Ja tresse- the different readings, and in KL. 2, 2. the opposition of to unloose. To us the reading Which are too intrinse t' unloose seems true, since it explains the origin of intrince, a different spelling, and intrench, a glossem. The other form intrinsicate AC. 5, 2. where to untie is opposed, like to unloose in the other passage. Invectively, abusively. AL. 2, 1. to Inveigle, to seduce, allure, or gain by fawning or persuasion. TC. 2, 3. Rather from the ital. invogliare, kin to the lat. velle, germ. wollen, wählen, gr. helō, thelō. Investment, dress, habit, outward appearance. bhd. 4, 1. H. 1, 3. From vestis. to Invocate, to invoke. aHf. 1, 1. Rc. 1, 2. Inward, intimate, closely connected in acquaintance or friendship. Rc. 3, 4; an intimate acquaintance. MM. 3, 2; the inward, the inside. Cy. 3, 4; the inwards, the entrails. 0. 2, 1. Inwardness, intimacy, attachment. MA. 4, 1. Ire, anger. CE. 5, 1. Řb. 1, 1. aHf. 4, 3. From the lat. ira. to Irk, to be loathsome, troublesome, to grieve. AL. 2, 1. aHf. 1, 4. cHf. 2, 2. Kin to the germ. arg, argern. Irksome, giving pain or weariness. TS. 1, 2. Irregulous, out of rule, disorderly. Cy. 4, 2. where th' irreligious is glossem. Itch, fretting. Co. 1, 1. AC. 3, 11. Sax. gictha, germ. jucken, kin to the gr. xaỏ, xeō, xyō, skaō, germ. schaben. Iteration, repetition; application, moral. aHd. 1, 2. Ive. This termination of adjectives gives properly an active signification, but occasionally also a passive. So protractive TC. 1, 3. for protracted. So also the termination of the active participle ing, as unrecalling for unrecalled, unrecallable. TL. 142. J. philos. hist. of the europ. langu. I, 463. derives it from gada, a travelling horse, scott. jaud. to Jade, to tire, harass, dispirit, plague, vex. Hh. 3, 2. TN. 2, 5. Properly as it seems to domineer a horse by foundering. Jakes, necessary house, privy. KL. 2, 2. Cf. Ajax. Probably from the gr. chezō, choō, or the lat. cacare. to Jangle, to tinkle, ring untuneably. H. 3, 1; to quarrel. MD. 3, 2. LL. 2, 1. Kin to tingle, tinkle, germ. prov. quengeln, quängeln. to Jar, to tick as a clock. Rb. 5, 5; to be dissonant, to quarrel. TG. 4, 2. TЛn. 2, 1. KL. 4, 7. Jar, beat, stroke, ticking made by the pallets of the pendulum in a clock. WT. 1, 2. Rb. 5,5; quarrel, debate. aHf. 1, 1. bHf. 1, 1. Kin to the germ. girren, kirren, quirren, schwirren, gr. garyō, lat garrio. to Jaunce, to ride hard; or to ramble. Rb. 5, 5. From the fr. jancer, kin to go, germ. gehen; whence Jaunce for jaunt, ramble, flight, excursion, RJ. 2, 5. So Gifford's Ben Jons. VI, 166. geance for errand. Jaundice, a disease caused by the obstruction of the gall in the liver. MV. 1, 1. TC. 1, 3. From the fr. jaune, kin to gilvus, helvus, albus. it. giallo, germ. gelb Jay, crow, used for a loose woman. MW. 3, 3. Cy. 3, 4. Indian hajaħ, chajah, hebr. aiah, germ. Gauch, Gäkke, Heher, fr. cocu, choucas Jeebrook, the icy, or cold brook Salo, now Xalon, near Bilbilis in Celtiberia. O. 5, 2. with Steevens. Jceland dogs, shaggy, sharp eared, white dogs, much imported formerly as favourites for ladies. He. 2, 1. Jelly, congealed gray of meat. KL. 3, 7. H. 1, 2. WT. 1, 2. towards end. Fr. gelée, kin to congeal, germ. Gallert, from the lat. gelu. Jeopardy, danger, loss. KJ. 3, 1. From the fr. jeu perdu. Jesses, the short straps of leather, sometimes of silk, which went round the legs of a hawk, in which were fixed the varvels, or little rings of silver, and to these the leash, or long strap, which the falconer twisted round his hand. 0. 3, 8. Old fr. gect, get. Jack. By popular abuse and paronomasy, (like jacere, cacare) as it were, a staff or thread, on which crystallizes a numerous quantity of notions. Originally it is said to be a deminutive of John, or Jaques; often a term of contempt,| contemptible thing; frequently bestowed upon to Jest, to act a feigned part in a mask, or whatever bore the form or seemed to do the work of a man or servant; as roasting jack turnspit. TG. 4, 1. — A small kind of spinnet, anciently called virginal, shaped like a pianoforte. Steevens at S. 129. Jack-a-lent, a stuffed puppet, dressed in rags, thrown at throughout Lent, during six weeks; hence perhaps a ball or bowl in ninepins for aiming, a butt. MW.3, 3. 5, 5. where it is a jocular appellation, and a butt, object of satire and attack. Perhaps from jacere. Jack-o-lantern, ignis fatuus, T. 4, 1. KL. 3, 4. Jack an apes, monkey, ape; addressed to an impertinent and contemptible coxcomb. MW. 1, 4. 2, 8. 4, 4. He. 5, 2. Cy. 2, 1. Jack of the clock, or clockhouse, called also merely Jack, and minute jack (TA. 3, 6.) a figure made in old public clocks to strike the bell on the outside with a hammer. Rc. 1, 3. Rb. 5, 5. Rc. 4, 2. Jade, mare. He. 4, 2. MM. 2, 1. H. 3,2; sancy, wanton wench, rascal, rabble. KJ. 2,2. Murray interlude. Rb. 1, 3, From gestus. Jester, buffoon. MW. 2, 1. cf. Hh. prol. KL. 1, 4. AW. 4, 5. RJ. 2, 4. Drake's Sh. I, 587. II, 191. 550. Jet, agate of fine black colour. bllf. 2, 1. to Jet, to strut, walk proudly, to throw the body about in walking. TN. 2, 5. Cy. 3, 3. From the fr. jeter. Jewel. S. gimmal. Jew's eye was high valued, the Jews being exposed in the thirteenth century to the most cruel mutilations, if they refused the sums demanded of them. A Jew of Bristol paid the sum of 10,000 marks after having lost seven teeth in seven days. Allusion thereat is MV. 2, 5. Jgnomy, ignominy. aHd. 5, 4. TC. 5, 3. Tán. 4, 2. Jig, a merry dance; merriment and humour in writing; a ballad. H. 2, 2. S. Malone's hist. acc. of the engl. stage. p. 147. Kin to the gr. kyklos, the fr. gigue, the germ. Gaukler, fr. jongleur. K. to Jig, H.3, 1. is joined with to amble, and| to lisp, and must therefore denote to dance, to trip, generally a short affected motion. cf. LL. Kam, crooked, awry. Clean kam, by vulgar 3, 1. Jigmaker, writer of ballads, or humorous poems. H. 3, 2. John-a-dreams, name coined to suit a dreaming stupid character. H. 2, 2. Jointress, one who holds a jointure or dowager (RJ. 5, 3. AL. 4, 1. TS. 2. tow. end. cHf. 3, 3.) H. 1, 2. Jointring, a ring with joints. 0. 4, 3. Jole, cheek. Spelt also choule, joul (Ben Jons. to Jolt, joult, jowl, to shake, to smite. H. Jorden, chamberpot. bHd. 2, 4. aHd. 2, 1. From the gr. skōr, turd, sax. gor, goth. goer, and den, wh. s. Jovial, belonging to Jupiter; from Jove. Cy. 4, 2.5, 4. Journal, diurnal, daily. Cy. 4, 1. to Joy, to enjoy. TAn. 2, 3. Judas' colour, red colour of hair or beard. Judicious, judicial, in regular process of to Juggle, to play legerdemain; to deceive. 8;1 Jump, leap; hap, chance, hazard. AC, 3, exactly. O. 2, 2. H. 1, 1. where it is to be restored for just. Junket, juncate, sweet meat, dainty. TS. 3, 2. to Justle, to jostle, joustle, to make tourna- to Jut, Jutty, to overhang, be eminent, pro- pronunciation kim kam, quite kam, clean contrary. Co. 3, 1. Kin to camous, camoys, by Kecks, kex, kecksie, a dry stalk of hemlock, the gr. kampto, kamptos, ital. sghembo. and sometimes of other kinds. From cigue, cicuta. He. 5, 2. Keech, the fat of an ox or cow, rolled up by the butcher in a round lamp, in order to be carried to the chandler; a good deal resembling the body of a fat man. bHd. 2, 1. Hh.1,2. to be restored also aHd. 2, 4. for tallowkeeck. Keel, to cool, the pot, also by taking out a wheen, or small quantity of broth, and filling up with cold water. LL. 5, 2. Sax. gelan, refrigerare, frigefacere. S. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 833. to to Keep, to live, inhabit. MM. 8, 1. aĦd. 1, 3. Keeper, guardian of whatsoever. LL. 1, 1. of Ken, sight, horizon, reach of sight. bHd. 4, 1. to Ken, to pry, spy, see. bHf. 3, 2. Kin to for the manufacture of which Kendal in Westmoreland was famous. aHd. 2, 4. the uniform of Robin Hood's followers. Kennel, couple. aHf. 4, 2; den, canal, channel. Rc. 4, 4. From chien, by the gr. kyōn, lat. canis; and in the second meaning the same as canal, and its kindred. Kerne, a footsoldier of the irish troops, very poor and wild. Rb. 2, 1; also from other parts. M. 1, 2. Kettle, kettledrum. H. 5, 2. 1, 4. Lat. catillus Key, in music, cliff, instrument of turning. Kickshaw, keckshaw, something uncommon, Kidfox, young fox, cub. MA. 2, 3. Kindred Kidney, in ludicrous sense for kind, race. Kilnhole, mouth of the oven, place, into Jutty, projecting, overhanging part of a build-Kind, nature, natural disposition, or tendency. ing. M. 1, 6. Juvenal, youth. LL. 3, 1. bHd. 1, 2. JC. 1, 3. TAn. 2, 1. MV. 1, 3. To do his kind, to act according to his nature. AC. 5, 2. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 224. From the gr. genō,| ginô, gignó. to Kindle, to inflame; to incite, to stimulate. Kindless, unnatural, H. 2, 2. Kindred, relations, affinity. MA. 2, 1; con- Kirtle, an upper garment, a sort of loose Knife, sword, dagger. M. 1, 5. chiefly the latter to Knit up, to disentangle, untangle. T. 3, 3. to Knoll, to ring a knell, or funeral peal. M. L. be there will assonate various words, the popular wit being extremely humorous and desultory chiefly in matters of sex; for instance lost mutton, with an allusion to the scriptural lost sheep; lashed, whipped in the house of correction; laced in the meaning of embellish'd; lust; nay Lacedemonian; s. Greek. Lackbeard, milksop, young coward. MA. 5, 1. To lack, kin to the gr. legō, to want-Gifford's Ben Jons. VI, 5. - was prefixed to words of all kinds, to note deficiency; as lackbrain, a Hd. 2, 8. lacklinen, lacklove. MD. 2, 3. lacklustre AL. 2, 7. Lackey, soldier's boy. He. 4, 4. Rc. 5, 3. Hh. 1, 3. Properly a runner, from the goth. laeken to leap, kin to the gr. lax; pers. latschin, knave, servant. to Lade, or load, to drain, exhaust, heave out. cHf. 3, 2. Gifford's Ben Jons. V, 25. explains it to do not spare. Ladies smock, cardamine L. LL. in the endsong. Lag, late, last, slow. Rc. 2, 1. KL. 1, 2; the last or lowest part. TA. 3, 6. lagend, latter end. aHd. 5, 1. Kin to the sax. laet, engl. late, gr. loisthos. to Lag, to tarry, last long. Rb. 1, 3; to be the last. aHf. 3, 3. Lakin, for ladykin, diminutive of lady. Our lakin, our dear lady, the Virgin Mary. T. 3, 3. MD. 3, 1. Lambert's day, the seventeenth of September. Lament, lamentation. Rb. 4, 1.` Languish, languishment. AC. 5, 2. RJ. 1, 2. to Label, scrowl; slip of parchment hanging on Laced mutton, a cantword for a prostitute, wrap up, to involve. Cy. Lapse, to fall, elapse, pass away; to forfeit by lapse, to be caught, surprized, overtaken. TN. 3, 3. H. 3, 4. Co. 5, 1. Lapwing, green plover, or pewit, tringa vanellus. She is said to cry out at distance from her nest, in order to draw the searchers away from her young. This is what Shk. calls crying tongue far from heart. MM. 1, 5. MA. 3, 1. CE. 4, 2. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 492. III, 141. cf. Euphues dedic. 2. Her young ones run out of the shell with part of it sticking upon their heads. It was generally used to express great forwardness. H. 5, 2. Leaky, pierced so as to let water in or out. to Lean, to be inclined, disposed. TA. 3, 4. to Latch, to catch, to lay hold of, in a general sense. M. 4, 3. S. Malone at S. 118. In MD. 3, 2. it is explained to lick, or smear over, to anoint; a signification asked by the context, and not surprizing, provided that the assonance of this word to the gr. lio, laō, libō, leibō, aleiphō, chliō, chlizō, leichō, lat. lingō, engl. leak, germ. lecken, lacus, lacuna, is considered. Nowhere the disfiguration of words and roots is greater and easier than in mono- to Leash, to unite by a leash. He. 1. ch. S. syllables. to Lease, to let by lease, to farm out. Rb. 2,1; to lie, brag. TN. 1, 5. hence leasing, lie. Co. 5, 2. Kin to the germ. lassen, to grant; List, art, cunning, sax. lytig, deceitful. Leash. S. lace. lace. Lated, arrived late, surprised by the night, Leathercoats, apples commonly called russetbelated. M. 3, 3. Latten, old word for brass, used also as adjective. MW. 1, 1. Fr. laiton. to Laud, to extol, praise. aHd. 3, 3. Lat. laudare. Laud, praise. TC. 3, 3. to Lave, to bath. M. 3, 2. TS. 2, 1. Lavish, loose, untamable, unrestrained, wild, fierce. M. 1, 2. unthrifty. aHd. 3, 2. aHf. 2, 5. Kin as well to laō, as to lyō, and lauros, labros. to Launch, to ramble. TC. 2, 2. Another form of to lanch, to launce, to open with the lance. AC. 5, 1. Laund, lawnd, lawn, a smooth open space of grass land. cHf. 3, 1. S. Malone at VA. 186. Kin to lane, wh. s. Lavolta, lavolt, a kind of dance originally italian for two persons, consisting a good deal in high and active bounds. He. 3, 5. TC. 4, 4. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 489. Lay, wager. Cy. 1, 5. O. 2, 3. bHf. 5, 2. ditty. bHf. 1, 3. Laythoughts, secular thoughts of a lay. Hh. 1, 4. to Lay for TA. 3, 5. or about TC. 1, 2. or to H. 3, 4. to lay wail, ambush, to attempt by ambush, or insidious practices. To lay it on, to keep one's self well, to behave well. T. 3,2. To lay out, to spend, employ, sacrifice, expose. TC. 2, 3. To lay out for, to endeavour to gain or get. TA. 3, 5. - To lay, to smooth, assuage. KL. 4, 6. Lazy, idle, lothful, tardy, sluggish. He. 1, 2. T. 3, 1. MD.5, 1. AL. 3, 2. Kin to the lat. laxus, lassus, laxare, fr. las, lâche, it. lasciare, germ. lassen, lässig, sax. latjan, to tarry, pers. luschan, to be idle, whence germ Lusche. Lea, field, or land closen with a hedge. TA. 4, 8. He. 5, 2. From to lay, a word, in which do assonate the gr. legein, lechos, lechesthai, lesche, lat. locare, fr. loger, sax. liegan, germ, legen. Leach, or leech, a physician, surgeon; particularly in the burlesque style. TA. 5, 6. Sax. laece, icel. laeknir, swed. laekiare, goth. leik, lek, oldgerm. Lech, arab, alak. Leads, balcony, gallery, roof of lead. Rc. 3, 7. Co. 2, 1. Sax. laed, lowsax. lood, probably from the gr. molybdos, molybos, molibos, germ. Loth, löthe, löthen. Leaguer, camp of the assailants in a siege. AW. 3, 6. Germ. Lager. to Leak, to make water, to urine. aHd. 2, 1 S. to latch; to become leaky. aHd. 4, 4. ines, saurus L. bHd. 5, 3. A to Leaven, to sour, ferment the dough. word kin to the fr. levain, lever - Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 71. to libum, germ. Lehm, Laib, engl. loaf, goth. hlaibs, hlaifs, icel. hleifr, leifr, boh. chleba, bread, westph. Klobe. A leaven'd and prepared choice MM. 1, 1. seemed a harsh metaphor to Johnson for a choice not hasty, but considerate, suffered to work long in the mind. Hence Warburton and Voss conjectured levell'd, aimed at, the metaphor being derived from an archer, as Rc. 4, 4. TA. 1, 1; how ingeniously ever, yet too glossematically. Leaven, ferment, mixture. Cy. 3, 4. Lecher, or letcher, riotous, wanton, lustful, lewdman. MW. 3, 5. TC. 4, 1. KL. 3, 4. Fr. lécheur, germ. Lecker, Schlecker. Leek, the gr. lachanon, belg. look, dan. log, germ. Lauch. At David's day in the year 1864 the Welsh deserved well near to an orchard where they decked themselves with leek, as a badge; whence leek was a token of honour. He. 4, 1. 5, 1. Leer, complexion, colour, feature. AL. 4, 2. MIV. 1, 3. TAn. 4, 2. Sax. hledre, vultus, facies, lows. Leer, cheek, therefore kin to the gr. laō, lauō, glaussõ, engl. glare, wh. s. to Leer, to wink with the eyes. bHd. 5, 5. TC. 5, 1. Leet, manor court, or private jurisdiction for petty offences; also a day on which such courts are held. TS. 2. ind. O. 3, 3. Sax. lethe (kin to leod, germ. Leute, like diet?) middlelat. leta, held once a year, towards St. Michel. S. Dufresne. Lit de justice undoubtedly is to be derived thence, although the historical form and shape of it be different. Leg, a bow, commonly an aukward clownish one made by throwing out the leg. AW. 2, 2. TA. 1, 2. Leiger, leidger, ledger, resident, or ambassador at a foreign court, or a person stationed to wait on the service of another. MM. 3, 1. Cy. 1, 6. Kin to liege, wh. s. and therefore properly engaged by allegiance, fealty. Leisure, vacant time, space allowed for any purpose; short time, short leisure. Rc. 5, 8. MĀ. 3, 2. MV. 4, 1. Rb. 1, 1. Fr. loisir, from otium. Leman, lemman, anciently leveman, lemmon, lover or mistress. MW. 4, 2. TN. 2, 8. with Malone. bHd. 5, 8. From the holl. leefman, sax. leof, germ. lieb. Lembec, limbec, alembic. M. 1, 7. Lemon, stuck with cloves was a common new-to Like, to please. He. chor. 3. TG. 4, 2. Goth. year's gift. LL. 5, 2. Lenten, sparingly, niggardly, insufficient, like the fare old times in Lent. H. 2, 2; short and laconic, dry. TN. 1, 5; l. pye a pye in Lent out of a stale hare. RJ. 2, 4. L'envoy, address, additional lines subjoined to a poem, as from the author, conveying the moral, or addressing the piece to some patron. LL. 3, 1. French l'envoy. Leper, leprous man. bHf. 3, 2. to Let, to hinder. TG. 3, 1. H. 1, 4. Sax. laetan. Let, hinderance, impediment, rub. He. 5, 2. Lethe, oblivion. TÑ. 4, 1. bHd. 5, 2. Rc. 4, 4. AC. 2, 7. H. 1, 5. death. JC. 3, 1. From the gr. lethe, by lanthanō, lateo. Lethe'd, absorbed in oblivion. AC. 2, 1. Let alone, stop, opposition, hinderance. KL. 5, 3. Level, just, equitable. bHd. 2, 1. conform, suitable. bHd. 4, 4. In the level within the reach; a term of gunnery. WT. 3, 2. Hh. 1, 1. opp. out of the l. ib. 2, 3. To hold the level, to rise, to reach at, to come by. aHd. 3, 2. From the lat. libella, diminutive of libra, gr. litra. to Level, to point in taking aim, to aim at. Rc. 4, 4; to compare, to guess, gather, conclude. MV. 1, 2. AC. 5, 2. towards end. Lever, leaver, a bar to lift up things. ald. 2, 2. From levare, fr. lever, kin to lift. Levy, raising of money, or soldiers, recruiting; warlike power, assault. M. 3, 2. Lewd, wicked, wanton, riotous. Rc. 1, 8; ignorant, unlearned. Gifford's Ben Jons. III, 208. V, 145. From the oldgerm. lud, kin to los, lotter, lotterig, schlotterig, Loden, Ludel, pers. alude, stained. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 384. derives it from the sax. laeged, wicked, misled, led astray, deluded, imposed upon, betrayed, from laevan, to mislead. Libbard, leopard. LL. 5, 2. to Libel, to satirize, lampoon, slender. TɅn. 4, 4 Liberal, libertine, licentious, too free or frank beyond honesty or decency. MA. 4, 1. 0.2, 1. TG. 3, 1. LL. 5, 2. Lief, or lieve, dear. bHf. 3, 1; willingly. MW. 4, 2. MA. 2, 3. Sax. leof, germ. lieb. Liege, bound or held in feudal connection, liegeman. (H. 1, 1.) WT. 2, 3; sovereign. Rb. 1, 3. From liga, ligius, leigium, by ligo, to bind. Somewhat modified holl. leeg, low, base, icel. logr, swed. log, engl. low. Life. Good life, full energy and bent of mind. T. 3, 8; harmless mirth and jollity. TN. 2, 3. Lifter, thief. TC. 1, 2. to Light, to descend, dismount; to settle, rest, repose. AL. 2, 3. Light of love, an old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters. MA. 4, 3. with Hawkins. TG. 1, 2. Lightly, commonly, usually. Rc. 3, 1. Lightning before death; a proverbial phrase, partly deduced from observation of some extraordinary effort of nature, often made in sick persons just before death, partly from a superstitious notion of an ominous and preternatural mirth, supposed to come on at that period, without any ostensible reason. RJ. 5, 8. leikan, galeikan, sax. lician, gelician, placere, gr. eoikenai. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 43. Like. In Rb. 2, 1. for thy unkindness be like crooked age Johnson reads be Time's crooked edge; needlessly, we believe. For Age is Time personified; crooked (wh. s.) is an epithet of age, and in the same time could suggest to the poet's fancy a sickle, or a scythe, as emblem of Time; hence the subsequent image to crop at once a too long wither'd flower. Likeness, specious seeming virtue, form. MM. 3, 2. towards end, where Voss for How may likeness, made in crimes, Mocking practise on the times proposes How may such likeness trade in crimes Making practice on the times. See however made. Liking, condition of body, good liking, good plight. MW. 2, 1. Lilylivered, coward. KL. 2, 2. S. liver. Cf. bild. 4, 3. where liver white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice. Limbmeal, in pieces, piecemeal. Cy. 2, 4. Limbo, the borders of hell, sometimes hell itself. TAn. 3, 1. AW. 5, 3. Besides hell there was supposed to be limbus puerorum for infants unbaptized; limbus patrum for church-fathers, saints and martyrs awaiting there the general resurrection (whence Hh. 5, 3. for in confinement); purgatory; and limbus fatuorum, or fool's paradise. Limbs of Limehouse, Hh. 5, 3. race, breed, hatch, progeny of Limehouse, the residence of those, who furnish stores, sails etc. for shipping. In these manufactures number of strangers was employed, who, clashing in principles, had frequent quarrels, whence the place has ever since been famous for the variety of sects, and the turbulence of its inhabitants. Malone doubted whether this passage was levelled at the spectators, or at some apprentices and inferior citizens, who used occasionally to wear the sock or the buskin for their amusement. Lime was put into liquor for adulteration. aHd. 2, 4; birdlime. TG. 3, 2. The lat. limus, germ. Lehm, Schlamm, Schleim, hebr. golem. to Lime, to besmear with birdlime, or to catch with it. bHf. 1, 3. 2, 4. TN. 3, 4. MA. 3, 1. AW. 3, 5. H. 3, 3. Limekiln, a kiln, where stones are burnt to lime. In TC. 5, 1. however limekilns in the palm must be some loathsome malady. Limit, limb, the limbs being the extremities, outlines, or limits of the body. WT. 3, 2. So Steevens and Nares. This may be the meaning or sense; the signification however and propriety is time limited or appointed to women after childbearing. Limits of the charge, aHd. 1, 1. the appointed times for the conduct of the business, for the assault, attack, not for costs, as it seems. to Limn, to paint. AL. 2, 7. Rather kin to limus and the germ. schlämmen, than to enlu miner. to Limp, to halt. MV. 3, 2. TS. 2, 1. AL. 2, 7. TA. 4, 1. Sax. lempan, limpan, lowsax. lumpen, schlumpen, schlumpern. Line, of life, one of the lines in the hand, so termed in the cant of palmistry. MV. 2, 2. By line and level, exactly, strictly. T. 4. tow. end. Under the line, the equator or equinoxial |