c:\i.] The llime Rcfcommln.
To run a muikf and tilt at all I meet. Pope's Her,
and uliginous matter at the bottom of Till by the fury of the llorm full blown.
The muddy bottom o'er the clouds thrown.
To Muck. 1/. a. [from the noun.] To Hill water. is '
The pureft fpting Is not fo free from mud. Dryden.

manore with muck to dung. ; Out of the true fountains of fcience painters
Thy garden plot lately wel trenchtand mucii
As I am clear from treafon. Shakcfp, Htiiry VI.
and bound to draw, without amufing
flatuaries are
Would now be twifallowed.
Water in mud doth putrefy, as not able to pre-
Tujfcr. themfelves with dipping in ftreams which are often
ferve itfelf. Bacon.
Mu'cKENDEi. n. /. [mouchoir, French; The channel was dried up, and the fifli left dead muddy, at leafl troubled ; I mean the manner of
mocadero, Spanilh ; muccinium, low Lat.j and flicking in the mud.
their mailers after whom they creep. Dryden.
L'Eftrange.
A handkerchief. The force of the fluid will feparate the fmallell 2. Impure ; dark
grofs. ;
For thy dull fancy a muckciuler is fit. particles, fo as to leave vacant interftices, which There's not the fmalleft orb which thou behold'ft.
To wipe the flabberings of thy fnotty wit. Dorf.t. will be again filled up by particles carried on by But in his motion like an angel fmgs.
To Mu'cKER. 1/. n. [from muck.'] To the fucceeding fluid, as a bank by the mud of the Still quiring to the young ey'd chcrubims
;
fcramble for money ; to hoard up ; to current, which mull be reduced to that figure Such harmony is in immortal founds
which gives leaft refillance to the current. Arbuth. But whilft this muddy vellute of decay
get or fave meanly A word ufed by :
A fountain in a darkfome wood. Doth grofly clofeus in, we cannot hear it. Shaitflt.
Chaucer, and ftill retained in converfa- Nor liain'd with falling leaves nor rifing mud. If you chufe, for the compofition of fuch oint-
tion. Addifon. ment, fuch ingredients as do make the fpirits a
Mu'cKERER. n.f. [from mucitr.] One To Mud. f. a. [from the noun.] littlemore grofs or muddy, thereby the imagina-
tion will fix the better.
that muckers. 1. To bury in the flime or mud. Bnon,
Mu'cKHiLL. 3. Soiled with mud.
n. / [muck and Ml.] A Myfelf were muddrd
I wi/h
His pafTengers
dunghill. in that oozy bed,
Wheremy fan lies. Shakrfptart"! Tempcjl, Expos'd in muddy weeds, upon the miry fliofe.
Old Euclio in Plautu.<!, as he went from home,
feeing a crow-fcrat upon the muck-clli, returned 2. To make turbid ; to pollute with dirt Drj^detu
in all hafte, talcing it for an ill Cgn his money to dafh with dirt ; to foul byftirring up 4. Dark ; not bright.
'.'
was digged up. Burun. the fediment. The black "
Mu'cKiNEss. n.f. [(torn mucky.] Nafti- I (hall not ftir in the waters which have been
A more inferior flation feeks.
Leaving the fiery red behind.
nefs filth. already muddtd by fo many contentious enquiries.
;
And mingles in her muddy checks. Swift' sMiJcil.
Mu'cKLE. <i^". [mycel, Saxon.] Much. Glanv'dUi Scepjis,
Mu'ddily. [from muddy] 5. Cloudy in mind ; dull.

Mu'cKSWEAT. n. /. [muck and J'lveat ad'v. Tur-
.
Do'ft thiiik I am fo muddy, Ci unfettled,
in this low word, mu<k /ignifies wet, bidly ; with foul mixture. To appoint myfelf in this vexation .>
Luciliuj writ not only loofely and muddily, with

moid.] Profufe fweat. Shakclptare's Ifinter Tale.
and much lels caie, but alfo in a time
little art,
Mu'cKwORM. H.f. [mu<k and ivorm.] which was not yet purged from bar-
Yet I,
1. A worm dung.
that lives in
fufficiently
A dull and muddy mettled rafcal, peak.
barifm. Dryden. Like [ohn-a-drcams, unpie^nant in my ca^jfe,
2. Amifer; a curmudgeon. Mu'ddiness. n.f. [from muddy.] Tur- And can fay notiiing. Shah-jf tare's Hamlet.
Worms fu!t all conditions
Alifers arc muckvjtrmt, filkworms beaus.
;
bidtiefs fouloefs caufed by mud, dregs,
; To Mu'ddy, <v. a, [from mud] To
And death-watches phyficians. Swi/r't Mifccll. or fediment. make muddy ; to cloud
to difturb. ;
Mv'cKY. [frommuci.] Nafty Our next ftage brought us to the mouth of the The people muddied
aJJ. ; fihhy.
Tiber : the feafon of the year, the muddimfi of the Thick and unwholefome in their thoughts and
Mucky branching arms annoys,
filth hii
And with uncomely weeds the gentle wave accloys.
flream, with the many gieen trcei hanging over it, whifpers. Shakefpeare.
Mu'coos.
Fairy
[tnHco/us,,hu.]
en. ^ put me in mind of the delightful image that Virgil
baa given when /Eneas took the firft view of it. man
Excefs, either
on the head
with
;
an apoplexy, knocks, a
or with a fever, like fire iii
a<{/, Slimy ;
AddiJ'on on Italy. a ftrong-watcr-fliop, burns him down to theground,
vifcous. Turn the battle upJide down j by this means you or if it fiaan uvt out, cl)»rk< him to a. coal
Vot.ll. Y muddies
; ; ;
MU F MU L MU L
tmJtfui th« beft wit, and maket it only to flutter The Tretdom or tpertnefs and vigour cf pro- common black mulberry for that pifr>
Crrui's Cs mo/- nouncing, as in the Bocca Romana, and giving pofe. Mitltr.
and troth high.
A fomewhat more of afplration ; and the clofenefs Morton, archbi(hop of Canterbury, was contest
Mu'dsucker. n.f. [wWand /«fi.]
and muffing, and laiinefs of fpcaking, render the to ufe mor upon a tun ; and fometimes a mulberry
fea fowl. found of fpecch different. UMer. tree, called morus in Latin, out of a tun. CamdiUt
In water- fowl, their legs and feet correfpond
all
Mu'ffler «./. [from muffle.'] 2. The fruit of the tree.
to jhat way of life ; and in nudfucktrt, two of
the toes are fomewhat joined, that they may not
1. A cover for the face. The ripeft mulberry.
Dtrham. Fortune is painted with a wxj^fr before her eyes, That will not hold the handling. Shakefptare'sCtr^
e*fily fink.
to (ignify to you that Fortune is blind. A round, with fmall grain like
body black,
Mijdwa'll. »./ [w«</and wa/A] Shakeffeare's Henry V. tubercles on the furface ; not very unlike a muU
1. A »vaJl built without mortar, by throw- Mr. Hales has found out the beft expedients for berry, • fycuiward' s Feffh»
ing up mud and fufFering it to diy. preventing immediate fuffocation from tainted air, MuLi-T. «./. [^mulSa, Latin.] A fine;
If confcience contrail ruft or foil, a man may by breathing through muffers, which imbibe thefc a penalty : ufed commonly of pecuniary
as well exi>e£l to fee his face in a mudiiall, as th-'. vapours. Arbulhntu en Air.
penalty.
fuch a confcience (hould give him a true report of 2. A part of a woman's drefs by which
Souih. Doe you then Argive Hetlena, with all her trea-
his condition.
the face was covered. furc here
2. [afiajler.] A bird fo called. Ainfiuortb. There is no woman's gown big enough for him Reftore to us, and pay the mulU, that by your
Mudwa'lled. adj. \jnud and ivall.] otherwife he might put on a hat, a muffler, and a vows is due Cbafman,
handkerchief, and fo elcape. Shakejftare.
Having a mudwall. BecauH: this is a great part, and Eufebius hath
As folks from mudwaU'd tenement The Lord will take away your tinkling orna- fald nothing, we will, by way oimulB pain, lay m
Bring landlords peppcr-com for rent ments, chains, bracelets, and muffers. it upon him. Bacon,
Ifnittb, Hi. tg. Look humble upward, fee his will difclofe
Ptel'ent a turkey, or a hen,
Ti thofe might better fpare them ten. Prkr. Mu'fti. n.f. [aTurkifh word.] The The forfeit fird, and tlien the fine impofe j
7e MuE. 1/. n. [muer, fr.] To moult ; high prieil of the Mahometans. A mulS thy poverty could never pay.
Had not eternal wildom found the way. Dryden.
to change feathers. MUG. ». /. [Siinner derivfs it from
To Mulct, v. a. [ot«/(3«, Latin j mul£ler,
Muff. «. [muf, Swedi(h.]
/ A foft miugl, WeMh, warm.] A cup to drink
cover for the hands in Winter. in.
French.] To punilh with fine or for- .
Ah why
thou (lay fo long > feiture.
Feel but the difference foft and rough, Bov/zybee, didft
Thisj) gantlet, that a muff. Clcavtlajid. The mug! were large, the drmk was wond'rous Marriage without confent of parents they do not
What no more favours, not a ribbon more.
! (trong. Cay. make void, but they muifl it in the inheiitors; fof .
the children of fuch marriages are not aumitted t4

Not fan, not muff. Sucking. Mu'cGV. J adj. [corrupted from mucky,
Dryden. inherit above a third part of their parents inherit-
The laJy of the fpotted mi(^ began.
Mu'cGisH. fora'aOT/.] Moiftj damp;
i ance. Bacon's New Ailamism
A child that (lands in the dark upon his mo-
mouldy.
ther s muff, fays he (lands upon lomething, he Mule. a./, [mule, mulet, French; mula,
knows not what. Lickc. Cover with mug^ draw to keep it moift.
Latin.] An animal generated between
Mtirtimer.
To Mu'fple. -v. a,/ [from tnouJU, it. a
Mu'ghouse. «./. \mugi.x\i. houfe.] An a he afs and a mare, or fometimes be-
winter gloie] ^ tween a horfe and a (he afs.
alehoufe; a low houfe of entertainment.
1. To cover from the weather. You have among you many a purchas'd (lave, :
Our fex has dar'd the mughcujc chiefs to meet.

His muffi)d feature fpeaks him a reclufe. Which, like your aiTes, and ynur dogs, and mules.
And nurchas'd fame in many a well-fougfit ilreet.
His ruins prove him a religious houfc. CkcmeUnd. rihl. You ufe in abject and in Oavi(h part. Slakejptare*
You muft be muffled up like ladies. Dryden. Five hundred afTcs yearly t.ok the horle,
The face lies muffled up within the garment. Mu'gient. fl(^". [magiens, hîin.'l Uel
Producing »!«/« of greater fpced and fo;ce. Sandys,
I
Add Jon. lowing. Thofe efBuvia in the male feed have the greaiid
Balbutius muff id in his fable cloke, That a bittern maketh that mugicnt nolfe or droke in generation, as is dcmt)n(lrab!e in a mule,
Like an old Druid from his hollow oak. Tt-uiig. bumping, by putting its bill into a reed, or by whiih doth more relcmble the parent, that is, the
putting the fame in water or mud, and after a Ray,
2. Toblindfold. afs, than the female.
while retaining the air, but fuddenly excluding it Twelve young muUs, a ftrong laborious race.
Alas that love, whofe view is muffled (lill.
again, is not ealily made out. Jir-.wn.
Should without eyes fee pathways to his ill.
Shakefpeart. Mu'gwort. »./. [muspyp'c, Saxon; ar Mu'leteer. 8. /. [muletier, French;
We've caught the woodcock, and will keep him timijia, Lat.] «a//a, Latin.] Mule-driver; horfe boy.
muffed. . Shakrfpeare'! All's well that ends mill. Ihe flowers and fruit of the mugtoart are very Bafe muhtetrs.
Our underftandings lie grovelling in this lower like thole of the wormwood, but grow eieS up.n Like peafant foot-boys, do they keep the walls.
region, muffed up in mills and darknefs. Gtanv'Jle. the branches. Miller. And da-.e not take up arms like gentlemen. Sbak,
J,of$ of fight is the mifery of life, and ufually Some of the mod common fimples with us in Your (hips are not well mann'd.
the forerunner of death : when the malefailor England ate comfry, bugle, Paul s-betony, and Your mariners Atcmuleteen, reapers. Sbakefpeare,
comes once to bs muffed, and the fatal cloth drawn mug-wort. frijemun*
Mulie'.brity. n./. [muliebris, Latin.]
over his eyes, we know that he is not far from
MULA'TTO. muLt,
Siutb^
H. /. [ Spanifli ; Womanhood; the contrary to virility;
hit execution.
Bright Lucifer
French; from ma/w, Latin.] Ore be- the manners and charafler of woman.
That night his heav'nly form obfcur'd with tears got between a white and ablatk, as To Mull, v. a. [mollitus, Luin.]
And fince he was forbid to leave the (kies. a mule between different fpecies of 1. To foften and difpirit, as wine is
He muffed with a cloud his mournful eyes. animals. when burnt and fweetened. Har.mer,
Dryden.
One muff d up In the infallibility of his fe6l,
Mu'lberry. J a./ [mopbejiij. Sax. Pe.ace is a very apoplexy, lethargy,
Mu'l BERRY trie. \ morus, Latin.] Muit'd, deaf, flecpy, infenlible. Sbaktjfeare,
will not enter into debate with a perfon thjt will
him 1. The mulberry tree haih large, r. ugh, 2. I'o h'fat any liquor, and fweeteii and
qucllion any of thofe things which to are
facred. Locie. roundilh leaves the male flower?, or fpite it.
;
To conceal to involve, Drink new eyder muWd, with ginger warm.

J. ; kaikins, which huve a calyx confilting
This one of the (Irongeft examples of a per-
Gay^
is
of four leaves, are fomeiimes produced A
fonation that ever was : although tiie king's man- M«lle'in. a./ [t/o-^rt/fa/n, Latin.]
ner of (hewini; things by pieces, and by dark lights,
upon feparate trees, at oiher times at re- plant. Miller.
hath fo muffled it, that it hath left it almoft as a mote dilianct-s from the fruit on the fame Mu'ller. French.] A
a. /. [mouleur,
myiiery. Bacen'i Henry VIl. tree: the fruit is compofed of feveral
Hone held in tht: hand, with which any
No muffing clcuds, nor (hades infernal, can protuberances, to each of which adhere
From his iniûiry hide oiTending man. Sandys. powder is ground upon a horizontal
four fmall leaves ; the feeds are roii d-
The thouglits of kings are like religious groves, llone, It is now often called improperiy
iflj, growing fingly each protube-
in
The walks of muffed_%oAi, Drytlen's Don êlaJiUn- mullet
They were in former ages muffed up in darknefs rance: it is planied for the delicacy of
The beft grinder is the porphyry, white or gretn
and luperftition. Arbutbmt^s Uijlary cfjahn BuVu the fruit. The white mulberry is com- maible, with a miillcr or upper done of the fame,
7o Mu'ffle. -v. n. \maffelen, moffelen, monly cultivated for its leates to feed cut very even without flaws or holes; you may
Du:ch.] To fpeak inwaraly ; to i'peaii fiikworms, in F/ance and Italy, though make a wu./rr aifo of a flat pebble, by grinding it
Ifmoothatagrind-done, Practam,
without clear and diitindl articulation. the Ferlians always make uie of the
Mo''li.et.
: ;
MU L MU L M U L
Mu'llet. n. f. [mulluf, Latin; muhl, MuLTi'pAROus. adj. \multiparus, Lat.] 2. State of being many.
French.] A
Tea fifli.
_
Bringing many at a birth. You Donne in the variety, ir.ultiplic'itj,
equal
Of carps and mitlUts why prefer the great ? Double formations do often happen to wulti- and choice of thoughts. Drydcns DeJicatioit to juv,
Yet for fmail turbots fuch efteem profel's. Pcft. paraui generations, more efpecially tkat of ferpcnts, MuLTipi.i'cious. adj. [multiplex, Lat.]
Mu'lligrubs. Twisting of the
n. f. whofe conceptions being numerous, and their c^gs Manifold. u fed.Not
in chains, they may unite into various Ihapes, and Amphjfbena is not an animal of one denomi-
guis; fomctitnes fullennefs. Ainfworlh.
come out in mixed formations. Bmun. nation; for that animal is not one, but
Mu'llock. n.f. Rubbiih. Ainjiuorth. Animals feeble and timorous are generally multi-
mullipli-
ci.iis, or many, which hath a duplicity or gemina-
Mv i.sE. It./. [mul/um,^t.] Wine boiled parous-^ or if they bring forth but few at once, as tion of principal parts. Brc'^rtw
and mingled with honey. DiVl. pigeons, they coBipcnfate that by their often breed-
Mu'ltiplier. n.f [from multiply.]
Multa'ncular. aJJ. [multus and angu- ing. Ray on ibc Crcarior..
1. One who multiplies or increales the
lus,Latin.] Maiijr cornered; having Mu'ltipede. »./ [multipeda,LiH.] An
numb.T of any thing.
many corners ; polygonal. infeft with many feet ; a fow or vvood-
Broils and quarrels aie alone the great accumu-
MuLTAKGULARLY. ad'v. [from multan- loufe. Bailey. lators and yi:ultipUers of injuries. Decay of Puiy*
gular."] Polygonally ; withmanycorners. Mu'ltiple. adj. [multiplex, Lat.] A 2. The multiplicator in arithmetick.
CnaiKs i:c muitarguljt/y round. Gniv^sCofm, term in arithmetirk, when one number Multiplication hath the multiplicand and the
Multa'ngularness. «./. [from mu/t- contains anoiherfeveral times: as, nine (ra/f;;'/ifr, or number
given, by wliich the muki-
plicand is to be multiplied. Cscil/r'j Antbnutick.
angular.l The (late of being polygo- is the multiple of three, containing it
nal, or having many corners. thiee times. Manifold. To MU'LTIPLV. 'V. a. [multiplier, Fr.
multiplico, Latin.]
Multtca'psular. aJj. \_mulius znA cap- Multipli'abi E. a;^'. [muUipUable, Fr.
fula, Latin.] Divided into many parti- from muliiply.'\ Capable to .be multi- 1. To incieafe in number; to make more
by generation, accumulation, or addi-
tions or cells. Dm. plied.
tion.
Multica'vous. adj. \multus and f«i/«r.] Multipli'ableness. n.f. [from multi-
He clappeth his hands amongft us, and mutti-
Fall of holes. Dia. pltabU.\ Capacity of being multiplied. plieth his words againft God. yoh, xxxiv. 37,
Multifa'rious. aa)'. [mullifarius, Lat.] Multiplica'ble. adj. [from multiplico, He (h.ill n jt nultiply horfes. Deut. xvii. 16.
Having great multiplicity having dif- ;
Lat.] Capable of being arithmetically His birtli to our jult fear g.we no fmall caufe.
ferent refpeds ; having great diverfity multiplied. But his growth njw to youth's full flower difplaying
All virtue, grace, and wifdom, to atcliieve
in itfelf. Multiplica'nd. n. /. [multiplicandus,
Things highelt, %rc3tc&, multiplies my fears. Milt.
There is a mulfifnikut artifice in the ftniSure Lat.] The number to be multiplied in
of the meaneil animal. Mores Divine Diahgues. arithmetick. 2. To perform the procefs of arithmetical
"When w-c confider this fo rmtltifari.us congruity
Multiplication hath the mn/tipliaitJ, or number multiplication.
of things in reference to ourfelvcs, how can we to be multiplied the multiplier, or number given, From oneflock of feven hundred years, ma/-
;
withbuld from inferring, that that which made by which the mulriflicand is to be multiplied, and we (hall find the produfl to
tiplying fliU by twenty,
both Jogs and duclcs made them with a reference the product, or number produced by the other two. be one thoufand three hundred forty-fcven million*
to us ? More's jtm'iiolcs againjl /ithfijm. three hundred fixty-eight thoufand four hundred
Coder's Arithmetick.
His fcience is not moved by the gults ot fancy and twenty. Brown's Vulgar Errouri,
and humour wlu'ch blow up and down the multifa-
Multiplica'te. [from multiplico,
adf.
Lat.] Confifting of more than one.
To Mu'ltiplv. 1/. n.
ri»i opinionifls. '
ChnviUiioAlHus.
1. To grow in number.
We could not think of a more comprehenfivc In this multipli.ale number of the eye, the objeft
ktn is not multiplied, and appears but one, though Tiic multiplying brood of the ungodly (hall not
expedient, whereby to aflift the frail and torpent
memory through fo mu/tifaricus and numerous an feen with two or more eyes. Derham's Phyftco-Th. thrive. mjd. iv. 3.
employment. Eve/yti's Kalcr.djr. Multiplica'tion. n.f. [multiplication, 2. To increafe themfelves.

Multifa'riously. [from muliifaad'v. Fr. multiplicatio, Lat.] The multiplying viUanles of nature
Do fwarm upon him.Sbakefpeare's Macleth.
riout.] With multiplicity; with great 1. The of multiplying or increafing
act
We the infinitely fruitful and produftive
fee
variety of modes or relations. any number by addition or produftion power of this way of finning ; how it can increafe
If only twenty-four parts may be fo muliifa- of more of the fame kind. and multiply beyond all bounds and meafures of
rioujly placed, as to make many millions of mil- Although they had divers ftiles for God, yet un- aftual commilfion. Sûth's Sermons.
lions of differing rows in the fuppofition of a
: der many appellations they aclcnowledged one divi- MuLTi'poTENT. adj. [multus and potCKs,
thoufand parts, how immeofe mull that capacity nity rather conceiving thereby the evidence or
of variation be )
;
Lat.] Having manifold power ; having
Benley'i Strm-.m. afis of his power in feveral ways than a muhiptica-
Multifa'riousness. »./. [from mulii- lion of eflence, or real dillra£iions of unity in any
power to do many different things.
one.
By Jove muliipotent.
farious ] Multiplied diverfiiy. Brtmn.
Thou fliould'ft not bear from me a Oreekifh mem-
According to the multifarkujnefi of this imita- 2. [(n arithmetick.]
ber. Shakefpeare's Troilus and Crefftda.
bility, fo are the poflibilities
of being. tforris. Muliifliration the increafing of any one num-
is
\Av i.Ti'?\novB. adj. [muhifidus, Latin.] ber by another, fo often m

there are units in that Multipre'sence. n.f. [multus and pra-
Having many partitions ; cleft into
number, by which the one is increaled. fentia, Lat.] The power or aft of be-
Cochrs Arithmcticlt. ing prefent in more places than one at
many branches.
A man need be a good arithmetician to un.
hrfd
Thofe animals are only excluded without fight
the fame time.
derlUnd this author's works : his delcription runs
which are multiparous and multtfidrus, which have This (leevelefs tale of tranfubftantiation was fure-
on like a muliiflicaiion table. Addijor. on Medah.
many at a litter, and have feet divided into many ly brought into the world, and upon the ftage, by
portions. Brown. Multiphca'tor. n.f. [multiplicateur, that other fable of the multiprefnce of Chrift'a
Mu'ltiporm. Fr. from multiplico, Lat.] '1 be num- body- Hall.

adj.
[mulii/ormis, Latin.]
Having various Ihapes or appearances. ber by which another number is multi- MuLTi'scious. adj. [multifn'us, Latin.]
Ve that in quaternion lun plied. Having variety of knLwIedge.
Perpetual circle, mulii/crm. Afilron. MuLTiPLi'ciTy. n.f. [muhiplicite , Fr.] Multisili'quous. adj. [multus andyf/j-
The bcft way to convince it proving, by ocular I. More than one of the fame kind. y«a, Latin.] The fame with cornicu-
demunllration, the mitlnform and amazing opera-
Had. they difcourfed rightly but upon this one late : nfed of plant', whofe feed is con-
tions of the air-pump and the loadftone. U^jt:i. principle, that God was a being infinitely perfeft, tained in many diftinft feed-veflels.
M u LT I fo'r M n
y »./. [mu/li/ermis, La t. ]
. they could never have alferted iniulliflicty of gods
Bailey.
Diverfity of fiiapes or appearance* fub- for, can one God include in him all perfeftion, and
another God include in hijn all perfections too
MtTLTi'soNOus. adj. [mullifonus, Latin.]
filliog in the fame thing. .'
Can there be any more than all ? And if this all Having many founds. DiO.
Mui.tii.a'teral. adj. [mu/tus and /ate
rcA'/, Latin.] Having many fidej.
be in one, can it bs alfo in another Houlh. .> MU'LTITUDE. ».y. [multitude, French ;
Did. Company, he thinks, Icffens the fliame of vice, multitudo, Latin.]
MuLTi Lo'(y;ous. adj. [mulliloquus, Lat.] by fharing it; and abates the torrent of a com-
Very laikanve. mon odium, by deriving it into many channels ;
I. The ftate of being many; the ftate of
•
/),//. being more than one.
and therefore if he cannot wholly avoid the eye of
MuLriNo'MiNAL. adj. [muliut and m
mtn, Latin.] Having
the obfeivcr, be hopes to diftraOit at lead by a z. Number colleftive ; a fum of many
many names. Did. multij,l,c:tj of the objcdl. .^Siti'j Sirimns. mote than one. - -
Y » ic
; J
MUM MUM M'U N'

It Is ftfinge how long carcafo have tontinnef
It impoflible that tny multiiudt cin be »au»U)f
\t I. To utter with a low intrticolate voice.
uncorrupt, as appcaicth in the mummies of Egypt,
infinite, or fo great that there cannot be a
greater. Some carrytale, fome pleafcman, fome flight having laftcd I'omc of them three thoufand yevs.
Halt. lany,
Baeen't Satural Hijiiry*
and Some mumile-ntws Slak.
told our intents before.
3. A great number, loofely indefi-
he in the dark.
Here flood
j
Sav'd by fpice, like mummies, many a year,
nitely. DundaJ.
Old bodies of p hilofophy appear.
Mumbling of wicked charms, conj'ting the moon
It is a fault in a of preachers, that they
«»i</ii7»r/<-
To ftand 's aufpicious miftrefs. Shakefptart. 2. Mummy ufed among gardeners for a
is
Ifatti,
utterly negledk n>>.thod in their harangues. fort of wax ufed in the planting and
He with mumbltd pray'rs atones the deity.
4. A crowd or throng ; the vulgar. Drjden'i Jmi. grafting of trees. Chambers.
He the vaft hlfling muhiimlt admires. jIMJen. To mouth gently. To beat found-
I, 3. Tobeat ioa^\vyiu^.
MuLTlTu'DiKOUS.fl^. [{rommullitut/e.] Spaniels civilly delight ly. Ain/'worlh.
1. Having the appearance of a
multitude. In mumbling of the game they daie not bite. Pcfi.
Will all great Ncf tune's ocean wafti this blood
To MvMP. f. a. \_mampeltn, Dutch.]
3. To
flubber over ; to lupprefs ; to utter
To nibble; quick to bite to che«r
Clean from my h»n4 ? No, this my band will 1. ;
imperfeflly-
rather with a continued motion.
The raifing of my rabble it an exploit of confe- Let him not pry nor liftcn,
The muliUudifiiis fca incarnardine.
Macb. quence ; and not to be mumbled up in filence for all
Making the gicen one red. Siakeffeare'a
Dryden. Nor about the Iioufc
frilk
her pertnefs.
Manifold. Like a tame mumfitig fquirrel With a bell on.
2. Mu'mbler. n. /. [from mumble.] One 0/wity>
At once pluck out
that fpeaks inarticulately a mutterer.
The Kulwudincm tongue, let them not lick ;
2. To talk low and quick.
The fwce: that is their poifon. Shaluffiare. Mu'mblincly. eiJ-v, [from mumiling-]
3. [In cant language.] To go a begging.
MuLTi'VAGANT. J aJJ. [muUfvagus, With inarticulate utterance. Ainjujorth.
MuLTt'vAGOi;s. Lat.] That wan- J T'o MuMM. "w. a. \mumme, Danifh.] To Mu'mper. »./ [In cant language] A
ders or ftrays much abroad. Di3. malk ; to frolick in difguife. beggar.
Mt;LTrvious. aalj. [multus and via, The thriftlefs jîmcs
With mummir.g and with maflcing all around.
Mumps. «./ {mompelen, Dutch.] Sullen-
Lat.] Having many ways J manifold. Hubbcrd. nefs anger.
; filent Skinner^
Dia. Mumps, a./. The fquinancy. Aiti/'w,
Mu'mmer. n, /. [mumme, Danifti.] A
MuLTo'cuLAR. adj. [multiit and ocului,
maiker ; one who performs frolicks in a Te Munch, v. a. [manrer, French.] To
Lat.] Havin_? more eyes than two. chew by great mouthhils. This is like-
perfonated drefs.
Flies are maliuuUr, having as many eyes as there
Durham. If you chance to be pinch'd with the colick, you wife written to »»c«)»<-j6 ; fee MouNCH.
are perforations in their cornesc.
make faces like mummers. Shaicffean's ConJanut Say, fwect love, what thou defir'ft to eat ?
Mum. interjea. [Of this word the fup-
Jugglers and dancers, aoticks, mummers. Mlltun. —Truly, a peck of provender ; I could muntb
pofed original is mentioned in mome : it 1 began to fmoke that they weie a parcel of mum- your good dry oata. Shaki/p. Midj. Sight's Dream,
may be obferved, that when it is pro- mers. Addifon. To Munch, f. ». 'lo chew eagerly by
nounced it leaves the lips clofed. Mum- Peel'd, patch'd and pyebald, linfey-woolfey bro- great mouthfuls.
thers
me, Danilh, a ma(k ; whence mummers ;
It is the fon of a mare that's broken loofe, and
Gnvt n.ummers
A Mu'mmeRy. ! Pcpe's Dunci.iJ.
mimcbii:g upon the melons. Drydcn'i Don Sebajlian,
and majkers are the fame. Upton.'l »./. [momerie, Fr.] Malk- Mu'ncher. n. /. [from mumb.] One-
word denoting prohibition to fpeak, or ing ; frolick in maiks; foolery. This
lefolution not to fpeak ; fiience ; hufli.
that munches.
is fometimes written nommerj.
But to his fpeach he aunfwered nowhit, > MUND. n.f.
Here mirth's but mummery. Mund from which our lawyers call a
But flood ftill mute, as if he had beene dum, And forrows only reat be. JVctfon.
is peace,
Ne figne of fenfe did (hew, ne common wit, breach of the peace, tr.undbrecb : (o Eadmund i»
This open day-light doth not fliew the mafqucs happy peace; iEtlielmund, noble peace; jElraund,
As one with griefe and anguifti ove-cum, and mummtries, and triumphs of the world, hall lo
thing did aunfwere Kum. Sfnfer. all peace ; with which thefe are much of the fame
And unto every flately as candle-light. Bacon's Natural Uifiory.
Mum more proceed. Shakrfptare.
then, and- no import : Irensus, Hefychius, Lenis, Pacatus, Se-
Your fathers
Ciifn's Camd.-n.
Well faid, mafter ; mum and gaze your till.
.' datus, Tranquil.us, &c.
Difdain'd the mummery of foreign ftroHers. Fcntcn. Be-
Sbakrifeare. Munda'ne. ae/J. [muuJanus, Lat.]
The citizens are mum, fay not a word. Sbaktjf. Mu'mmy. «./. [mumie, French; mumia, longing to the world.
Intrud it under folemn vows Latin ; derived by Salmafius from amo- The platonical hypotheCs of a mundane foul will
Of mum, and (ilence, and the rofe. HuJlirat.
mum, by Bocharl from the Arabick.] relieve us. ' GlanvilWs Scepjis,
JAvM. \_mumme, German.] Ale The atoms which now conftitute heaven »n«l
n. /. 1. A dead body preferved by the Egyp-
brewed with wheat. earth, being once feparate in the mundane fpace,
tian art of embalming.
In Shenibank, upon the river Elbe, is a ftore- could never without God, by their mechanical
We have two fubftances for medicinal nfe un- affeflions, have convened into this prcfent frame
iouie for the wheat of which mum is made at der the name of mummy : one is the dried flefh
Mortimtr. ofthingf. Bcrtlcy's Sertnons,.
Brunfwick. of human bodies embalmed with myrrh and fpice ;
Sedulous and Rout
the other is the liquor running from fuch msm-
Munda'tiow. n. f. [mundus, Latin.
Wnh bowls of fat'niag mum. Philif!.
nies when newly prepared, or when affedled by great The adl of cleanfing.
The clam'rous crowd is hufli'd with mugs of
.
heat, or by damps : this is fometimes of a liquid, Munda'tory. eitlj. [itommunJus, Lat.]

mum. fometiiTjes of a folid form, as it is preferved in
hum. Pcfc. Having the power to cleanfe.
Till all tun'd equal fend a general the firft kind is brought
7»Mu'mble. v. n. \_mompelen, Dutch;
vials, if: fuft'ercd to dry !
in large pieces, of a friable texture, light and

MuNDicK. n. /. A
kind of marcafite
mu/h, Lat.] fpungy, of a blackifli brown colour, and often blatk or femimctal found in tin mines.
and clammy on the furface ; it is of a ftrong but When any metals are in confiderable quantity^
I. To fpeak inwardly ; to grumble ; to name of maicafites, and aie
not agreeable fmell : the fecond, in its liquid ftate, thefe bodies lofe the
mutter; t(» fpeak with imperfcft found called ores in Cornwall and the Weft they call
is a thick, opake, and vifcous fluid, of a biackifh
:
or articulation. them murJick. fyetdivard.

and a flrong, but not difagreeable fme'.l t in its in-
As one then in a ifream, whofe drier brain Befides ftoues, all tlie forts o! mun4'uk arc nitu-
durated ftateJt is a dry, foiid fubftance, of a fine
Is toft vjith troubled fights, and fancies weake.
(hilling black colour and clofe texture, eafily raily figured. Gnw's C^jmcl.-
He mumbled foft, but .juuild not all his filence

and
Sfiuftr.
broken,- and of a good fmell j this fort is ex- Mundifica'tion. ». / [munn'ut
break. tremely dear, and the firft fort fo cheap, that we Cleanfing any body, a«
Peace, you mumlltftg fool facio, L.uin.]
are not to imagine it to be the ancient Egyptian
Utter your gravity o'er a goflip s bowl. Shaktjp. from drofs, or n?«tter of inferior account
mummy. What our druggifts are fupplied with is
A
wrinkled hag, with agt: grown double. to what is to be cleanfed. îirty.
the flelh of any bodies the Jews can get, who fill
Picking dry flicks, and mumbling toherfelf. Oiivpy. them with the common bitumen fo plentiful in Mi».ndi'ficative. eu/j. [muiu/us und/eieio^
3. To chew ; to bite foftly ; to eat with that part of the world, and adding aloes, and fome Cleanfing having the power
Latin.] ;
the lips clofe. other cheap ingredients, frtid them to be baked in
to cleanfe.
The man, who laugh'd but once to fee an afs an oven till the juices are exhaled, and the em- me-
Gall is vtry mundificalive, and was a proper
Mumbling to make t):c grofs-grain'd thiftles pafs. balming matter has penetrated. Hill's Mai. Med. Brovim
dicine to clear the eyes of 'I'obit.
Might laugh agajn to fee a jury chaw The filk
Vryien. Was dy"d 'i^munmy, which the fkilful
We incarncd with an addition to the fore-men-
The prickles of onpahlteable law.
tioned vundifiije'tiie. lf''i man's Surgh-y.
Cenfctv'd w'toajdens Sbakefittre'sptbtlli).
?'« Mu'mble. <v. a. liclits.
r*
; ; ;
MUN MU R MU R
Men, In the procuring or rr.umting^ of religious Who fiiut their coward gates on atomic.'!,
Tt MU'NDIFY. V. a. [munJut vaAfado,
unity, muft not diifolve'the laws of charity and
Should be call'd.tytants, butchers, murderers.
Latin.] Tocleanfe; to make clean. human ftcisty. Baccn. Staicffeare.
Simple wounds, fuch ss are mumllfid and kept French; The very horrour of the fail had ilupified ail
Muni'tion. a./, [munitien,
clean, do not need any other hand but that of na- curlofity, and fo difperftd the multitude, that even
Brotun. munitioy Lat.] the murderer himlelf might have efcaped. ffeltin.
ture.
The ingredients aftuate the fpirits, abfjrb the I. Fortification; ftrong hold. Like fome rich or mighty murderer^
'
Viflors under-pin their acqucfts jure belli, that

inteftinal fuperfluities, and murJify the blxid. Kar-v. Too great for prifon, which he breaiis with gold.
MuNDi'vAGAKT.afl)'. [munJivagui, Lat.] they might not be lolt by the continuation of Who freflier for new mlfchiefs does appear.
external forces of ftanding armies, caftles, garri- And dares the v\'orld to tax him with the old.
Wandering through thaworid. Di3. HaU.
fons, muniti'^ns. Drydin.
...usdu'kcl'S. n./. Stinking tobacco. materials for war.
z. Ammunition ; This ftranger having had by the a brother killed
A cant word. What penny hath Rome borne, confpirator, and having fought in vain for an op-
Exhale mundungut, ill perfuming fcent. Philips- Wliat men provided, wliat munit.on lent, portunity of revenge, chanced to meet the murderer
Mu'nerary. adj. \_ii<jm munus, Latin.] To underprop this aftioii i SLatjytiin'i K.. yohn. in the temple. . Addij<in%.
Having the nature of a gift. The king of Tripoiie in every bold With equal terrors, not with equal guilt,
Shut up his men, mumtiattt and his trcafure- The murderer dreams of all the blood he fpilt..
Mo'ncrel. n. /. [frequently written
Fairfax. Sivift.
mongrel. See Mongrel.] Any thing
gent-rated between different kinds ; any
It is a city, ftiong and well ftoied with muniiim.
Stirtdys.
Mu'rderess. n. /. [from murderer.] A
wcman that commits murder.
thing partaking of the qualities of dif- Mu'nwion. n./. When by thy fcorn, <J murd'rcjs ! I am dead.
ferent caufes or parents. The upright polls, that divide the feveral lights Then (hall m> gholl come to thy bed,
Maftiff, greyhound, mungrel grim. in a window frame, are called v.unmotis, Moxott. Andthec feign'd vcllal in worfe arras Ihall fee.
Hound or fpaniel, biache or hym, Mu'rage. a. [from murus, Latin.]
y". Dmnu-
Or bcbtail tike, or trundle tail. Siahfpeare. Diam's vengeance on the
Money paid to keep walls in repair. vi£lor fliown.
Mt'NGREL. aaj. Generated between dif-
Mu'ral. «<^'. [muralit, murus, Lzt.^ Per-
The murd'iejs mother, and confuming fon.
ferent nature* ; ba!e born ; degenerate. Drydeti^
taining to ^ wall. Art thou the murd'rcjs then of wretched Laius
Thou knave, beggar,
art the compofiiion of a
And repair'd
?
coward, pander, and the (on and heir of a mungril Drydtm

Her mural breach, leturnuig whence it rowl'd.
Mu'rderment. ».
bitch. Shakitftare.
Mil.-.ft. / [from murder."]
My people are grown half wild, they would
In the neSarine and the like delicate midral fruit,
The aft of killing unlawfully. Not ia
not precipitate themfelves e'.fe into fuch a mixt Evelyn i Kal. ufe.
the later your pruning, the better.
mtingril war. Hnvel.
Mungnl cuts bawl, fnarle and fnap, where the
A foldier would venture his life for a mural To her came meflage of the murderment.
crown. jlddipn. Fairfaxi
fox flies before them, betweenand clap their tails
the legs when an advetfary makes bead agaiml MU'kDER. n. f. [moji^Sop, mop^Seji, Mc'rderous. adj. [from murder.']
them. LBftrangf. Saxon ; murdrum, law Latin the ety- :
Bloody; guilty of murder; addiftcd to
A foreign fon is fought ind a mix'd mungrel mology requires that it ftiould be writ- blood.
brood. Drydin. Upon thy eye-balls murderous tyranny
ten, as anciently often was, murther
it
MuNi'ciPAL. French
aJj. [municifal, Sits in grim majefty to fright the world. Shakefpt
;
but of late the word itfelf has com- Oh murd'rous coxcomb what (Iiould fuchafbol
municipalis, muiticifium, Latin.] Be- !
monly, and its derivatives univerlally, Do with lb good a wife .'

Shakeffeare's Othelh.
longing to a corporation. been written with </. The aft of kill- Enforced to fly
A bred up in the knowledge of the
counfcllor,
J
ing a man unlawfully ; the aft of kill- Thence into Egypt, till the murd'rous king
municipal and ftalutc laws, may honeftly inform a Were dead, who fought his life ; and mifling, fill'd
juft pfincthow far his prerogative extends. Drydin. ing criminally.
With infant blood the ftreets of Bethlehem. Miitm.-
Muni'ficence. n. /. [munifictnct, Fr. Blood hath been flied ere now, i' th' olden time.
If (he has deform'd this earthly life
Ere human ftatute purg'd the general weal
munificeniia, Latin.] With murd'rous rapine and feditious ftrife;
Ay, and fmce too, murden have been perfarm'd
1. Liberality the aft of giving. In everlafting darknefs muft (he lie. Priori
;
Too terrible for th' ear. Shakijfejic j Machcih,
A of poverty obfcurcs all the virtue* of li-
(late Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far, Mure. »./. [mur, French; murus, Lat.].
berality and munijictiiu. Addij-jn s SptBatcr. And makes a mafftcre what was a war. Dryden. A wall. Not in ufe.
2. In SpenJ'tr feems, for
it is ufed, as it The killing of their children had, in the ac- The incclTant care and labour of his mijld
fortification or ftrength, from munitiones count of God, the guilt of meri/rr, as the oAering Hath wrought the mure, that (hould confine it In,
t'lem to idols had the guilt of idolatry. LoLte. So thin, that life looks through and will break out.-
factre.
Their importune fway 'To Mu'rder. 1/. a. [from the noun.] Shakcffcare^
This land invaded with like violence. 1. To kill a man unlawfully. 7» Mure. t. a. {murer, French; from'
Until that Locrine, for his realms defence, If he dies, \ murder \>\m, not they. Dryden, murus, Latin.] To inclofe in walls.
Did head againd them make, and ftrong munifctnce. 2. To dellroyto put an end to.
;
All the gates o^ the city were mur;d up, except
apenjer, fuch as were referved to faliy out at. KirAUs^
Can'ft thou quake and change thy colour.
MUNI'FICENT. adj. [mml/ictts, Lat.] Murder thy breath in middle of a word. Mu'renger. n. f. [murus, Latin.] Anr
Liberal ;
genercus. And then again begin, and llop again ? Sbakeffeare. overfeer of a wall. Ainjiuorth.
hix. the mutinous winds
I* he not our moft murijittni benefaflor, our Muria'tick adj. Partaking of the tails
wifeft counfellor, and moft potent proteftor ? Strike the proud cedars to the fiery fun j
or nature of brine, from muria, brine or
j^tlerbury. Mkrd ring impofhbllity, to make
What cannot be, Wight work. Shakejfeare't Coricl. pickle. Sluincy.
Muni'ficentlt. ad'v. [from mmijicent .'\
If the fcurvy be entirely murialick, proceeding
Liberally generoufly. Mu'rder. ittterjcSi. An outcry when life
j from a diet of fait flelh or (i(h, antifcorbutick vege-
is in danger.
Mu'niment. »./. \munimentum, Latin.] tables may be given with fuccefs, but tempered with
Kill men i' the dark ! where be thefe bloody
aeids.
1. Fortification; llrong hold. Artuthnoi.
thieves ?
2. Support ; defence. Ho murder ! murder I Stake/fearers Oibelh. Murk. n. /. [morck, Danilh, dark.]
The arm our foldier. Mu'rderer. ti.f. \Jt<3m murder. One Darknefs ; want of light.
"l
Out fteed the leg, the tongue our tminpetfr Ere twice in murk and occidental damp,
With other murmcfits and petty helps
who has fhed human blood unlaw-
Moift Hefperus hath quench'd his fleepy lamp.
In this our fabrick. Sbghifpeari's Coriohnut. fully one who has killed a man cri-
;
Shakefpeari,
3. Record writing upon which claims minally.
;
Thou doft kill me with thy falfehood, and it

MuRK.a.y". Hufks of fruit. Aitifworth:
and rights are founded.
grieves me not to die but it grieves me that thou Mu'rky. /j<sy. [morck, Danifli.] Dark;
[munio, Latin.] To
;
To Muni'te. oi. a.
art the micrftri r. Sidney. cloudy; wanting light.
fortify ; to ftrengthen. word not in A I am his hofl, I The murkicft dsn.
nfe. - Who Ihould againft his mvrd'rer ftiut the door, The moft opportu;'.e place, the ftrong'ft fugîeftion
Heat doth attennate, and the more grofs and Not beat the knife myfelf. Stakfpeare'i Macbeth. Shall never melt mine honour into lull. slakejp.
tangible parts contract, loth to avoid vacuum, and Thou tell'll me tlicre is murder in mine eyes j
So fccnted the grim feature, and up-turned
to mill if. tlnnr.'<.vca againft the force of the fire. 'Tis pretty furc, His noftrils wide into the murky air.
Jiann'i Natural lijlory. Tbat eyea, that arc the fiailft and fufceft things, Sagacious of his quajry. Milton's Earadife LnJI.
mui kyA
..
MU R MU S MU S
A
rrurty ftorm <!«p low'i-'mg o'er our htadi Leaves of fome trees turn a murrey or red- Mu'scoious.
Hong imminent, that with impervious gloom
little ae//. [mu/cufeux, French;
difh. Baeon.
Oppoi'J itfcif to
mu/cuU/ui, Latin.]
Cynthia's AJM<.n. filver ray. They employ It in certain proportions, to tinge
MURMUR. «. /• [murmur, Lat. m'ur- their glafs both with red colodr, or with a purplifh 1. Fall of mufcles ; brawny.
mure, French.] or murrey. Boyle. 2. Pertaining to a mufcle.
Painted glafs of a fanguine red, will not afcend The uvea has a mu/culout power, and can dilate
1. A low airill iioife.
In powder above a mU'-rey, Brovfn'x Vulgar Errours. and contract chat round bole, called the pupil of
Flane as it moveth within itfcif, or it blon-n
Cornelius jumps out, a Hocking upon his bead, the eye, for the better moderating die tianfmiffiop
bjr a bellows, givetb a murmur or interiour found.
and °a walftcoat of Riiir'rjr-coioured latin upon his of light. Morei
Baren I tiaiural Hiftory.
When the wing'd colonie, firft tempt the Iky,
body. Arbuttnol. Muse. n.f. [from the verb.]
Or fetting, fei»e the fweets the bloflbms yield, Mu'rrion. h. /. [often written «ioWo«. 1. Deep thought; clofe attention; ab-
Then a low murmur runs along the field. Foft. See Morion. Juniui derives it from fence of mind ; brown ftudy.
Black Melancholy fits, murus, a wall.] A helmet ; a cafque ;
The tidings Itrange did him abaflicd make.
. Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, armour for the head. That ftill helong time aftonilheJ
fat
Anii breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. As in great mu/e, ne word to creature fpake.
Their beef they often in their murriins ftew'd,
2. Acomplaint half lupprefled ; a com- And in their bafket-hilts their bev'rage brew'd.
.
Fairy Sueen,
plaint not openly uttered. King,
He was filld
With admiration and deep mufe, to hear
Some difcontents there are; fome idle msmurs ;
Murth of Corn, n.f. Plenty of grain.
Of things fo high and ftrange.
How idle murmurs /
Ain/'worih
'Milton,
The doors are all Ihut up the wealthier fort. 2. The power of poetry.
With arms acrofs, and hats upon their eyes,
;
Mu'sCADEL. \a<ij. [aufcat, mufcadel, Begin my mufc, CrcuLy,
Walk to and fro before their tilent /hops. Drydcrt. M u's c A K£ J
!> 1 French ; mofiatello, Ital
. The _
mv^-infpired train
to Mu'rmur. 1/. n. \inurmuro, Lat. mur- either from the fragrance refembling Triumph, and raife their drooping beads again.
mur er, Fr ] the nutmeg, nux mojcala, or from mufca, Waller.
Lodona't fate, in long oblivion caft.
1. To give a low (hrill found. a fly ; flies being eager of thofe grapes.]
The muji ihaU fing, and what /he fingt /hall lall.
The murmuring furge. A kind of fweet grape, fweet wine, Pope,
That on th' uiinumber'd idle pebbles chafes. and fweet pear.
Can fcarce be heard fo high. Sbakeff. King Lear, He qua n't off the mufcadel.
To MUSE.
v. n. [mu/er, French ; muj.
Amid an ifle around whofc rocky ftiore And threw the fops all in the fexton's face. Shak. fen, Dutch; mujfo. Latin.]
The forcfts murmur, and the furges roar, I. To ponder; to think clofe; to ftudy
A goddefs guirds in her enchanted dome.
'MU'SCLE. n. /.[mu/cle, French ; muf-
Pofre. in filence.
The bufy bees with a fofc murm'rirg ftrain, cuius, Latin mupcula, Saxon.]
;
li he fpake courtcoully, he angled the people's
Invite to gentle fleep the lah'ring fwain. Dryditi. I. Mu/cle is a bundle of thin and parallel hearts ; if he were filcnt, he mujtd upjn I'ome
2. To grumble ; to utter (ecret and lul- plates of flefliy threads or fibres, in- dangerous plot. Sidney.
len difcontent, with at before things, clofed by one common membrane : all St. Auguftine, fpeaking of devout men, noteth,
and againji before perfons. the fibres of the fame plate are parallel
how they daily frequented the church, how atten-
tive ear they give unto the chapters read, how
The good we have enjoy'd from heav'n's free to one another, and tied together at ex- careful they were to remember the fame, and to
will;
tremely little dillances by Ihort and viuje thereupon by themfelves.
And fhall we murmur to endure the ill ? Drydtn. Hooker,
Murmur not at your ficknefs,
tranfverfe fibres : the flefhy fibres are Csefar's father oft.
for thereby you
will fin a»ainft God
providence. ff^kt.
s compofed of other fmaller fibrej, in-
When he hath Kus'd of taking kingdoms in,
Beftow'd his lips on that unworthy place.
The good confeijuences of this.fcheme, which clofed likewife by a common mem-
will execute itfcif without murmuring againft the
As it rain'd kilTes. Sbakefpeare.
brane: each lefler fibre confifts of very My
mouth (hall fpeak of wifdom ; and my heart
government, are very viliblc. Swifi.
fmall veficles or bladders, into which mufe of undcrftanding. PJ'alm xlix. 3.
Mu'rm.urer. ». [from murmur.] /.
we fuppofe the veins, arteries, and Her face upon a fuddcn glittered, fo that I was
One who repines one who complains ; afraid of her, and muftd what might
nerves to open, for every mufcle reit be.
fullenly; a grumbler; a repiner ; a 2 Ejdras, X. 25.
ceives branches of all thofe vefleis, All men mujsd in their hearts of John, whether
complainer.
Heav'n's peace be with him
which mud be diftributed to every fibre : he were the Chrift or not; Luke, iii. i 5.
I
That's cVriftian care enough ; for living murmuren the two ends of each mufcle or the On thcfe he mui'i within his thoughtful mind.
There's places of rebuke. Shakeff. tierry VIII. extremities of the fibres are, in the Drydcrt,
The murmurer is turned oft" to the company limbs of animals, fattened to two bent's, We mufe fo much on the one, that we are apt
of thofi; doleful cr.-atures, which were to overlook and forget t!ie' other. A:terhury'i Ser.
to inhabit tiie one moveable, the other fixed ; and
the ruins of Bab, bn. Gavrnmrnt cf ibt Tongue. Man fuperiour walks
Still might the dil'contentcd murmurrr cry.
therefore, when the mul'cles contraft, Amid the glad creation, mujing pralfc,
Ah baplefs fate of man ! ah wretch doom'd once they draw the moveable bone according And looking lively gratitude. Thotrf.n'i Spring.
to die. Blackmore on the Creathn. to (he direftion of their fibres, încy. 2. To be abfent of mind ; to be attentive
Mu'rmval. n.f. \mornrJU, Fr. from mor- The inftrume nts of motion are the mujdes, the to fomething not prefent ; to be in a
fibres whereof, contrafting themfelvcj, move the brown
Four cards of a fort.
nir, to ftun.]
'
ftudy.
feveral parts of the body.
Skinner and Ainf'wortb. Locke. Why thou
haft loft the frefli blood in thy
Mu'rrain. n. f. [The etymology of 2. A bivalve (hell fifli. cheeks ?
'
Of /hell fiih, there are wrinklcrs, limpers, And given my treafures and my rights of thee,
this word is not clear ; mur is an old cockles and mujdes. Carivi't Survey ofCorntvatt. To thick-ey'd mujing and curs'd melancholy.
word for a catarrh, which might wcil It is the obfeivation of Ariftotle, that oyfters '
Shakefpeare,
aniwer to the glanders; muriana, low and n-.ufcles grow fuller in the waxing oi the moon. you
fuddenly arofe and walk'd about,
Latin. Siinner derives from mori, Hake-will. Mujing and fighing with your arms acrofs.
it to
Two pair of fmall mujde /hells was f )und in a
die.] The plague in cattle. „. ,,.. Shakefpeare.
Away rigg'd rams, care
liroeltone quarry. Woodward on Fojpli. The fad king
I what murrain kill.
Musco'mty. n. /, \mufcofus, Latin.] Feels fudden terror and cold (hivering.
Sidney, Lifts not to cat,
Moffinefs. ftill mufes, fiecps unfound. Daniel.
Some trials would be made of mixtures of water
in ponds for cattle, to make them more milcb, to Mu'scuLAR. adj. [from mu/cuhis, Lat.] 3. To wonder ; to be amazed.
fatten, or to keep ihem from murrain. Mufe not that I thus fuddenly proceed
Bacon. Relating to mufcles ; performed by For what
;
I will,
A hallowed bind mufcles.
I will. Shakefpeare.
Cou'd tell what murraim, in what months begun. Do not mufe at me,
By the muscular motion and perpetual flux of the I have a ftrange infirmity. Sbakelpeare't Maeheth.
Garrt. liquids, a gieat part of the liquids are thrown out
MuRRE. «./ Ak'ndofbird. of the body. Arhuihna.
Mu'sEFuL. adj. [from muj'e.] Deeptbink-
Among the firft f r; we reckon coots, meawes, Muscuia'rity. n.J. [from ing; filently thoughtful.
murrett creyfcrs and curlews.
mu/cuJar.]
Caretv. Full of ma/yi/ mopings, which
Mv'k KEY. The Hate of hav ng mufcles. -prefage
adj. French; mortllo,
[morie,
The guts of a fturgcon, taken out and cut to
The lofs of reafon, an'i conclude iu rage. Dryien.
Italian ; from mora, a moor.] Darkly pieces, move, winch may depend upon
will rtill Mu'sER. n.f. [from mu/e.] One who
ced. their jroat thickncfs and mufcularity. Grew. mufes one apt
; to be abfent of mind.
Mw'sET.
; . ;
MU S M U 9 M US
Mu'sET. n,f. [in hunting.] The place And made amongft themfclves a fweet confort, male of which is the fparrow hawk ;-fo
That quickend the dull fp'rit with rr.vfical com-
a young unHedged
through which the hare goes to relief. that eyas mujket is
fi'rt. Fairy Slucen.
Baihy Sweet bird that fhunn'ft the noife of folly,
male hawk of that kind. Hanmer,
Here comes Robin.—
Muse'um. n./. [iivruoi,'] A repofitory Moft n:ujicalj moft melancholy ;
How now my eyas mujkct,
little
what news with you ?

of learned curiofities. Thee chauntrefs oft the wood among,
Shake/peart,
I woo to hear thy even fong. Milrcrf,
Mu'sHiOOM. n. /. [mufcheron, French ] Neither is it enough to give his author^s fenfe,
The fnvjket and the coyftrel were to^ weak.
1. Mujhroomt are by curious naturalifts in poetical expreflions and in mft^n/ numbers. Zîjf^. Too fierce the falcon; but above the reft.
elieemed perfeft plant*, though their Tile noble buzzard ever pleas'd me beft. Drydtn*
2. Belonging to mufick.
flowers and feeds have not as yet been Several mujical inftruments aie to be feen in the
Musxetee'k. n. J\ [from mujket.\ A
difcovered the true champignon or
: hands of Apollo's mufes, which might give great ioldier whofe weapon is his mufket.
light to the difpute between the ancient and mo Notvvithftanding they had lined fome hedges with
mujhroom appears at firlt of a roundilh
dem Kujick. Addjon. v.vjkctteri,they purfued them till they were dif-
form like a buctom, the upper part of pcrfed. Clartndon.
Mu'siC.^LLY. /j</i;. [from «i!«/ff«/.] Har-
which, as alfo the llalk, is vtry white, Musketoo'n.
monioufly ; with fweet found. n.f. [meufqueton, Fiench.]
but being opened, the under part is of A blunderbufs a fhort gun of a large
"Vâlentlne, mujically coy, ;
a livid flefli colour, but the ilefhy part, Shun'd Phaedra s arms. Addifn. bore. Dicl.
when broken, is very white; when they Mu'siCALNtss. n. f. [from muJicaL] Mu'sKiNESS n.f. [(rom mffi."] The
are fuftered to remain undillurbed, they Harmony. fcent ofmufk.
will grow to a large fize, and explicate Musi'ciAN. n. J', [muficus, Latin; muji Muskme'lon. n.f. [muJk and melon.]
themlelves almoft to a ilatneft, and the cien,French.] One (killed in harmony ; A fragrant melon.
red part underneath will change to a one who performs upon inftruments of The way of maHiration of tobacco muft be from
dark colour in order to cultivate them,
:
mufick. the heat of the e.irth or fun ; we fee fome leading
open the ground about the roots of the Though the mujiriam that fhould play to you. of this in inujh,}:ii:n^, which are fown upon a liot
Stand in the thoufand leagues from hence bed dunged below, upon a bank turned upon the
mujhrooms, where you will find the eitth air a
Yet they fouth fun. Bacon,
very often full of fmall white knobs, ftrait (hall be heie. Siahff,. Henry IV.
which are the off-fets of young mujh-

The nightingale, if (he (hould fing by day, Mu'sKPEAR.. n f. [muj/i and pfar.] A
When every gool'e is cackling, would be thought fragrant pear.
rooms ; thefe (hould be carefully gather- No better a ciujician than the wren.
ed, preferving them in lumps with the A painter may make
Sbakeffearc.
a better face than ever
Mu'sKROSE. n.f. \mujk and rofc] A
was but be muft do jt by a kind of felicity, as
role fo called, 1 fuppol'e, from its fra-
earth about them, and planted in hot- ;
a rrufi.un that maketh an excellent air in mufick,

grarce.
beds. Milltr. In May and Tun* come rofes of all kinds, except
and not by rule. Bacsn'i Ejjays.
2. An upftart; a wretch rifen from a The praile of Bacchus then the fweet mujicmn the mitjk, which comes later. Bacon*
dunghill. fung; Thyrfis, whofe artful ftiains have oft del.iy'd
Mufhrooms come up in a night, and yet they Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young. Dryitn. The huddling brook to hear his madrigal,
are unfown and therefore fucfi as are upftarcs in MUSK. And fweeten'd every mujkroje of the d.ile. Miltcn.
; ». /. \mufchit, Italian ; muj'c,
ftatc, they call in reproach mujhroomi,
The KuJirJ: will, if a lufty plant, bear flowers
French.] in autumn wuliout cutting.
Eacn'i tâiurat }J:Jio'y, Boyle,
Majk is a dry, light and friable fubftance of a
Tully, the fiumble mujhroim fcarce.jt known. dark blacki(h colour, with fome tinge of a pur-
Mu'sKY. adj. [from muJk] Fragrant;
The lowly native of a country town. DrytUn, pli(h or blood colour in it, feeling fomewhat fmooth fweet of Icent.
Mii'sHROOMsTONE. « / [muJhroom and or unfluous: its fmell is highly perfumed, and There eternal fumitier dwells,
pne.] A kind of foffil. too (troog to be agreeable in any large quantity its :
And weft winds, with mvjl;y wihg.
tafte i> bitteri(h! it is brought from the Fall In- About the cedar n allies fiing
Fifteen tmjbrxmji^rtt of the fame Hiape.
dies, moftly frim the kingdom of Bantam, fo:ne Nard and CaOia's balmy fniells. Miken,
MU'SIGK. n. f. [îrDrc; mt(/ique,

from Tonquin and Cochin China the animal ;
Mu'sLiN. n.f. [mofje/in, French ] A
r.
j
i which produces it is of a very (ingular k'nd, not fine lluiF made of cotton.
1. 'J he fciencc of hjrliionical founds. agreeing with any eitabiilhed genus : it is of the By the ufe of certain attire made of cambrick or
The roan that hath no mujlck in tiimfelf. Cae of a common goat but taller ; the bag which niujlin upon her he.id, (he attained to fuch an evil
Nor is not mov d witn concord of fweet founds, contains the mujk, ii three inches long and two art in the motion of her eyes. Taller,
Ii fit for ireafons. Shakcfpiarii M.rctant o/Kn. wide, and fituated in the lower part of the crea- In half-whipt mujlin nctvlles ufelefs lie,
Now ioolc into the w»/ffi makers gains. lure's be:ly. UUI. And fhuttle-cocks acrofs ihe counter fly. Cay,
Where noble youth at vail expence is taught. Some putrefadions and excrements
But eloquence not
yield ex- Mu'sROL. n.f. [muferoli, French.] The
valu'd at a groat. Dryitn. cellent odours ; as civet and muJk, Bacon.
nofeband of a horfe's bridle. Bailey,
2. Inlirumental or vocal harmony. Musk. n.f. [mu/ca, Lat.] Grape hya-
When flie fpafce. cinth or grape flower.
Muss. n. f A fcramble.
Sweet word?, like dropping honey, (he did died
When I cry'd hoa !
And "twixt the pearls mi .ubiesbrjke

liiftly
Mu'iKAppLB. ».y: A kind of apple. Like boys unto a kuJs, kings would (lart forth.
And cry, Your will Shak. Ant. am'. Cleopatra,
A filver found, that heavenly mi/yf. k feem d lo make. Ainjiuortb. i"
tairy Siuecn. Mu'sKCAT.' n.f. \mujk and cat.\ 'I'he

Mussir a'tion. ». /. [mujjiio, Latin.]
Such mvjick ani nal from which mufk is got. Murmur ; grumble.
Before was never made.
Mu'sKCHERRY. n.f. A fort of cherry. Mu'ssuL.MAN. n.f, A Mahometan be.
But v.hen of old the fons of morning fung. Milton. licver.
By v.ujic'< mind.s an equal iempcr know. Ainfivorth.
Nor f*;il too high, nor link tio low; iMU'SKET. n f. [moufquet, French ; otc/- MUST, verb imperfeB. \muffen, Dutch.]
flie fires with anirnatei founds, quetlo, Italian, a fmall hawk. Many To be obliged ; to be by neceflity. It
kWartiours
Poari balm into iti? bleeding lover's wounds. Pope. of the fire arms are named from ani- is only ufed before a verb.
MuJl is of
We have djncmg-niaftcrs and wiyf, matters. it
mals.] all perfons and tenfes, and ufed of per-
/Irhuihnci „•»./ Pcp{. fons and things.
1. A foldier's handgun.
Êntertainments of inftruinenial har- Thon Do you confcfs the bond ?
mony. Was (hot at with fair eyes, to be the mark — I do.

What mufuk, and dancing, and divcifioos, and Of fm Myn-.ujkiii. Shak. All'i luelltbai erdi — Then mufl the
Jew be merciful.
I
Pfalms, arc tj miny in the world, that prayer, We pra£tire to make fwifter
m,tl.
motioas than any
— On what compulfion muJl I ? tell me that.
•od dcvotioni, and Ffalms are to you. Ljw. you have out ot your mujktts. Bacan. Shakefpeare,
Tl.ej clurgc tiie.r »:b/<«i, and with hot
Mujt I needs bring thy fon unto the land from
lu'siCAi,. luij. [mujical, French; from defirt:
Of full revenge, icnew tlie fight with fire. Waller. whence thou cameft } Cencjn, xxiv. 5.
muji(k. ] Fade, flowers, fade, nature will have it fo;
He perceived a b^dy of their horfe within mujkit-
I. IlarmoQious; melodious him, and advancing upon him. Clariiidnii. 'Tis but wliat we mujI in our Autumn do. IValler,
; fweet found (hot ot
One Wi. bruught to us, fliot with a muJlel-hiW Becaulie the fame felf-exillent being necelTarily
JDg.
is what he is, 'tis evident that what he may be,
The merry birds
on the rigiit fide of his head. IVJeman' s Surgery. or
hath the power of being, he muJi be.
Chanted above their ttieaiiul hataiooy, 2. A male hawk of a imall kind, the fe-
Every fatlier
Crew.
and biothcr of the convent has a
voice
' ,
M'U S M OS MUt
-«eloc in the ele^Hoo, which mnfl be (0Dfirme6 by mia might mffrr them up, and lead them out his affairs into her own hands, and*) f^rkitîf
th« pape. M<iiy:i:, againft the Indians. Locke. now and then, ih»t be may not g*n* mij/ir »nd un-
MUST. »./. \muftum, Lat.] New wine; Having d up all the forces he could think
mufter. fit for converfation. Addifon't Sprflaiir.
>
new wort. of, the clouds abore, and the deeps below: thcfc, Mutabi'lity. n.f. [etufaiiiliif, f rendu;
fays he, are all the ftores we have for water; and
If in the of wine, or wort of beer, brforc
itaiji mutabili!, Laiin.]
it be tuoncd, the burrage ftay a Imall time, and
Mofes dlre£^s us to no other for the caufjs rf the
1. Changcablenefs; not continuance in
be often changed, it makes a fov-errign drink for deluge. fVoodîuard's Natural Hiftory,
the fame ftate.
mclandloly. Baccn'sNMurtdHifiiry, Mu'sTER. »./. [from the verb.]
The nui.iiUliy of that end, for v/KA they a<«
As a fwarm of flics in viouge time, 1. A review of a body of forces. made, maketh them alfo changeable. Hoeker.
About the wine-piefc wheie f«"eet muji is pour'd. names
All the
My.fancy was the air, mo(J free,
Beat ofi', recuiiu as oft with humming found. Of thy confederates too, be no lefs great
And full of tnutahility
Mi/ton. In hell than here : when we would repeat
that
Big with chimeras. - Sucki'iig-
The<wine was fuiting to the
itfelf reft, Our (Irengths in mufter, we may name you all. HIato confcflTes that the heavens and the frame
Still working in <hc muft, and lately prefs'd. Belt "Jonfon.
of the world are corporeal, and therefore fuMeS
Drj/Jm.
2. A fegifter of forces mufterdd. to mutability. StilHngfat,
A frofal man that with Tufficient muft
Ye
puhlilh the muften of your own bands, and change of mind.
_
His cades replenifli'd yearly ^ he no more 2. Inconftancy ;

proclaim them to amount to thoufands.. Hsoher,
Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, difdain,
Defir'd, nor wanted. Philips.
Deception takes wrong meafurcs, and makes Sbakejpiare,
Liquars, in the aft of fermentation, as miy? Nice longings, flanders, m».'ai;/i'J''
which founds a retreat inftead of a
falfe mufters,
ind new a!e, produce fpafms in the ftomach. charge, and a charge inftead of a retreat. South.
Mu'table. adj. [mutahilis, Latin.]
Arhuthfiit en AHmenti. Subjeft to change alterable.
3. A colleflion ; as, a «a/?ifr of peacocks. 1. ;
of thcmort accidental and mutaiU na-

TaMusT. T. a. Wellh, ftinking;
[tifvus,
în/iuorth.
Of things
Dutch, mouldinefs ; or perhaps ture, accidental in their produflion, and mut.ikle in
tnns,
4. To pa/iMviTi,9.. To be allowed. their continuance, yet God's prefcience is as cer-
from vioiJl.'\ To mould; to make Such cxcufes will not pajs mufter with God, tain in him as the memorj' is or can be in us.
mouldy. who will allow no man's idlencfs to be the mcafure South' s Semons,
Othcts are made of ftone and lime ; but they of poflible or impoffible. Smth.
2, Inconllant; unfettled.
arc fubjeft to give ihd be moift, which will mufl Double dealers may fafs mufter for a while : but For the mutable rank-fcented many.
corn. Mortimer, all parties waih tlieir hands of them in the conclu- Let them regard me, as I do not flatter.
To Must. i/. «. To grow mouldy. fion. VEftrange. Shaiefpcare's Coridanin.
i^luSTA'cHES. n.f. [mujlaches, French.] Mu'sTERBOOK. n.f. \mttjier ^Xiii book.'\ faw thee mutable
I
Whifkers hair on the upper lip.

; A book in which the forces are regi- Of fancy, fear'd left one day thou would'ft leave'
me. Milton,
This was the manner of the Spaniards, to cut ftered.
off their beards, fave only their mufljches, which Shadow will ferve for Summer; prick him: for Mu'tableness. n. /. [from' oti</<j^/s.]
they wear long. Spcnjer. we have a number of fiiadows to fill up the mufter- Cbangeablenefs ; uncertainty; inftabi-
Mu'sTARD. ». /. \m'ujftard, Wellh ; iosk. Skakefp. Henry IV. lity.
tnouftard, French ; Jinafis.'\ A plant. Mu'sTERMASTER. ft, J. \mujler and Muta'tion. n.f. [mutation, French;
Miller. mafler,'] One who fuperintends the mutatio, Lat ] Change ; alteration.
The pancakes were naaght, and the mujiard was mufter to prevent frauds. His honour
-good. Shaktffeare. A
noble gentleman, then muftermafier, was ap- Was nothing but miitaiiir., ay, and that
Sauce himfelf, offenfive to its foes,
lilce pointed embailJdot unto the Turkiih emperor. From one bad thing to worfe. Shaktfpeare,
The roguilh mujfard, dang'rous to the nofe. King. Knollcs's Hiftcry. The vicifljtude or mutations in tTiefuperior globe,
Muftard, in great quantities, would quickly Muftermafters carry the ableft men in their pock- are no fit matter for this prefent argument.
bring the blood into an alkaline ftate, and dcltroy ets. Raliigh. Bacon s Ejfay
the animal. Arbuthmt. Mu'sTER-ROLL. vdA roi/.] To make plants grow out of the fun or open air
11./. [muftef
'Tis your's to Ihakc the foul, is a great mutation in nature, and may induce a
With thunder rumbling from the mujlard bowl.
A ef forces.
regiller
change in the feed. Bacon,
How many infignificant combatants arc there
Pcfe.
in the Chrlftian camp, that only lend their names MUTE, adj, [muet, Fr. mntus, Latin.]
Stick your candle in a bottle, a coffee cup, or a
S-wift.
to fill up the tnufter-mll, but never dream of going 1. Silent; not vocal; not having the ufe
-
muftard ât. Decay ef Piety.
upon fervice ? of voice.
y« Mu'sTER. nj.rt. To aflemble in or- One tragick fentence, if I dare deride, my
Why did he reafon in foul implant.
der to form an >rmy. Which Bctterton's grave aflion dignify'd ; And fpecch, th' efl"e<a of reafon ? To the mute
Why doesblood thus rmfttr to my heart.
my Or wcll-mouth'd Booth with emphafis proclaims, My fpeech is loft ; my reafon to the brute. Dryden,
So difpolTefling all my other parts Though but perhaps a mufler-rdl of names. Pepe. Mute folcmn forrow, free from female noife.
Of ncceflary fitnefs ? Siaktjp. Mmjure far Mcaf. Mu'sTlLV. aeiv. [from mujiy.'\ Mouldi- Such as the majefty of grief dcftrOys. Drydcti.
They reach the deftin'd place.
round the centre fwarm,
2. Having nothing to fay.
And mufter there, and
And draw together. Bfackmore's Creation. Mu'sTiNESs. «./. [from ««/?)'.] Mould; Say (he be mute, and will not fpeak a word.
damp fnulnefs. Then I'll commend
her volubility. Sbakefprare.
To MU'STER. v. a. [moupren, Dutch.]
Keep them dry and free from muftitiefs.
All fat vuic.
To bring together; to form into an
Emifn's KaltnJar, Pondering the danger with deep thoughts. Mihim.
army. All the heav'niy choir flood mute.
Mu'sTY. aJj. [from «*/?.] And filcncc was in heav'n. Milton's Paradijjf Loft.
The captain, halF of whofc foldiers are dead,
I. Mouldy; fpoiled with damp; moift The whole pcrplexd ignobh crowd,
the other quarter never mujlcrej nor f«n, de-
3.x\i
mands payment of hib whole account. Sptvjer. and fetid. Mutt to my queftions, in my praifes loud,
Was't thou fain, poor father, Hcho'd the word. Priir,
Had we no quarrel to Rome, but that
Thou an thence banifhd, we would mufter all To hovel thee witli fwine and rogues forlorn, Mt/TE. n.f.
From twelve to feventy. Stakiff tare's Coriotanus. In ihort and mufty ftraw. Shakepeare's King 'Lear, One that has no power of fpeech.
1.
my friends, and meet your grace. Piltachoes, lo they *«- good and not mufty, made
I'll mufter up Either our hiftory fliall with full mouth
Skttk:fprare. into a ml'k, are an excellent nourifher. Bacov.
Speak freely of our afts; orclfe our grave,
The principal fcribe of the hoft muftercd the Let thofe that go by water to Gravefend prefer
Jjke Turkilh mute, fliall have a tonguek-fs moutlj.
2 Kirgs. lying upon the boards, than on mufty inteflious
people. Shakcfpeart*
up, as well as you ftraw. . Harvey.
I could miifttr your mule V\\ be;
My giants and my witches too. Dm:e. z. Stale ; fpoUed with age. 'Wlien my tong«e blabs, then let mine eyes not fee.
A daw tricked himfelf up with all the ây While the grafs grows— the fTOTcrb i« fomewhat Shakefpeare,
feathers he could rrufter. L'Eftrange. Sbakejpeare. word fpoken, no won-
mafty. ^He that never hears a
Old Anchifes Vapid with f< ti'-lnf fs. der he remain fpeechlefs ; as
if one mult do, who
J.
Review'd his mufttr'd race, *aA took the tale.
Let not, like Nscviu*, every crrorpafsi from an infant /hou'.d be bred up amongft mutes,
Drydfti. HJder.
The mufty wine, foul cloth, or greaCy glafs. Pcpr, and have no tviciiing.
All the wife fayings and advices which philofo- Let the ligures, to which art cannot giveâ
p>e s could mufter up to this purpofe, have proved 4. Dull; heavy; wanting adlivity ; want- aftions. Drydtn,
voice, imitate the mutcs in their
common people. Tilhifan. ing praftice in the occurrences of life.
inefieftual to the
A man might have thtee hundred and eighteen Xantippc being manied to a bookilh man whoi
2. A letter which without a vowel can
men in his family, without being heir to Adam, has no kiiowlcdgi; of t'.ic world, is forced to take; make no found.
•^ Grammatiani
!
MUT M UT MUZ
C rsmmsrians note the eafy pronunciition of a Mi;'tikousne8S. h./. [from mutiacu] (liesp feed upcn wild thyme and wholrfome
mw.'j berore a liquid, which doth not tiieret'ore K-rbs. Buck's Natuml liijiory.
Seditioufnels ; turbulence.
ncccfiTarily iTialce the preceding vov.cl long. houUr, Wjfliin a few days were brm^ht out of th^ couri.
To .V'UTE. -v. n. [mutir, irench.j 'I'o
7'o Mv't IKY. n. [mutiner, Fr.]
"v. To try twothwufand wuttjrs. Hay n'lird s Edwjrd Vlt
rife againft authority ; to makeînfur- Ml riONFrsT. n. /. [mutton anc/ijl.]
dung as birds.
Mine cyci being open, the fparrows muted warm reftion ; to niove ('edition. A hand large and red.
dung intj mine eyes. toh. ii. lo. The fpirit of my father begins to ni/tjr.v againft Will he who faw the foldiers muttorffl,
I could not fright the crows,
this fervitudc. ^taki-lpiare^s jis ycu tJe if.
.Arid fj.v 'hee niaui li,appear within the lift.
Or the lea^ bird from muting on my head* * 'J he people mutiry, the fort is mine, 1 (> w trrjf. truth .> Diytkns Juv.'njf.
'^'
Ben Janjon, And all the foldiers to my will incline. fFulUt .
MU'i UAL. at(/. [muluel, French; mu-

The not able to digeft the fruit, from her
bird Wiien Csclar's army mulinied^ and giCit trouble
frme, no argument cuuld appealc then). South.
liius,L.T.] ktciptiAal; each aiLting in
inconverted muting arifeth tiiis plant. Biiiun*
Mu'tiny. n.f. [frcm the verb.] Infur return or correfpordence to the oth'jr.
Mu'tely. aiiv.\îtoat miite.'\ Silently;
Note a wild ana wantcn herd.
rot vocally. redlion ; fedition.
Fetching mad bounds, bellowing arrd neighing loud.
Driving dumb Silence from the portal door, The king fled to a ftrong callle, where he wa
If they perchance but hear a trumpet found.
"Where he had muti/y two hours before. Afi't^^n. gathering forces to fupprefs this irutiny. Sidney.
fat You ihall perceive them make a mutual ftand,
J' th war.
7*0 Mu'tilate. i;. a. [muti/er, French;
Their rrufinies and revolts, wherein they Ihew'd
i!y the fweet power of mufr^k. Shakejpeare.
mulilo, Latin.] To deprive of fome What fti' uid mi'ft cxi.l:c a tvttnial
flame,
Moft valour, fpoke not fjr them. Shakcjpcare'iCor. Po/r.
Your rural cares and plcafure; ar= the fa.ire.
eflVntial part. In moft ftranê poftures
Mt;'TirA.l,i Y au'v. [ittita mutual '\ Re-
Such fearing to concede a monftrofity, or ir.u- We've feen him let himlclf.
tiliUe the integrity of Adam, preventively conceive — There is a mutiny in mind. s Sbakefpeare. ciprocally ; in reiurn.
the creation of thirteen ribs. Brjicr^, Lebtiianit this frame He never bore
Sylburgius juiUy complains that the place is mu Of heav'n were falling, a-d t..cie elements L ke labour with the reit ; wheis th' other inftro-
tilalcd- St'MmgJIcet. In mutiry had from faer axi- torn mcnts
Among the muiilated poets of antiquity tne:e is The (ledfaft e.irth. M.lioni Parjdije L-fl. Did and hear, devife, inftruft, walk, feel,
fee,
none whole fragments are fo beautiful as th'ofc of Soldiers grow pernicious to their rriaiier wlio And Sh.tkfj'pejrc's C:rmartil>
KU-u-.-.l'y participate.
Sappho. Addij.n* becomes thtir fervjnt, and is in danger of their Dear love 1 bear to fair Anne Page,
Ariftotle's works were corrupted, from Strabos much as any government of feditious.
mutinies, as Who }ituiua,'!y hath ani'wcr'd my art'eflion.
acu>unt of their having been mu. ilattd and confum- temple. Shrkefpeare.
cd with moifture. Bakir, to MU'TTER. 0/ ». [mutire, mujare, The tongue and pen mufually alTift oirc another,
Mul ila'tion, n.f. [mulilation, Fiench ; writing what we fpeak, and fpeaking what we
Latin.] To grumble; to murmur. write. Holdrr.
mutilaiio, from mulilo, Latin.] De- What would you all: me, that 1 would deny.
Pellucid fubllances aft upon the rays of light
privation of a limb, or any eflential Or ftand fo irutt'rirg on Shak fpeat-e'i OibtHc*. i*
at a diftaiiê, in refrafling, ieH>;fling and in-

part. How ! what does his calhier'd wordrip mutter f
flcfliiig them, and the rays mutually agitate the
The fobjcS hath been opprefled by .fines, im- Sbak.fpeare.
parts of thofe fubftances at a diftance for heating
prifonmcnts, mii(/Ai>/»ti, pillories, and banilhments.
Sky lowr'd, and miiti'ring thunder fome fad drops
^.•Ti'fons Opfieks.
them.
Wept, at completing of the mortal frn
They mutually teach, and are taught, that klTon
Mutilati.nt are not tranfmitted from father to
Original Milions Paradife Lrji.
of vain confidence and fecurity. jitierbury's Serm.
the blind begetting fuch as can fee : crip- They may trefpafs, and do as they pleale ; no
fon, May I the facred pleafures know ,
ples, mutilate in their own pcrfons, do come out man dare accufe them, not fo much as mutter Of ftrifleft amity, nor ever want
againft them. Burten.
perled in their generations. Brcnvn.
Bold Britons, at a brave bear-garden fray
A friend with whom 1 mutually may fliare
RiU'lJNK. n. /. [mu/in, French.] A Are rous'd ; and clatt'ring fticks cry, play, play,
Gladnef'i and anguilh. Pbilips.
mutineer ; a mover of infurredlion. Not piay: Mutua'lity. »./. [from M»/aa/.] Re-
in ufe. Mean time your filthy foreigner will ftare, ciprocation.
In my heart there was a kind of lighting, And mutter to himl'elf, ha, gen% barfiare* Villanous thoughts, Rodcrigo ! when thefe mit*
That would not let me lleep ; methought i lay And it is well he mutters, well for him ; tualitiesfo marfhal the way, hard at hand comej
"Worfe than the ntutinei in the bilboes. Sh^kejfeart* Our butchers elfe would teat him limb from limb. the 'mcorporatc conctulion. Shakejpeare's Olbellot
Like the mutinei of Jerufalem, Drydin. Mu'zzLE. n./. [mujiati, French.]
Be friends a while. Shtsktjptare'i King yobn. When tire tongue of a beautiful female was cut
1. The mouth of any thing; the mouth
Mutine'er. «._/! [from French.]
ra»r»«, out, it could not forbear muttering. Mdi/m's SfeCl.
of a man in contempt.
A mover cf fedition j aii oppofer of law- Te Mu'tter. v. a. l"o utter with im- But ever and anon turning her truTxIe toward
ful authority. perfeA articulation ; to grumble forth. me, flie threw fuch a profpeft upon me, as might
The war of the duke of Utbin, head of the Amongft the foldiers this is muttered. well have given a furfcit to any weak lover's fto.
Spinilh mutinetri, was unjull. Bacon* That here you maintain fcv'ral factions. Stakifp. mach. Sidney,
bet wide the mufti's g<irden-gatc ; A kind of men, fo loofe of foul. Huygens has proved, that continuing in
a bullet
For there our mutiruers appoint to meet. Drydm, That in their flcep will mufier their affaiw. Shalefp. the velocity with which it leaves the muxzle ot the
They have calhicred feveral of their followers as Your lips have fpokcn lies, your tongue hath cannon, would require twenty-five years to pafa
mutinetrSf who have contradiêd them in political mattered perverfenefi. Ifaiab, lix. 2. from us to the fun. Chiyne.
convcrfaii.ins. Adeiijon, A hateful prattling tongue. If the poker be out of the way, or broken, ftir
Mu'tinous fl«Jr. [m»//W, French.] Se- That blows yp jealoufics, and heightens fears. the fire with the tongs ; if tire tongs be not at
turbu- By n.uttcring pois nous whifpcrs in men's cars. hand, ufe the muzxle of the bellows. S-wift,
ditious ; bufy in infurrcdlion ;
lent.
Crlccb. 2. A faftening for the mouth, which hin-
It tauntingly replied
Mu'tter. a./, [from the verb.] Mur- ders to bite.
To th' difcontented members, mwinout parts,
th'
mur; obfcure utterance. The fifth Harry from curbed licence plucks
That envied his receipt, t^hakejpeare i CorhUnui. Without his rod revers'd. The mux,-x.lc of reftraint; and the wild dog
The laws of England Ihould be adminillrred, And backward mutters of diffevering powcf, Shall ficfh his tooth on ev'ry innocent. Sbakcjpt
and the mutinaui fcvercly fupprcHed. hayivarj. We cannot free the lady. Mih.n. Greyhounds, fnowy fair,
Lend me your guards, that if perfualion fail. Mu TTERER. n.f. [from »i»//«r.] Grum- And tall as ftags, ran loofe, and cours'd around
Force may againll the murimjus prevail. iViilkr, mutmurer.

bler '
his chair J
;
My ears are de.if with this impatient crowd ; With golden muxxlet all their mouths wen: bound*
Mu'tteringlv. adv. [from muttering.] Dryden*
Their wants arc now grown mutinout and loud.
With a low voice without dillinA arti-
Dr\dcn> ;
To Mu'zzLE. V. n. To bring the mouth
culation.
Mu'ViNOUSLY. adv. [from mutinoui.'\
MU'TTON.
near.
«./. [mcttttin, French.] The bear muxv.les, and fmells to him, puts his
Sedilioudy ; turbulently.
A woman, a young woman, a fair woman,
I. The flelh of Ihcep drefled for fcoJ. nofc to his mouth and to his eats, and at laft leaves
wr;s togovern a people in nature mui]n'^yjly proud,

The of roaftcd mutton or beef, falling on tlie
fat him. VEJiramge.
birds, will bade them. Stci/t's Dincl. to the Co'.k. To Mu'zzi.E. v. a.
and always before ulcd to hard governuurs.
Sidney. z. A (Ireep. Now only in ludicrous lan- I. To bind the mouth.
Men imprudently often, fcditicufly and mviinouf- guage. This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I
ly fometimes, employ their leal for petluns. Here's too fmall a pafture for fuch ftore of mut- Have net the pow'r to tnuxxle him ; therefore bcft
Sfralt't Sermcni. ttnt, Shakejpeare. Not wake him in his dumber. Sbakifpiarcm
Vol. ii. The flcfli of nuilt,ni [t better taftcd where the
; ; ;
M Y R My s M Y S
The bear, the boar, and every favjge name, ramatick flavoor, but very oaufeous : Its fmell is Mvste'riously. adv. [from myjletioui.']
Wild in fffeO, thoujjh in appearance tame, ftrong, but not difagrecable : it is brought from I. In a manner above underilanUing.
Ethiopia, but the tree whicli produces It It wholly
^y wade thy woods, deftroy thy blif.ful bow'r, z. Obfcurely ; enigmatically.
.And, muzxleJ thoagh they feem, the mutes devour. unknown. Our myrrh Is the very diug known
Our duty of preparation contained in this one
Dryittn. by the ancients under the fame name. ////.
word, try or examine, being after the manner of
Through the town wiih flovf and Ib'iemn air. The mynbe fweet bleeding in the bitter wound.
myfteries, my/lni'jujly and ftcretly dcfcri)>cd, there
Led by the RoDril, walics the muxxlu! bear. Gay. Sperfer.
is reafoo to believe that there is in it very much
dropt in a little honey of rofes, with a few
2. To fondle with the mouth clofe. A I
dutj^ Tayhr'i fyiriby Catr.mumnnt,
drops of tinflure of myrrh. ky^fiman' s .9b>-^ ry.
low word. Each ftair iiyflerioujly was meant. Milton.
The nurfe was tlyn muXKliiig and coaxing of My'rrhine. adj. [myrrbinus, Latin.]
Myste'riousnbss. n. /. [from myjle-
the child. LEfirange. Made of the myrrhine llone. rieus.'\
To rellrain from hurt. How
they quaftin gold,
3.
Cryfta', and myrrhine cups imbofs'd with gems 1 . Holy obfcurity.
My dagger muxxkA
My purpofc is, to gather together into an union
Left it fliould bite its mafter, and fs prove,
And rtuds of pearl. Miltm'i Piiradifr Rcgaiii.d.
aM ihofe icveral portions of truth, and diflering ap-
As ornaments oft do, too dangerous. Stahrfpcms, My'rtiform. adj. [myrliis ilid /bim.]
prehcnfions of myjiiriiuj'nefi. Taylcr's IVortby Camm,
My. pronoun pofl'effive. [See Mine.] Having the Ihape of myrtle.
2. Artful difficulty or perplexity.
Belonging to me. My is ufed before a My-RTLE. a./, [myrlus, Latin; myrte,
To My'sTERizE. -v. a. [(torn ayjiery.]
fubilantive, and mine anciently and Fiench.] A fragrant tree (acred to
To explain as enigmas.
properly before a vowel. My is now Venus. Myfiirixing their enligns, they make the parti-
commonly ufed indifferently before The Hower of the myrtle confifts of feveial cular ones 01 x!kt twelve tribes accommodable i^nto
leaves dilpoicd in a circular order, which expand
both. My is ufed when the fubflan- in form of a rofe; upon the top of the foot-ftaik
the twelve figns of the zodiack. Brown's lûlg. Er,
tive follows, and mine when it gees isthe ovary, which has a fliort ftarlike cup, di-
MY'STERY. a./ [îrnfio,; my/fere, Fr.]
before : as, this is my book : this book is vided at the top into five parts, and expanded ; the 1. Something above human intelligence;
mine. ovary becomes an oblong umbilictited fruit, divided fomeihing awfully obfcure.
Her feet flie in my neck doth place. Sferjir.
into three cells, which are full of kidney-fliaped They can judge as fitly of his worth,
I conclude my reply with the words of a Chriltian feeds. Millsr. As I can of thole myfteri.-s which hcav'n
poet. £ramhaU, There will I make thee beds of rofes. V/ill not have earth to know.Shakcfptare's Cor-
If my foul had free election

With a thoufand fragrant pofies Upon the matter of your medita-
holy days, let
'
To difpcfe cf her aSeftion. WalUr. A

cap of rtowcrs, aad a girdle tions be according of the day ; and.
to the iryfl^'y
Imbroider'd all with leaves of mynle. Shakcffeare. to your ordinary devotions of every day, add ths
I ihall prefent my reader with ajournal. Adiifon.
1 was of late as petty to his ends. prayer which is fitted to the myfteiy. laylor.'
My'kchek. «./. [myncjjdo, baxon.] A
As is the mom dew on the myrtle leaf If God ihould plcafe to reveal unto us this great
nun. Dia. To his grand fea. thakefpeare''s Antony lind CU^p. myjl<ry of the Trinity, or fome other myjicrits In
My'oGRAPHy. n.f. [ttwyfaipia.] A de- Demotritus would have Concord like a fair vir- our holy religion, wx Ihould nî be able to under-
fcriptioii of the mufcles. gin, holdhig in one hand a pomegranate, in the ftand them, unlefs he would bellow on us fome new
other a bunale of myrth ; for Tuch is the nature faculties of the mind.
Mv'oLOcy. h.f. [»iio/og'/V, French.] The Stvift.
. oefcription and doftrine of the mufcles.

of thefc trees, that if they be planted, .though a 2. An enigma; any thing artfully made
good fpacc one from the other, they will meet, difHcuIt.
To infiance in the particulars, were to write
all
and with twining one embrace the other. Peacbam,
a whole fyftem of myo/i^y. Cheym"! Phihfofh. Pi in. To thy great comfort in thia iiyfttry of ill opi-
Nor can the mufe the gallant Sidney pafs, nions, here's the twin bruthetof thy letter.
My'opy. ». /. [f*tiiinj<.] Shortnefs of The phime of war with early lawrels crown'd. Shakejpmre's Merry Tf'ives cf fp^ndfcr*
!
fight. The lover's myrtli and the poet's bay. Jhomjia. .

Important truths ftill let your fables hold.
My'hiaD. It./. [/Au'piaf.] Myse'lf. Imy znd/elf.] And moral myfierics with art unfold. Cran-ville.
1. The number of ten thoufand. 1. An emphatical word added to /.• as, / 3. A trade j a calling : in this fenfe it
2. Proverbially any great number. myfelf do it, that is, not 1 by proxy ; ihould, according to JVarburton, be
AITemble thou, not another. written mijiery, from mejiier, French, a
'
Of all thofe wjjr/Wj, which We lead, the chief. As his hoft, trade.
Milton. murth'ier rtiut the door.
I (hould agaipft his And that which is the nobleft mrjierie,
< Are there legions of devils who are continually Not bear the knife myft'f. Staktfpmre's Macbitb.
Brings to reproach and common infamy. Spenfer.
deligning and working our ruin ? there are alfo
2. Th: reciprocal cf /, in the oblique Inftruîon, manners, myfteries and trades,
'
wyrwdi of good angels who are more cheerful and
cafe. Degrees, obfcivances, cuftoms, and laws,
officious to do us good. Tillafon.
They have miffed another pain, againft which Decline to your confounding contraries. Sbakefp.
Safe fits the goddefi in her dark retreat
Around her, myriadi of ideas wait.
I fliould have been at a lofs to defend "lyfdf. Mv'sTlCAL, ) J- r a- T • -I
S'wijY J Mxamintr. ''«>• Latin.]
And cndlefs Ihap e«. Prior. My'stick J
['»J./?'«^.
3. /is fometimes omitted, to give force
My'rmidon. h./. [wt^fftrW..] Any rude' 1. Sacredly obfcure.
to the lentencc. Let God himfelf that made me, let not man that
ruffian; fo nalned from the foldiers of
Myfelf &ii\\ mount tlie roftium in hit favour. knows not himfelf, be my inftruftor, concerning
Achilles. And try to gain his-pardcn. Addijcn. the myjii.id vitiy to heaven. Hooker.
The mafs of the people will not endure to be go- MysTftGo'ctJE. tt.f. [MurtfyKVo?; inyjia- From faivation all flelh being excluded îs
verned by Clodios and Curio, at tTie head of their Cod
layrniidars, though thcfe be ever fo numerous, and
gQgus, Latin.] One who interprets di- way. hacfa revealed a way myJUcal and fuper-
natural. Hooker,
coBipofed of their dton rcprefentatives. Sioift. vine myfteries; alfoone who keeps
church relicks, and fliews them to 2. involving fome fecret meaning; em-
My«o'BALAN. n./. [^myrobalantis, Lat.] blematical.
ftrangers. Bailey.
A froit. Ve five other waud'rlng fires ! that move
Themyrialaiis are a dried fruit, of whitir we Mystk'riarch. n.f. [at.-v'ît,* and tt.(X'..\ In myjiich dance not without long, refound
have five kinds : they are flefhy, generally with a One prefiding over myfteries. His pratfe, who out of daikncts call'd up light.
ftonc and kernel, having the pulpy part more or lefj Myst e'rious. adj. [niyjierieux, French ; Millcn.
of an aullcrc acrid tafte; they are the ptoduftion. It is Chtift's body in the facrament and out
from niyjlery.'^
'
. of five dtffertnt trees growing in the Eaft Indies,' of it; but In the facrament not the natural trutli,
are eaten preferved. Hill. 1. Inaccellible Co the <ujnder{landing ; aw-
where they but the fpiritual and myjiical. Tfiyhr's Hôriby Citn.
The taynhalan bath parts of contrary natures fully obfcure. It is plain from the Apocalypfe, that myjiical
for it isIwe:t, and yet altringcnt. Baan. God at laft
BAbyloa is to he. confumed by fire. Bunet,
and To Satan, firft In fin, his doom apply'd.
Obfcure
Myro'poi.ist. n./. [(xJpon inu'îai.'l
Though in myjlerious terms. Milton's ParaJifi LiJ}.
3. ; fecret.
One who fells unguents. Left new haf py ftate.
fears difturb the
Then the true Son of knowledge firft appear'd
Know, I have fearch'd the myjiuk rolls of fate.
Myrrh, n.f. [myrrha, Latin 5 myrrhe, And tKc old dark myfieriout clouds were deat'd.
Dryden.
Denbam.
French.] A gum. My'sTiCAi.LY. adv. [from myjiical.] In
Myrrh is produft of the gum lefin
a vegetable 2. Artfully perplrxed.
Thofe princes who were diftingullhed for a manner, or by anafl, implying lome
kind, fent to us in loofe granules from the fize of ti^yftc-
riou! (kill in government, found, by the event, that fecret meaning.

a pepper corn to thit of a walnut, of a reddilh
they had own ijuiet, or the hap-
confulted thsir Thcfe two in thy facrcd bofom hold.
brown colour w'tth more or lefs of an admixture of ill
in taftc is bitter and acrid -with a peculiar pincfs <ii their people. Hiuift. Till; myjiically jojn'd, but one they be. Dcr.ne.
yellow ;
My'sti-
; ; »
M Y T M Y T MY ,T
Mv'sTiCALNESs. n. f, [froBl myftieal.^ loglcal.'^ In a manner fujtable to the logy.'] To nelate. or explain the fabu-
Involution of fome fecrec meaning. fyrtem of fables. lous hiftory of live heathens. ,<•
Mytholo'gical. adj. [from mythology .^ Mytho'logist. n./. [from mythology.']

Mytho'logy.. n.f. [i/.i^j'^ and Xoy*-
Relating to the explication of fabulous A
relator or e.vpofitor of the ancient
mythologie, Fr.] Syftem of fables; ex-
hirtory. fables of the heathens.
plication of the fabulous hiftory of the
The of the conceit was probably hiero-
original The grammarians and iryttc/cgijls feem to be
glyphical, which
after became trythalogicel, and by •Itogether unacquainted with his writings. Creerb, 'gods of the heathdii world.
tradition Hole into a total ^rity, which was but It was a celebrated problem among the ancient The modefty of mythology deferves to be com-
partially true in its covert fern and morality. mythologifts. What was the ftrongeft thing, what mended: the fcenes there arc kid atadiftance;
BrvwtCs Vulgar Krrvurs, tile wifcft, and what tlie greateft ? Norris. once upon a time, in the days of yore, and in
it is
the land of Utopia. BmiUy.

MyTHOLo'ciCALLY. adv. [fiom mytbo- To MYrHo'LOGiZE. 'v.n. [from mytho-
N.
N A I N A K N A K
NA 1^
femivowel, has in Engli/h an
invariable found as, no, name,
nit; it is fometimes after m
:
As one by ftrength drives cut mother
nail
So the remembrance of my former love
Is by a newer objc£V foon forgotten. Sbahefpfare.
For the body of fliips, no nation doth equal
A philofopher being afked in what a wife man
differed from a fool anfwcred, fend them both
.'
naked to thole who know them not, and you (hall

perceive. Bacon.
almoftloft; as, condemn, contemn. England, nor for the oaken timber t) build them ; He pitying how they (lood
To Nab. v. a. [na/'fa, Skvedifh.] To and we need not borrow iron for fpilccs or naili, Before him naked to. the air, that now
catch anexpeftedly; to feize without to faden them together. Bacjn. Muft fU|tJcr change
warning. A word feldom ufed but in The load-ftone mines in the fljore of India, As father oi his family, he clad
are fo- placed in abundance and vigour, that it Their nakedncfs with (kins of hearts. Milton.
low language. proves an adventure of hazard to pafs thofc coafts 2. Unarmed ; defencelefs ; unprovided.
Na'cker, orNAKER. »./. [concha mar- in a ihip with iron nails. Brmvn. Had but ferv'd ray God v/ith half the zeal
I
gr'uifera, Lat ] A (hell that contained A bccchen pail I ferv'd my
king, he would not in mine aê
a pearl. Hung by the handle, on a driven nail. DryJen. Have me naked to mine enemies. Sbakrfpeare.
left
h'A'DlR. n. /. fArabick] The point

An equivocal word ufed for the nji/of the hand Ungrateful men,
or foot, and for an iron nail to fallen any thing. Behnld my bofom vak^d to your fw^rds.
under foot direflly oppoGte to the ze- iy«lti. And kt the man that's injur'd iirike the blow..
nith.
4. A ftud ; a bofs. jlddffott,
As tit as four bright figns <?ompr!ie
For not the de(k with filver nails.
3. Plain; evident; not hidden.
The diftont zenith from the nad,r lies. Creich, Nor bureau of ex pence. The truth appears.fo naked on my fide.
Natf. n.f. {mergus cirrhatut.] A kind Nor ftandiih wellJapanM avails That any purblind eye may find it out. Sbaieffi.
of tufted feabird. To writing of good fenfe.
4. Mere;
Sivift. bare; wantin.:,' the necefi'ary
Nag. n./. [nagge, Dutch.] 5. A meafure of length two inches and ;
additions; fimple ; ai)ftraftcd.
1. A fmall hcrle. A horfe in familiar a quarter. Not that God doth n;quire nothing unto happi.
language. 6. On the nail. Readily; immediately; ncfs at the hands of men, favlng only a naked be-
A hungry lion would have been dealing
fain without delay. I once fuppofed it from lief, hope and ch.arity we may not exclude;
for
with good horfefleih ; but the lug would be too a counter ftudded with nails, but have but that without beîef all other things are as no-
fl«t. L'EJIrange, thing, and it is the ground of thofe other divine
(ince found in an old record, foluere
Thy nagi, the leaneft things alive, virtues. Hooker,
Juper unguem. It therefore means into
So very hard thoii lov'il to drive. Prhr. Na'khdly. ado),
2. A paramour: in contempt. the hand. Without covering,
1.
Your ribauld rag of Egypt We want our money on the njil.
Simply; merely; barely;
2. in the ab-
Hoifts fails, and flies. Skakrfp. Ant. ard Clafatra. The banker's ruin'd if he pays. Stuift^s Poems.
ftraft.
KAIL. n. /. [noEjl, Saxon; nagel,G&t- To Nail. -v. a. [from the noun.]
Though feveral fingle letters nakedly confidercd,
man.] 1. To fallen with nails.
ahe found to be articulations only of fpirit or
1. The hard cruft or horny fubAance at
To the crofs he nai's thy enemies,
breath, and not of breath vocalized ; yet there is
The law that is againil thee, and the fins tTiat property in alt letters of aptnefs to be con-
the ends of the fingers and toes. Of al) nunkind, with him are crucify'J. Milioni
My naih can reach unto tliine eje). Shatrfêare. joined in fyllables. Holder.
He clafp'd his hand upon the wounded part.
The meaneft fculjjtor in th' yTmllian fquare, 3. Difcoverably evidently.
The fecond fliaft came fwift and unefpy'd, ;
Can imitate in brafs the itaiit and hair; And picrc'd his hand, and naiVd it to his fide. So blinds the Iharpeft counfels of the wife
Expert in trifles. DryJrn. This overfliaiowing Providence on high,
Dry den.
The of our fingers give (trength to thofe And dazzietii all their clearcft- fightcd eyes.
naili
parts in the various
funAions they are put to: and
2. To ftud with nails.
That they fee not hov« nakedly they lie. Dante!.
In golden armour glorious to behold.
defend the numerous nerves and tendons that arc
The rivets of your arms were njil'd with gold. Na'kedness. » /. [from naked.]
under them. /Jay,
L'ryJcn. I, Nudity ; want of covering.
2. The talons of birds ; the claws or paws Na'iler. n /. \ from Bail.] One whofe My f.icc I'll grime with filth;
of beafts. to forge nails ; a nail-maker.
trade is
And with prcfcntcd iiakcdnej's out-facc
The winds and perfecutions of the Iky.
3. A fpike of metal by which things are
Sbahefp
NA'KRD. adj. [nacob, Saxon.] Nor he their outw.rrd on y, with the ikins
faftened together. I. Wanting clothes; uncovered; bare. Of beafti ; but inward naktdnefs, much more
Z 2 Opprobrious t
. ; . ; ;
NAM NAM N A P
'OppMbrioin ! with hU mbf of righttoufnefs Like the watennen of Thames does the dog-iil]) at fea, m<Kh more make
Nor
Arraying, cover'd trom hFs Father's fighu MiUen^ I row by, and call them names. Sviift's Mifid. out the dog of land, than tiiat his cognomiaal, or
I cntirît my gf^ndc renders xo few on their To Name. v. a. [from the noun.] namejake, in the heavens. Brown's yulgarErnurs,
One author is a mole to another : it is impof-
tuckers igiin, and not to imitate the nakcJntfs, 1. To difcriminate by a particular appel-
fible for them to dil'cover beauties;
they have' eyes
bat the innocence of their inothi»tve. Mdijin.
lation impofed. only for blemillies: they can indeed Ice the light,
Thou to be-ftrong mull put olf every drcli, 1 mention here a fon of the king's whom Florizcl
Thy only armour it thy naimiijs. Prior. as is faid of their namejekes ; but immediately
] now nanu to you ; and with fpeed fo pace
fliut their eyes.
X, Want of provifun for defence. To fpeak of lêrdita. hhakeffeare.
j4dd,(inp
Spies, to fee the nakedmfs of the land are come. Thou haft had I'cven hulbands, neither wait thou NAP. n /.
[Jjnoeppan, Saxon, to (leep.J
Cfnejis. named after any of them. Toi. iii. 8. 1. Sluaber; a ihort fleep. word Iudt« A
3. Plainnefs; evidence; want of conceal- His name was called Jefus, which was fo named croufly ufed.
. ment. of the angel before he was conceived. Luke, ii. 21 Mopfa fat fwallowing of fleep with open month,
Why feck'ft thou to cover with excufe Thus was the building left making fuch a noife, as no body could lay the
Kidiculous, and the work, Coufufiou, nam'd. Healing of a nap to her charge.
That which appears in proper rakctlmfs f Slakcff. Sidney,
Milton.
Nall. «. / An awl, luch as collar-
2. To mention by name.
Let your bounty take a nap, and I will awake it
an""- Stakejpeare.
makers or (hocmakers ufe.
.iccuftom not thy mouth to fweaiing neither '1 he fun had long fince
! in the lap
Whole bridle and faddle, witleather and null, ufe thyfelf to the naming of tiie floly One. Eiclus. Of Thetis taken out his nap.
T'^'-. IfudifrHi.
With collars and harnefs. My tongue could name whatc'cr 1 faw, Milton. So long «s I'm at the forge you are taking
NAME. a. [nama, Saxon ; naem,
/ Thofe whom the fables name of monftrous fiae. youf ""f- L
ftill
EJirarge.
Dutch.] Miltvn. 2. [Jjnoppa, Saxon.] Down; villous fub-
1. The difcriminative appellation of an 3 . To fpecify ; to nominate. llance.
individual. Did my father's godfon I'eek your life ? .'imongft thofe leaves (he made a butterfly
What is thy tame t He whom my father nam'd y your £dgar. Sbai. With excellent device and wondrous llight
—Thoult be afraid to hear it. Bring me him up whom 1 Ihall name.
Let any one name that propolition, whofe terms
i iiam.
The velvet nap, which on his wings doth lie.
•—No : th.iugh thou call'ft thyfelf a hotter name The filken down, with which his hack is dight.
Than any is in hell. or ideas were cither of them innate. Locke.
ipenjer.
— My name'i Macbeth. Shjktf/ieare. 4. To utter ; to meniion. Jack Cade the clothier means to thedrefj
He called their ntimes after the names his father Let my name be named on them. Gen. xlviii. commonwealth, and fet a new nap upon Siak.it.
them.
Iiad called Gen. xxvi. iS. 5. To entitle. Plants, though they have no prickles, have s
Thoufands there were in darker fame that dwell, Celcftlal, whether among the thrones, or nam'd kind of downy or velvet rind upon their leaves
;
Whofe nume: lome nobler poem fliall adorn. Dryd. Of them the higheft, Mi/icn. which down or nap cometh of a fubtil fpirit, in >
2. The term by which any kind or fpe- Na'meless. eie(/. [from name."] foft or fat fubftance. Baeon,
didinguifhed. Ah where muft needy poet feck for aid.
i. Not diftinguiftied by any difcriminative
!
cies is
What's in a name ? That which we call a rofe.
When duft and rain at once his coat invade
j
appellation. His only coat! where duft confus'd with rain
By any other rame would fmell as fweet. Stak/fj>.
dnthe cold earth lies th' unregarded k'mg, Roughens the r..ip, and leaves a mingled ftain.
If eve , particular idea that we take in, ihould
A headkfs carcafs, and a namclejs thing. Denham.
haveadiltjiift mime, names muil be endlefs. Lxh: The milky way,
Stuift.
To Napp. [))noeppan, Saxon.] 'I'o
1/. a.
3. Perfon. Fram'd of many njm.hji ftars. ffalter.
They with women each degen'rate name, we fleep ; to he drowfy or I'ecure ; to be
lift Thy reliqucs, Rowe, to this fair flirine truft,
Who dares not hazard life for future fame. Dryd. And, by Dryden's awful duft j
lacred, place fupinely carelefs.
A. Reputation ; charafler. Beneath a rude and namcteji Hone he lies, They took him napping in his bed. HuJUras.
The army was the laft enemy the weft had
king's To which thy tomb fli.UI guide cn:juiring eyes. A wolf took a d,jg r.apfmg at his mafter's door.
been acquainted with, and had left no good name P^pe. L ^Jlrange.
behind. Clarendon. 2. One of which the name is not known What is Helmont, that foul
ferioufly related by
linen, ftopt ih a vedi:! that hath wheat in it, will
Renown; f.ime; celebrity; eminence; or mentioned.
J. in twenty-one days time turn the wheat into mice
praife ; remembrance; memory; d.f Litde credit is due to accufations of this kind,
without conjuring, one may guefe to have h'.tts
when they come from fufpctted, that is, from
tindion ; honour. the philofuphy and information of fome houlewifr,
MJwJifs pens. Atterhury.
What men of name rcfort to him ? who had nst fo carefully overed her wiieat, but
Such iinagry of gteatnel's ill became
Sir Walter Herbeit, a renowned foldier ; that the mice could come at it, a;;d were there
And Rice ap Thomas with a vaiiant ere*. A namdejs dwelling, and an unkn jwu name. Ujric.
taken napping 'ûX when they had made an end of
And many others of great «:.i«t and worth. Scak. Na'mely. ativ. [from name.] Particu- their good chear. Bentley.
•
Vifiteminent perfuns of great name abroad ; to larly; fpecially to mention by name.
5
Na'ptaking. n.f. [nap and taie.'] Sur-
tell how the life agreeth with the fame. bacvn. It can be to nature no injury, that of her we 'fay
prize; feizureon a fudden ; unexpeêd
Here left thy bones in rich Hef(-eria's plains. the fame which diligent beholders of her works
Thy name, a ghoft can have, remains. Dryd.
'tis all have obferved ; nai/„ly, that Ihe provideth for all onlet, like that made on, men afleep.
A hundred knights living creatures nouriibmeot which may fuliice. Naptakings, affaults, fpoilings, and firings, have
Approv'd in and men of mighty name. Dryd.
fight, Ilxk^r. in our forctathers days, becwuen us and France,
T hefc fliall be towns of mighty fiine, Which of
thefe forrows is he fubjeft to ? been common. Car^tv.
Tho' now they lie obfcure, and lanas without a To none of thefe, cxcej't it be the iaft ; NAPE. » y. [Of uncertain etymology.
name. Dry den. Namely, fome love that drew him oft from home.
Skinner imagines it to come from nap,
Barlolus is of great name ; whofe authority is 6bake(pearc.
as much taloed amongft the modem lawyers, as The council making remonftrances unio queen the hair that groivs on it ; Junius, with
Papinian's w»s among the ancients. Baker. Ehzabcth, of the continual confpiracics againft her his ufual Greek fagacity, from .i^n, et
it. Fewer delegated ; imputed charatler. lifej and namely, that a man was lately taken, perhaps from the fame root with
hill;
In the name of tiie people, who Hood rearfy in a vcy fufpicious manner to do knob.] The joint of the neck behind^
And power of us the tribunes, we
in the the deed ; advifed her to go Icfs abroad weakly
Turn your eyes towards the napes of your neck«,
Banilh him. SbakeJf(aTe's CorinlaBus. attended. But the queen anfwered, that ftie had
and make but an interior furvcy of your good
rather be dead, than put in cuftody. Bj.on,
7. Fiftitiouj imputation. felves. &hakefpcare,
For the excellency of the foul, namely, its power
When Ulydcs with fallacious artt, Uomitian dreamed, the night before he was llain,
of divining in dreams ; tiiat feveral fuch divina-
Had forg'd a treafon in my patrons name. that a golden head was growing, out oi the nape of
tions have been made, none can quellion. Addij n.
My kinfmen fell. Dryden's ^neid. his neck. B.ie-.r,,
Solomon's choice does not only inrtruit us in
8. Appearance; not reality ; ail'umed cha- NA'pERY.».y. [fM^fr/'a, Italian.] T.ibie
that point of biftory, but furniflies out a very
radler. fine moral to us ; namely, that he who apphes liis linen. Dii'l.
]'ll to himagain, In the name of Brook heart to wildom, does »t the fame time take the
me his puriwfc.
;
Shakeffeare>
Na'phew. «. /. [nafus, Latin.] An
'
He'll tell all
moft proper method for gaining long life, riches,
Thcr: is a friend which is only a friend in nami. herb.
and reputation. yidjijvn's Guardati.
Eiclus.
Na'mer. [from name] One who Na'phth A. «.y? [napbtba, Latin.]
«. /.
Q, An opprobrious appellation.
calls or knows any by name.
Nafhtba a very pure, clear, and thin mineral
is
The huftiand of a very pale yellow, with a caft of brown

fluid,
Bids her confrfs ; calls bei tea tbuuiaiid names Na'mesake. »./ One that has the fame in It
it. is foU and oily to the touch, of a flia'-p
la vaia Hit kneels. Granville, name with another. and uuplealiog taJle, and of a briik and penetrat-
ing.
; ;
N A R N A R I
N A R
uig fmell ; of the bituminous kind. It is extremely They that defire to look into the narrathtu of 5. Near; within a fmall diftance.
leady to take fire. Hills Mat. Med. the ftoty, or the variety of the matter, we have been Then Mneftheus to the head his arrow dr^vt.
Strabo rcprefents it as a liquation of bitumen. careful might have profit. 2 Mac. ii. 24. But made a glancing (hot, and mils'd the dove;
It fwims on the top of the water of wells and fprings. 'i'his commandment, containing, among other Yet mifs'd lo narroiu, that he cut the cord
That found about Babvlun is in fome fprings things, a narration of the creation of the world, is Which failcn'd by the foot the flitting bird. Dryd.
whicifli, though it be generally black, and differs commonly read. Ji^bite. 6. Cloie ; vigilant ; attentive.
little from Petroleum. ffôodivarii. Hoir.er introduces the beft inftrudlions, in the 'i'he ovb he roam'd
The midft of the plained ncrratior.s. Bioomecn ths Otiyjj. With narr'jw fearch ; and with infpeflion deep
NA'ppiKEis. a /. [from nappy.'\
quality of having a nap.
Na'rrative. adj. [narratif-fe, French; Confider'd ev'ry creature, which of ail
from narro, Latin.] Moil opportune might ferve his wiles. Milton.
Na'picin. »./. [from nap ; which ety- Many malicious fpies are fearching into the
mology is oddly favoured by fîrgil, 1. Relating ; giving an account.
To judicial a^s credit ought to be given,
adions of a great man, who is not always the belt
Tonfifque ferunt mantilla •villi: ; na*iria, though the words be narrative. Ayliffei Parergon.
prepared for fo nairtnv an infpedlion. Addijcn.
Italian.] To Na'rrow. 'V. a. [from the adjeflive.]
2. Storytelling ; apt to relate things pall.
1. Acloth ufed at table to wipe the hands Age, as Davenant lays, is always narrati've.
1. To diminilh with refped to breadth or
By art were weaved napkir.s, ihirts, and coats, Dryden. widenefs.
irxonfumptible by lire, Broicn't Vulg.ir Errouis. The poor, the rich, the valiant and the fage, In the wall he made narrtmiei refts, that the
The fame matter was woven into a nupk'iit at And boalting youth, and narrative old age. Pope. beams Ihould not be fadened vîalls of the in the
Louvain, which was cieanfed by being burnt in the Na'rrative. n y. A relation; an ac- houfe. Kings, vi. 6. I
fire. H'uk„:s. By reafon of the great continent of Brafilia, the

count ; a flory.
Nufiini, Hcliogabalus bad of cloth of gold, but needle deflecfleth toward the land twelve degrees
In the inlVruilions 1 give to others, concerning
they were mod commonly of linen, or foft wool. but at the Straits of Magellan, where the land is
yl:butbr76t.
what they Ihould do, take a narrative of what you
ri.rrcmrd, and the fea on the other fide, it varietu
have done. Scult.
2. A handkerchief. Obfoleie. This fenfe
Cyntho was much taken with my narrative.
about five or fix. Brcivn.
is retained in Scotland. Tathr.
A government, which by alienating the affic-
tions, lofing the opinions, and crolling tlie intcrells
I am have found this ttafkin ;
glad 1
Na'rrati VELY. ad-v. [ftom narrati-ve.'\ ot the people, leaves out of its compals the greatell
This was her firll remembraJice trom the Moor.
StaUjjfcare,
By way of relation. part of their confcnt, may juflly be laid, in the
The words all judicial ads are written narra-
of lame degrees it lofes ground, to narrmv its bottom.
Na'fi-ESS. aJj. [from nap."] Waotiog tively, unlels be in fenrences wherein difpofitive
it T, mple'.
nap ; threadbare. and enacting terms are made ufc of. Ay'iê^sPar. Tocontraft;
2. to impair in dignity of
Were he to ftand forconful, neêr would he
Narra'ior. tt. /. [narrateur. Ft. from
Appear in th' market place, nor on him put extent or influence.
The rapUJs vefture of humility. \ SLakefptare,
narro, Lat] A teller ; a relater. One fcience is iritomparably i\ii\t all the reft,
Conlidcr whether the narrator be honeft and where it is not by corruption KariGiu-d into a trade,
Na'ppy. adj. [from nap. Mr. Lye de-
faithful, as well as flcilful ; whether he hath no for mean or ill ends, and fecalar intereds ; 1 mean
rives from nappe, Saxon, a cup.]
it peculiar gain or profit by believing or reporting it. theology, which contains the knowledge of God
Frothy fpuniy from nap ; whence
; : Wattiih'jgxk. and hib creatures. Locke.
^
apples and ale are called lamb's wool. N.'\'RROW. adj. [neapu, Saxon; Irom 3. To coiurad in. fentiment or.fapacity of
Whjn 1 my thrcflier heard. nyp.] knowledge.
With ra*fi beer I to the barn rcj>;ur'd. Cay. Not broad or wide ; having but Defuctude does contra^ and rarrrtv our facul-
1. a
NARCISSUS, n. /. [Laiin ; âarcij/e,
fmall dillance from fide to fide. ties, fothat we can apprehend only thofe things ia
French.] A daffodil. Ldward from Belgia,
which we are convcrlant. Givcrrmcnt of the Voigue.
Nor
Narcijfus fair Hath pafs'd in fafety thro' the narrmi feas. Shak.
How hard it is to get the'm.nd, n.:rro\vt:tl by a
h\ otx the fabled tbuntaiu hanging Hill, tiowf^n. fcanty colieitiun of common ideas, to enlarge itleif
I'be angel Itjod in a narrtru) place, where was
NaRCo'tick. adj. to a mrre copious ll; ck. Lo.ke.
\^ta.fK:u , tiorcolique, no way to turn either to the right hand or to the
Lo I ev'r) fiiiilh'd fon returns to thee
French.] Producing torpor, or Itupe- left. Ni^mlrn, ii. 26. ;
In a narrvio bottomed ditch

Ecunded by nature, narrow'd ftill by art,
failion. cattle cannot turn.
Mf.ititner.
A trilling head, and a contrafled heart. Pope.
Namii k includes all that part of the materia
To confine; to limit.
incdica, wiiich any way produces flecp, whether
By being too few, or of an improper figure and 4..
dimenfion do their duty in perfection, they be-

to I moft find fault with his narrotving too much
called by this name, or hypnoticks, or opiates.
come and incapable of performing their
narrtyiv his own bottom, and his unwary lapping the fiuiul-
native function. Biackmore. ation on which he (lands. WaitrlanJ,
The ancients efVeemed it rarrttkk or ftupcfac-
2. timall of no great extent uled of By admitting too many things at once into one
tive,and it is to be faund in the lift of poifons by ; :
queltion, the mind is dazaled and bewildered
Diofcohdes. Bnivn. time as well as place. ;
whereas by limiting and n.irrywin? the quertion,
Nard. [nardu J, hztio i tjeis-t Gr.]
«.._/". From of geftation may enfue a
this narr.tv time
you take a fuller furvey of the whole. IVatts.
fmallrefs in the exdufion ; but this inferreth no
1. Spikenard; a kind of ointment. Our knowledge i. much more narrotv^d, li we
iuformity. Brtnvn.
He now is come confine ourleives ij our own folitary rcalonings,
Though the Jews were but a fmall nation, and
Into the groves of myrrh.
blifsful licU, tbro without much reading. ffâits.
confined to a narrctt/ compal. in the world, yet the
And flow ring odours, cajfia, nardini balm. Milt,
5. [In Jarriery.] A horfe is laid 10 nar-
drii rife of letters and languages is truly to be
2. An oJorous fiirub.
alcriUd to-them. ffilkins. rcw, when he docs not taivc ground
iimelt, o" the bud o' the briar.
3. Covetous; avaricious. enough, and dees not bear far enough
Or the the fie.
ttjftl in Brn ynrfm^sUnd/rwoods.
To narrow breads he comes all wrapt in gain, out to the one hand or to the other.
, Na»e. »./. [»<»r/r, Latin.] A nortril Tofwelling hearts hclhines in honour's fire. 6iJuey. Farrier's Diii,
not ufed, except as in the following Contracted ; of confined fentinient»
palTage, in afFectation.
4. ; Na'rrowly. adnj. [from narroiv.]
ungenerous. 1. With little breadth or wjiJeneii with
1 licre is a Machiavelian plot. Nothing more Ihakes any
;
fociety than mean divi- fmill dillance between the ftdes.
Though r*eiy nun oll'ict it not. Hudiirai, fions between the fevcral orders of its members, and
Na'rwhalk. »./ A fpeciej of whale. their njjTOTtf- hearted repining at each other's gain. 2. Contradedly ; without extent
Thofe long horns preferved ai p.eti'ius beauties, Spratt.
The church of Itngland is not fo rarrcu-ly cal-
are but the tejtn of Karîobaies. Brvwji'i yuig. Er. The greatell underflanding is narrtnv. How culated^ that cannot fall la with any regular Ipe.
it
much ot God and nature is there, whereof we never cies of government. Sv)ift*
Na'rrabi.e. adj. [fiom narro, Latin.]
had any idea ? Gr:iu. 3. Clofely ; vigilantly ; attentively.
Capable to be to d or related.
'i he hopes of good from thofe whom we gratify, My fellow-fchoolmaftcr
TV Na'rrate. -v. a. [narro, Lat] To would produce a very narrmv and ftinied charity. Doth watch Bianca's fteps fo narroivly. Sbaki-fp,
relate to tell: a word only uled in
; isrrallridge. be ni.rro'tly cnnfidered, this colour will be
If it
Scotland. A falamander grows familiar with a Granger at reprehended or encountered, by imputing to all ex-
NARRATION. »./ [aarralic, Latin;

firft and ii not fo narroiv-ip'trited as to ob-
fight,
ferve, wt;ether the perlon flie talks Vi, be in
cellencies in compofitions a kind of pov^-rty.
Bai otr»
aarralion, French.] Accouq; rela
;
bre. chea or in petticoats. yldjijon. For a confidcr.^ble treafurc bid in my vineyard,
lion ; hiliory. It is with rarruiv-ionVi people as with narrcw- fearch narrowly wh n 1 am gone. L'EJlraige,
Ht did doubt ul' the truth o( that aarrtiion. neck d bottle-- j the IcIj tiicy hjve in them the A
man's reputation draws eyes uion him that
Mlot. msic ooifc th :y make in pouring it out. SiviJ't. will thiritwly inlpc^ every part of him> Adtijon.
I
4. Nearly ;
N AS NAT NAT
4.. Nerrly; within a little. talilry, cannot but be very naufconi and ofTenfive NATIVE, adj. [naiivui, Lat. ttttti/vt,
Some (trivati; vcllck look one o( the Aqoapulo to any wlu> does not baulk his own jeafun, out of French.]
ihifu, and kcry nanoicly miirol of tbe other. Siviji- love to their vice. Sailh.
1. Produced by nature; natural; not ar-
5. Avancioufly ; fparingly. A
divine might have employed hi» paine to bet-
ter purpofc, than in the mftiiirfs of I'lautus and tificial.
Na'rrowness. «.y. [from narrmv.^ Ariltophaiics. Dryden. She more fweet than any bird on bough.
1. vVant of breadth or widenefs. Na'tal. adj. [natal, Fr. naialit, Latin.]
Would oftentimes amongft them bear a part.
In our Gothic cathedrals, the nnimturefs of the And ftrivc to pafs, as Ihe coulJ well enough.
Native ; relating to nativity. Their native mufick by their (kUfulart.
arih makes it rife in height, or run out in Irngth. Sptnfen
Since the time of Henry III. princes children
ji;Utf^n on Itp'y, This doflrine doth not enter by the car,
took names from their timal places, as Edward of But of iticli is njt'rvi in tbe brcalt.
2. Want of extent ; want of couiprehen- Carnarvon, Thomas of Hrothertou. Camden.
Davieit
fion. 2. Natural; fuch as is acconiing to na-
i'ropitious (lar ! whole lacrcd pow'r
Thjt
prince, wlio fliould be fo wife and godlike, Prefided o'er the monarch's natal hour. ture; original.
a^ by eftabl.Ihtd laws of libeity tu fccure protection Thy radiant voyages for ever tun. Prior. The members, retired to their homes, realTume
and encouragement to the houeft induftry of man- Nata'tion. n. / [n al at io. Lit.] The the native fedatenefs of their temper. Swift,
kind, againjt the oppreflion of power, and ntirrîu- Conferred by birth belonging
a& of fwimming. 3. ; by-
*:fs of party, will quickly be too hard for his
In progrelTivs motion, the arms and legs move birth.
neighbours. Lxkc.

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TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED,

A HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE,

THE SIXTH EDITION.

Cum tabulis animum cenforis fumet honefti

La'bs Ah. ai/J. [labialis, Lit'in.] Uttered

Labc'riously. ad'v, [from

Jjlspbij, la^y. The Hebrews have afligned which letters are

How he takes it at heart. Skak. Tivdfth Night. d b. Udder. Latin.]

his accuftomed warinefs and fkillj but run into labour.

There 00 the earth.

How m.i.Ty drcffes are there for each particular

Ray on tbe Creation.

2> To be wanting. fometimes return only yes, or no, to queiiionary

woful mind. '

Thole mufdes become call»us,and, having yielded

To Lame'nt. 1;. a. To bewail; to mourn; be derived from a cuftom, by which the

And /amt vfl\(< within me> Rmvf.

La'mpass. »./. {Iimfas, Fr.] A lump of

we pay upon ino^rtation or exportitjorr hy fea.

Beneath his ftcely cafquc he felt the blow,

In Briciin. Shak.-fpcare'i Cymbelins.

ing n real eftate. . j . .;

are commr-nly counted j;i tliWthofe i

words and fentetues ^ but if we cqnfider it-accord-

toll they knew not bow far. Jon.

have everbcen lui»wniun4«i>1ut]F'C '

rf. /.llend and houter.] Lovely feem'd^ ' -

One who holds lands. . .

Difcovering in wide landfcapi all the eaft

twten it and the ftreet. Arbuthn^if on Cams.

La kdloper.«./ [/aWand/c/fs.Dutch.] The troops with hate infpir'd.

LAN LAN LAP

^And'tiUs with flow'rs fair Flora's painted lap.

-'Menf^expSa that religion Ihould coft them n«

By which lovers books invcnf,

Dear lady, how Oiall I declare tby cafe.

tear in pieces to rend to lacerate. gula. Swift.

ends, where they hp over, tranfparent, like the

La'ppet. My heart prays for him, though my tongue d»

LAprDEous.flfl^'. [/a//'dVju, Lat.] Stony; to !ap/e into the barbarity

dreiui Sur-vey. yondMprudcnce, we may reckon it illuftrious weak-

.'1 >' Qannot be Teen or heard.

With rival note&

debated at large, }f^a!ts.

I oblsrved tfait yoor whip wanted a la/b to it. Watti.

Drjjf/t. 1. Curtom paid for freightage.

4. To Icourge with fatire.

JLet men out of their way Iffi on ever i(y fall,

forces; ;ai)d, lafily, propound variety of dcfighsfor

8. 97^<'Last; the end.

I. Wearinefs ; fatigue; the pain arififtg

LatJx! or lalkets, in a (hip, arc fmall lines like

La'terally. adv. [from lateral.] By Latin.]

more Iteaily rcfulatjr. Locke.

Accounted dang'rous folly. Siiahjf'eare's Mjcreib.

Room fpace extent I. Happening after fomething elfe. 2. Healthy ; falubrinus.

Lock,:. The difl'erence between reafon and nrvclation, and Praife-worthinefs.

difeafed are wafhed.

Umrj. Fr.] The

n.f. \laus, Latin.]

purp ifes have been midook

I am a common Ltugher» Sbak:fpeare.