From the full choir when loud hosannas rise, And swell the pomp of dreadful sacrifice; Amid that scene, if some relenting eye Glance on the stone where our cold reliques lie, Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heav'n, One human tear shall drop, and be forgiv'n.

Pope. Devotion may be considered either as an exercise of publick or private prayers at set times and occasions; or as a tem, er of the mind, a state and disposition of the heart, which is rightly affected with such exercises. Law. 6. An act of reverence, respect, or ceremony.

Whither away so fast?

Sbaks.

-Upon the like devotion as yourselves; To gratulate the gentle princes there. 7. Strong affection; ardent love, such as makes the lover the sole property of the person loved.

Be opposite all planets of good luck To my proceeding, if, with pure heart's love, Immaculate devotion, holy thoughts,

I tender not thy beauteous princely daughter. Shakspeare. He had a particular reverence for the person of the king; and the more extraordinary devotion for that of the prince, as he had the honour to be trusted with his education. Clarendon. 8. Earnestness; ardour; eagerness.

He seeks their hate with greater devotion than they can render it him; and leaves nothing undone that may fully discover him their opposite. Shakspeare.

9. Disposal; power; state of dependance

on any one.

Arundel castle would keep that rich corner of the country at his majesty's devotion. Clarendon. DEVOTIONAL. adj. [from devotion.] Pertaining to devotion; annexed to worship; religious.

Nor are the soberest of them so apt for that devotional compliance and juncture of hearts, which I desire to bear in holy offices to be performed with me. King Charles.

The favourable opinion and good word of men comes oftentimes at a very easy rate; by a few demure looks, with some devotional postures and grimaces. South. DEVOTIONALIST. n. s. [from devotion.] A man zealous without knowledge, or superstitiously devout.

To DEVOUR. v. a. [devoro, Latin.] 1. To eat up ravenously, as a wild beast or animal of prey.

We will say, some evil beast hath devoured him.

Genesis.

We 've willing dames enough: there cannot be That valture in you, to devour so many As will to greatness dedicate themselves, Finding it so inclin'd.

Shakspears.

So looks the pent up lion o'er the wretch That trembles under his devouring paws. Shak. 2. To destroy or consume with rapidity and violence.

A fire devourets before them, and behind them a flame burneth. Joel.

How dire a tempest from Mycena pour'd, Our plains, our temples, and our town, devour'd! It was the waste of war. Dryden. Notwithstanding that Socrates lived in the time of his devouring pestilence at Athens, he never caught the least infection. Addison. 3. To swallow up; to annihilate. Heem'd in swiftness to devour the way. Shakspeare.

Such a pleasure as grows fresher upon enjoy

Longing they look; and, gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er and o'er with vast delight.

Dryden. DEVOU'RER. n. s. [from devour.] A consumer; he that devours; he that preys upon.

Rome is but a wilderness of tygers; Tygers must prey, and Rome affords no prey But me and mine: how happy art thou, then, From these devourers to be banished!

Shak.

Since those leviathans are withdrawn, the less er devourers supply their place: fraud succeeds to violence. Decay of Piety. Carp and tench do best together, all other fish being devourers of their spawn. Mortimer. DEVOUT. adj. [devotus, Latin.] 1. Pious; religious; devoted to holy duties.

We must be constant and devout in the worship of our God, and ready in all acts of benevolence to our neighbour. Rogers.

2. Filled with pious thoughts.

For this, with soul devout he thank'd the god; And, of success secure, return'd to his abode. Dryden.

3. Expressive of devotion or piety.

Anon dry ground appears: and from his ark The ancient sire descends with all his train; Then with uplifted hands, and eyes devout, Grateful to heav'n. DEVOU'TLY. adv. [from devout.] PiMilton. ously; with ardent devotion; religi ously.

Her grace rose, and with modest paces
Came to the altar: where she kneel'd; and saint-
like

Cast her fair eyes to heav'n, and pray'd devoutly.
Shakspeare.

One of the wise men having a while attentively and devoutly viewed and contemplated this pillar and cross, fell down upon his face.

Bacon.

Her twilights were more clear than our midday:

She dreamt devoutlier than most use to pray.

Think, O my soul! devoutly think, How, with affrighted eyes,

Thou saw'st the wide-extended deep In all its horrors rise!

Donne.

Addison.

To second causes we seem to trust; without expressing, so devoutly as we ought to do, our dependance on the first. Atterbury. DEUSE. . s. [more properly than deuce, Junius, from Dusius, the name of a certain species of evil spirits.] The devil: a ludicrous word.

'T was the prettiest prologue, as he wrote it; Well! the deuce take me if I ha'n't forgot it. Congreve. DEUTERO'GAMY. n. s. [deÚTIP and ya] A second marriage. Dict. DEUTERONOMY.n.s. (deurig and voμ.] The second book of the law; the fifth book of Moses. DEUTERO'SCOPY.

n. s. [δεύτερο and oxoTiw.] The second intention; the meaning beyond the literal sense. Not in use.

Not attaining the deuteroscopy, or second in

tention of the words, they are fain to omit their consequences, coherences, figures, or tropologies. Brown's Vulgar Errours. DEW. n.s. [deap, Saxon; daaw, Dutch.] The moisture upon the ground.

Fogs which we frequently observe after sunsetting, even in our hottest months, are nothing but a vapour consisting of water; which vapour was sent up in greater quantity all the foregoing day, than now in the evening: but the sun then being above the horizon, taking it at the surface of the earth, and rapidly mounting it up into the atmosphere, it was not discernible: the sun being now gone off, the vapour stagnates at and near the earth, and saturates the air till it is so thick as to be easily visible therein: and when at length the heat there is somewhat further spent, which is usually about the middle of the night, it falls down again in a dew, alighting upon herbs and other vegetables, which it cherishes, Woodward. cools, and refreshes.

Never yet one hour in bed Did I enjoy the golden der of sleep, But with his tim rous dreams was still awak'd. Shakspeare.

That churchman bears a bounteous mind, in-
deed;

A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us;
His der falls ev'ry where.

She looks as clear

Shakspeare.

As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. Shak. Deres and rain are but the returns of moist Bacon. vapours condensed.

Now sliding streams the thirsty plants renew, And feed their fibres with reviving dew. Pope. To DEW. v. a. [from the noun.] To wet as with dew; to moisten; to bedew.

A trickling stream of balm most sovereign, And dainty dear; which on the ground still fell, And overflowed all the fertile plain

As it had dewed been with timely rain. Fairy Q. With him pour we in our country's purge Each drop of us.

-Or so much as it needs

Give me thy hand,

To dew the sovereign flower, and drown the weeds. Shakspeare. That I may dew it with my mournful tears. Shakspeare. He ceas'd; discerning Adam with such joy Surcharg'd, as had, like grief, been dew'd in

tears, Without the vent of words: which these he

breath'd.

Milton.

In Gallick blood again

He dews his reeking sword, and strows' the ground

With headless ranks. Philips. DEWBERRY. n. s. [from dew and berry.] Dewberries, as they stand here among the more delicate fruits, must be understood to mean rasberries, which are also of the bramble kind. Hanmer.

Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries. Shakspeare. DEWBESPRE'N T. part. [dew and besprent.] Sprinkled with dew.

This evening late, by then the chewing flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savoury herb Of knot-grass derbesprent, and were in fold; I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honey-suckle. DEW-BURNING. adj. [from der and burning.] The meaning of this com

Milton.

pound is doubtful. Perhaps it alludes to the sparkling of dew.

He now, to prove his late renewed might, High brandishing his bright dew-burning blade, Upon his crested scalp so sore did smite, That to the scull a yawning wound it made. Fairy Queen. DE'WDROP. n. s. [dea and drop.] A drop of dew which sparkles at sunrise.

I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. Shak. An host

Innumerable as the stars of night,

Or stars of morning, derudrops, which the sun Impearls on ev'ry leaf, and ev'ry flower. Mi, Rest, sweet as dewdrops on the low'ry lawns, When the sky opens, and the morning dawns! Ticke

DE'W LAP. n. s. [from lapping or licking the dew.]

1. The flesh that hangs down from the throat of oxen.

Shakspeare.

The dewlapt bull now chafes along the plain, While burning love ferments in ev'ry vein. Gay. DE'W-WORM. n. s. [from dea and worm.] A worm found in dew.

For the trout, the dew worm, which some call the lob worm, and the brandling, are the chief. Walton.

DE'WY. adj. [from dew.]

1. Resembling dew; partaking of dew.
From the earth a dewy mist
Went up; and water'd all the ground, and each
Plant of the field.
Milton.

Where two adverse winds,

Sublim'd from dewy vapours, in mid sky
Engage with horrid shock, the ruffled brine

Roars stormy.

2. Moist with dew; roscid.

Philips.

The joyous day 'gan early to appear;
And fair Aurora from the dewy bed
Of aged Tithone 'gan herself to rear,
With rosy cheeks, for shame as blushing red.
Spenser

The bee with honied thigh,
That at her flow'ry work doth sing,
And the waters murmuring,
With such consort as they keep,
Entice the dewy feather'd sleep.
His dewy locks distill'd

Ambrosia.

Milten.

Milten.

Besides the succour which cold Ancien yields, The rocks of Hernicus, and dewy fields. Dryden, DEXTER. adj. [Latin.] The right; not the left. A term used in heraldry. My mother's blood

Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister Bounds in my sire's. Shakspeare. DEXTERITY. n. s. [dexteritas, Lat.]

managers enough of the wares and products of that corner with which they content themselves. Locke.

DEXTEROUSLY. adv. [from dexterous.] Expertly; skilfully; artfully.

The magistrate sometimes cannot do his own office dexterously, but by acting the minister. South

But then my study was to cog the dice, And dextrously to throw the lucky sice. Dryd DEXTRAL. adj. [dexter, Latin.] The right; not the left.

As for any tunicles or skins, which should hinder the liver from enabling the dextral parts, we must not conceive it diffuseth its virtue by mere irradiation, but by its veins and proper vessels. Brown's Vulgar Errours. DEXTRA'LITY. n. s. [from dextral.] The state of being on the right, not the left, side.

If there were a determinate prepotency in the right, and such as ariseth from a constant root in nature, we might expect the same in other animals, whose parts are also differenced by dextrality. Brown's Vulgar Erreurs.

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