The poore mechanicke porters, crowding in Shakespeare. Hen. V. Acti. sc. 2. A crew of patches, rude mechanicals, Shakespeare. Mids. Night's Dream, Act iii. sc. 2. These mechanic philosophers being no way able to give an account thereof [the formation and organization of the bodies of saimals] from the necessary motion of matter, unguided by mind for ends, prudently therefore break off their system there, when they should come to animals, and so leave it altogether untouched.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. I do not here take the term, Mechanicks, in that stricter and more proper sense, wherein it is wont to be taken, when it is ased only to signify the doctrine about the moving powers. (as the beam, the lever, the screws, and the wedge) and of framing engines to multiply force; but I here understand the word Mechanicks in a larger sense, for those isciplines that consist of the applications of the pure mathematicks to produce or modify motion in inferior bodies. Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 435. The commonwealth of learning would lose too many seful observations and experiments, and the history of mature would make too slow a progress, if it were preFed, that none but geometers and mechanicians should pay themselves about writing any part of that history. Id. Ib. vol. ii. p. 473. Fearthly, I very well foresee it may be objected that the thick with all its parts is not a mechanically contrived enfe, but fashioned out of matter by the soul of the bird ged chiefly in the cicatricula.-Id. Ib. vol. iii. p. 68. There [in the kingdom of God] virtue only gives predence, and the meanest mechanic takes place of the nobles kings of the earth, if he were a better christian than dey were.-Horne. Works, vol. iv. Dis. 9. Cowper. Table Talk. If guards, mechanically form'd in ranks, Playing, at beat of drum, their martial pranks, Should'ring and standing as if stuck to stone, While condescending majesty looks on. Although many authors have spoken of the wonderful aim of speech, none has hitherto attended to the far Dre wonderful mechanism which it puts into action behind We scene-Stewart. The Human Mind, vol. ii. c. 2. s. 2. Bat Garrick, who prefers a guinea To all the eloquence of Pliny, serving this unlucky railer Was neither mechanist nor tailor. Cawthorne. Wit & Learning. MEDAL Fr. Médaille; It. Medaglia; MEDALET. Sp. Medalla; from the Lat. MEDALLICK. Metallum; q. d. metallum, seu MEDALLION. numisma solenne. Skinner and MEDALLIST. Vossius,quia ex auro, argento, Wes for example, an antique medal half consumed with is shewed to an unskilful person, though a scholar, he by his own endeavours be able to read the whole tion, whereof we suppose some parts to be obliterated e or rust, or to discover the meaning of it. Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 545. But when a knowing medalist becomes his instructor, he then know some (much defaced) letters, that were illeThe bim before; and both understand the sense of the ption, and approve it as genuine, and suitable to the whereto it be congruous.-Id. Ib. There lately seen, says Eugenius, a medallic history of Se present king of France.-Addison. Anc. Medals, Dial. 3. stall beg leave to give this class the appellation of wisu, as the genius of our language admits of this dimi, in ringlet, bracelet, and the like. Pinkerton. Essay on Medals, vol. i. 8. 13. mingle. The Danish has megler, melerer. Dr. Jamieson thinks the Fr. is of Gothic origin, and dle; to meddle or to mell being merely to interpose that the primary term is the Sw. Mid, i. e. midone's self between other objects. To mix, to mingle; to mix or mingle, interdeal, or interfere, (sc. among other people and their concerns,) to busy or be busy, to take part or share, in any thing. A medley, a mixture of persons, an affray. He tok his seurd in hand, the croyce let he falle, & medeled him in the pres, among the barons alle. R. Brunne, p. 18. For in no wise dare I more mell As like is now to fall of this.-Chaucer. Dreame. Id. Prol. to the Canterbury Tales, v. 330. And said, this daie venim is shadde Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 357. Skelton. Speake Parrot. There was no manne that anye meddeling hadde wyth theym, into whose handes they were more lothe to come. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 868. Ther myght wel a ben legges sene tourned vpwarde; ther being a sore medlynge, for they of the hoost alwayes encreased, wherfore it behoued thenglysshmen to withdrawe toward ther fortresse.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 81. He desyred hym that he wolde take on hym the medlyng Now siker I see thou dost but clatter, Id. Shepheard's Calender. July. A meddled estate of the orders of the gospell, and the ceremonies of poperie, is not the best way to banish popery. Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. iv. 8.8. Luc. My lord I know him, 'tis a medling fryer, Peter. I know him for a man diuine and holy, Bp. Hall, b. i. Sat. 8. Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Act v. sc. 1. Tnder this term (medallions] are included all the pieces either in leafe or root.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 528. ed by the ancient mints, which, from their superior were evidently not intended for circulation as coin, for other occasions.-Id. Ib. By this the medallist would mean Tact that fine domestic scene, the first Brutus nobly gave freedom to the worthy slave. Cawthorn. The Antiquarians. MEDDLE, . 'DOLER. NEODLESOME. MEDLESOMENESS. MEDDLING, A. MEDLEY, To meddle or mell; Fr. Mesler, mêler, which Skin ner derives from the It. Mescolare, and this Menage from the Bar. Lat. Misculare, a dim. of the Lat. Miscere, to mix or Do not drive away such, as bring thee information, as I shall touch some cases in which it is allowable or com- This the peasants blithe Blair. The Grave. But by mediacyon of the lordes it was agreed that Robert shulde haue euery yere durynge his life. iii. M. markes. R. Brunne, p. 102. Note. For oo God and a mediatour is of God & of men a man Crist Iesu.-Wiclif. 1 Tym. c. 2. For there is one God, and one (mediator) betwene God and man, whiche is the man Christ Jesus.-Bible, 1551. Ib. For it in soth of kingdomes and of realmes, Is bearer vp and conservatrice, From al mischief and soth fast mediatrice, To God aboue. Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. iii. Neither Gyngemin thy companyon nor thou neither shall enter in there, either immediately or mediatlye, if ye exclude Christ as ye haue done hitherto.-Fryth. Workes, p. 18. And thereupon was Warwick (by whose cast Daniel. Civil Wars, b. viii. It is certain, that the immediate cause of death, is the resolution or extinguishment of the spirits; and that the destruction or corruption of the organs is but the mediate cause.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 399. The carnall eye looks through God, at the world; the spirituall eye looks through the world, at God; the one of those he seeth mediately, the other, terminatively. Bp. Hall. The Remedy of Prophaneness, b. i. s. 6. And in deliv'ring it, lifts up her eyes, If thine angels, O blessed Jesu, desired to look into the great and deep mysterie of the gospel, their longing is satis fied in the sight of thy blessed incarnation, and the full accomplishment of the great office of thy mediatorship. Bp. Hail. The great Mystery of Godliness, s. 11. If it had pleased thee to have commanded Moses and Elias to wait upon thee in thy mediatorie perambulation, and to attend thee at Jerusalem, on the mount of Sion, as they did on the mount of Tabor, whom hadst thou not in a zealous astonishment drawn after thee?-Id. Ib. s. 3. And this every true christian longs and breathes after, that these days of sin and misery may be shortened, that Christ would come in his glory, that his mediatory kingdom being fulfilled, it might be delivered up unto the Father, and that we all might be one, as the Father is in him, and he in the Father. Hopkins. A practical Exposition on the Lord's Prayer. I tell you againe (with an addition of more incongruities still) that God and his divine phisician doe still let bloud in the median vein of the heart. Bp. Hall. Sermon to the Lords of Parliament. It being the undeniable prerogative of the first cause, that whatsoever it does by the mediation of second causes, it can do immediately by itself without them. South, vol. iv. Ser. 11. Why didst thou not, O gentle mother-queen! MEDICATE, v. MEDICAL. MEDICALLY. MEDICAMENT. MEDICAMENTALLY. MEDICATIVE. MEDICINE, V. MEDICINE, n. MEDICINABLE. Fr. Médeciner; It. Medicinare; Sp. Medecinar; Lat. Medicina, medicare, mederi, from the Gr. MedEolai, to cure, to heal. Medicine, Fr. Médecin, one who cureth, a physician. To medicine, to give or supply medicine, or healing or salutary physic. To medicate, to give, to endow with medical or medicinal qualities; to infuse or impregnate with medicinal qualities, or with ingredients having such qualities. Ne hide it nought, for if thou feignest, Gower. Con. A. b. i. Willing by his owne medicinall meekenes that mens hartes should bee lyfted vp. and not with man's pride agayne to be drouned in these inferior thinges.-Barnes. Workes, p. 367. But as manie weedes are right medicinable, so maie you finde in this none so vile, or stinking, but that it hath in it some virtue, if it be rightlie handled. Gascoigne. To the Youth of England. If some infrequent passenger crossed our streets, it was not without his medicated posie at his nose. Bp. Hall. A Sermon of Thanksgiving. Now (what is very remarkable) whereas in the same place he adviseth to observe the times of notable mutations, as equinoxes, and the solstices, and to decline medication ten days before. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 13. That sometimes is found about the heads of children upon their birth, [the silly-how] is therefore preserved with great care, not onely as medical in diseases, but effectual in success concerning the infant and others; which is surely no more then a continued superstition.-Id. Ib. b. v. c. 21. But that which chiefly promoted the consideration of these dayes, and medically advanced the same, was the doctrine of Hyppocrates.-Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 13. They do make such a constitution of a mendicament, as we now require.-Bacon. History. Of Life & Death. We first affirm that the substance of gold is invincible by the powerfullest action of natural heat, and that not only alimentally in a substantial mutation, but also medicamentally in any corporeal conversion. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 5. Bel. Great greefs I see med'cine the lesse. Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iv. sc. 2. Cla. The miserable haue no other medicine Meet we the med'cine of the sickly weale, (As sometimes even poysons turn medicinall) the furious prosecution of absurd authoritie increased the zeale of trueth.-Bp. Hall. The Old Religion, c. 2. My purpose and endeavour is, to anatomize this humour of melancholy through all his parts and species, as it is an habite or an ordinary disease, and that philosophically, medicinally, to shew the causes, symptomes, and severall cures of it, that it may be the better avoided. Burton. Democritus to the Reader, p. 76. I would here intreat farther, to what end the commers thither doo drinke oftimes of that medicinable liquor. Holinshed. Descrip. of England, b. ii. c. 23. He made not venom to be our poison, for neither made he death or any deletery medicament upon the earth; but so, that by a slight industry and endeavour of our own they might be turned into great pledges of his love, for the use of men against the cruelty of diseases which were in process of time to rise.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 122. First pouring out the med'cinable bane, To mend thy mounds, to trench, to clear, to soil Dyer. The Fleece, b. i. The system. too of those physicians who profess to follow MEDIOCRE. MEDIOCRIST. MEDIO/CRITY. Fr. Médiocrer, médiocre; This low, abject brood Become your servile mind.-Carew. Cœlum Brittannic. A very mediocre poet, one Drayton, is yet taken some He [John Hughes] is too grave a poet for me, and, I think among the mediocribus [some ed. mediocrists] in prose as well as verse.-Swift. To Pope, Sept. 3d. 1735. The most successful and splendid exertions, both in the sciences and arts, (it has been frequently remarked,) have been made by individuals, in whose minds the seeds of genius were allowed to shoot up, wild and free: while, from the most careful and skilful tuition, seldom any thing results above mediocrity. Stewart. The Human Mind, pt. ii. s. 1. MEDITATE, v. Fr. Méditer; It. Meditare; To think carefully, studiously; to keep the, But nathless this meditation I put it ay under correction Of clerkes; for I am not textual. It. Mediterraneo; Sp. Mediterraneo, from the Lat. In the midst, situated in the midst of, surrounded by, earth or land, within land, inland. They that haue seene the mediterran or inner parts of the kingdome of China, do report it to be a most amiable countrey, adorned with plenty of woods, with abundance of fruits and grasse, and with woonderful variety of riuers. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 91. As for example, he that neuer saw the sea will not be persuaded that there is a mediterrane sea. Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 588. And for our own ships, they went sundry voyages, as well to your streights, which you call the Pillars of Hercules, as to other parts in the Atlantique and Mediterrane Seas. Bacon. New Atlantis. It is found in mountains and mediterraneous parts. I know there is nothing more undetermined among the learned than the voyage of Ulysses; some confining it to the Mediterranean, others extending it to the great Ocean, and others ascribing it to a world of the poet's own making. Addison. Remarks on Italy. ME'DLAR. Fr. Mesple, mesle; It. Nespola; Sp. Nispola; Lat. Mespilus; Gr. Meonin, quia εν τῷ μέσῳ πιλος, because in the middle he hath, as it were, a cap or crowne, (Minshew.) In A. S. it is Mad, to which Skinner would give a Greek origin. And many homely trees there were, Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose And as I stood and cast aside mine eie, Id. The Flower and the Leafe. Dryden. The Flower and the Leaf MEED, v. Holland. Plinie, b. xxiii. c. 17. A. S. Med; Dut. Miede, mete; Chaucer. The Persones Prologue, v. 7292. Ger. Miete. Junius derives the A. S. from the Goth. Mizdo, (z "Telleth" quod he, "your meditatioun, Skinner But hasteth you, the sonne wol adoun."-Id. Ib. v. 17,308. omitted,) and that from the Gr. Mialos. prefers the A. S. Met-an, occurrere, invenire, adiTo sowne of suche prolacion, That he his meditacion pisci; to meet; meed being that which any one Therof maie make. meets with deservedly, in return for service done: or rather, perhaps, Is not done rashly, your first thought is more Beaum. & Fletch. Two Noble Kinsmen, Act i. sc. 1. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 10. In a word, he [whose corrupt nature is impatient of any Oft have I rag'd, when their wide wasting cannon Johnson, Irene, Act ii. sc. 6 That which is meet, convenient, becoming, o fitting, as a reward,-in return for service done or favour bestowed: and thus, generally, a reward or remuneration; reward deserved; desert; & payment, a donation, a bounty. Or may it not be from the verb, to mete? An thus signify The measure; due or deserved; given or pai in return for service done, &c. Mr. Steevens furnishes the instance of the ver from Heywood. Ich habbe y holde hym in hys londe, & my mede ther of y At myn vnderstandyng he wild tak no mede the For he toke mede and money of the Scottis, to thentent! they myght departe pryuely by nyght, vnfoughte withall. Berners Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 18. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 2. And yet the body meeds a better grave. MEE Thus God suffered Moses to be unworthily dealt with by By inheriting the earth, he meant inheriting those things Is but his steward: no mede but he repaies Shakespeare. Timon of Athens, Act i. sc. 1. MEEK, v. MEEK, adj. MEEKEN, V. MEEKLY. MEEKNESS. MEKENING, 7. Millon. Lycidas. In Sw. it is Miuk. Skinner considers it to be a consequential usage of make or mate, æqualis, socius, compar: it is, not improbably, the A. S. Melc-an, mulc-ere, or mulgere, to soothe, to soften: (by the mere omission of l.) To soothe, to soften, to mollify; to be or cause to be mild, gentle, humble, or lowly, to humiliate or humble. He meketh prout men, and he threatneth warre. R. Gloucester, p. 483. Note. Beholde thy kyng commeth vnto thee, meke and syttynge Alle men that wolen lyue mekeli in Crist, as the apostle For he hath bihulden the mekenesse of his handmayden. His berte is hard that woll not meke The god of loue, and thou goddesse Waere is pitee? where is mekenesse ?-Gower. Con. A. b. 1. When ye Danys beyng ware, so lowly meked theym vnto and gaue to hym suche gyftes, that the kynge reed hym of ye great yre yt he had purposed to theym. The heart did melt and thou mekedest thy selfe before Fabyan, c. 189. the Lord-Bible, 1551. 4 Kings, c. 23. Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. A sacrificed to all the kerued images whiche Manasseh MEL I, ere thou spak'st, Knew it not good for man to be alone, Leon. 'Faith, neece, you tax signior Benedick too much, but hee'l be meet with you, I doubt it not. Shakespeare. Much Adve about Nothing, Actii. sc. 3. In whose person, albeit there was nothing to bee misliked, yet was there (she saide) nothing so excellent but that it mought be found in diuers other, that were more meetelie Drayton. Moses his Birth and Miracles, b. i. Apart, to guardian Phoebus next they raise Apollonius Rhodius. Fawkes. Argonautics, b. il ME'GRIMS. Fr. Migraine; It. Migrana; Lat. Hemicranium, from the Gr. 'Huikpavia, dolor circa medium caput: nukрaviov, dimidiata capitis pars, nuov, half, and kрaviov, the head. Minshew calls it "a disease that paineth one halfe of the R. Brunne, p. 59. braine." And lo Jhesus mette hem, and seide, Hayl ye. It is also applied (met.) to morbid fancies or For it is a full noble thing Wiclif. Matthew, c. 28. whims. Most noble virgin, that by fatal lore Hast learn'd to loue, let no whit thee dismay Till first I knew of thee, Yor. No, it [his eare] is stopt with other flatt'ring sounds As praises of his state: then there are found Shakespeare. Rich. II. Act ii. sc. 1. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 4. Selden. Illustrations. Fain would she meet the youth with hasty feet, 1er made, and serued them, and mekened not himselfe mathematical lines, indefinitely produced, can be for ever Addison. Ovid. Metam. b. iv. We can just as easily conceive the connexion and mutual influence of soul and body, as we can explain how two Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 10. toomy bottoms, and high-waving woods, en with soft steps enseal'd the meekned valleys, quest of memory.-Browne. Brit. Pastorals, b. ii. s. 1. The Mary pondring oft, and oft in mind Being what remarkably had pass'd Fe frst her salutation heard, with thoughts kly compos'd awaited the fulfilling. Milion. Paradise Regained, b. ii. Humbly on my knee, with you," he'll fit you, he'll suit, he'll be even with you. Arcite is ridden anon unto the toun, And thought that the yōge duke of Bourgoyn was a mete For it was thought he was a knight metely to be ye leder Like myrth in May is meetest for to make, The name [melancholy] is imposed from the matter, and To hit the sense of human sight, Milton. Il Penseroso. They cannot I say goe about their more necessary busi- So as she thus melancholicke did ride, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c 6. On a pedestal-is set the statue of this young lady, re pozing herself in a curious wrought osier chair, all of po lished alabaster; melancholily inclining her cheek to the Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. November. right hand -Keepe. Monuments of Westminster,(1683.) p.62. 1273 When a boy, he was playsome enough: but withall he had then a contemplative melancholiness. Aubrey. Account of Hobbs, Anecd. 2. p. 600. [When as the mind] though it be found never so deficient and unable to perform the best duty of marriage in a cheerful and agreeable conversation, shall be thought good enough, however flat and melancholious it be. Milton. Doctrine of Divorce, b. i. c. 3. When the melancholist was afraid to sit down for fear of being broken, supposing himself of glass, it had been to little purpose to have declared to him the ridiculousness of his fears.-Glanvill, Esɛ. 4. None have so high passions as melancholists. H. More. On Enthusiasm, § 25. Such a melancholist as this must be very highly puffed up, and not only fancy himself inspired, but believe himself a special piece of light and holiness that God has sent into the world.-Id. Ib. § 15. Despair seldom breeds but in the melancholy tempers, that inclines men to be thoughtful and suspicious; or in such breasts, as have been forced into a præternatural melancholy, by conversing with unskilful spiritual guides, of an indiscreet severity, and pinning their faith upon ill managed discourses about prædestination. South, vol. vii. Ser. 12. When the mind is very deeply impressed with a sense of calamity, for a continuance, and the attention cannot by any means be diverted from it, the subject is in a state of melancholy. This affection manifests itself by dejection of spirits, debility of mind and body, obstinate and insuperable love of solitude, universal apathy, and a confirmed listlessness, which emaciate the corporeal system, and not unfrequently trouble the brain.-Cogan. On the Passions, § 3. c. 2. MELIORATE, v. Fr. Méliorer; It. Migliorare; Sp. Mejorar; Lat. Melior, melius, which is (Vossius) magis-velis, mavelis, melius, that which is more willed, more wished for or desired. To be or cause to be, to make, more desirable; to better, to mend, to improve. See AMELIORATE. Sound is likewise meliorated by the mingling of open air with pent air.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 232. Digging yearly about the roots of trees, which is a great means both to the acceleration and melioration of fruits, is practised in nothing but in vines.-Id. Ib. § 433. So that this colour of meliority and preeminence is a signe of enervation and weakness. Id. A Table of the Colours of Good & Evil. Aristotle ascribeth the cause of this meliority or betterness unto the aire.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 613. The more comprehensive a trade is, the more likely it is that it will be capable of being meliorated by natural philosophy.-Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 408. By an insight into chymistry one may be enabled to make some meliorations (I speak not of transmutations) of mineral and metalline bodies.-Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 354. The order and beauty of the inanimate part of the world, the discernible ends and final causes of them, the To BeλTov, or a meliority above what was necessary to be, do evince by a reflex argument, that it is the product and workmanship, not of blind mechanism or blinder chance: but of an intelligent and benign Agent, who by his excellent wisdom made the heavens and the earth and gives rains and fruitful seasons for the service of man.-Bentley, Ser. 6. Thine is the praise to cultivate the soil; MELL. See MEDDLE. MELL. ME'LLEOUS. MELLIFEROUS. MELLIFLUENT. MELLIFLUENce. MELLIFICATION. MELLIFLUOUS. Jago. Edge Hill, b. v. And [Canaan] being mountainous, could not but abound Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. iv. c. 2. Join'd to these Gresset's clear pipe, distinct behind, Cooper. The Apology of Aristippus, Ep. 3. Falconer. Shipwreck, c. 3. Fr. Mellifier, melliflue; It. Mellificare, mellifluo; Sp. Melifero, melifluo; Lat. Mellificare; Mel; Gr. MEAL, honey. Melliferous, bearing honey. Mellifluous, flowing or pouring forth honey; generally,-flowing, abounding, with sweetness, harmony. Warton. Milton. Poems, Pref. MELLOW, v. ME'LLOWY. Orpheus, the Tracian, harped melodiously, I mean of tast, sight, smell, herbs, fruits, and flours, And with their most melodious quires* Drayton. The Muses' Elysium, Nymph. 1. Milton. Lycidas. She touch'd him with her harp, and rais'd him from the ground; The shaken strings melodiously resound. Cowley. The Complaint. Dryden. Ovid. Art of Love, b. i. Fawkes. Braham Park. Langhorn. Ode to the River Eden. ME/LON. Fr. Mélon; It. Mellone; Sp. Melon; Lat. Melo; Gr. Mnλov; an apple. "A kind of To be or become soft, through ripeness or ma-pompion or cucumber so called because they come turity; to ripen, to mature; to free from hardness, up in forme of a quince, mali cotonei effigie,' (Plin. b. xix. c. 5.) harshness or asperity; to soften. Your chekes embolned like a mellow costard. Id. Councill to Master Withipoll. Then was I as a tree Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iii. sc. 3. So age a mature mellowness doth set Denham. Of Old Age, pt. iv. Sweet sound; a succession of sweet sounds. Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2999. Gower. Con. A. b. i. To liquefy or dissolve; to reduce to a liquid o fluid state; (met.) to lessen, to diminish, to relax the harshness or rigour; to soften, to mollify, to entender. As wey may seo a wynter This pandare, that nigh malt for wo and routh, Id. Troilus Creseide, b. And if he toke his flight Make it to melte with the sonne.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. Surrey. Complaint of a dying Louer, & & haue made the a calfe of molie metal, & haue wu shipped it.-Bible, 1551. Exodus, c. 32. The melter melteth in vayne, for the euell is not take awaye from them.-Id. Jeremye, c. 6. Her tears falling into the water, one might have thoug she began meltingly to be metamorphosed to the runni river. Sidney. Arcadia. Long thus he liv'd, slumbring in sweet delight, Spenser. Britannia's Ida, c. What was the mule in Plutarch, after his lying down in the water, troubled with the melting of that burden of salt Phich he carryed.-Bp. Hail. Christ. Moderation, b. i. s. 12. Seest thou the Chaldean tyrant beset with the sacred bowles of Jerusalem, the late spoils of God's temple; and in contempt of their owner) carowsing healths to his queenes, cubines, peeres, singing amidst his cups triumphant carols of praise to his molten and carved gods? Id. Heaven upon Earth, s. 15. Nothing could have been spoke more gently, and yet mere forcibly, to melt him down into a penitential sorrow for, and an abhorrence of those two foul deviations from the law of God.-South, vol. vii. Ser. 7. By this law five per cent, gain on all our milled money will be given to be shared between the possessor and the seider of our milled money, out of the honest creditor and hadlord's pocket.-Locke. On Lowering Interest. Give me, O thou Father of compassion, such a tenderness and meltingness of heart, that I may be deeply affected with all the miseries and calamities, outward or inward, of my brethren, and diligently employ all my abilities for their car and relief.-Whole Duty of Man. Collect for Charity. The charming melter of his purse. Lloyd. A Familiar Epistle to a Friend. Then all the pleasing scenes of life appear, MEM They easily, by their saline pungency, offend the tender ureters and membranous bladders of those, that are troubled with the stone or strangury.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 192. MEMORY. Fr. Mémoire; Lat. It. and Sp. Memoria; Memor, from memini, pret. of the obsolete meneo, or meno; and meno from the Gr. Mev-eiv; manere, to stay or remain. The contract μνάω, from the idea of staying or remaining, is excellently well transferred culty of the mind, hence called memory; in which (says Lennep) to the fathings remain securely preserved; and Locke calls memory,-The store-house of our ideas. It would perhaps be more discriminating to call the mind itself (met.) the store-house of ideas received into it; that in which such ideas remain⚫ and memory, that faculty which brings forward or recalls such ideas as remain so stored or preserved. It is also applied, generally, to The keeping, preserving, retaining in mind; recollection, remembrance. Also (as in Spenser) acts or ceremonies in Hamilton. To a Young Lady. remembrance of. MEMBER. Fr. Membre; It. Membro; MEMBERSHIP. Sp. Miembro; Lat. Membrum. Of unknown etymology. A limb; a piece, part, or portion of a whole frame or body; an individual of a collected body. Some hii lete honge El hor membres an hey, in pines wel stronge. For it spedith to thee that oon of thi membris perische than that al thi bodi go into helle.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 5. Better it is for thee that one of thy membres perishe then that thy whole body shoulde be cast into hel.-Bible, 1551. Ib. For all reason wolde this, That vnto him, whiche the head is, The members buxom shall bow. -The other shape, Gower. Con. A. Prol. If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none, Is there Ever a good heartist or a member-percer or a Me that?-Beaum. & Fletch. Love's Pilgrim. Act iv. sc. 1. But 0, that man, whose mystick obligation Of mutual membership doth them invite To careful tenderness, and free compassion; With such confederate zeal and stout delight Fairt sweats all down their mighty members run; Beaumont. Psyche, c. 10. s. 278. Ne advantages from external church membership, or proSon of the true religion, can of themselves give a man dence towards God.-South, vol. ii. Ser. 11. The representative is so far dependent upon the constiand political importance upon public favour, that a der of parliament cannot more effectually recommend mself to eminence and advancement in the state, than by Striving and patronizing laws of public utility. Paley. Moral Philosophy, vol. ii. c. 7. MEMBRANE. MEMBRANA'CEOUS. MEMBRANEOUS. MEMBRANOUS. Cala it Fr. Membrane; Lat. It. and Sp. Membrana; so named because it covers members. Cotgrave the The upmost thin skin of any thing; also the par pilling between the bark and the tree. The skin is a membrane of all the rest the most large and But, formed of the mixture of seed and blood; the coverornament of parts that are under it. and P. Fletcher. The Purple Island, c. 2. Note 13. Consider its variety, suited to various foods, some membut, agreeable to the frugivorous or carnivorous -Derham. Physico-Theology, b. vii. c. 2. And haddest mercy on that man for memento sake. For knightly pite and memoriell Chaucer. The Complaint of Creseide. O Salomon, richest of all richesse, Id. The Marchantes Tale, v. 10,117. Gower. Con. A. b. vi. Sometime I drew into memoire, Right all the matter of my tale. Id. Ib. b. i. Id. Ib. b. iv. Bard. Why Sir John, my face does you no harme. MEN This laying up of our ideas in the repository of the memory, signifies no more but this, that the mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions, which it has once had, with this additional perception annex'd to them, that it has had them before. Their diriges, their trentals, and their shrifts, Use the memory of thy predecessour fairly and tenderly; Yet registers of memorable things Would helpe (great prince) to make thy judgement sound Locke. Of Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 10. s. 2 Thus in the soul while memory prevails, Pope. Essay on Criticism. That man who has tears to spend at the memorial of a lost friend, but none to shed at the thoughts of a lost innocence, a wasted conscience, and a provoked God, has but too muci cause to suspect the truth of his sorrow and the goodness of his heart.-South, vol. ix. Ser. 1. places, as if we had left them there till our returne. For The heart, stomach, guts, sanguineous, and other hand) braneous vessels, are now, all acknowledge to be mus-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. i. c. 5. s. 22. 1 "Otherwise satisfied." With memorandum-book for every town At length she found herself decay, ME/NACE, v. MENACINGLY. Cotton, Fab. 5. Also anciently written Manace, manass. Fr. Menacer; It. Minacciare; Sp. Amenazar; Lat. Minacia, from minari, to threaten. To threaten; to denounce evil or punishment. R. Brunne, p. '. And gretly he manasside hem that thei schulden not make him knowen.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 3. And ghe Lordis do the same thingis to hem forghyunge manassis.-Id. Effesis, c. 5. Bacon Hen. VII. p. 212. And though your grene youthe floure as yet, Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 7988. Whiche is that mortall enemy, That thou manacest to be dede.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii. Suche wordes and manasshes abasshed greatly ye cardynals, for they hadde rather a dyed confessours than martyrs. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 327. They shewed howe the erle gretly manasshed the, and send the worde how they shulde neuer haue peace with hym. Id. Ib. c. 351. Sir Robert answered, by god, haralde, for all the manysshing of your maisters, I will nat so lese my castell, and if lyke case.-Id. Ib. c. 311. so be yt the duke cause my men to dye, I shall serue him in With whose reproach, and odious menace, The knight emboyling in his aughtie hart, Fierce sign of battel make, and menace high, Setting vpon Verginius manacingly they besought him, sometime to take the empire himselfe, sometime to be their spokesman to Caecina and Valens. Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 78. The Trojan threats Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. xii. With awful grace superior Godfrey smil'd, |