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( 185 ) Verger, tipstaff, apparitor, beadle. Hh. 2, 4. Lat. virgarius, gr. rhabduchus. to Verse, to rhyme. MD. 2, 1.

Vial, phial, little bottle. 4C. 1, 3. Gr. phiale. Via, go on, go to, well now. LL. 5, 2. Italian interjection, from the gr. eia.

Vice, or Iniquity, bulloon of the old mysteries and moralities. He had the twofold office to

instigate the hero of the piece to wickedness, and to protect him from the devil, whom he was permitted to buffet and baffle with his wooden sword, till the protector and the protected should be carried off by the fiend. TN. 4, 2. Rc. 3, 1. MM. 3, 4. KL. 2, 2. Gifford's Ben Jons. V, 9.; sight. bHd. 2, 1. where Henley derives it from fist, although in this meaning it is rather from the lat. visus, fr. vis in vis-à-vis, in the first from vitium. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 466. II, 251. 804. 320.

to Vice, to draw, incite. WT. 1, 2.
Victualler, tavern - or ordinary keeper, some-
times implying the notion of a brothelhouse-
keeper. bHd. 2, 4. From the lat. victuale, it.
vettovaglia.

to Vie, to hazard, to put down a certain sum
upon a hand of cards; to revie was to cover it
with a larger sum, by which the challenged
became the challenger and was to be revied
in his turn. This vying and revying upon each
other continued, till one of the party lost courage
and gave up the whole, or obtained for a sti-
pulated sum, a discovery of his antagonist's
cards; when the best hand swept the table. The
final stake was called the rest. S. Gifford's
Ben Jons. I, 106; to contend in rivalry. AC.
5, 2. TS. 2, 1. Howel Dict. 1660 explains
outvie by faire peur, intimider avec un vrai
ou feint envy, et faire quitter le jeu à la
partie contraire. Kin to beg, gage, wage, fr.
gager, from the middlelat. guadium, from
vas, vadis.
Vild, vile. T. 1, 2.

Viol de gambo, a fashionable instrument hav-
ing six strings, like the guitar in our times, kept
in the best room. TN. 1, 3. Gifford's Ben Jons.
II, 126. Hawkins' history of mus. 1III, 82.
to Violent, to act with violene. TC. 4, 4.
Virago, female warrior; scold, turbulent
woman. TN. 3, 4.

Virginal, belonging to a virgin. Co. 5, 2. bf
5, 2. From virgineus; an instrument of the
spinet kind, but quite rectangular, like a
small pianoforte, having only one wire to each

note. Hawkins' hist. of mus. II, 442. Hence to Virginal, to play with the fingers, as on a virginal, said of dallying lovers paddling (s. to paddle) with the palm of the lover's hand. WT. 1, 2.

Virginity. Jests thereon. AW. 1, 1.
Vixen, a female fox, germ. Füchsin, a shrew.
MD. 3, 2. In this meaning it is derived from
the goth. vigan, wigan, to fight.
Vizor, visor, vizard, visar, viser, mask. RJ.
1, 4. LL. 5, 2. Rc. 2, 2. cHf. 1, 4. From
videre.

Umber, corrupted reading of the old quarto H.
3,2. for thumb; a sort of brown colour, a species
of ochre. AL. 1, 3.

to Umber, to stain with umber, or any tawny
colour. He. 4. prol.
Umbrage, shadow. H. 5, 2. in the fashion-
able cant, from the lat. umbra. S. article.

Umpire, umper (Lily's Euph. 219.), person
chosen by two, or more arbitrators to decide a
controversy. MW. 1, 1, aHf. 2, 5. 4, 1. RJ.
4, 1. From impar, he being the third.
Una neled, unanointed, without the extreme
unction II. 1, 5. From to anele, to anoint;
germ. einölen, from the sax. ele, engl. oil,
germ. Oel, lat. oleum.
Unbarbed, untrimmed, not dressed by the
barber. Co. 3, 2.

Unbated, not blunted, as foils, but having
a sharp point. I. 4, 7. 5, 2.

to Unbend, to slacken, relaxate. M. 2, 2. Cy. 3, 4. From bend.

to Unbolt, to set open by pulling back the bolt; to clear, explain. TA. 1, 1. S. to bolt. Unbraced, ungirded, undone the girdle. JC. 1, 8. H. 2, 1.

Unbraided, unadulterated, of the best manufactures. WT. 4, 3. S. braid.

Unbreathed, unexercised, unpractised. MD.
5, 1.

to Uncape, to dig out a fox, when earthed.
MW. 3, 3.
Unchary, unadvised, inconsiderate, uncautious,
not wary. TN. 3, 4. S. chary.

to

to

Unclue, unclew, to unravel, undo, exhaust,

ruin. TA. 1, 1.

Unclog, to discharge, unburden, unload.
Co. 4, 2.

Uncolted, without colt, foal. aHd. 2, 2.
Uncouth, strange, unknown, unproved, chiefly
said of spectrelike sights, hauntings. TAn. 2, 4.
From the sax. cuth, known. Gifford's Ben
Jons. III, 91. Tristan II, 16.

to Underbear, to bear. KJ. 3, 1. Rb. 1, 4.
Underling, who subdues himself for want of
character, weakling. JC. 1, 2. Coleridge's
Zapolya, 13.

Underskinker, unterdrawer, tapster, or vent-
ner. aHd. 2, 4. Germ. Unterschänke.
Undertakers, persons employed by the king's
purveyors to take up provisions for the royal
household. They were extremely odious and
offensive, like those, that undertook through
their influence in the house of Commons in the
parliament of 1614 to carry things agreeably
to his Maj. wishes. S. Tyrwhitt to TN. 3, 4.
O. 4, 1. and Whal. with Gifford's Ben Jons.
III, £38.
to Underwork, to undermine, oppress, sup-

press. KJ. 2, 1.

Unear'd, nutilled. S. 3. S. to ear.
Uneath, unneth, unneths, uneasily, not easily,
hardly, scarcely. b.Hf. 2, 4.
Unexpressive, inexpressible. AL. 3, 2.
Unfurnished, incomplete. MV. 3, 2.
Unhack'd, without notch, or gap. KJ. 2, 1.
Unhair'd. Theobald's correcture KJ. 5, 2.
for unheard (but different spelling) of the old
copy, unbeard, and unair'd i. e. untravelled.
Unhappy, mischievous, unlucky, waggish.

AW. 4, 5.

Unhappily, waggishly, censoriously. Hh. 1,4. Unhousell'd, without receiving the sacraments. H. 1, 5. From housel, sax. hosl, goth. hunsl, sacrifice, lat. hostiola, from hostia Unimproved, unreproved, unimpeached. H. 1,1. Gifford's Ben Jons. I, 88. Horne Tooke Div. of P. I, 166.

Unicorn was caught while it empaled itself in its wrath to the hunter, that provoked it first behind a tree. JC. 2, 1. TA. 4, 3.

Union, a fine pearl. H. 5, 2. From the lat.

unio.

to Unkennel, to drive a fox out of his hole, fabric, or building; figur. to discover, unmask. H. 3, 2.

to Unkiss, to take away, to annul kissing. Rb. 5, 1.

to Unlace, to cut off the lace, board or line,
to bereave of ornament. O. 2, 3. Horne Tooke
Div. P. I, 170. believes, that unlace in this pass-
age means, you uuless, or onles, i. e. dismiss,
abandon, forsake, from the sax. onles, dimittere,
germ. entlassen.

Unlustrous, devoid of lustre. Cy. 1, 7.
Unmann'd, not yet tamed, or made familiar
with man, unruly, wild, said properly in
falconry of a hawk. RJ. 3, 2.
Unmellowed, unripe, raw
tender. TG. 2, 4.

not yet soft and

Unnoted, not marked, or shown outwardly.
TA. 3, 5.

Unowed, unpossessed. KJ. 4, 3.

to Unpeg, to take away the peg. · H. 3, 4.

Unto. In T. 1, 2. the folio has: Like one, Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a synner of his memorie, To credit his own lie. Here, even when, having substituted with Malone unto to the evident blunder into, one would let pass the hyperbaton instead of having made of his memory such a sinner unto truth, and the less common construction of sin unto for against, there is to boot always in this passage a confusion, increased by it, having no grammatical reference, but the far following lie, and by the anacoluthon who having made. Musgrave therefore and Voss corrected: having sinn'd to truth, by telling oft it Makes etc. But the said difficulties are not removed even by this emendation, and made seems more dramatic, because nearer and more particularly relative to the subject. Therefore one might be tented to read: who having undone truth by failing oft it (or by soiling oft it, or by lying often) Made such a sinner etc. For our part we would yet rather correct, than impute to the poet such a negligence.

Unplausive, not applauding, averse. TC.3, 3. Untrained, unexcercised. aHf. 1, 2.
Unpossible, impossible. Rb. 2, 2.
Unpregnant, dull, stupid. MM. 4, 4.
Unprevailing, feeble, powerless. H. 1, 2.
Unproper, not confined to one person, common.
0.4, 1.

Untrimmed, pure, untouched, said of virgins.
KJ. 3, 1. S. to trim.

Unpruned, not lopped, topped, cropped. Rb.
3, 4. He. 5, 2.

Unquestionable, indifferent, unwilling to be
conversed with. AL. 3, 2.
Unready, undressed. aHf. 2, 1.
Unrecuring, incapable of cure, incurable,
pastcure. T'An. 3, 1.

Unrespective, inconsiderate. Rc. 4,2; neglect-
ed. TC. 2, 2.

Unrest, want of rest, unhappiness. Rb. 2, 4.
RJ. 1, 5.

Unrough, beardless. M. 5, 2.

Unsafe, still questionable, ambiguous. TN. 3, 4.

Unscanned, inconsiderate. Co. 3, 1.

to Unseam, to unravel, rip up. M. 1, 1. Unseeming, not seeming, putting on the contrary appearance. LL. 2, 1.

Unseminar'd, deprived of seminal energy. gelded, bereft of sperm or seed, being an eunuch; or not transplanted. AC. 1, 5. Uusifted, not scanned, examined. H. 1, 3. Unsightly, not pleasant to the sight. KL. 2, 4.

Unsisting, never at rest, always opening.
MM. 4, 2. Rowe reads unresisting, Hanmer
unresting. Needlessly!

Unsmirched, not blackened, uncontaminated.
II. 4, 5.

Unstanched, insatiate, not to be stopped, or
restrained. cHf. 2, 6; incontinent. T. 1, 1.
to Unstate, to cast out of state, to make un-
steady, to make toss, or totter. AL. 3, 11; to
deprive oneself of one's state, to renounce to it.
KL. 1, 2.

to Untent, to bring out of the tent, TC. 2, 3.
Untented, unappeased, not put into a way
of cure, as a wound is, when a surgeon has
put a tent to it. KL. 1, 4. S. to tent.
Unthrift, a prodigal, one lost to all ideas of
thrift. b. 2, 8. S. 9; unthrifty. TA. 4,
MV. 5, 1.

Untimber'd, weak, feeble. TC. 1, 3.

3.

Untrod, untrodden, unbeaten, and therefore
unsure and dangerous, JC. 3, 1.
Untrue, untruth. Malone to S. 113.
Untuneable, discordant. AL. 5, 3. So tune-
able for harmonious MD. 1, 1. Whence Theo-
bald untimely corrects untimeable.

Unvalued, not to be valued, invaluable, in-
estimable. Rc. 1, 4; not valued. H. 1, 8.
Unwieldy, unsupple, unpliant. Rb. 4, 2. 3, 2.
RJ. 2, 5.

Unwrung, unbruised. H. 3, 2.

ear,

Voice, preference by vote. He. 1, 2. MD. 1, 1. Voss for My ear should catch your voice corrects your nice, for niceness, i. e. delicacy of as dark He. 4. ch. for darkness, fair MD. 1, 1. RJ. 1. ep. for fairness, prime AW. 2, 1. for primeness, mean. KL. 4, 1. for meanness. The emendation seems justified by the whole context, chiefly as voice would be tautological on account of your tongue's sweet melody.

Voiding lobby, withdrawing room, antichambre, waiting room. bHf. 4, 1. Perhaps for voided, void, the active participle used for the passive, as often.

Volley, a flight of shot, charge. TG. 2, 4. KJ. 5, 5. H. 5, 2.

to Volley, to discharge; to breathe out. AC.

1, 7.

man,

Volquessen, part of France, afterwards con-
tracted to Vexin; anciently pagus Velocassinus,
divided in later times into Vexin Français,
whose capital was Pontoise, and Vexin Nor-
whose capital was Gisors. The latter
was in dispute between Philip II of France and
John of England KJ. 2, 2.
Voluntaries, volunteers. KJ. 2, 1.
Vor'ye, I warn you, KL. 4, 7.
Voyage. The excessive eagerness of travelling
and vagrancy, a fashionable contagion even of
our time, is often taxed. AL. 4, 1. AW. 2, 2.
2, 5. KJ. 2, 6. MV. 4, 2. TG. 4, 2. MM. 4, 2-
Hh. 1, 1. TN. 2, 4.

Upcast, throw at ninepins. Cy. 2, 1.
Upright, straight up. KL. 4, 6. Germ. auf-

recht.

Uprighteously, sincerely. MM. 3, 1. Upspring, upstart (Rb. 2, 3.), one insolent from sudden elevation. H. 1, 4.

to Upswarm, actively, to gather in a swarm, to drive together cHd. 4, 2.

Upward, top or height. KL. 5, 8; upright staying. MA. 3, 2. like Owleglass, whose coffin stood so.

Urchin, hedgehog; one class of fairies. T. 1, 2. 2, 2. MW. 4.1. Douce's Ill. of Sh. 9. 14. From

3, 4. (wag thy tongue). Rc. 3, 5. Cy. 4, 2. Co.
2, 1.

Wage, hire, pay given for service. bHd. 5, 1.
TA. 3, 2. Hh. 4, 2. Fr. gage.

to Wage, to hire, to pay wages to. Co. 5, 5;
to be opposed as equal stakes in a wager. AC.
4, 12.

to Wager, to bet. H. 5, 2. 0.4, 2.
Wager, bet. TS. 5, 2. Fr. gageure, from
vas, vadis.

the lat. erinaceus; and the welsh erch, ter-Waggish, wanton, roguish, cunning, subtle.

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to Waddle, to shake in walking from side to side. RJ, 1, 3. Kin to wade, germ. waten, wȧtscheln, gr. badizein, pūs, lat. vadum, vadere, it. guado, gr. hodos, batos, fr. gué, germ. Pfad.

to Wade, to walk through water. Rb. 1, 3.
S. to waddle.

Wafercake, a kind of thin cake. Hc. 2, 3.
Fr. gaufre, kin to favus, germ. Wabe, Waffel.
to Waft, to move, carry, lead, or guide
easily. cHf. 3, 3; to turn. WT. 1,2; to beckon
with the hand. CE. 2, 2. Kin to wave, swag
(s. swagbelly), germ. weben.
Waftage, passage, passing over by water.
TC. 3, 2.

Wafture, signal, motion. JC. 2, 1.
Wag, a merry droll. LL. 5, 2. WT. 1, 2. afd.

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Cy. 3, 4.

Wagtail, motacilla alba L. KL. 2, 2.

to Wail, to lament. M. 3, 1. Rb. 3, 2. Rc. 2, 2.
AC. 3, 2. TC. 4, 5. RJ. 4, 5. Lat. ejulure.
Wainrope, rope, halter of a waggon (con-
tracted wain, kin to wag, gr. ochos, lat. vehi,
osc. vejae, plaustra.) TN. 3, 2.
Wainscot, inner wooden covering of a wall.
AL. 3, 3. Holl. Wandschott, hamb. Wagen-
schott, exquisite, knurless, fine veined oaken
boards for fine joiner's work. No doubt the
simplest etymology is wain's (wall's) coat
(wh. s.) wall's lining.

Waist, flank, side and middle of the body.
MM. 3, 2. LL. 4, 1. KJ. 2, 1. aHd. 2, 4. bhd.
1, 2. aHf. 4, 3. TC. 2, 2. H. 2, 2. Goth.
wahst Matth. 6, 26. sax. waestm Luc. 19, 3.
franc. giuuahsti, germ. Gewächs, from wachsen,
lat. augere, icel. avox, aux, kin to autumn,
gr. auxō, auxanō, engl. to eke, wh. s.
to Wake, to sit up in a festive manner, like
keeping a nightly feast. H. 1, 4.

Wallet, a bag, in which the necessaries of a
traveller are put. TC. 3, 3. From valise, ital.
valigia, germ. Felleisen, kin to bolgia, fr.
bouge, oldgall. and middlelat. bulga, germ.
Balg, Fell, engl. pelt, lat. villus, vellus,
germ. Vlauss, engl. budget, kin again to bag,
pocket, pack, baggage, belly, bulk (wh. s.)
gr. molgos.

Walleyed, anciently whall, and whaule eyed, glauciolus, having white eyes; cf. to glare. TɅn. 5, 1. KJ. 4, 3. Dodsl. Old. Pl. IIII, 186. From bald, pale, lat. pallidus, gr. polios, phalos, phalios, phalakros, pellos, peleios, germ. fulb, engl. fallow.

to Wallow, to roll one's self.. Rb. 1, 3; to
riot. TC. 3, 2. Kin to walk, well, welter,
hale, gr. allein, ellein, to vault, Luth. walchen;
perhaps to swallow, germ schwelgen.

Wan, pale, bleak. AC. 2, 1. S. to wane.
Wand, switch, shaft. MV. 1, 3. błƒ. 1, 2.

Sc. and dan. vaand.

to Vane, to decrease, to be gone, pale. H.2, 3. Rc. 3, 7. MD. 1, 1.

lat.

Wane, decline, deminution. MD. 5, 1. Likewise
as want, and the germ. Wahn, lat. vanus,
from the old welsh particle an, gr. aneu,
sine, germ. ohne, in compounds un; icel. van,
Hence wanhope, wangrace, wanluck,
wanthrift, wantrust, Wahntrauen, Wahn-
glaube, Wahnwitz.

want.

1, 2. It seems kin to wag, gr. agein, germ. bewegen, to the engl. quick, wh. s., perhaps also to the fr. gai. But MA. 5, 1. the old copies read: If such a one will smile and stroke his beard, And sorrow, wagge, crie hem, when he should groan. There is a world of emendations, conjectures on this passage. Johnson printed And, sorrow, wag, cry; hem when he sh. g. absurdly enough! Malone: In sorrow wag i.e. to play the wag; ingeniously, but not regarding enough the shakspearean use of the verb, wh. s.; Steevens: And, sorry wag, i. e. unfeeling humorist! to employ a note of festivity, when his sighs ought to express con-anion in the phrase with a wanion, as it cern; Theobald wage; Hanmer and Warburton waive; Tyrwhitt: and sorrow gagge; cry etc. overabsurdly! The simplest reading seems to be: And sorrowing cry hem (i. e. cry courage, a term of festivity. S. Tyrwhitt) when he should groan. to Wag, to move, stir, to go off. TɅn. 5, 2. shake. MV. 4, 1. bHd. 5, 3. H.

loose.

seems, equivalent to with a vengeance, or with a plague. P. 2. 1. Gifford's Ben Jons. V, 149. 252. Old Pl. IIII, 240. II, 324. Nares derives it from the sax. wanung, detriment. Wanton, voluptuous, luxurious, idle, petulant, froward, licentious, gamesome, waggish. MIV. 1, 2. MA. 4, 1. Rb. 3, 3. Hh. 3, 2. H., 5, 2. RJ. 2, 2. From the gr. hedone,

like

wise as for hēdō, hadō, was also the form handano. Wappen'd, worn, weakened, sick. TA. 4, 8. The same as waped, dejected, crushed by misery. Kin to the scot. wap, engl. whip, kin to quip, kip, sax. hweop, germ. Wip, Wippe, Schwippe, gr. koptein, germ. hauen, Hieb, Hippe. It will therefore be properly whipt, scourged, used in metaphorical sense. Ward, posture of defence. T. 1, tow. end. aHd. 2, 4. WT. 1, 2; sconce. LL. 3, 1. MIV. 2, 2. TC. 1, 2; tutorship. AW. 1, 1; pupil, minor. RJ. 1, 5. Fr. garde, engl. guard, from the germ. wahren, gewahren, bewahren, gr. horaōōreō, ōreuō, middlel. warens, warantus, (engl. warrant) warenda, warandia (guaranty) warendator, warendare, etc. fr. garunt. Warden, a large hard pear for roasting or baking, pyrum volemum. Hence Wardenpics, pies made of those pears, baked or stewed without crust, coloured with cochineal. T. 4, 2.

manship say for this: in alle Sättel gerecht,
fit for any saddle. To raise the waters, to
let spring the waters, fig. to begin with im-
petuosity. MV. 2, 2.

Watergall, watery appearance in the sky,
attending the rainbow. TL. 227.
Waterpot, ewer with a crane. KL. 4, 6.
Waterwork, in, in watercolours. bHd. 2, 1.
to Wave, to twinkle, nod, give a sign. Co. 1, 6.
S. to waft.

to Wawl, to howl, owl, vawl. KL. 4, 6. Mere

varieties!

It was

Waren image, part of the paraphernalia of
a witch, by means of which she was supposed
to torment her unfortunate victims.
stuck through with pins and melted at a distance
from the fire. TG. 2, 4.

Way of life is the common reading M. 5, 3.
furnishing an easy and fair image of a life
fallen in an autumnal decay, confirmed by S.
73. Johnson's proposed May is therefore an
unnecessary alteration. To have his way,
to try his fortune. AW. 3, 6.

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Warder, truncheon, or staff of command, carried by a king, or any commander in chief, the Wealbalanced, no doubt false spelling for throwing down of which seems to have been wellbalanced. MM. 4, 3.

a solemn act of prohibition, to stay proceed-Wealsman, common wealthman. Co. 2, 1. ings. Rb. 1, 3. bij. 2, 4. to Wean, to ablactate. cH. 4, 4. RJ, 1, 3. Sax. wenan, germ. gewöhnen, entwöhnen.

Ware, the great bed of, a piece of furniture,
twelve feet square, capable of holding twenty
or twenty four persons, at top and bottom,
with their feet meeting in the middle. TN. 3, 2.
to Warp, to cast, as boards green, not dry.
AL. 3, 3; said of frost, that freezing wrinkles,
curls, crumples, shrivels the waters. AL. 2, 7.
which interpretation at least lies yet nearer,
than Nares's weave the waters into a firm
texture'; to deflect, swerve, deviate. MM. 1, 1.
Sax. weorpan, germ. werfen, gr. eripein,
rhiptein, rhipein.

Warrantize, warrant, pledge. S. 150.
Warren, hedge, inclosure, park for hares,
partridges, conies, pheasants. MA. 2, 1. Kin
to the words under ward, wh. s.
Wasp, stinging fly. TG. 1, 2. WT. 4, 3. Hh.
3, 2. T^n. 2, 3. From the gr. psēn, epsēn,
franc. Wepse.

Waspish, peevish, morose, petulant from
temper. T. 4, 1. AL. 4, 3. TS. 2, 1. JC. 4, 1.
Wasptongued, petulant tongued. afd. 1, 3.
Wassel, wassail, a drink or beverage of ap-
ples, sugar and unhopped beer. M. 1,7; drink-
ing bout, carousing, festivity, or intemperance.
H. 1, 4. LL. 5, 2. where wakes, wassels, meet-
ings, markets, fairs are joined. AC.1, 4. Origin-
ally a toast, from wachse heil, be whole, or sound.
Drake's Sh. I, 127. 199. Wasselcandle b Hd. 1, 2.
Wasteful, causing waste, lavish, prodigal.
TA. 2, 2. where wasteful cock is a prodigal,
copiously running faucet.
Watch, pocketclock, invented in the 14th.
century, mark of gentility, worn ostentatiously,
hung round the neck to a chain. TN. 2, 5.
afterwards more common. AL. 2, 7. Outward
watch Rb. 5, 5. outside of the watch, dial;
nightcandle Rc. 3, 3. Drake's Shk. II, 117. Kin
to wait, wake, fr. guet, it. badare, guatare,
lat. videre, gr. idein, germ. wachen.
Watchword, word given to the sentinels, to
know their friends. bld. 3, 2.
Waters, for all, fit for any thing, practised,
experienced, dexterous. TN.4, 2. by a metaphor
taken from a sailor, like the ital. da ogni
acqua. The Germans liking anciently the horse

Wear, fashion, that which is worn. MM. 3, 2.
AL. 2, 7.

to Wear out, to consume, waste by use. TA.
1, 1. RJ. 5, 1; to endure. MA. 2, 3.
W e asand, wesand, wesil, weazon, wezand,
weson, throat. T. 3, 2. Sax. wasen, kin to
the gr. aō, aēmi, germ, wehen.
Weather, to make fair, to flatter, give flatter-
ing representations, to make the best of matters.
MA. 1, s. bHf. 5, 1.

to Weatherfend, to shelter from the weather.
T. 5, 1.

Weavers were renowned for good singers. aHd. 2, 4. TN. 2, 3.

Wedded, married, betrothed. Cy. 5, 5. Wedge, lump. Rc. 1, 4. Kin to edge, gr. ake, axis, lat. acies.

to Wedge, to cleave, to drive into. Hh. 4, 1.
Co. 2, 3. TC. 1, 1.

Wee, extremely deminutive, small, shrunk up.
MW. 1, 4.

Weed, dress, garment. TL. 23; wild herb. Co.
2,2. In the first meaning sax. waeda, gewaeda,
kin to wad, oldg. Wat, Gewand, gr. esthes;
in the second from the sax. feod.

Week. To be in by the week, an expression taken from hiring servants, or artificers, to be as sure of one's service for every time limited, as if one had hired him. LL. 5, 2.

to

Veen, to suppose, imagine, Hh. 5, 1. Sax. wenan, goth. wenjan, germ. wähnen; kin to fond, wh. s.

Weeping ripe, ready to weep, ripe for weep-
ing. LL. 5, 2. cHf. 1, 4. S. ripe.
to Weet, to know. AC. 1, 1. Germ. wissen.
Weird sisters, the fate sisters, or witches.
M. 1, 8. Sax. wyrd, fatum.
Welch hook, a sword of a hooked form. aHd.
2, 4.

Welked, clouded, obscured, covered with
clouds; wound, wrested. KL. 4, 6. Germ. be-
wölkt, umwölkt. The reason of the two sig-
nifications is the relation of this word as well,
as the german Wolke, to the sax. willigan,
wealcan, volvere, revolvere. Horne Tooke

Whey, the thin or serous part of milk, from which the grumous part is separated. M. 5, S. TДn. 4, 2. Sax. hwaeg, scot. whig, whigg. Whiffler, fifer marshal, officer who cleared the way for a procession. He. 5. ch. S. Warton to 0.3, 3. Kin to whiff (H. 2, 2. where whiff and wind), germ. Pfiff, from the gr. ao. S.

Div. of P. II, 319. gr. elō, ellō, eilo, eileō, Where, whereas. Co. 1, 1. P. 1, 1. TG. 3, 1. elissō, eilissō, eliktos, elix, kelō, kellō, killō, alld. 4, 1. bHƒ. 3, 2. KL. 1, 2. Tl. 114. kellos, kylio, kylō, kylindō, germ. kollern, Gifford's Ben Jons. III, 305. VIII, 375. koltern, Welle, Quelle, engl. well, welkin, Where, as subst. for place. KL. 1, 1. welk, wheel, germ. Walze, Felge. Johnson's Whereas, where. bls. 1, 2. sight therefore was stark welked and dim, when among a world of words he grasped weal in the signification of protuberance, a word, that again by the lat. callus, the germ. schwillen, Schwiele is to be reduced to the same root, though its signification was wholly alien to the sense here required. And this instance may confound those haughty, or shy and overmodest scholars, that would fain condemn all study of etymology and analogy. Welkin, sky, firmament. LL. 4, 2. MD. 3, 2; eye of any colour, because it rolls. WT. 1, 2. S. welked.

Well found, of acknowledged excellence. Co. 2, 2.

Well liking, thick, plump. LL. 5, 1. said of wit, and joined to gross aud fat. S. Steevens. Well seen, accomplished, well approved. TS. 1, 2.

Wench, originally a young woman, without

contemptuous by -meaning. O. 5,2. Kin to the gr. gyne, engl. queen, sax. cwen, dan. kun. to Wend, to go. CE. 1, 1. Germ, wenden,

to turn.

Westwardhoe, seems a trip to Tyburn, and
as a current phrase became title of a comedy
by Decker and Webster 1637. But TN. 3, 1.
it seems only an exclamation without any al-
lusion.
Wether, ram. This word is here mentioned,
as restored by Warburton and Voss for brother's
in this passage of TA. 4, 3.: It is the pasture
(not pastour, defended and forcibly explained
by Johnson) lards (for the corrupt lords of the
old copy) the brother's sides, The want that
makes him lean (not leave, a confusion obvious,
as bHd. 1, 1. and Hh. 5, 3.) This emendation
is, as Malone said, so far removed from the

weasand.

While, whiles, until. M. 3, 1. TN. 4, 3. Gifford's
Ben Jons. V, 20.
While are, whilere,
formerly. T. 3, 2.

murs,

whyleare, ere while,

to Whine, to whimper, to lament in low murto moan meanly and effeminately. KL. 2, 2. Co. 5, 5. Goth. gaunon, sax. wanian, germ. weinen, hebr. avon, or gavon, misery,

disastre.

Whinid'st is the reading of the folio TC. 2, 1. from whinid, a different spelling of vinew'd, finew'd, mouldy. In the Anglosax. finigean is to corrupt, decay, wither, fade, pass away, to spoil in every manner, and finichlaf is a corrupted or spoiled loaf, whether by mould, or any other means. It is kin to the fr. faner, évanouir, it. fango, lat, vanus, engl. faint, fen, germ. finnig. So Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 60. To those we add the gr. phthanō, phtheō, phthiō, phthinō, phthiny tho, from petō, petaō, ptemi, and the assonated onthos, bonthos, monthos, stench, stink, rankness, perhaps also pyō, pythō. The reading therefore of the quartos unsalted, as glossematical, is unsalted.

Whipster, nimble babe, or fellow. 0.5, 2. Whipstock, stock, or handle of a whip; the whip itself, particularly a carter's whip. TN. 2, 3. P. 2, 2.

Whirligig, a toy that turns. TN. 5, 1. From whirl, kin to curl, purl, world, germ. Wirrel, Querl, Quirl.

Whist, silenced. T. 1, 2.

original, as to be inadmissible; whence Malone proposed breather's, occurring AL. 3, 2. AC. 3, 3. Unaptly! Nares therefore restored browser's, i. e. sheep's; the best emendation of such a doubtful passage! S. to browze, and to compare the gr. bryō, brōskō, brōseiō, brōter. Whales bone, a simile for whiteness. LL. 5, 2, depending on the ignorant confusion of ivory with whalesbone. S. Steevens. Whale, spelled also sometimes hale, is pers. wal, oldgerm. Wel, gr. phale, phalaina, lat. balaena. What-what, partly, partly, chiefly in conjunction with the preposition with. MM. 1, 2. aHd. 5, 1.

Wheel, perhaps the burden (wh. s.) of a song. H. 4, 5. The origin of the word (s. welked) argues at least somewhat that returns, revolves. Drake Shk. I, 591. refers it to the popularity of spinsters' songs.

to Wheeze, to pant, breathe with noise. TC. 5, 1. Cf. to whistle.

Whelk, wale, wheal. He. 3, 6. S. welked and compare the gr. helkos, lat. ulcus, eugl. ulcer,

sore.

Whelp, young dog. aHf. 1, 5. Kin to the lat. vulpes, gr. alōpēx, hebr. keleb..

Whe'r for whether. CE. 4, 1. bHƒ. 3, 2. VA. 51. S. 59. Gifford's Ben Jons. V, 428. VIII, 208.

Whistle off, to dismiss off the fist by a whistle; a term in hawking. O. 3, 3. Drake's Shk. I, 270. From the sax. hwistlan, to wheeze, lat. fistulare.

White, the central part of the mark upon the butts in archery, with a pin of wood in its centre. TS. 5, 2.

Whitefaced shore is called Albion, the chalk-
promontory. KJ. 2, 1. cf. KL. 4, 6.
Whiteherring, fresh herring, opp. to a red,
or dry one. KL. 3, 6.

Whitster, a bleacher of linen. MW. 3. 3.
Whitsun, pentecost. He.2, 4. WT. 4, 3. Either
white sunday, or the eighth counted from
Eastern. W. ale. TG. 2, 6. Drake's Shk. I, 179.
Whittle, small claspknife. TA. 5, 3.

to Whis, to hiss, shrill, warble. JC. 2, 1. Kin
to wheeze, wh. s.

Whoobub, hubbub, a loud noise, accompanied with exclamation. WT. 4, 3.

to Whoop, to cry out, to exclaim with astonishment. He. 2, 2. AL. 3, 2.

Whooping, measure, reckoning. AL. 3, 2. S. hoop.

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