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Johnson with the fame example from Arbuthnot.

"DISH." 3. an erratum for 5.

"DISPENSE. an erratum for difpence.

EA'GLE

What peremptory eagle-fighted eye

Dares look upon the heaven of her brow,
That is not blinded by her Majefty?

Shak. Love's Labour Loft. EA'GLE-WINGED. adj. With the wings of an eagle.

At his right hand Victory

Milton.

Sat eagle-wing'd. "EA'LDERMĂN. n. The name of a Saxon Magiftrate."

Ealderman among the Saxons was as much as Earl among the Danes. Termes de la Ley. To EAN. v. n. [from eanian, Sax. eniti.] To lamb. He ftuck them up before the fulfome ewes, Who, then conceiving, did in eaning time. Fall party-colour'd lambs. Shaks. Merchant of Venice. EA'NLING. n. [from ean.] A lamb juft dropt.

That all the eanlings, that were ftreak'd and py'd Should fall as Jacob's hire. Shak. Merchant of Venice. EAR-KI'SSING. adj. Heard in a whisper.

ELA

Haply eyed at diftance

Some edileship, ambitious of the power

To judge of weights and measures. Gray's Agrippina. “To EĚK. v. a.

"1. To make bigger by the addition of another piece."
Or how their lives were eekt, she did not tell.
Sp. F.2. B.IV. C.II. &.53.
EE'LSKIN. n. The fkin of an eel.

Shaks. K. John.

My arms fuch eel-skins stuft. When he's drunk, you may thrust your hand into him like an eel-fkin and ftrip him infide outwards. Overbury. EFFE'MINATELY. adv. [from effeminate.] By means of a woman.

What boots it at one gate to make defense,
And at another to let in the foe,

Effeminately vanquished? Milton's Samfon Agonifies. EFFIERCED. adj. [from fierce.] Made furious. That with fell woodness he effierced was.

Sp. F.2. B.III. C.XI. ft.27. EFFRA'ID. part. adj. [from effrayer, Fr.] Frightened. Their dam upftart out of her den effraide. "EFT. adv. Quickly; fhortly." 2. Again.

Th' ear-piercing fife.

To EARNE. v. n. [from gynnan, Sax. geftire.] 1. To have a great longing.

Als Una earn'd her traveill to renew.

Sp. F.Q. B.I. C.IX. ft. 18.
And ever his faint hart much earned at the fight.
Ib. B.III. C.X. ft.21.

2. To feel great anxiety.

Then gan her heart to faint, and quake, and earne, And inly troubled was the truth to learne. Sp. F.2. B.IV. C.XII. ft.24. EA'SEL. n. The frame on which artists place their canvas to paint on.

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EBON. adj. [from the noun.] Made of Ebony. And from the golden quiver at her fide Rattles the ebon arrow's feather'd pride. "EDDER. n. Such fence-wood as is commonly put the top of fences. Not in ufe." It is fuch upon wood as is worked along the top of the hedge-ftakes to keep the whole tight. The word too muft neceffarily be in ufe, where hedging itself is. But Londoners are amazingly ignorant of country terms. Not many years ago a King's Counfel at Hertford Affizes thought a witnefs crazy, for talking of stakes and edders.

EDILESHIP. n. The office of Edile in ancient Rome,

4.

Sp. F.2. B.I. C.I. A.16.

Eft looking back would faine have runne away. Sp. F.2. B.I. C.IX. ft.25. Afterwards.

Eft, when yeares

More rype as reafon lent to chose our peares, Ourfelves in league of vowed love we knitt.

Sp. F.Q. B.II. C.IV. ft.18.

Likewife. Yet feem'd the foyle both fayre and frutefull eft. Sp. F.Q. B.VI. C.IX. ft.1. E'GG-BIRD. n. A bird of the Pacific Ocean. Under the low trees fat infinite numbers of a new fpecies of tern or egg-bird. Cook and King's Voyage. EGOIST. n. [from ego, Lat.]. A peculiar kind of

Cartefian.

"ELEEMO'SYNARY. adj. "2. Given in charity. This is the prefent ufe." But Johnson produces no example of fuch ufe, and has confounded the true meaning of the word by his definition of it; which ought to have been 2. Relative to charitable donations.

Which your Majefty muft entertain in the highest degree for those great perfonages, whofe refpectable names stand upon your eleemofynary lift. Chefterfield. The eleemofynary fort [of corporations] are fuch as are conftituted for the perpetual diftribution of free alms.

The pentameter verfe is the elegiac.

"2. Pertaining to elegies."

EMB

It is probable, that before the time of Ariftotle there were elementary treatifes of geometry, which are now lost.

Reid.

Neither are they confonant to the defign of these elementary difquifitions. Blackflone. "To ELEVATE. v. a. “2. To exalt.”

A gentleman of the popular faction had been long declaiming against any kind of honours, that tended to elevate a body of people into a diftinct fpecies from the reft of the nation. Shenfione.

ELE'VE. n. [Fr.] Difciple.

He attached himself to Sir Robert Walpole, and was one of his ableft eléves. Chefterfield's Characters. "ELF. n.

3.

[Figuratively.] A diminutive perfon.

Though now he crawl along the ground fo low, Nor weeting how the Muse should foar on high, Wifheth, poor ftarv'ling elf, his paper-kite may fly. Shenfone. E'LFIN. n. [from the adj.] Little urchin. And in those elfins' ears would oft deplore The times, when truth by popish rage did bleed. Shenflone. E'LFISH. adj. [from ælf, Sax. larva.] Clad in difguife.

Thou talk'st it smoothly, ftripling; yet we fear, Thou art fome elfish truant. Mafon's Argentile. ELI'SORS. n. pl. [law Fr.] Two perfons appointed by a Court of judicature, and fworn, to return a jury, where both the theriff and coroners are held legally unfit to do so.

These two, who are called Elifors, or electors, fhall indifferently name the jury, and their return fhall be Blackstone.

final.

ELLIPSE. n. [See ELLIPSIS 2 in Johnson.] ́ ́An oval figure.

Reid.

A circle feen obliquely will appear an ellipfe. ELLIPTICAL. adj. According to ellipfis the rhetorical figure.

See where this elliptical phrafe is expreffed at length. Tyrwhitt. ELOIGNMENT. n. [from to eloign.] Remotion. He difcovers an eloignment from vulgar phrafes much becoming a person of quality. Shenfione. ELSE. adv.

4. Elsewhere.

Rofcommon.

The true elegiac dignity and fimplicity are preserved. Preface to Hammond's Elegies. ELEGIT. n. [Lat.] A certain kind of title to an eftate.

Another conditional eftate, created by operation of law, for fecurity and satisfaction of debts, is called an eftate by elegit. Blackflone.

E'LEGY. n. "3. A short poem without points or affected elegancies."

A verfification is defirable, which, by indulging a free and unconstrained expreffion, may admit of that fimplicity, which elegy requires. Shenflone.

"ELEMENTARY. adj.

2. Initial; rude." For rude substitute rudimental.

But if thee lift to see thy courfer ronne,
Or prove thyfelfe, this fad encounter fhonne,
And feeke els without hazard of thy hede.
Sp. F.2 B.III. C.VIII. ft.17.

To E'MANATE. v. n. - - -
fomething else."

To iffue, or flow from

They have their refidence in a city, whofe conftitution has emanated, neither from the charter of their king, nor from their legislative power. Burke. ». EMBARQUEMENT. n. [Fr.] Embargo or obfta

3. [From imbracciare, Ital.] To put on.
Who feeing him from far fo fierce to pricke,
His warlike armes about him gan embrace.
Sp. F.2. B.II. C.I. ft 26.

"EMBRA CEMENT. n.

6. Willing acceptance.

Both of them being God's inftruments for the con verfion of the Northumbrians to the embracement of Chriftian religion. Weever.

EMBRA CERY. n. [in law.] An offence of the kind following:

Embracery is an attempt to influence a jury corruptly to one fide by promifes, perfuafions, entreaties, money, entertainments and the like. Blackstone. "EMBRA'SURE. n. ---- An aperture in the wall "through which the cannon is planted."

This fort, which is faced with stone, has eighteen or twenty embrasures. Carteret's Voyage in Hawkefworth: 2. [In Shak/peare.] Embrace.

Beguiles our lips

Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents

Our lock'd embrafures. Troilus & Creffida, A.IV. fc.4. EMENDATION. n.

"2. An alteration made in the text by verbal criti"cifm."

Who, in his emendations upon Suidas has fhewn a critical acumen. Harris's Philological Inquiries. E'MIGRANT. n. One that emigrates.

All these emigrants were to receive pay and fubfiftence for fome years at the public expence. Robertfon. E'MIR. n. [among the Turks.] A title given to those who claim to be of the race of Mohammed.