That for which any persons gage, or engage, or bind themselves to perform certain duties. Wage, wager, or gage,-a pledge, a stake; a pledge of battle, or to maintain or carry on battle; and To wage is to gage, or— To engage, (in battle, or war;) to engage in, to undertake, to commence, to carry on. A wager is also a pledge, a stake; and to lay a wager, to lay down a pledge or surety; to bet. "Sir Rauf thou resceyued tho, bi taile & bi scrite, Thou did vs more trauaile, ilk man thou reft his wage." R. Brunne, p. 319. Symon was austere, to Rauf spak fulle grim: "That mad the Tresorere thou has desceyued him, & me & many mo, fro our wages gede quite."-Id. Ib. & wild gif no wages to the folk ther ware, Therfor gomen & pages home gan alle fare.-Id. p. 207. And yf thei wage men to werre. thei wryten hem in nubre For the wagis of synne is deeth, the grace of God is And of us all which should be praised best. Chaucer. Assemblie of Ladies. The Saxons as theyr sowdiours shul defende the lande from incursion of all enemyes. For the whiche the Brytons shulde gyue to theym competent mete and wages. Fabyan. Chronycle, c. 83. And ye same season there was a wage of batell before the Frenche kyng, bytwene two noble and expert knyghtes, syr Aymon of Pommiers, and syr Fouques of Archiai. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 216. And holding them [the wiues and children of their poore tenants] in such slauery as though they had beene no better then dogges, would wage them against a grayhound or spaniell, and he who woon the wager should euer after holde them as his proper goods and chattels, to do with them as he listed, being Christians as well as themselues, if they may deserue so good a name. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 309. Which to express, who could refrain from tears! What Myrmidon, or yet what Dolopes? What stern Ulysses waged soldier? Surrey. Virgile. Æneis, b. ii. Well, quod the kyng, laye a wager you and I who shall be there sonest. I am content, quod the duke; for he was euer redy to wyn money of the kyng. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 165. The which offer ye kynge acceptyd, and after entryd the Where by Tom Thum a fairy page It secretly to carry.-Drayton. Nymphidia. Till at the last Daniel. Civil Wars, b. iii. I seem'd his follower, not partner; and Shakespeare. Coriojanus, Act v. sc. 5. I am not able to wage war with him, B. Jonson. Staple of News, Act v. sc. 1. Qu. And who shall be the champions! Beaum. & Fletch. The Coronation, Acti. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 3. We do not (like those in the prophet) spend our labour for that which satisfieth not, nor spend our money for that which is not bread; for both temporal prosperity and eternal felicity are the wages of the labour which we take therein.- Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 3. In knots they stand, or in a rank they walk, Serious in aspect, earnest in their talk: Factious, and fav'ring this or t'other side, As their strong fancies, and weak reason guide: Their wagers back their wishes. Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, b. ii. Among many other things which your own experience The produce of labour constitutes the natural recom- from the wars which the princes of the world wage upon The war in which the Saviour is engaged is very different but for the preservation of their souls. WA'GON, or one another; it is not for the destruction of the lives of men, WAGGONRY. A carriage, used in war, to carry loads, & c. In the meanewhile the wagoners withdrawe themselues One of the wheeles of the wagon wherin I was, brake, And backe returning tooke her wonted way, By this, the Northern wagoner had set And he that sets to his hand, though with a good intent Milton. Reason. of Church Government, b. i. c. 1. Dryden. Virgil. Georgics, b. iii. Begin when the slow waggoner descends, WAIL, v. WAIL, n. WA'ILFUL. WA'ILING, n. ululare, to yell; and Lat. Ejulare. To utter loudly, (sc.) grief, sorrow; to complain, By for the crois on my knees knocked ich my brest Piers Plouhman, p. 81. But to whom shal I gesse this generacioun lyk? it is lyk Or hast thou some remorce of conscience? Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. i. Weping and wailing, care and other sorwe The whiche to Paris sister is: Anone she gan to wepe and wayle.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. We haue played you pleasaunt thynges vpon our pypes, I should renew a woe, can not be told, But the palace within confounded was O what availes it of immortall seed Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 4. I that have wrought 'em, come to scorn thy wailings. Beaum. & Fletch. The Prophetess, Act iii. sc. 3. To fret and wail at that, which, for all we can see, proceedeth from good intention, and tendeth to good issue, is pitiful frowardness.-Barrow, vol. iii Ser. 23. This is her house, where the sun never dawns, Mason. Elfrida. The females, I suppose, In Fr. Guementer, guer But swiche a crie and swiche a wo they make, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 905. Id. Ib. v. 998. But it were all to long for to devise Till at the last of briddes a score, And so gret forst in wynter there com al so god, That ther nas non so heuy charge of wayn, ne of other That me ne mygte ouer grete wateres bothe lede & brynge. Go back again, I vse the word carrucata or carruca, which is a waine load, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 3. So when the never settled Scythian P. Fletcher. Purple Island, c. 8 The wain goes heavily, impeded sore By congregated loads adhering close To the clogg'd wheels. WAINSCOT, n. WAINSCOT, v. Cowper. Task, b. iv. a Dut. Warghen schot, warge-schot, from waeghe, WAINSCOTTING, N. fluctus, (see WAG,) wave, (says Kilian :) and Skinner inclines to an opinion, that wainscot was so called from the waving veins or fibres of the material. The quotation from Pliny in some degree confirms this. Scot, in Dut. Schot, beschot, which Kilian calls contignatio intermedia, and Ger. Ge-schoss, are from the A. S. Scitt-an, Dut. Schiet-en, schutten, Ger. Schiessen; schutten, to shut; and hence,to close, to inclose. And hence, wainscot, Any inclosure, side of a room or other building, formed of materials (deals) resembling or presenting the resemblance of waving lines, now commonly of any kind of boards, and sometimes even of other materials. The deals of oaks are especially called wainscot. This rascal fears neither God nor man, he has been so beaten sufferance has made him wainscot. Beaum & Fletch. A King & No King, Act v. Also in all seelings and wainscot whatever it be, whether Greekish, Campaine, or Sicilian, it [firre] runs alwaies round and winding, like the tendrils of a vine, as the ioyer runneth over the painels and quarters with his plainer. Holland. Plinie, b. xvi. c. 42. He replyed smiling, that complements were not in use in Bensalem; and taking me by the hand, he led me into an handsome square chamber wainscotted with cedar, which fill'd the room with a very grateful odour.-Glanvill, Ess. 7. After the king was murdered, he laid by all his collections of the pleas of the crown; that they might not fall into ill hands, he hid them behind the wainscotting of his study. Burnet. Life of Hale. When he is pleased with any thing that is acted upon the stage, [he] expresses his approbation by a loud knock upon the benches or the wainscot, which may be heard over the whole theatre.-Spectator, No. 235. And these varlettes, whan thei had brought hym home to his house, than they shulde go to dyner where they lyst, and after dyner returne agayne into the strete before his lodgyng, and there abyde tyll he come out, and to wayt on him tyll souper tyme. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 29. If such Pharisees beeyng duelyt olde of their ill doinges thei dooe not emende, their coumpaignie must be shunned, seeing thei are vncurable: and the simple are to be warned that thei beware of the same secte, liyng in a waite for them.-Udal. Luke, c. 21. The erle departed, and going his way sate downe at the galleries ende in the halfe place upon a forme, that was standing there for the wayters ease, and calling his sonne thither said unto him to this effect. Wyat. Account of Q. Anne Bulleine. One day, as he forepassed by the plaine Beaum. & Fletch. The Captain, Act ii. sc. 2. There's two shillings, Let's have the waits of Southwark, You have bestowed; a ribbon, or a glove. To trim the butler with.-Id. Love's Cure, Act ii. sc. 2. In dinner time he twice chang'd his crown, his waiters thrice their apparel; to whom the emperor in like manner gives both bread and drink with his own hands: which they say is done to the intent that he may perfectly know his own houshold.-Milton. History of Muscovia, c. 5. On the east side of this channel all our fleet lay waiting for the Lima fleet, which we were in hopes would come this way.-Dampier. Voyages, an. 1685. The waits often help him through his courtship; and my friend Banister has told me, he was proffered five hundred Two shal be grindinge at the myll the one shai be receaued, & the other shal be refused. Wake therfore, because ye knowe not what houre your master wil come. Bible, 1551. c. 24. In pereils in the see, in pereils among false britheren, in traueil and nedynesse, in manye wakingis, in hungur and thirst, in manye fastyngis, in coold and nakidnesse. Wiclif. 2 Corynth, c. 11. But in the fourthe wakyng of the nyght he cam to hem walkynge above the see.-Id. Matthew, c. 14. For in his herte he could well divine, That Troilus al night for sorow woke, And that he would tell him of his pine, This knew he well ynough without boke. Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. v. The waker gose, the cuckowe euer vnkind. Id. Assemblie of Fowles Lordings, the time it wasteth night and day, Id. Man of Lawes Prol. v. 4443. For as sayth Seint Bernard, while that I live, I shal have remembrance of the travailes that our Lord Jesu Crist suffered in preching, his werinesse in traveling, his temptations whan he fasted, his long wakinges whan he prayed, his teres whan he wept for pitee of good peple: the wo and the shame, and the filthe that men sayden to him. Id. The Persones Tale. Ne how Arcite is brent to ashen cold; Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2962. Of all my life in to nowe, But netheles to speake it playne, All this that I haue sayde you here, Of my wakynge, as ye maie here, Id. Ib. Johan Lyon was well aduertysed of all these matters: than he began a lytell to wake, and sayd to hymselfe, I haue slept a season: but it shall apere that for a small occasyon I shall wake.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 348. Great solemnytes were made in all churches, and great When the important day arrives, the two doughty dispu- pounds by a young fellow, to play but one winter under the fyers and wakes, throughout all Englande.-Id. Ib. c. 69. tants go into a large dusty room full of dirt and cobwebs, with walls and wainscot decorated with the names of former disputants, who, to divert the tedious hours, cut out their names with their pen-knives, or wrote verses with a pencil. Knox. Ess. No. 77. See WASTE. WAIST. To watch or be on the watch; to be vigilant, attentive, observant; to attend, to observe; to lie, stay, or keep-upon the look out, in attendance, in observation, in expectation; to stay, to expect. Waits, is a name applied to musicians, who go round in the night, and wake the neighbourhood with their music and the congratulations of the season. Hir frendes fulle faste waited aboute & woke, & Mald at the last kyng Steuen scho toke, & led him to Bristow. R. Brunne, p. 120. And al the Lordeshep of Lecherye. in lengthe and in brede As in workes and in wordes. waitinges of eyes. Piers Ploukman, p. 29. Britheren, be ghe my foloweris, and waile ghe hem that walken so as ghe han oure fourme.-Wiclif. Filipensis, c. 3. For whether that he paide, or toke by taille, Algate he waited so in his achate, That he was ay before in good estate. Chaucer. Prol. to the Canterbury Tales, v. 574. For all thy song, and all thy ininstralcie, For all thy waiting, blered is thin eye, With on of litel reputation. Id. The Manciples Tale, v. 17.202. And certes, lord, to abiden your presence Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 932. And this maner of vsage in my seruice, wisely nedeth to be ruled, from wailers with enuie closed, from speakers full of iangeling wordes, from proude folke and hautin, that .ambes and innocentes both scornen and despisen. Id. Testament of Loue, b. iii. This cardinall his time hath waited.-Gower. Con. A. b. il. window of a lady, that was a great fortune, but more cruel than ordinary.-Tatler, No. 222. We change our taverns according as he suspects any treasonable practices in the settling the bill by the master, or sees any bold rebellion in point of attendance by the waiters. Spectator, No. 508. Entering the tavern where we met every evening, I found the waiters remitted their complaisance, and, instead of contending to light me up stairs, suffered me to wait for some minutes by the bar.-Rambler, No. 26. WAKE, v. WA'KEFULNESS. See AWAKE, and WATCH. A. S. Awacian, wac-ian; Ger. Wachten; Dut. Waeken; Sw. Waka, vigilare, excubare, to be vigilant; to raise, rise, or rouse. To rouse, (sc.) the senses from inertness or inaction, from dormancy, from sleep; to rouse, to be or cause to be alert, to excite, to quicken. A wake is a feast kept on the first day of the consecration of a church, and on the anniversary of it; and so called because the night is spent awake (in watching), and partly in singing; they were subsequently transformed into meetings of amusement and pastime, conviviality and licentiousness. Liche-wake.-a watching of the dead. Wake of a ship,-course kept or watched. The Scottis did first mys, thei wakend alle that wouh. R. Brunne, p. 271. He fond fulle wele & sone, that Harald nought ne slepe, To proue with dede to done fulle wakand on him lepe. Id. p. 71. Hir frendes fulle faste waited aboute & woke, & Mald at the last kyng Steuen scho toke, & led him to Bristow. Id. p. 120. And he cam to hise disciplis and founde hem slepinge and he seide to Petre, so wher ye myghten not oon our wake with me? Wake ye and preie ye that ye entre not into temptacioun, for the spirit is redy but the flesch is syk. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 26. Tweyne in a bed the toon schal be taken and the tother left. Therfore wake ye, for ye witen not in what our the Lord schal come.-Id Ib. c. 24. The costable caused to be made in Bretaygne of tymhere a closure of a towne, or lyke a parke, yt whe they had take lande in Englāde, to close in theyr felde, to lodge theri more at theyr ease, wtout wakyng or skries. Id. Ib. vol ii. c. 49. I woulde ye shoulde be more worthie mēbres of Christes body, continue in prayer, not as dull and heauye people by reason of any surfetyng, but as sober & wakefull. Udal. Colossians, c 4. Even of vices he made his profit, making the cowardly Clinias to have care of the watch, which he knew his own fear would make him very wakefully perform. Sidney. Arcadia, b iii. And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 27. Clo. Faith some pretty fellow, Beaum. & Fletch. The Captain, Act i. sc. 2. The wood-nymphs deck'd with daisies trim, It is not iron bands, nor hundred eyes, "But after, bolden'd with my first successe, P. Fletcher. Piscatory Eclogues, Ecl. 1. Beaum. & Fletch. The Mad Lover, Act v. He therefore with a wak'n'd spirit, to the extent of his fortune dilating his mind, which in his mean condition before lay contracted and shrunk up, orders with good advice his military affairs. Milton. Historie of England, b. il Reason, the power To guess at right and wrong, the twinkling lamp Ingrateful woman! Who follow'd me, but as the swallow summer, Dryden. All for Love, Act v. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1699. About noon the commodore was little more than a league from the galeon, and could fetch her wake, so that she could not now escape.-Anson. Voyages, b. iii. c. 8. Should wakeful Dulness, if she ever wake, Lloyd. Epis. to C. Churchill. It was therefore necessary that this universal reluctance should be counteracted, and the drowsiness of hesitation wakened into resolve; that the danger of procrastination should be always in view, and the fallacies of security be hourly detected.-Idler, No. 43. How long might I have walkt without a cloak, Beaum. & Fletch. The Custom of the Country, Act ii. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 10. in a waulke-mill or fullers worke house. And [he] presently delivered into his hand a walking-staff too, For I am none that will stand out sir, I. The smoke or perfume also of walworl (a common hearbe and known to every man) chaseth and putteth to flight any serpents.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxv. c. 10. That castle, were it wall'd with adamant, Dryden. King Arthur, Act ii. Having mentioned a house, it may not be amiss to observe, that some here differ from those I saw at the other isles; being inclosed or walled on every side, with reeds neatly put together, but not close. WALL. Cook. Second Voyage, b. iii. c. 2. Skinner writes “ Wall or whall ey, a disease of horses; I know not whether from any likeness to the eyes of the whale fish." Mr. Brocket says" In those parts of the north, with which I am best acquainted, persons are said to be wall-eyed, when the white of the eye is very On the Borders, sic large, and to one side. Beaum. & Fletch. Beggar's Bush, Act v. sc. 1. folks, are considered unlucky." The author of the Craven Glossary explains wall-een, to mean white or green (grey). Grose defines it," An eye with little or no sight, all white like a plaistered wall." Cooper, in his Thesaurus, 1578, renders glauciolus He [child] is become able perhaps to walk by himself, but what path to choose he knows not, cannot distinguish his safety and danger, his advantages and disadvantages; nor, in general, good and evil-Wollaston. Relig. of Nature, s. 8. Mr. Banks in his morning walk this day met a number of the natives whom, upon enquiry, he found to be travelling musicians; and having learnt where they were to be at WAKE-ROBIN. So called (Skinner) because night, we all repaired to the place. its acrimony will awake the sleeping. And the bear so soon as she is gon out of her den, seeketh out the first thing that she doth, the wilde herbe called Aron, that is to say wake-robin, for the acrimony and sharpness thereof openeth her bowels.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 793. WALK, v. Ger. Wall-en, ire, egredi, amWALK, N. bulare, (Wachter.) Skinner WALKER. thinks walk is from the A. S. WALKING, n. Wealc-an, to roll; and Somner suggests the same origin, in v. Wealc-an, to rowle, to turne, to tumble, to revolve, to rowle back, to turne up and downe, to returne often; hereof (he adds) probably our to walk, ambulare. To walk, as a species of voluntary motion, is distinguished in bipeds from to run; in quadrupeds from to run, to trot, to canter, to gallop. To walk yarne (in Rastall), is-to tread it, to press it, (Skinner.) Walk, n.-is applied to the motion, the gait; the way or path, the course or track. He seyde of swich folke that so aboute wente, Piers Plouhman. Crede. But in the fourthe wakyng of the nyght he cam to hem walkynge above the see, and thei seyinge him walkinge on the see weren disturblid and seiden that it is a fantum and for drede thei crieden-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 14. And in the fourth watche of the night Jesus came vnto theym walckynge on the sea. And when his disciples sawe him walckynge on the sea, they were troubled, saying: it is some sprite, and cryed out for feare.-Bible, 1551. Tb. God hath taken this kyngdome into the handes of enemyes for a tyme, and fyndes [fiends] walke and destoble ye people. Fabyan. Chronycle, c. 214. The great indignacion of God prouoked by our sinne & wretchednes, shal suffer the head of al heretikes Antechrist (of who these folke bee thefore walkers) to come into thys wretched world.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 287. Item. That the walker, and fuller shall truly walke, ful, thicke, and worke every webbe of woollen yarne, which he shall have to walke, ful, thicke & worke, without any flocks, &c.-Rastal. Coll. of Stat. Hen. VIII. an. 6. Zacharias the preste and Helizabeth hys wyfe, were both chast, the gospeli sayeth, if chasty te be a perfeccyon, and a walkynge in the lawes and ordynaunces of God wythout reproue-Bale. Apology, fol. 35. Prom euery coast that heauen walks about, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 7. A horse with a waicle eye. Wall-eyed wrath, in Shakespeare, seems to correspond with the Lat. Glauci, oculi, which Cook. First Voyage, b. i. c. 14. Cooper renders, eyes with furie (fierie) ruddi The forms and turnings of the streets of London, and Weal, which the etymologists WALL, n. Any materials, brick, stone, mud, clay, wood, The A. S. Weal was not only so applied, but Wall-flower, wall wort, &c.—so called (Skinner) R. Brunne, p. 326. I saw a garden right anone Full long and brode, and eueridele With hie wales enbatailed.-Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. nesse. Wall or whall, whally, whally-eyed, are from the Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i.as Shakespeare. King John, Act iv. sc. 3. Id. Titus Andronicus, Act v. s. 1. WA'LLET. But hode, for jolite, ne wered he non, Chaucer. Prol. to the Canterbury Tales, v. 684. With all readinesse goe ye to the buisinesse of the ghos pel neither carying scrip nor wallet, nor yet shooes with you. Udal. Luke, c. 10. But tell me lady, wherefore do you beare Who would beleeue that they were mountayneeres, Shakespeare. Tempest, Act iii. sc. 3. Id. Manciples Tale v. 17,067. long gallery, where he laid down his wallet, and spread his The stronge walles downe thei bete, Was brought within the citee.-Gower. Con. A. b. The whiche bysshop had made there a stronge garyson, And it was seated in an island strong, Beaum. & Fletch. The Mad Lover, Act i. carpet, in order to repose himself upon it. after the manner of the eastern nations.-Spectator, No. 290. WA'LLOW, v. Volv-ere. A. S. Walw-ian, wealow ian; Dut. Wallen, wellen; Ger. Wellen, to roll. Skin ner derives from the Lat. Tooke the Lat. from the A. S. To roll,-usually applied to-rolling for indulgence or enjoyment, as swine in the mud; men in sensual gratifications. Wallowish,-rolling or tossing; as any thing nauseous in the stomach or bowels; and hence, nauseous, quia (sc.) talia ingrata volutantur et fluctuant in ventriculo. And whanne the bodi was taken. Joseph lappide it in a clene sendel, and leide it in his newe biriel that he had hewen in a stoon, and he walewide a gret stoon to the dere of the biriel & went awey-Wielif. Matthew, c 32. And thei broughten him and whanne he hadde seyen him anoon the spiryt troublide hem and he was throwen doun to the grounde and walewide and fomede. Wiclif. Mark, c. 9. For thilke verrei prouerbe bifelde to hem, the hound turnyde agen to his castyng, and a sowe to waischen in walewing in fenne -Id. 2 Petir, c. 2. It is happened vnto them accordyng to the true prouerbe : The dogge is turned to his vomet againe, and the sowe that was washed, to her wallowing in the myer. Bible, 1551. Ib. For whan thou wenest for to slepe So ful of paine shalt thou crepe Stert in thy bed about ful wide teares. I shall euery nyghte wasshe my bedde with my wepynge And by this sayde bedde is vnderstande the fylthy voluptuousnes of the body, wherin the sinner waltereth and wrappeth him selfe, like as a sowe waloweth in the stinkyng gore pit or in ye puddel.-Fisher. Seuen Psalmes, Ps. 6. WA'MBLE, v. From A. S. Wamb, the womb WA'MBLE, n. or belly. To be ill at ease, in a state of tumult in the belly, (Skinner.) But then shall ye sometime see there some other, &c. theyr bodye frete, their stomake wamble, and al their bodye shiuer for paine.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 322. If tenne daies after that a woman hath had the companie of a man, she feele an extraordinarie ach in the head, and perceive giddinesse in the braine, seeming that all things went round; find a dazeling and mistinesse in the eies, Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. abhorring and loathing of meate, and withall, a turning and wambling of the stomacke: it is a signe that she is conceived, and beginneth to breed.-Holland. Plinie, b.vii. c. 6. And your cold sallets without salt or vineger Be wambling in your stomachs. Him thinketh veraily that he may see Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3617. Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. ii, Therfore who so euer backbiteth his neighbour, he either condemneth the lawe, in that it correcteth not filthynes, or back biteth it as though it were to muche myngle mangled, and walowyshe, the office wherof the backbytour taketh vpon hym.-Udal. James, c. 4. For yet you never liv'd, but in the sty Of vice have wallow'd, and, in that swine s strife, B. Jonson. Pleasure reconciled to Virtue. Beaum. & Fletch. The Mad Lover, Act i. Our meat going down into the stomack merrily, and with pleasure dissolveth incontinently all wambles, reducing and restoring nature again into her own estate; as if faire weather and a calme season were come againe. Holland. Plutarch, p. 575. Sos. I was never good at swallowing physick; and my stomach wambles at the very thought of it. Dryden. Amphitryon, Actiii. See WAND and WANT, the verb. A. S. Wan, past part. of wanian, (ge-wan-ian, see GAUNT,) to decrease, to fall away. The moon in the wane, is the moon in a "The waters were wan," WAN, adj. WANE, v. WANE, n. WA'NNED. WA'NNISH. state. Neville. Imitation of Juvenal. decreased 'Tis reported the commanders do keep bathing-troughs (Skelton,) i. e. decreased. (See Tooke.) To Lust's votaries, who live and die Eternal wallowers in Circe's sty. full of water to lye and wallow in, and hide their bodies from the noisom hot blooms. Dampier. Discourse of Winds, c. 5. His varius modes from various fathers follow; One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. Dryden. The Man of Mode, Epil. The sluggard is sent to the ant for instruction - the intemperate man to the sow, that walloweth in the mireand the proud man is put in mind of the worm, which is destined, one day, to banquet upon him. Gilpin, vol. i. Ser. 20. WALM, v. i.e. Whelm, (qv.) When they encounter a cloud, there ariseth a vapour with a dissonant sound (like as when a red hot yron maketh a hissing being thrust into water) and a smokie fume walmeth up with many turnings like waves. Holland. Plinie, b. ii. c. 43. Dile being new drawn and pressed, yeeldeth a noise as it urneth in lamps, by occasion that the heat causeth the windiness and spirit thereof to evaporate and walm out. Id. Plutarch, p. 642. And the same [gulf] not quiet and still, but turbulent and oftentimes boyling and walming upward, out of which there might be heard innumerable roarings and groanings of beasts, cries and wailings of an infinite number of children, with sundry plaints and lamentations.-Id. Ib. p. 993. WALNUT. Dut. Walsche-not, wal-not; Ger. Wall-nuss; A. S. Walh-hnutu, nuces exoticæ, from A. S. Weal, Ger. Wale, peregrinus, alienus. See Skinner and Wachter. In a walnote. with oute ys a byter barke And after that biter barke. be the shale aweye Ys a curnel of comfort. Piers Plouhman, p. 209. There saw I Coll Tragetour Upon a table of sicamour Play an vncouth thing to tell, I saw him carry a wind mell Under a walnote shale.-Chaucer. House of Fame, b. iii. Walnuts. There are two kinds of walnut, and of them infinite store: in many places, where are very great woods for many miles together, the third part of trees are walnut trees. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 273. How haue I wearied with many a stroke, Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. December. The wild nut-meg tree is as big as a walnut-tree; but it does Lot spread so much.-Dampier. Voyages, an. 1687. Perhaps Welter, (qv.) WALTER, v. But then shall ye sometime see there some other whose body is so incurablye corrupted, that they shall walter and toller, & wrynge theyr handes, and gnashe the teeth, and theyr eyen water, their head ake, theyr bodye frete, their stomake wamble, and al their body shiner for paine, and yet shall neuer vomete at all.-Sir T More. Workes, p. 322. wane, To decrease, to fall away, to decline, to diminish, to decay, to faint. wanned, decreasing, decaying, Wan-hope, dying-hope. Wan, faint, languid, worn out, or exhausted. This goddesse on an hart ful heye sete, Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2081. O stormy peple, unsad and ever untrewe, Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8877. These thynges also on right side and lefte, haue me so enuolued with care, that wanhope of helpe is throughout me ronne truelie, and leue that gracelesse is my fortune. Id. Testament of Loue, b. iv. Now cometh wanhope, that is, despeir of the mercy of God, that cometh somtime of to moche outrageous sorwe, and somtime of to moche drede, imagining that he hath do so moche sinne, that it wolde not availe him, thoughe he wolde repent him, and forsake sinne: thurgh which despeire or drede, he abandoneth all his herte to every maner sinne, as sayth Seint Augustine.-Id. The Persones Tale. Whoom deth soo stern wyth his wannyd hewe Hath now pursuyd.-Fabyan. Chronycle, an. 1489. With visage wan As swart as tan.-Skelton. Boke of Philip Sparow. Wyal. The Lover lamenteth his Estate. As pale and wan as ashes was his looke, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 11. B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act v. sc. 8. They endeuour to shew how women were admitted vnto that function [to bee ministers of baptisme] in the waine and declination of Christian pietie. Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 62. Am I, because I am in bonds, and miserable, That heaven and earth are colour'd with my woe; Id. Anthony & Cleopatra, Act ii. sc. 1. L. Jane Gray. Yes, Guilford, well dost thou compare my presence To the faint comfort of the waining moon: Rowe. Lady Jane Gray, Act i. Then the Corrigidor hauing an officer with him which bare a white wand in his hand, sayd to the master of the ship: yeeld your selfe, for you are the kings prisoner. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 118. When he [Octavius] saw that the king [Antiochus] made no haste to give him his dispatch presently, but said he would make him an answere another day; made no more adoe, but with a wand or rod that he had in his hand, drew a circle about the king, and compelled him perforce to give him his answere before he stirred his foot without that compasse.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxiv. c. 6. Lighted by the beamy hand Of Truth, that searcheth the most hidden springs, Above the rest, as chief of all the band, Dryden. Virgil. Æncis, b. vii. ground and became serpents, the fact, considered in itself When the wands of the magicians were cast upon the was as much a miracle as when Aaron's rod was cast upon the ground and became a serpent; for it was as inuch a miracle that one dry stick should become a live serpent as another.-Bp. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 11. WANDER. v. WANDERMENT. from place to place. Ger. Wand-ern ; Dut. Wandeln, wanderer; Sw. Wandra; A. S. Wand-rian, (from the verb wend-an, ire, abire, to go;) to go about To move or go from place to place, from (met.) thought to thought; to move or go in an unsettled course, without certain or direct aim or object; to rove, to ramble, to stray, to deviate. And angerich I wandrede the Austyns to proue Id. Vision, p. 2. And he sygh hem travelinge in rowinge for the wynd was contrarye to hem, and aboute the fourthe waking of the night he wandring on the see came to hem and wolde passe hem.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 6. Whanne an unclene spirit goith out of a man, he wandrith by drie placis and sekith reste, and he fyndinge not, seith I schal turne agen into myn hous fro whennes I cam out. Id. Luk, c. 11. From Mauritania or Barbary toward the South is Getulia, a rough and sauage region, whose inhabitants are a wild and wandering people.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 19. Consider ye what the prophete Baruch did prophecie of the soonne, whom, God takyng pietie and compassion on mankynde, did euen for the verai purpose sende into the yearth, that vnto the straighyng wandreers, and to the blinded he shoulde shewe the waye of health and saluacion. Udal. Luke, c. 24. It is not iron bands, nor hundred eyes, Am I, because I am in bonds, and miserable, Beaum. & Fletch. The Sea Voyage, Act iv. It is a practice that has turn'd penances into a fair, and the court of conscience into a Lombard, and the labours of love into the labours of pilgrimages, superstitious and useless wanderings from place to place. Bp. Taylor. Dissuasive from Popery, pt. i. § 3. Were thy prayers made in fear and holiness, with passion and desire? were they not made unwillingly, weakly, and wandringly, and abated with sins in the greatest part of thy life?-Id. vol. i. Ser. 3. Genus and species long since barefoote went Pope. Prol. to Sat. In this sweet retirement I naturally fell into the repetition of some lines out of a poem of Milton's, which he entitles Il Penseroso, the ideas of which were exquisitely suited to my present wanderings of thought.-Spectator, No. 425. Alas where at this moment is the church of France ?her altars demolished-her treasures spoiled-her holy things profaned-her persecuted clergy and her plundered prelates wanderers on the earth !-Bp. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 13. WANG. A. S. Wang, wænge, wenge; Dut. WA'NGER. Wanghe; Ger. Wang, "the mandible or jaw wherein the teeth are set: hence, with Chaucer, we call the cheeke-teeth, great teeth, or grinders, wangs or wang-teeth; as in that old rime : And in witnes that this sooth I bite the wax with my wang-tooth." Our manciple I hope he wol be ded, Chaucer. Reves Tale, v. 4029. And of this asses cheke, that was so dreye, Chaucer. The Rime of Sire Thopas. Not in any of our dictionaries. : Wang, whang, or wheang, is in Suffolk and the Waniand, in Sir T. More, seems to have some A pannell and wanty, pack saddle, and ped, Beaum. & Fletch. Knight of the Burning Pestle, Act ii. B. Jonson. Staple of News, Act iii. sc 2. All I desire of you is but harbour for a minute: you cannot in humanity deny that small succour to a gentlewoman. Franc. A gentlewoman! I thought so, my house affords no harbour for gentlewomen: you are a company of proud harlotries; I'll teach you to take place of tradesmen's wives with a wannion to you.-Dryden. Wild Gallant, Act iii WANT, v. Dut. Wan: Ger. Wan. " To be or become less, diminished, or decreased; Want, A. S. Wand, talpa, a mole. Skinner derives from A. S. Wend-an, to turn, a vertendo tenam. For ther is no creature so good, that him ne wanteth For the tyme was so short, and the enemy so earnest to Of Hartfordshire.-Warner. Albion's England, b. iii. c. 14. There is yet another cause of necessity, which has occa- WA'NTON, v. WA'NTONIZE,V. Lascivus, (q.d.) he or she, that wanteth one, (Junius, and to the same purport Minshew.) Skinner prefers the Dut. Waenen, (to ween.) to think, to imagine, to fancy; one who has a fancy or wish, who lightly wishes formed upon the verb To want; to seek or long for; or from Dut. Wendelen, to wander, to rove, (sc.) from pleasure to pleasure. It is perhaps for, to desire, to covet; and applied to One who pursues or follows, indulges his own desires, his wish for pleasure, his lusts; loosely or dissolutely, mirthfully or playfully, licentiously, luxuriantly. His fiesshe wolde haue charged him with fatnesse, but that the wantonesse of his wombe with trauaile and fastyng he adaunteth, and in ridyng & goy ng trauayleth myghteliche his youthe.-R. Gloucester, p. 482. That alle women wantowen. shulleth be war by the one Som what he lisped for his wantonnesse, Id. Prol. to the Canterbury Tales, v. 267. But so it was one day yt for a cause this Sadragesyle wolde haue chastyzed this Dagobert, wherof he beyng ware, associate vnto hym certeyn wanton persones, & bete his mayster.-Fabyan. Chronycle, c. 127. He put out of his court nyce and wanton men. Id. Ib. c. 226. There are some among you, whiche because I am absente, A cockred silken wanton braue our fields, Id. Cymbeline, Act iv. sc. 2. Daniel. Complaint of Rosamond. I speake not of this carrion-flesh which thou wantonly And now was all disorder in th' excess, Daniel. Civil Wars, d. K. Em. By this we plainly view the two imposthumes |