dyngan, deiicere, therefore deiectum, stercus. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, germ. Dünger. 2, 1. scil. Eggs and butter were commonly eaten at 295. breakfast, before the introduction of tea. aHd. to Dup, to do up, to raise. H. 4, 5. Cf. to don, doff Durance, duration; prison, confinement. bHd. to Dwindle, to shrink. M. 1, 8. where it is E. Each, At each, each joined to the other, put upon the other. KL. 4, 6. Eager, sour, tart, poignant. S. 118. H. 1, 5. 1, 1. cHf. 2, 6. The lat. acer, kin to the gr. okos, acus. to Ean, or yean, to bring forth young, particularly applied to ewes. MV. 1, 3. From the anglos. eanian, gr. gennän, to produce. Paronomastically it reminds the lat. agnus. Fanling, lamb just dropped or eant. MP.1, 8. to Ear, to plough, or till. Rb. 3, 2. AC. 1, 4. Kin to ar, arare, earth, germ. Erde, etc. Earing, tilling, cultivation. AC. 2. 2. Earnest, reality, seriousness. TG. 2, 1. MĀ. 5, 1. Rb. 5, 8; advancemoney given for the strike of a bargain. WT. 4, 3. He. 2, 2. 5, 2. alf. 5, 3. MA. 2, 1. Cy. 1, 6. Anglos. eornest, kin to the gr. eris, erizein, arrhabōn, arrha, northengl. earles. Earth, land. RJ. 1, 2. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 417. to Eat one's words, to disown what one has said. MA. 4, 1. AL. 5, 4. Eaves dropper, listener, spy, properly under the penthouse. Rc. 5, 8. Eaves, oldgerm. aha, acha, aka, cimbr. eg, anglos. eac, rivers, eia, isle; avan, ahan, the persian Jzed of the water, welsh avon, river, pers. ab, engl. easings, fr. lat. eau, aqua, aequor, lowsax. oest, kin to ooze, are all together linked by relation. S. Radloff's Keltenthum. p.284. Kaindl die teutsche Sprache aus ihren Wurzeln, mit Paragr. üb. den Urspr. der Sprache (Sulzb. 1815. 8.) I, 47. Ebbed, ruined, fallen, wained. AC. 1, 4. T. 2, 1. to Eche, to eke, wh. s. to lengthen out. P. 3. ch. Spelt also eech, He. 2. ch. Ecstasy, every species of alienation of mind, whether temporary or permanent, proceeding from joy, sorrow, wonder etc. madness, a particular fit of it. CE. 4, 4; fixed insanity. H. 3. 1. 3, 4; sorrow. M. 4, 3; wonder and terror. T. 3, 3. From the gr. ekstasis. Edward shovelboards for Edward's Shovelboard shillings, a coin of Edw. 6. MW. 1, 1. Edge. S. age. E'er, ere, anciently er, sax. aer, teut. air, before. T. 1, 2. KJ. 5, 3. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 407. Eft. S. deft. Eggs for money, a proverbial expression, when a person was either awed by threats, or overreached, bullied, cheated by subtlety, to give money upon a trifling or fictitious consideration. WT. 1, 2. Thereat alludes the fool KL. 1, 4. give me an egg, nuncle, and I'll give thee two crowns. Grey compares the fr. phrase vendre des coquilles. Eglantine, sweet briar. Cy. 4, 2. MD. 2, 2. Egma, a purposed corruption of enigma. LL. 3, 1. Eight and six, alternate verses of eight and six syllables. MD. 3, 1. Egyptian thief. TN. 5, 1. Thyamis in Heliodorus's Aethiopics. He was a native of Memphis, at the head of a band of robbers, and fell desperately in love with Chariclea. A stronger body of robbers coming down upon his party, he was in such fear for his mistress, that he had her shut into a cave with his treasure. There calling aloud in the egyptian tongue, so soon as he heard himself answered toward the cave's mouth by a Grecian, making to the person by the direction of her voice, he caught her by the hair with his left hand and supposing her to be Chariclea, with his right hand plunged his sword into her breast. Eisel, vinegar. S. 111. II. 5, 1. Even in the latter passage it needs not to impress any utopian river, like the Oesil, for to point out Hamlet's boisterous outbidding the sorrow and love of Laertes, which he enhances proceeding from difficulty to impossibility. Eke, also, likewise. MW. 1, 3. MD. 3, 1. Anglosax, eac, teuton, ock, lat. ac, germ. auch, kin to the following word. Horne Tooke Div. of P. I, 177. to Eke, to augment, increase. To eke out, to even, level, supply. AL. 1, 2. AW. 2, 5. He. 3. ch. Anciently spelt also eek, ich (Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 198.) sax. eacan, lat. augere, gr. auxein, auxanein, lowsax. oken, iceľ. avoxtr, fruit, whence the germ. wachsen, sanscr. vijon, seed. Elbow. Out at elbow, impawned. MM. 2, 1. At mine elbow, close to me. MA. 3, 3. MV. 2, 2. Elbow room, free space. KJ. 5, 7. From the gr. ōlené, ōlēn, lat. ulna, teut. alleina, sax. eln, fr. aulne, and bow. to Elbow, to push, drive. KL. 4, 3. Eld, old age, old people. MM. 3, 1. MW. 4,4. Anglos. eald, scot. eld, eild, from yldan, ildan, to remain, stay, continue, last, endure, delay. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 198. Elder, ebulus, ebulum L. To be crowned with elder was a disgrace. O. Pl. II, 150. XII, 385. Judas was hanged on a tree of that kind. LL.5, 2. Emblem of grief it is Cy. 4, 2. - Kin to the germ. Holder. Element, the air, or visible compass of the heavens. TN. 1, 2. JC. 1,3. AL. 3, 2; initiation, previous practice. He. 1, 1. Elements. Man was supposed to be composed of the four elements, the due proportion and commixture of which, in his composition, was what produced in him every kind of perfection, mental and bodily. The four temperaments were also referred to the four elements. TN.2, 3. JC.5, 5. S. 44. 45. AC. 5, 2. to Elf, to entangle in knots; such as elflocks; to Enfeoff, to invest with possession, to give supposed to be a spiteful amusement of Queen Mab. KL. 2, 3. Elflocks, locks clotted together in a manner as not to be disentangled. RJ. 1,4. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 180. Elves, a species of the fairy tribe in the north, so called from the god of the year in bull's form from the hebr. eleph, whence Alp. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. 1, 25. Else, the others. KJ. 2, 1. From the Sax. ales, Ely, Bishop of Ely in the year 1478 was Dr. John because best suited to the character of the old up. alld. 3, 2. From feoff, feudum, fee. Engine, warlike machine used for throwing arrows and other missiles. Co. 5, 4. TC. 2, 3; rack KL. 1, 4. Cf. ingene. Engrossments, accumulations, heaps of wealth, burden. bHd. 4, 4. to Engross, to make large, to heap together. bHd. 4, 4. to fatten, pamper. RJ. 5, 3. Rc. 3, 7. to Enkindle, to incite. M. 1, 3. From kindle, originally kenle, kendle, kin to cinder, lat. cinis, germ. zünden. to Enmesh, to enclose in the meshes of a net. 0.2, 3. Enridged, furrowed. KL. 4, 6. where the folio to Ensconce, to fortify, protect as with a fort. seam. to Ensear, ensere, to dry up. TA. 4, 8. From Entrance, entry. But alf. 1, 1. Mason for No to Emblaze, to deck. bHf. 4, 10. S. to blaze. Embossed, swelling, strutting. TA. 5, 3. blown and fatigued with being chased, so as not to be able to hold out much longer; or rather swelled in the joints, galled, fretted, tumefied. AL. 2, 7. KL. 2, 4; foaming with rage. AC. 4, 11. The etymology of the word derived from boss, kin to the oldgerm. Bosse, ital. bozzo, bozza, to Entreat, intreat, to treat, or use well or ill. fr. bosse, bossu, gr. physa, physsa, lat. pusa, pusula, fr. pustule, provincial germ. pusten, to blow, justifies the general notion of blown, tumefied, that is confirmed also by the asso-nance of the lat. pus, ital. puzzo, gr. pythō, pyō, lat. puteo. Rc. 3, 1; to use, pass time. RJ. 4, 1. Entreatment, entertainment, conversation. [H. 1, 8. Entranched, cut in. AW. 2, 1; ensconced by trenches. allf. 1, 4. Envoy, S. l'envoy. Embowelled, drawn out the guts; Rc. 5, 1; Envy, hatred, illwill. Hh. 2, 1. 3, 1. MV. 4,1. exhausted AW. 1, 3. From bowels, fr. boyaux, S. Gifford's Ben Jons. IV, 318. V, 64. ital. budella, gr. kotylos, koilos, hollow, pro- Enviously, angrily, indignantly. H. 4, 5vincial germ. Kutteln, gr. cholades, all related to Enwheel, to encompass, clasp. 0. 2, 1. to kyō, chaō. to Enwrap, to veil, cover. TN. 4, 3. Embraced, (with fire) Co. 5, 2. may be as well Ephesian, a cantterm for toper, or jovial comsurrounded, encompassed, as inflamed; the one panion. MI. 4, 5. bHd. 2, 2. from the fr. embrasser, kin to brace, lat. bra- Equinox, balance, aequilibrium. O. 2, 3. chium, arm; the other from embraser, kin to Equipage, a cant word for stolen goods. MW, braise, ital. brace, bracia, engl. bright, germ. 2, 2. brehen, brinnen, bernen, brennen, to burn, by the gr. pyr, fire. Embrasures, embraces. TC. 4, 4. Embrewed, mingled, mixed as in brewing. TAn. 2, 4. to Emmew, to restrain, keep in a mew, or cage, Empiricutie, empirical. Co. 2, 1. Either by to Encave, to hide as in a cave. 0. 4, 1. to Endart, to send in the dart. RJ. I, 8. Eringoes, the young roots of eryngium campestre L. seasoned or stewed with sugar were esteemed to be stimulatives, MW.5.5. Gifford's Ben. Jons. II, 448. Errand, message, commission, trust. CE. 2, 1. MA. 2, 1. bHd. 1, 1. Chaucer spells eraund. Perhaps kin to the gr. rhethen, from rheō, said. Murray philos. hist. of the europ. langu. I, 408 derives it from the teutonic air, anglos. aer, ur, messenger. Even so at last it would concord, when related to Iris. Erst, formerly. Superlative of ere, kin to the gr. aristos, pheristos, first, germ. Fürst, erst. AL. 3, 5. bHf. 2, 4. He. 5, 2. TɅn. 4, 1. 5, 8. Escape, irregularity, transgression. TAn. 4, 2. CE. 5, 1. TN. 1, 2. to Eschew, to avoid, shun, shift, wh. s. MW. 5,5 to Escot, to pay. H. 2, 2. From scot, kin to Eye, small tint of colour. T. 2, 1; hole of a the sax. sceat, sceot, icel. skot, skat, fr. écot, needle. KJ. 5, 4. ital. scotto, riscuotere, riscosso, germ. schies-Eyliads, ogles, wanton looks of the eyes. KL. sen, Schoss, Zuschuss. 4, 5. MIV. 1, 8. From the fr. oeillade. Esperance, hope. TC. 5, 2. KL. 4, 2. ald. 5, 2. Espial, spy. aHf. 4, 3. H. 3, 1. to Estate, to promise by writing, penning Eterne, eternal. M. 3, 2. H. 2, 2. to Even, to equal, make equal, AW. 1, 3. Cy. 3, 4. Even, equal, fellow. H. 5, 1. like even servant in Wicliffe's Matthew. 18; as subst. that is the even of it. He. 2, 1. that is the matter, the true matter. It is the anglos. efen, even, lat. aequus, from the gr. hepō, hepomai, for hekō, hekomai, (like hippos, hikkos, equus), kin to eikos, eikelos, ikelos. F. to Face it with a card of ten, to stand Fact, crime. WT. 3, 2. Some would read sect, to Fade, to vanish. H. 1, 1. T. 4. Although it Evil eyed, envious, malicious. Cy.1, 2. S. Vir-to gil. ecl. 30, 116. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 493. Examined, questioned, doubted. AW. 3, 5. Exception, contradiction, opposition, gain-Fading, an irish dance, and a common burden saying. TN. 1, 3. TG. 1, 3. He. 2, 4. Exchequer, treasury. TG. 2, 4. MW. 1, 3. Rb. 2,8. alld. 3,3. From the middlelat. scacarium, scaccarium, perhaps kin to the persian gaza, germ. Schatz. Exclaim, exclamation. Rb. 1, 2. 1. Expedience, expedition, celerity. Rb. 2, Expedient, expeditious, quick. Rb. 1, 4. KJ. Expediently, expeditiously. AL. 3, 1. to Extend, to seize. AC. 1, 2; to praise, extol. Extent, seizure. AL. 3, 1; violent attack. TN. 4, 1. Extern, external, outward. O. 1, 1. to Extirp, to extirpate. MM. 3, 2. aHf. 3, 3. Extracting, drawing away, or off. TN. 5, 1. Extravagant, wandering about, going beyond bounds. H. 1, 1. O. 1, 1. yas, a young unfledged hawk. H. 2, 3. MWV. 3, 8. From the fr, niais, ital. niaso, by the gr. nossos, neossos. for a song. WT. 4, 3. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. Fail, failure. Cy. 3, 4. WT. 2, 3. 5, 1. Fair, fairness. CE. 2, 1. S. 18. MD. 1, 1. AL. visible on short grass and supposed to have Fairy. Fairies no doubt are related to the per- Faitor, malefactor, traitor. bld. 2, 4. to Falter, to stutter, stammer; to fall, sink, to Famous, to make famous, to celebrate. S. 25. Fathom, measure of six feet; skill, ability. 0. 1, 1. Anciently fadom, gr. pythmen, pyndax, fundus, kin to bosom. Fathomdeep Hh. 2, 2. KL. 3, 5. T. 1, 2. Fan. The fans in Sh's time were more costly to Fate, to decree, send by fate. KL. 3, 4. than now, composed of ostrich feathers, with AW. 1, 1. T. 1, 2. AW. 4, 4. a roundish handle; the richer sort of gold, Fate, Fortune. LL. 5, 2. silver, or ivory of curious workmanship. MW. 2, 2. with Steevens. It was a piece of state for a servant to attend, on purpose to carry the lady's fan, when she walked out. RJ. 2, 4. Looking glasses were sometimes set in the broad part, above the handle, near the setting on of the feathers. Effeminate men used such a fan. to Fan, to sift, clean, bolt. Cy. 1, 7. WT. Fancy, a sort of light ballads, or airs. bHd. Fatigate, fatigued, wearied. Co. 2, 2. Faultiness, badness, viciousness. AC. 3, §. Favour, feature, countenance. MD. 1, 1. MM. 4, 2. AL. 5, 4. AW. 1, 1. TN. 3, 4. Rb. 4, 1. aHd. 3, 2. JC. 1, 2. TC. 1, 2. 4, 5. KL. 1, 4. H. 5, 1. O. 1, s. 3, 4. His favour is familiar to me for favour supposes Voss Cy. 5, 5. Favoured, framed, like, resembling. JC..1, 3. Fay, faith; usually as an oath. RJ. 1, 5. H. 2, 2. to Fear, to terrify, frighten. MM. 2, 1. TS.1, 2. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 328. Goth. faurthan, sax. forhtian, forht, lat. vereri. Fearful, dreadful, causing fear. aHd. 3, 2. Fangled, trifling, or rather modern, fashion-to Feast, te delight. MM. 2, 2; to treat sumped, fond of trifles. Cy. 5, 4. Perhaps from the germ. finden, or the sax. fengan, to attempt. Fantastico, fantastical, coxcombical man. RJ. 2, 4. Fap, drunk, fuddled. MW. 1, 1. From vappa. Fardel, farthel, burden. WT. 4, 3. H. 3, 1. to Fare, to live. TS. ind. 2; to f. with, to deal Far fet, far fetched, deep, sly, cunning. bнƒ. to Fashion, to dispose. JC. 2, 1. to Fasten, to make fast, to join, to force upon Fasting, longing, hungry, wanting. LL. 4, 3. Fat, dull, gross, obscene. TN. 5, 1. Kin to the sax. fedan, füttern, föden. tuously. AC. 2, 2. From the lat. festum, kio Feat, neat, dexterous, elegant, brisk, pert, Feather, plume; kind, sort. TA. 1, 1. LL. 4. 1. cHf. 2, 1; fan, wh. s., of course, affectation, mincing, effeminateness. Hh. 1, 3. where these remnants of fool and feather.' Kin to the gr. petomai, petamai, ptěmi, pteron, germ. Feder. Featherbed. To be in peril of life by the Featly, neatly, dexterously. T. 1, 2. S. Fell, skin, generally with hair. AL. 3, 2. M. 5,5. KL. 5, 3. (Kin to pellis, vellus, engl. felt, germ, Fell, Filz, Vlauss); cruel. MD. 2, 1. TC. 4, 5. TAn. 5, 3. Cy. 1, 5. KL. 2, 1. 0. 5, 2. where fell and wroth are joined. Kin to Felon, stealth. bHf. 3, 1. S. Dufresne voc. felo. Kin to the gr. pheloō, phallō; sphallō, to deceive, fr. filou, it. fellon. Felly, felloe or circumference of a wheel. H. 2, 2. From the lat. falx, germ. Felge. Fig of Spain, a poisoned fig, employed as a secret way of destroying an obnoxious person. He. 3, 6. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 492. sq. Fifteen, the fifteenth part of all moveables of a subject. bHƒ. 4, 7. Fellow, companion, even a female. T. 3, 1. Fennel was considered as an inflammatory herb; to Fer, firk and ferret, quibbles on the french Fere, feere, pheare, phaer, companion, partner, husband, lover. TA. 4, 1. From the sax. gefera, germ. Gefährte. Fernseed was supposed to make invisible, by a mistake or abuse of far. aHd. 2, 1. Ferret, redhot. JC. 1, 2. Ferryman, one who keeps a ferry. Rc. 1, 4. Kin to bear, gr. pherein, pharein, barein, engl. ford. to Fester, to suppurate, grow virulent, to run with matter. Rb. 5, 3. Co. 1, 9. RJ. 4, 3. Kin to the gr. pyos, pyon, pyō, pyzō, pythomai, lat. puteo, foeteo. Festinate, hasty. KL. 3, 7. to Fet, to fetch. He. 3, 1. Fights, wastcloaths, which hang round about the ship, to hinder men from being seen in fight; close fights are bulkheads, or any other shelter, that the fabric of a ship affords. MW'. 2, 2. Filbert, small nut, corylus avellana, or abellina, of which fil is a corrupted form for avell, with bert, berde, oldgerm. fruit, from bear, bären, to produce. T. 2, 2. to Filch, to steal cunningly. O. 3, 3. MD. 1, 1. MW. 1, 3. From the gr. phelikizō, phēloō, phelissu. S. felon. File, list, catalogue, number. MM. 3, 2. M. 5, 1. Co. 2, 1. AW. 3, 3; rank. Cy. 5, 3. AC. 1, 1. The lat. filum. to File, to grind, wet, sharpen, polish. TN. 3, 3. LL. 5, 1. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 232. to defile, taint. M. 3, 1. Compare filth, foul, lat. vilis. Fill, thill, the shafts of a cart or waggon. TC. 3, 2. (true reading for filles, fils, files. So fillhorse MV. 2, 2. for philhorse, pilhorse, thillhorse. Hence gaze your fill. TS. 1, 1. mind your business. Thill sax. thisl, germ. Deichsel, and fill however seem to be two different words, confounded only, because occurring in a related series of notions. Fillhorse reminds foale, germ. Füllen, Fohlen, gr. polos, and seems one of those tautologies arisen from the endeavour of explaining a less common word by an other more current. only, of hounds that hunt not. O. 2, 8. end. to Fillip, to rap on the nose. bHd. 1, 2. TC. 4, 5. Co. 5, 3. to Fetch about, to turn, change, shift, as to Fill up the cry, to supply the cry, to bay the wind. KJ. 4, 2. to fetch off, to circumvent. 'bHd. 3, 2. Kin to the sax. feccan, fraude acquirere, adducere (Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 853.) the gr. petō, patassō, lat. petessere, austr. feksen, fächsen, to crop, gather fruits, gr. piezō, piazo, icel. fae, germ. fuhen, fassen. Fetch, cunning trick, feint in fencing, cheat, Fetlock, taft of hair behind the pastern joint to Fever, to put into a fever, to seize like a Fewness and truth, a quaint affected phrase Fico, a fig, term of reproach. MW. 1, 5. Fig. An expression of contempt or insult, which consisted in thrusting the thumb between two Film, a thin skin, web, or pellicle. RJ. 1, 4. Fin, wing of a fish. Co. 1, 1. From the lat. Finchegg, a term of reproach, no doubt Find faults, faultfinder, censurer, caviller. to Find, term proper of coroners. H. 5, 1. Fine, handsome, neat; artful, cunning, sly nos. Fine, mulct, pecuniary punishment. MA. 1, 1. From the gr. poině, poena; end. AW. 4, 4. from finis. to Fine, to adorn, make fine, to colour, to Fineless, endless. O. 3, 3. Finical, affected, minced. KL. 2, 2. Firenew, newly come from the fire, said of the closed fingers, or into the mouth, |