Ber. My thankes and dutie are your malesties.
Kin. I would I had that corporall soundnesse now,
As when thy father, and my selfe, in friendship
First tride our souldiership.

Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well, Act i. sc. 2. So the French, when our generals soundly did pay'em, Went triumphant to church, and sang stoutly Te Deum. Swift. A Left-handed Letter.

I will not answer for the acuteness, much less for the soundness of his distinction.

Waterland. Works, vol. viii. p. 238.

Courteousness is the skin and outside of virtue, and though a man would wish in the first place to enjoy vigour of limbs and soundness of constitution, yet if he can have a good skin too it is no detriment to his person.

Search. Light of Nature, vol. i. pt. ii. c. 34.
See SUP.

SOUP.
SOUR, adj.
Sour, v.

SO'URISH.
So'URLY.
So'URNESS.

or cause to be

rose, severe.

Sour 18 probably the same word as Sore. ( (See Tooke, 8vo. ed. vol. ii. p. 211.) A. S. Sorgian, tristare, constristare,

To trouble, to distress; to be harsh, unpleasing, unkind; mo

Sour, applied to the taste, is equivalent to acid; and the Lat. Tristis is so used.

Be ye war of the sour dough of Farisees and of Saduceis: Thanne thei undirstonden that he seide not to be war of sour dough of looves; but of the techyng of Pharisees and Saducees.-Wiclif. Malt. c. 16.

For wailed wine and meates thou had tho,
Take moulded bread, pirate, and sider soure.

Chaucer. The Complaynie of Creseide.

Thus maie a mans wit be lerned Of hem, that so delites taken,Whan thei with death ben ouertaken, That erst was swete is than soure.-Gower. Con. A. b. vi. Why looke you so sowerly good brethren? why do you not rather giue hym great thankes.-Fryth. Workes, p 79.

And as thou couldest not see leauen though thou brakest vp a loafe, except thou smelledst or tastedst the sourenes, eue so couldest thou neuer see true faith or loue, except thou sawest workes.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 225.

The tartnesse of his face, soures ripe grapes.

Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act v. sc. 4.

His lovely words her seemd due recompence
Of all her passed paines; one loving howre
For many yeares of sorrow can dispence;
A dram of sweete is worth a pound of sowre.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 3.

Gom. Have you never
Heard of a Roman lady (Oriana)
Remembred as a president for matrons,

(Chaste ones, I pray you understand) whose husband
Tax'd for his soure breath by his enemy,
Condemn'd his wife, for not acquainting him

With his infirmity ?

Beaum. & Fletch. The Knight of Malta, Act iii. sc. 2.

All greatest sweetes were sugred first with sowres,
The headlesse course of vncontrolled houres,

To all difficulties a way vnlockes.-Stirling. Avrora, s. 79.
When pleasing Bourdeaux falls unto his lot,
Some sow'rish Rochelle cuts thy thirsting throate.
Bp. Hall, b. v. Sat. 2.

As touching the nature of Levain, certein it is that it proceeded of sourenesse.-Holland. Plinie, b. xviii. c. 11.

To torment and afflict ourselves needlessly, is not more unnatural in itself, than it is displeasing to God, who delights in the happiness of his creatures; and chooses rather an easy and cheerful, than an austere and sour obedience. Waterland. Works, vol. ix. Ser. 3.

To this reply'd the stern Athenian prince,
And sourly smil'd: "In owning your offence
You judge yourself; and I but keep record
In place of law, while you pronounce the word."

Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, b. ii.

It takes off the sourness and moroseness of our spirits, and makes us affable and courteous, gentle and obliging, and willing to embrace with open arms, and an hearty love, all sorts and conditions of men.-Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 2.

They, who run into such extremities, make religion appear uninviting to others, and lay a heavier burthen on themselves, than they will be able to bear, at least without souring their tempers.-Secker, vol. ii. Ser. 23.

All hardships under which men put themselves of their own accord, not being enjoined in Scripture, nor evidently needful to preserve them from sin, and to raise their thoughts to a better world, (especially if they tend to promote rigour and sourness rather than mildness and humility nurt instead of benefiting them, and discredit religion with others.-Id. Ser. 2.

1

SOURCE, n. Fr. Source, sourcer :— -Menage thinks from Sourgir, Lat. Surgere, to arise. It has probably proceeded immediately from the It. Sorsi or sursi, pret. per. of Sorgere, to arise, to spring.

That from which any thing rises or springs, takes its origin; the origin or beginning, the spring or fountain; the rise. See the quotation from Stewart; and see SOURDE, infra.

Therfore right as an hauke upon a sours
Up springeth into the aire, right so praieres
Of charitable and chast besy freres,
Maken hir sours to Goddes eres two.

Chaucer. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7520.

Me fleyng at a swappe he hent,
And with his sours againe vp went,
Me carying in his clawes starke.

Id. The House of Fame, b. ii.

Wher as the Poo out of a welle-smal
Taketh his firste springing and his sours,
That estward ay encreseth in his cours.

Id. The Clerkes Prologue, v. 7924.

The faded lockes fall from the loftie oke,
The flouds doe gaspe, for dryed is their sourse,
And flouds of teares flow in theyr stead perforce.

Spenser. The Shepheard's Calender. November.
This was to me that overflowing source,
From whence his bounties plentifully spring,
Whose speedy current with unusual force
Bare me into the bosom of the king.

Drayton. The Legend of Thomas Cromwell. The head or source therof ariseth at the foot of the utmost mountains of the Pelignians. Holland. Plinie, b. xxxi. c. 3.

This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense. Locke. On Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 1.

All rivers have their source either in mountains, or elevated lakes; and it is in their descent from these that they acquire that velocity which maintains their future current.-Goldsmith. Animated Nature, vol. i. c. 14.

If there is any one English word, which is now become virtually literal, in its metaphorical application, it is the word source. Who is it that ever thought of a spring or fountain of water, in speaking of God as the source of existence; of the sun as the source of light and heat, of land as one of the sources of national wealth; or of sensation and reflection, as the only sources (according to Locke) of human knowledge-propositions which it would not be easy to enunciate with equal clearness and conciseness in any other manner?-Stewart. Philosophy, c. 4. p. 203. Ess. 5.

SOURDE, v. I Fr. Sourdre, from Sourgir, SOU'RDEN, v. Lat. Surgere, to arise.

To arise, to raise; to spring, to issue; to have or take its source.

The spices that sourden of pride, sothly whan they sourden of malice imagined, avised, and forecaste, or elles of usage, ben dedly sinnes, it is no doute. Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

Now sith that so is, that ye have understond what is pride, and which be the spices of it, and how mennes pride sourdeth and springeth; now ye shul understond which is the remedie ayenst it.-Id. Ib.

But to all this was the towne of Gaunt repugnaunt in so moche yt mortall warre begane to sourde atwene ye sayd and the towne of Brugys and other. Fabyan. Chronycle. Car. V. an. 3. For the whiche murdre sourdyd great warre atwene kynge John [of France] and the sayde kynge of Nauerne, whiche contynued many yeres after.—Id. Ib. John, an. 3.

Tha the Cristen prynces seinge that they were thus deluded, toke theyr aduyce how they myghte contynewe theyr pylgrymage vnto the holy cytie of Jerusalem; but, in this cousayll, sourdened & quykened so many opynyons, that eche was contrarious vnto other.-Id. Ib. c. 234.

SOUSE, v. From the Lat. Salsum, as the SOUSE, n. Dut. from Salitum; Dut. Soute, soute-bryn, soute, pekel; salt, salt-brine, salt-pickle. salt water; to immerge, plunge, throw into any To salt, or immerge, steep, sink, or soak in liquid. It is also written Soss. See the quotation from Swift and also from Tusser, in v. Slab.

To souse, Ger. Saussen, strepitum edere, from the sound of wind, or of falling water, says Wachter: it may be of any thing falling, plunging, splashing, into water; and thus,To dash against, to plunge or make a plunge; to throw or fall precipitately.

Why doe not I my wery muses frame,
(Although I bee well soused in this shoure,)
To write some verse in honour of his name?

Gascoigne. Psalme of De profundia.

As when a griffon, seized of his pray, A dragon fiers encount reth in his flight, Through widest ayre making his ydle way, That would his rightfull ravine rend away: With hideous horror both together smight, And souce so sore, that they the Heavens affray. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 5. In which his worke he had sixe servants prest, About the and vile standing evermore With huge great hammers, that did never rest From heaping stroakes which thereon soused sore. Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 5. Sending the king woord that he had prouided at his brothers manor, against his coming, good plentie of souse & powdred meat, whatsoeuer he should find beside.

Holinshed. Historie of England, b. viii c. 7.
But when the falconers take their hawking poles in hand,
And crossing of the brook, do put it over land;
The hawk gives it a souse, that makes it to rebound,
Well near the hight of man, sometimes, above the ground.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 20.

Dio. But what shall we do the whilst?
Get. Kill swine, and souse 'em,

And eat 'em when we have bread.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Prophetess, Act i. sc. 3

How like a wildfire

She'll leap into your bosom; then seeing me,
Her conscience, and her fears creeping upon her,
Dead as a fowle at souse, she'll sink.

Id. The Chances, Act iv. sc. 1.

I am of that opinion, and will dye in't,
There is no understanding, nor can be
In a soust souldier.

Id. The Captain, Act i. sc. 2.
Jag. I'll tell you in a word, I am sent to lay
An imposition upon souse and puddings,
Pasties, and penny custards.

Id. The Woman's Prize, Act i. sc. 3.

Get. Shall he be roasted whole, And serv'd up in a souce-tub?

Id. The Prophetess, Act i. sc. 3.
Do you think, master, to be emperour
With killing swine? you may be an honest butcher,
Or allied to a seemly family of sowce-wives.—Id. Ib.
Come on then, Satire! general, unconfin'd,
Spread thy broad wing, and souse on all the kind.
Pope. Epilogue to Satires, Dial. 2.
From wholesome exercise and air,

To sossing in an easy chair.-Swift. Stella at Wood-Park.
Between these two extendeth
A slit from ear to ear,
That every hour
Gapes to devour

The sowce that grows so near.

Butler. Ballad on Oliver Cromwell. These, Nature's commoners, who want a home, Claim the wide world for their majestic dome; They made a private study of the street; And, looking full on every man they meet, Run souse against his chaps.

SO'UTER. SO'UTERLY. So'UTAGE.

Young. Epistle to Mr. Pope, Ep. 1. A. S. Sutere, sutor, a shoemaker. Lanc. Sowter, (Somner.) Still used in Scotland. Soutage, the material in which any thing is sowed up, packed up; applied to the material in which hops are packed up.

The divel made a reve for to preche,
Or of a souter a shipman, or a leche.

Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 3901. Or being a simple sowter, will find fault at the shape of the legge or if they be not there stopped, they will not spare to step up higher, and saie, that Apelles painted dame Venus verie deformed and euill fauoured.

Gascoigne. To the Youth of England. And as two the special bassawes of that proude souterly Sowdan, may we well consyder the worlde and the fleshe. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1296. For else to wander up and downe unwaited on And unregarded in my place and project, Is for a souters soule, not an old souldiers. Beaum. & Fleich: The Mad Lover, Act ii. sc. 1. Take soutage, or hair, that covers the kell. Tusser. Husbandry. August. Some close them up dry in a hogshead or fat, Yet canvas or soutage is better than that. SOUTERRAINE.

rane.

Fr. Souterrain, subter

Defences against extremities of heat, as shade, grottoes or souterrains are necessary preservatives of health. Arbuthnot.

SOUTH, n.

SOUTH, adj. So'UTHERN. So'UTHERLY, or SOUTHERNLY.

A. S. Suth; Dut. Suyd; Ger. Sud; Fr. Sud; It. Sud; Sp. Sur. Wachter suggests the Ger. Sieden, æstuare, fervere; A. S. Seoth-an, to seethe. This is adopted in the Dictionary of Menage; SOUTHING, n. and Tooke considers south to be the past part. of the A. S. verb Seoth-an.

SOUTHLY.

SOUTHWARD.

South, geographically, the point at which the sun is seen by us at mid-day.

From south to north he ys long eigte hondred myle.
R. Gloucester, p. 1.
Hit was not longe ther aftur that this Picars ne come
Out of Scotlond southward, and townes faste nome.
Id. p. 113.

& cleymed him for ther chefe of west & of est, Of north and of south in length & in brede. R. Brunne, p. 19. And whanne the south blew thei gessiden hem to holde purpoos.-Wiclif. Dedis, c. 27.

When the south winde blewe, they supposinge to obtayne their purpose lowsed vnto Asson.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

And eke Nero gouerned all the peoples, that the violent wind Northus skorelith, and baketh the brennyng sandes by his drie heate, that is to saie, all the peoples in the southe. Chaucer. Boecius, b. ii. But trusteth wel, I am a sotherne man.

Id. The Persones Prologue, v. 17,289. And therefore vnderstande wel, than any two degrees that ben ylyke far from any of these two heades, trust wel that thilke two degrees ben lyke declinacion, be it southward or northwarde -Id. Astrolabie.

He lyueth southly, for deth which he not drede,
Hath hym hense tane, but yet he hoped sure.

Fabyan. Chronycle, c. 117.

And evidently it appeareth, that when she is northerly,

and retired higher and farther from the earth, the tides are more gentle, than when shee is gone southerly: for then she worketh neerer hand, and putteth forth her full power.

Holland. Plinie, b. ii. c. 97.

It is the generall opinion of modern astronomers, that the sun in our time goeth not so farre southernly from vs in winter, as it did in the time of Ptolomy and Hipparchus, neither in summer commeth so much northernly towards 75 as then.-Hakewill. Apologie, b. ii. c. 4. 8. 4.

I will myself conduct thee on thy way.
When next the southing sun inflames the day:
When the dry herbage thirsts for dews in vain,
And sheep, in shades, avoid the parching plain.

Dryden. Virgil. Georgics, b. iv.

Here the warm planet ripens and sublimes,
The well baked beauties of the southern climes.
Id. Don Sebastian, Act ií. sc. 2.

Not far from hence, if I observ'd aright The southing of the stars, and polar light, Sicilia lies; whose hospitable shores In safety we may reach with strugling oars. Id. Virgil. Æneis, b. v. SOUVENANCE. Fr. Souvenir, souvenance; It. Sovvenire, to remind or remember. Menage derives from sub-venire, to succour, to occur, to come into (sc.) the mind or memory. They must provide for meanes of maintenaunce, And to continue their wont countenaunce; But shepheard must walke another way, Sike worldly sovenance he must for-say.

Spenser. The Shepheard's Calender. May. Now somewhat sing, whose endlesse sovenaunce Emong the shepheards swaines may aye remaine. Id. Ib. November.

This monster blithe with many a tale gan sow
This rumor then into the common ears.

Surrey. Virgile. Æneis, b. iv.
O happy queene of faries, that hast fownd,
Mongst many, one that with his prowesse may
Defend thine honour, and thy foes confownd!
True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on grownd.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 9.
Well may overtimely and hastie sowing oftentimes faile,
but late sowing shall ever misse and deceive the maister.
Holland. Plinie, b, xviii c. 20.

What makes a plenteous harvest, when to turn
The fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn;
The care of sheep, of oxen, and of kine;
And how to raise on elms the teeming vine;
The birth and genius of the frugal bee:
I sing Mæcenas, and I sing to thee.

Dryden. Virgil. Georgics, b. i. An acre of potatoes is cultivated with less expense than an acre of wheat: the fallow, which generally precedes the sowing of wheat, more than compensating the hoeing and other extraordinary culture which is always given to potatoes.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 11.

SOWLE. To sowle one by the ears, (Lincolnshire) to pull by the ears as dogs pull swine, (Grose.) The word is common in Nottingham, and other parts northerly, as well as in Suffolk, Skinner) from sow, to seize and pull by the ears (See Moor's Suffolk Words.) I believe (says as dogs do (sowen) swine. This Ray adopts.

By him I sweare (then whom none more in view)
That what I now shall utter, is as true,

As past beliefe. The ship in those profound
And spacefull seas, so stuck as on dry ground.

Sandys. Ovid. Metam. b. iii.

But faire before the gate a spatious playne,
Mantled with greene, itselfe did spredden wyde.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 1.

Most spaciously we dwell, where we possess
All sinless pleasures Nature did ordain;
And who that all may have, yet will have less,
Wiser than Nature, thinks her kindness vain.
Davenant. Gondibert, b. i. c. 6.
So I North Riding am, for spaciousness renown'd,
Our mother Yorkshire's eld'st, who worthily is crown'd
The queen of all the shires, on this side Trent.

Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 28. For astonishment, it is caused by the fixing of the minde upon one object of cogitation, whereby it doth not spatiate and transcurre, as it useth.-Bacon. Naturall Hist. § 720.

This space consider'd barely in length between any two beings, without considering any thing else between them, is call'd distance; if consider'd in length, breadth and thickness, I think it may be call'd capacity. The term extension is usually apply'd to it in what manner soever consider'd. Locke. On Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 13.

From the upper part of the island to the town of Guiaquil, is almost a league, and near as much from one side of the river to the other. In that spacious place ships of the greatest burthen may ride afloat.

Dampier. Voyages, an 1684. Thus avarice and prodigality are at an immense distance; but there is a space marked out by virtue between them, where frugality and generosity reside together.

Bolingbroke. The Occasional Writer, No. 11. Here Ouse, slow winding through a level plain Of spacious meads with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conducts the eye along his sinuous course Delighted.

Cowper. Task, b. i.

SPADE. A. S. Spadu, spada; Dut. Spade, SPA'DDLE. spaye;' Ger. Spate; Sw. Spada.

Size, room, magnitude; a portion of, extent of place it is also applied to time,-a portion of time; duration of time. See the quotation from Locke.

Spenser uses space as a verb.
About thei gan him chace, & hunted him als hayre,
Long had he no space to duelle no wele fare.
R. Brunne, p. 210.
Grace God gaf him here, this lond to kepe long space.
Id. p. 213.
Vitailled was the ship, it is no drede,
Habundantly for hire a ful long space.

Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5226. Howe can you be comfortlesse in anye tribulacyon, when Chryst and hys holye spirite, and with them theyr vnseparable father, (if you putte full truste and confidence in them) bee neuer neyther one finger breadth of space, nor one minute of time from you?

Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1140. So had his sword made him so spacious a room, that Amphialus had more cause to wonder at the finding, than labour for the seeking.-Sidney. Arcadia, b. iii.

But she, as fayes are wont, in privie place
Did spend her dayes, and lov'd in forests wyld to space.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 2.
Lo thus they rode, till at the last they spide
Two armed knights that toward them did pace,
And ech of them had ryding by his side
A ladie, seeming in so farre a space;
But ladies none they were

Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 1.

Wachter, from the Gr. Ba@vs, others from orâv, It appears to be merely the A. S. Spætan, to spit, i.e. to throw out, to throw up: a spade's depth thrown out in digging is still called a spit. (See SPIT.) A spade is,—

That which (a tool which) throws out, (so.) earth, gravel, &c.

Spaddle, (i.e. spade-dæl,)—the dim. of spade. Spadille, the ace of spades; cards so called from the shape of the figure impressed.

Ech man to pleye wt a plouh. a pycoyse othr a spade.
Piers Plouhman, p. 61.

His berd as any sowe or fox was rede,
And therto brode, as though it were a spade.

Chaucer. Prol. to the Canterbury Tales, v. 554.
They neither gaue vs meate to feede vpon,
Nor drinke, nor powder, pickar, toole nor spade.

Gascoigne. The Fruites of Warre.

Her dainty hands (not us'd to such a trade)
She with a mattock toils, and with a weary spade.
Fletcher. The Purple Island, c. 9.

By th' shoulder of a ram from off the right side par'd
Which usually they boil, the spade-bane being har'd.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 5.
With his broad sabre next, a chief in years,
The hoary majesty of spades appears,
Puts forth one manly leg, to sight reveal'd,
The rest, his many colour'd robe conceal'd.

Pope. Rape of the Lock, c. 3.
Others destroy moles with a spaddle, waiting in the
mornings and evenings for them.-Mortimer. Husbandry.
Her happy lord is cuckol'd by spadille :
And if she's brought to bed, 'tis ten to one,
He marks the forehead of her darling son.

Young. Love of Fame, Sat. 6. So that a transverse section of it has somewhat the ap pearance of the mark upon cards called a spade, the whole being much wider in proportion to its length. Cook. First Voyage, b. i. c. 18.

And, where the peacock shews His azure eyes, is tinctur'd black and red With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguin'd hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblem of untimely graves.

Cowper. Task, b. iv SPADICEOUS. Low Lat. Spadiceus, from spadix, a branch torn from the palm tree (Gr. Znav, trahere), and from the colour of the fruit: applied, generally, to

A light red; a bright bay colour.

SPA'RBLED. See DISPERBLYD.

Wherfore the people of that coûtre sette vpon theym, and slewe theyr captayne and the more parte of theyr company, where thorough that symple feleshyp whiche named theym self shepherdes, was disseueryd and sparbelyd.

Fabyan. Chronycle. Lodouici IX. an. 1254.

But after longe fyght, the vyctory fell vnto the erle of Salesbury, and the other lordys vpon his partye, and the kynges hoost was sparbled and chasyd, and many of his noble men slayne.-Id. Ib. an. 1461.

SPARE, v.
SPARE, adj.
SPARE, n.
SPA'REFULNESS.
SPA'RELY.
SPA'RENESS.

SPA'RING, n.
SPA'RINGLY.
SPA'RINGNESS.
SPA'RY.

SPA'RER.

A. S. Sparian; Dut. Spaeren; Ger. Sparen; Sw. Spara; Ihre and Skinnerfrom parcere; Wachter prefers Waren, to guard. It is probably a consequential application of spar-an, to shut up, to keep fast or safe.

To preserve, to reserve; to keep or withhold from, or from the use; to forbear; to abstain; to give, use, employ reservedly, abstinently; with parsimony, frugality, moderately, temperately, gently, leniently, kindly; to forbear or abstain, from punishment; to forbear; to punish, hurt, or injure; or from the severity of punishment; to forgive.

Spare, adj.-abstinent, scanty, lean, poor. Spare time, &c.-time to spare; i.e. to withhold or withdraw from one purpose, and bestow upon another.

Sparye he wolde myld men, and harde chasty the proute. R. Gloucester, p. 428. Wat myd fure, wat myd suerd, hii destrude al that hii founde.

Hii ne sparede prest, ne chyrche, that hii ne brogte to grounde. Id. p. 226.

For lefe ne for lothe, fole wild thei not spare.

R. Brunne, p. 220. Thyng that al the worlde wot. wherefore sholdest thow spare

To rehercen hit by retoryk.-Piers Plouhman, p. 203,
Spiritus justicie. spareth nat to spille
Hem that beoth gulty.

Id. p. 381.

For if God sparide not the kyndeli braunchis, lest perauenture he spare not thee.-Wiclif. Romaynes, c. 10.

Yt God spared not the naturall braunches, lest happlye he

also spare not thee.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

"Pees, with mischance and with misaventure,"
Our hoste saide, "and let him tell his tale.
Now letteth forth, and let the Sompnour gale,
Ne spareth not, min owen maister dere."

Chaucer. The Freres Tale, v. 6916.

After whiche requeste thus to the mayre and to the cytezyns made, after aduyce & counceyll amonge them selfe takvn. desyred a sparynge of ye lordys till they myght speke w the kynge, and knowe his pleasure in that behalfe; but fynallye no sparynge at that tyme myght be grauntyd. Fabyan. Chronycle. Henry III. an. 1258. For life, I prize it

As I weigh griefe (which I would spare:) for honor,
'Tis a deriuatiue from me to mine,
And onely that I stand for.

Shakespeare. The Winter's Tale, Act iií. sc. 2.
Or are they spare in diet,
Free from grosse passion, or of mirth, or anger.
Id. Henry V. Act ii. sc. 1.
She, [Nature] good cateress,
Means her provision only to the good,
That live according to her sober laws,

And holy dictate of spare temperance.-Milton. Comus. There arose strong and great winds from the south, with a point east; which carried us up, (for all that we could do) towards the north: by which time our victuals failed us, though we had made good spare of them. Bacon. New Atlantie. From the time that they begin to dismarch, their motion increaseth by little & little more sparely. Holland. Plinie, b. ii. c. 16. [There is some pain] of returning the gross habit of sin to a spareness and slenderness of stature. Hammond, vol. iv. Ser. 2. For otherwise they [bees] are very thriftie and overgreat sparers, and such, as at other times will drive out those that wast prodigally and be gluttinous, no lesse than such as be idle luskes, and slow at worke.-Holland. Plinie, b. xi. c.19. And justly, what unjustly they abuse, Shall unto them more sparingly be lent.

Stirling. Domes-day. Second Houre. Homer, being otherwise sparie ynough in speaking of pictures and colours, yet commendeth the ships painted therwith.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxiii. c. 7.

Be mindful of those limbes in russet clad
Whose toil to yours is warmth, and graceful pride;
And, oh! be mindful of that sprring board,
Which covers yours with luxury profuse,
Makes your glass sparkle, and your sense rejoice!
Thomson. Autumn.

Since no man is infallible, let him use this licence very sparingly: for if too many foreign words are poured in upon us, it looks as if they were designed, not to assist the natives, but to conquer them. Dryden. Dedication to the Eneis.

This opinion, I say, Mr. Hobbes mentions as possible: But he does it with such hesitancy, diffidence and sparingness, as shows plainly that he meant it only as a last subterfuge to recur to.-Clarke. On the Attributes, Prop. 10.

Irony is the keenest weapon of the orator. The moralists,

those luminaries of the Gentile world, have made it the vehicle of their gravest lessons; and Christ, our Great Teacher, upon just occasions was not sparing in the use of It.-Bp. Horsley, vol. iii. Ser. 31.

And taught at schools much mythologic stuff
But sound religion sparingly enough.

SPARK, v. SPARK, N. SPA'RKISH. SPA'RKFUL. SPARKLE, V. SPARKLE, n. SPARKLER. SPARKLET.

SPARKLINESS.

Cowper. Tirocinium.

A. S. Sparc, spearc; Dut. Sparcke, sparckelen, spargere, dispergere; to scatter, to disperse. See SPEAK.

To scatter, to spread, to throw about; to throw out, to shoot out, to eject or emit, to disperse, (sc.) small particles of light; any bright particles, as of wine, &c. Hence, to glitter, to shine brightly, brilliantly; in bright or brilliant lustre, (met.) with animation or vivacity.

SPARKLINGLY.

SPARKLINGNESS.

Sparkle (spark-dal), the dim. of spark. See the quotations from Leland, Fabyan, and Beaum. & Fletch.

A spark, (met.)—a glittering, showy, person.
As fire is wont to quicken and go
From a sparcle sprongen amis,
Till a citie brent vp is.

The Danes had preparid a navy to come to rob in Eng land; but it was sparkelid, and greater ship of them taken by the Englisch men.

Leland, vol. ii. Owte of a Booke of Chroniqués, &c. Serle, yoman of the robys to King Richard, sparkelid rumors, as he cam owte of Scotland, that King Richard was yet alyve. But at the last he was hangid at London. ld. Ib.

The whiche [this Hengiste and all the other Saxons whiche ruled the vii. pryncipates of Brytayne, as after shall be shewed] when he had thus rule of the foresayd iii. prouynces, he sent for moo Saxons, and gaderid that were sparkled abrode; so that in thyse prouynces the faythe of Criste was all quenchyd and in slepe.

Fabyan. Chronycle, c. 91.

Delight upon her face, and sweetnesse shin'd:
Her eyes do spark as starres, as starres do move.
P. Fletcher. Thomalin, Egl. 6. s. 19.
Who, thereat wondrous wroth, the sleeping spark
Of native vertue gan eftsoones revive.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 2.
Hitherto will our sparkefull youth laugh at their great
grandfather's English, who had more care to do wel, than
to speake minion-like.-Camden. Remaines Languages.
Whom when the prince, to batteill new addrest
And threatning high his dreadfull stroke, did see
His sparkling blade about his head he blest,
And smote off quite his left leg by the knee,

That downe he tombled.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c.8. What's become, Post,

Of my lieutenant ?

Post. Beaten and't please your grace,

And all his forces sparkled.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Loyal Subject, Act i. sc. 5.

The sparkles seem'd vp to the skies to flie,
The horses ney, and clattring armours sowne,
Pursue the eccho ouer dale and downe.

Fairefaz. Godfrey of Bovlogne, b.!. s. 78. I most humbly confess, that though my fortunes are poor. and my studies private, yet I cannot deny certain sparkles of honest ambition, remaining in me, whereby I desire the world should know, that my most vertuous, and most dear and Wotton. Letter to the King, an. 1637.

royal master hath not utterly forgotten me.

Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed,
Yet sprung from high, is of celestial seed:
In God 'tis glory; and when men aspire,
'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel.

The florid fustian of a rhyming spark,
Whose random arrow ne'er comes near the mark,
Can't on her judgment be impos'd, and pass
For standard gold, when 'tis but gilded brass.

Pomfret. Strephon's Love for Delia justified. feathers he could muster.-L'Estrange. A daw, to be sparkish, trick'd himself up with all the gay

Vouchsafe, illustrious Ormond, to behold
What power the charms of beauty had of old;
Nor wonder if such deeds of arms were done,
Inspir'd by two fair eyes, that sparkled like your own.
Dryden. To the Duchess of Ormond.

My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain desires;
My manhood, long misled by wand'ring fires,
Followd false lights, and when their glimps was gone,
My pride struck out new sparkles of her own.

Id. The Hind and the Panther.

Up in thy roofe, whiche for a throwe
Lieth hid, til whan the windes blowe

It blaseth out on euery side.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.
The liuely sparkes, that issue from those eyes,
Against the which there vaileth no defence,
Have perst my hart, and done it none offence,
With quaking pleasure, more than once or twise.

Wyatt. The Louer describeth the Sight of his Loue.

Sir John [Suckling] threw his repartees about the table with much sparkliness and gentileness of wit to the admiration of them all.-Aubrey. Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 551.

She affirmed to me, that she had divers times observed the like alterations in some diamonds of hers, which some times would look more sparklingly than they were wont. and sometimes far more dull than ordinary.

Boyle. Works, vol. i. p 452.