1 Jeremiah Change fear and riceness, Waves the claim. Sometimes written The handmaids of all women, or more truly, weif, or weft. Woman its pretty self, to waggish courage. To WAIL. v. a. [gualare, Italian.) To Sbakspeare. This new conceit is the waggisb suggestion of moan ; to lament; to bewail. some sly and skulking atheists. More. Wise men ne'er wail their present woes, A company of waggish boys watching of frogs But presently prevent the ways to weil. Sbał. at the side of a pond, still as any of them put up Say, if my spouse maintains her royal trust? their heads, they would be pelting them down Or if no more her absent lord she wsils, * with stones. Children, says one of the frogs, But the false woman o'er the wife prevails? you never consider, that though this may be Pope. play to you, 'tis death to us. L'Estrange. TO WAIL. V. n. To grieve audibly; to As boys, on holidays let loose to plav, express sorrow. Lay waggish traps for girls that pass that way; Tom shall make him weep and wail. Sbakse. Then shout to see in dirt and deep distress I will wail and howl. Micab. Some silly cit. Dryden. WAIL. 1. s. Audible sorrow. WA'GGISHLY. adv. (from waggisb.) in Around the woods a waggish manner. She sighs her song, which with her wail resound. WA'GGISHNESS. n. s. [from waggish.] Thomsor. Merry mischief. WA'ILING, n. s. [from wail.) Lamenta. A christian boy in Constantinople had like to tion ; moan ; audible sorrow. have been stoned for gagging, in a waggisbness, Other cries amongst the Irish savour of the a long billed fowl. Bacon. Scythian barbarism; as the lamentations of their TO WA GGLE, v.n. (waggbelen. Germ.] burials, with despairful outeries, and immodeTo waddle ; to move from side to side. rate sailings. Spenser. The camp filled with lamentation and mourne The sport Basilius would shew to Zelmane, ing, which would be increased by the weeping was the mounting of his hawk at a heron, which and wailirg of them which should never see getting upon his waggling wings with pain, as their brethren. Krolles. though the air next to the earth were not fit for Take up wailing for us, that our eyes may his great body to fly through, was now grown to run down with tears. diminish the sight of himself, Sidney. Goy. Why do you go nodding and waggling so, as if hip-shot? says the goose to her gosseling. WA'ILFUL. adj. (from wail and full.] L'Estrange. Sorrowful; inournful. WA'Gon. n. s. [pægen, Sax. waeghens, Lay lime to tangle her desires Dutch; vagn, Islandick.] By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhimes Should be full fraught with serviceable vows. 1. A heavy carriage for burdens. Sbakspeare: The Hungarian tents were enclosed round Wain. n. so (contracted from wagon.) with waggons, one chained to another. Knolles. A carriage. Waggons fraught with utensils of war. Milton. 2. A chariot. Not in use. There ancient night arriving, did alight From her high weary wain. Spenser. Now fair Phæbus 'gan decline in haste Yours be the harvest; 'tis the beggar's gain His weary waggon to the western vale. Spenser. To glean the fallings of the loaded wain. Dryder. Then to her waggon she betakes, And with her bears the witch. Spenser. WA'inage. n. s: [from wair.). A findO Proserpina, ing of carriages. Ainswertb. For the flowers now that frighted thou let'st fall WA'INROPE. 11. s. [wain and rope.). A From Dis's waggon. Shakspeare. large cord with which the load is tied' Her waggon spokes made of long spinners legs; on the wagon ; cartrope. The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers. Sbak. Oxen and wainropes cannot hale them toge WAGONAGE. [from wagon.] ther, Sbakspears Money paid for carriage in a wagon. WA'INSCOT. n. s. [wageschot, Duich.) WA'goner. n. s. [from wagon.] One The inner wooden covering of a wall. who drives a wagon. Some have the veins more varied and chamBy this, the northern waggoner had set bletted; as oak, whereof wainscot is made. Becom. His sevenfold team behind the steadfast star, She never could part with plain wainscot and clean hangings. Arbutbrot. That was in ocean waves yet never wet. Spenser. A rat your utmost rage defies, Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, That safe behind the wainscot lies. Tow'rd'Phæbus' mansion! such a waggoner Swift. As Phaeton would whip you to the west. Sbał. To Wainscot. v. a. (waegenscbotten, A waggoner took notice upon the creaking of Dutch.] a wheel, that it was the worst wheel that made 1. To line walls with boards. most noise. L'Estrange. Music soundeth better in chambers wainscat The waggoners that curse their standing teams ted, than hanged. Baces. Would wake e'en drowsy Drusus from his 2. To line buildings with different matedrearns. Dryden. rials. WAGTAIL. n. So [motacilla, Lat.) A It is most curiously lined, or trainscotted, with bird. Ainsworth. a white testaceous crust, of the same substance Waid. (I suppose for weighed.] Crushed. and thickness with the tubuli marini. Grew His horse waid in the back, and shoulder One side commands a view of the garden, and shotten. the other is wainscotted with looking-glass. Sbakspeare. Addises. Waif. n. s. [wavium, waivium, law Lat. Wair. n. s. [In carpentry.) A piece of from wave.] Goods found, but claimed timber two yards long, and a foot broad. by no body; that of wbich every one Bailey a WAST. n. s. (gwase, Welsh ; from the 3. To attend : with on. A phrase of severb gwasen, to press or bind.] remony. 1. The smallest part of the body; the part The dinner is on the table; my father desires below the ribs. your worship's company I will wait on him. Shakspeare. 4. To stay; not to depart from, Voluminous and vast. Milton. How shall we know when to wait for, when She, as a veil, down to her waist to decline, persecution? Soutb. Her unadorned golden tresses wore With Vulcan's rage the rising winds conspiro, Dishevell’d. Milton. And near our palace rolls the flood of fire: They seiz'd, and with entangling folds em Haste, my dear father, 'tis no time to wait, brac'd; And load my shoulders with a willing freight. His neck twice compassing, and twice his waist. Dryden. Denbam. 5. To stay by reason of some hinderance. Stiff stays constrain her slender waist. Gay. 6. To look watchfully. 2. The iniddle deck, or foor, of a ship. It is a point of cunning to wait upon him, Sheets of water from the clouds are sent, with whom you speak, with your eye, as the Which bissing through the planks, the tiames Jesuits give it in precept. Bacon. prevent, 7. To lie in ambush as an enemy. And stop the fiery pest: four ships alone Such ambush waited to intercepe thy way. Buru to the waist, and for the feet atone. Dryd. Milion. WA'ISTCOAT. n. s. [waist and coat.) An 8. To follow as a consequence. inner coat; a coat close to the body. It will import those men, who dwell careless, Selby leaned out of the coach to shew his laced to enter into serious consultation how they may d'aistcoat. Ricbardson. wert that ruin, which waits on such a supine TO WAIT. v.a. [rvachten, Dutch.] temper. Decay of Piety. 1. To expect; to stay for. Wait. n. s. Ambush; insidious and seBid them prepare within; cret attempts. It is commonly used in I am to blame to be thus waited for. Shakt: these phrases, to lay wait, and to lie in Aw'd with these words, in camps they still wait. abide, And wait with longing looks their promis'd If he hurl at him by laying of wait, that he guide. Dryden. Numbers. As a lion shall lie in wait for them. Ecclus. Who, when they might prevent, would wait the blow. Dryden. Milton. 2. To attend; to accompany with subWa'ter. n. s. [from wait.] An attenmission or respect. dant; one who attends for the accomHe chose a thousand horse, the flow'r of all modation of others. His warlike troops, to wait the funeral. Dryd. 3. To attend as a consequence of sonie. Let the drawers be ready with wine and fresh glusses; thing Let the waiters have eyes, though their tongues Such doom must be tied. Ben Jonson. Waits luxury, and lawless care of gain. Philips. The least tart or pie, By any waiter there stolen and set by. Bp. Corbet. And everlasting anguish be thy portion. Rowe. A man of fire is a general enemy to all the 4. To watch as an enemy. writers where you drink. Tatler. He is raited tor of the sword. yob. The waiters stand in ranks; the yeomen cry, TO WAIT. ♡.7. Make room, as if a duke were passing by. Swijt. 1. To expect; to stay in expectation. WAITING gentlewoman. n. s. [from All the days of my appointed time will I wait WAITING maiit. wait.] An till my change come. Fob. WAITING woman. upper to speak with hini, though upun a mere visit. vant, who attends on a lady in her Fell. chamber. He made me mad To talk so like a wailing gentlewoman, I know, if I am depriv'd of yoi!, I die: Of guns, and drums, and wounds. Sbakspeare. But oh! I die if I wait longer zor you. Flibbertigibbet, prince of mopping and mow A. Pbilips. ing, since possesses chambermaids and waiting 2. To pay servile or submissive attendance : with on before the subject. All the little lime twigs laid Though Syrinx your Pan's mistress were, * By Machiavel, the waiting maid. Cowley. · Yet Syrinx well night wait on her: Milton. "The waiting-woman might be conversant in Stift. One morning waiting on him at Causham, smiling upon me, he said, he could tell me some The waitingemaid hopes to ingratiate berself. news of myselt. Denbum, Swift. Fortune and victory he did To WAKE. V. n. (wakan, Gothick ; pursue, To bring thein, as his slaves, to wait on you. pacian, Saxon ; waecken, Dutch.) Dryden. 1. To watch ; not to sleep. A parcel of soldiers robbed a farmer of his All night she watch'd, ne once a down would poultry, and then made him wait at table. Swift. lav We can wow not oniy converse with, but Her dainty limbs in her sad dreriment, gladly attend and wait :-pon, the poorest kind of But praying still did woke, and waking did lapeople. Lau. Sponsep VOL. IV. } ser Gay. Sbukspeurs. romances. The father waketh for the daughter, and the Before her gate high God did sweat ordaints care for her taketli awav sleep. Ecclesiasticus. And makeful watches, erer to abide. · Sernita Thou holdest mine eves wuking. Psalms. Why dúst thou shake thy leaden sceptre ? I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, go, without being sensible of it. Locke. Bestow thy popry upon rakeful woe, Though wisdom wakes, suspicion sleeps. Sickness and sorrow, whose pale lids ne'er Milton. know 2. To be roused from sleep. Thy downy finger; dwell uson their eyes, Each tree stirr'd appetite, whercat I wok'd. Shut in their tears, shut out their miseries. Milton. Crasbau. 3. To cease to sleep. All thy fears, The sisters awaked from dreams, which flat Thy crakeful terrors, and affrighting dreams, tered them with more comfort than their arak Have now their full reward. Denbars. ing would consent to. Sidney. Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright, Come, thou powerful God, The day takes off the pleasure of the night. Dryd. And thy leaden charming rod, WA KEFULNESS. n. s. [from wakeful.] Dipt in the Lethean lake, 1. Want of sleep. O'er bis watchful temples shake, Other perfumes are fit to be used in burning Lest he should sleep, and never wake. Denbam. agues, consumptious, and too much wukofulness. 4. To be quick; to be alive. Baron. In the valley of Jehoshaphat, 2. Forbearance of sleep: The judging God shall close the book of fate; TO WAKEN. v. n. (from wake.] To And there the last assizes keep, For those who wake, and those who sleep. Dryd. wake; to cease from sleep; to be rous. ed from sleep. 5. To be put in action ; to be excited. Early Turnus wak’ning wiih the light, Geutle airs to fan the earth now wak'da. All clad in armour, calls his troopsto tight. Drie Milton. 1. To rouse from sleep. 1. To rouse from sleep. When he was taken', with the noise, And saw the beast so small; They waked each other, and I stood and heard them. Shakspeare. What's this, quoth he, chat gives so weak a Shock, who thought she slept too long, voice, That wakens men withal ? Steriset. Leap'd up, and wukid his mistress with his tongue. A man that is wakened out of sleep. Zebar. Pope. 2. To excite ; to put in motion or action. We make no longer stay; go, valen Eve. Milten Prepare war; wake up the mighty men, let 2. To excite to action. them come up. Foel. Thine, like Amphion's hand, had wak'd the Then Homer's and Tyrtæus' martial muse Waken'd the world, and sounded loud alarms. stone, And from destruction call'd the rising town; Roscome* Nor could he burn so fast as thou couldst build. 3. To produce; to excite. They introduce Their sacred song, and waken raptures high Milton Has wal'd a thought in me which may be lucky: Rowe. WA'KEROBIN. 1. s. [erum, Latin.) A To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, plant. Miller, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart. Prolo Tue to Cato. WALE. n. S. (pel, Saxon, a web.) A ris3. To bring to life again, as if from the ing part in the surface of cloth. sleep of death. To WALK. V. 12. (walen, German ; peale To second life can, Saxon, to roll.] Wak’d, in the renovation of the just. Alilton. 1. To move by leisurely steps, so that one WAKE. 1.s. (from the verb.) foot is set down before the other is 4. The feast of the dedication of the church, formerly kept by watching all A man was seen walking before the door very night. composedly. Clarendos. The self-same sun Fill oven full of Aawnes, Ginnic passe not for sleepe, At once does slow and swiftly run. Switily his daily journey he goes, But treads his annual with a statelier face, The drolling peasant scarce thinks there is And does three hundred rounds enclose any world beyond his village, nor gaiety beyond Within one yearly circle's space. that of a wake. Gorernzient of the Tongue. Thus with a double course, in the same sphere, Putting all the Grecian actors down, He runs the day and walks the year. Csarlos. And winning at a wake their parsley crown. 2. It is used in the ceremonious language Dryden. of invitation, for come or go. Sometimes the vulgar will of mirth partake, Sir, walk in.And have excessive doings at their wake. King. I had rather walk here, I thank you. Sbakspo .. Vigils; state of torbearing sleep. 3. To move for exercise or amusement. By dimpled brook, and fountain brim, Wliat mean you, Cæsar? think you to wall The wood-:nyinphs décke with daisies trim forth? Sladspears. Their merry wakes and pastimes keep: These bow'rs as wide as we need aald. Milt. What hath night to do with sleep? Milton. 4. To move the slowest pace; not to trot, WA'KEFUL. adj. (wake and full.] Not gallop, or amble. Applied to a horse, Kleeping i vigilant. So To appear as a spectre. taken up ing: me, WAL 3. A length of space, or circuit, through, Makes it his wall. Sbakspeare She would never miss one day Prior, 4. An avenue set with trees. He hath left you all his walks, His private arbours, and new-planted orchards, On that side the Tiber. Shakspeares No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Goodliest trees planted with walks and bow'rs. Milton, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. Milt. In vain the cock has summond sprights away, 5. Way; road; range ; place of wander. She walks at noon, and blasts the bloom of day. Young The mountains are his walks, who wand'ring 6. To act on any occasion. feeds Do you think I'd walk in any plot, On slowly-springing herbs. Sandys. Where madam Sempronia should take place of If that way be your walk, you have not far. Milton, And Fulvia come i' th'rear? Ben Jonson. Set women in his eye, and in his walk, 7. To be in motion. Applied to a cla. Among daughters of men the tairest found. Milton. morous or abusive female tongue; and Our souls, for want of that acquaintance here, is still in low language retained. May wander in the starry walks above. Dryden. As she went, her tongue did walk That bright companion of the sun, In foul reproach, and terms of vile despight; Whose glorious aspeci seal'd our new-born king, Provoking him by her outrageous talk. Spenser. And now a round of greater years begun, 8. To act in sleep: New influence from his walks of liglit did bring. When was it she last walk'd?. Dryden. -I have seen her rise from her bed, un- 6. Region ; space, lock' her closet, take forth paper, fold it, write Wanting an ampler sphere to expatiate in, he upon '', read it, and return to bed; yet all this opened a boundless waik for his imagination. while in a most fast sleep. Shaksp. Pope. 9. To range; to be stirring. They are to be cautiously studied by those Affairs that walk, who are ambitious of treading the great wall of As they say spirits do at midnight, have history. Reynolds. In thein a milder nature than the business 7. (turbo, Lat.] A fish. Ainsworth. That seeks dispatch by day. Shaksp. 8. Walk is the slowest or least raised pace, 10. To move off ; to depart. or going, of a horse. When he comes forth, he will make their cows In a wall, a horse lifts two legs of a side, one and garraus to walk, it he doth no other harm to their persons. after the other, beginning with the hind leg Spenser. first; as suppese that he leads with the legs on 11. To act in any particular manner. his right side, then he lifts his far bind foot first; Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with and in the time that he is setting it down, which thy God. Micab. in a step is always short of the tread of his fore I'll love with fear the only God, and walk foot upon the same side, he lifts his far fore As in his presence. Milton. foot, and sets it down before his near fout, and 12. To travel. just as he lifts up his near hind foot, and sets it The Lord hath blessed thee; he knoweth thy down again just short of his near tore foot, and evalking through this wilderness. Deuteroniny. just as he is setting it down, he lifts his near TO WALK. V.n. fore foot, and sets it down just before his far 1. To pass through. fore foot. Farrier's Dict. WA'LKER. 11. 5. (from walk.] One that walks. I ride and walk, and am 'reputed the best Shall walk the world in credit to his grave. walker in this town. Swift to Gay. May no such vicious walkers crowd the street. 2. To lead out, for the sake of air or ex Gay. ercise : as, he walked his horse in the WALKINGSTAFF. 1. s. A stick which a meadow. man holds to support him in walking: Walki n. s. [from the verb. ] The club which a man of an ordinary size could 1. Act of walking for air or exercise. not lift, was but a walking-staff for Hercules. Glamille. Milian. WALL. n. s. [wal, Welsh ; vallum, Lat. pall, Sax. walle, Dutch.] Dryden. Philander used to take a walk in a nei hbour terials carried upward, and cemented ing wood. with mortar ; the side of a building. Aildis017. I long to renew our old intercourse, our morn Poor Tom! that eats the wall-newt and thre ing conferences, and our evening walks. Pepe water-newt. Shakspeare. 2. Gait; step ; manner of moving. Where though I mourn my matchless loss alone, Morpheus, of all his numerous train, express'd And none between my weakness judge and me; The shape of man, and imitated best; Yet ev'n these gentle walls allow my moan, The walk, the words, the gesture could supriv, Wavce doleful echoes with my plaints agree. The habit nimick, and the mien babe. Dryden. Wetter A prey 3 Sbukspeare. mercy. Spenser Part rise in crystal wall or ridge direct. TO WA’LLOW. v. n. [walagan, Gothu Milton. 2. Fortification ; works built for defence. palfian, Sax.) In this sense it is commonly used plu. 1. To move heavily and clumsily. Part, huge of bulk! rally. Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gzit, With love's light wings did I o'erperch these Tempest ihe ocean. Miltema walls ; 2. Tó roll biinself in mire, or any thing For stony imits cannot hold out love. Sbaksp. filthy. General, the walls are thine: Witness the world, that I create thee here Gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself My lord and master. iu ashes. Sbaksp. Jeremicko Dead bodies, in all places of the camp, zoalleve ed in their own blood. Kadles. To that proud city, whose high walls thou saw'st Left in contusion. Milton. A boar was cuallorving in the water, when a I rush undaunted to defend the walls. Dryd, horse was going to drink. L'Estrange. 3. To take the wall. To take the upper 3. To live in any state of filth or gross vice. place; not to give place. I will take the wall of any man or maid of God sees a man wallowing in his natire imMontague's. purity, delivered over as an absolute captive 10 When once the poet's honour ceases, sin), polluted with its guilt, and enslaved by its From reason far his transports rove: power; and in this most loathsome condition fixes And Boileau, for eight hundred pieces, upon hiin as an object of his distinguishing Makes Lo take the wall of jove. Prior. Sestb WA'llow. 11. s. [from the verb.] A kind To WALL, V. &. [from the noun.] of rolling waik. 1. To enclose with walls. One taught the toss, and one the French new There bought a piece of ground, which, Birsa callid, His sword-knot this, his cravat that desigo'd. From the bull's hide they first inclos'd and wall'd. Dryadenie WALLRU’E. 1. s. [a.diantum album, Lat.) 2. To defend by walls. An herb. Ainswerit. The forest wide is titter to resound WA'LLWORT. n. s. [cbulum, Latin.) A The hollow echo cf my careful cries. plant, the same with dwarf.elder, or His council advised him to make himself mas- danewort. ter of some good wallet town. B.00. WALNUT. 1. s. (palh hnura, Saxon ; kux The Spaniards cast themselves continually into roundels, their strongest sinips walling in jug.nrs, Lat.) A tree and fruit. The characters are, it hath male flowers, or the rest. Bacon. The terror of his name, that walls its in katkins, which are produced at remote distanices From danger. Denban. from the fruit on the same tree; the outer cover of the fruit is very thick and green, under which WallCREE'PER. 11. s. [picus martius, is a rough hard shell, in which the fruit is iaLat.) A bird. Ainsworth. closed, surrounded with a thin skin: the kernel WA’LLET. 1!. s. [reallian, to travel, Sax.) is deeply divided into four lobes; and the leaves of the tree are pinnated or winged. The spe1. A bag in which the necessaries of a cies arc, 1. The common walnut. 2. The large traveller are put; a knapsack. French walnut. 3. The thin-shelled walnut. Having entered into a long gallery, he laid 4. The double walnut. 5. The late ripe waldown his walle:, and spread his carpet, in order nut. 6. The hard-shelled walnut. 7. The Virto repose himself upon it. Addison. ginian black walnut. 8. Virginian black walnut, 2. Any thing protuberant and swagging. with a long furrowed fruit. 9. The hickery, at Who would believe, that there were moun white Virginian valuut. 10. The small hicken taineers ry, or white Virginian walnut. Miller, Dewlapt like bulls, wliose throats had hanging "Tis a cockle, or a walnut-shell; A knack, a toy. Shakipeana at them Wallets of flesh? Sbakspeare. Help to search my house this one time; if I find not what I seek, let them say of me, as jeaWALLEY'E. n. s. [from wall and eye.) A lous as Ford, that scarcheth a hollow wal-at for disease in the crystalline humour of his wife's ieman. Stakse. the eye; the glaucoma. Some wouds have the veins smooth, as fit, and walaut. Bares. WAʼLLEYED. adj. [wall and eye.] Having white eyes. WA'LTRON, 11. S. Wall-eyed slave! whither wouldst thou convey The morse, or waltron, is called the sea-horse. This growing image of thy fiend-like face? Weaturd Sbakspeare. To WAʼMBLE. V. n. [zvemmelen, Dutch.) WALLFLOWER. n. s. [parietaria, Lat.] To roll with nausea and sickness. It is A species of stockgilli Aower. used of the stomach. WALLFRUIT. n. s. Fruit which, to be A covetous man deliberated betwixt the ripened, must be planted against a wall. qualms of a wambling stomach, and an unsettled ' mind. L'Estars To wall-fruit and garden plants there cannot be a worse enemy than snails. Mortimer. Wan. adj. (pann, Saxon ; gwan, weakly, To WA’LLOP. v.n. (pealan, to boil, Sax.] Welsh.] Pale, as with sickness; lanTo boil. guit of look. WALLOUSE. n. s. [cimex, Latin.] An Sad to view his visage pale and time, jnsect; a bug. Who erst in dowers of crushest youth ** ciad. Ainsworth. |