Your loue and true hertes he coueyted aye,
He preched, he teched, he shewed the right way,
Wherefore ye like tyrants wood and wayward,
Now haue him thus slaine for his reward.

Chaucer. Lament. of Mary Magdalen.

Then eyther prynce sought the wayes & meanys howe eyther of theym myght dyscötent other.

Fabyan. Chronycle, an. 1335. Thys is a common custome amonge the Galles to compell euen wayfairyng menne to stay whether they will or no, and to enquire what euery of them hath hard or knoweth of euery matter.-Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 87.

Strangers occasioned to trauaile through the shire, were wont, no lesse sharply than truly, to inueigh against the bad drinke, course lodging, and slacke attendance which they found in those houses that went for innes: neither did their horses better entertainment, proue them any welcomer ghests then their masters: but instead of remedy, they receyued in answere, that neither such an outcorner was frequented with many wayfarers, nor by hanging out signes, or forestalling at the townes end, like the Italians, did they inuite any.-Carew. Suruey of Cornwall, fol. 66.

But life is so doubtfull, and fortune so wayward, that she doeth not alway threate in strikyng, nor striketh in threatnyng.-Golden Boke, Let. 4.

He loued his enemies, yea those that turned waywardly from him and that were worthy of euyll. Udal. 1 John, c. 2. But certes the waywardnes of some persons towardes bokes, when they come newly furth, is so great, that they wil bidde away with the bokes out of theyr syght, ere they take any assay or tast of the same.-Id. Luke, Pref.

A certain Laconian as he way-fared, came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend of his, who the first day, of purpose avoided him, and was out of the way, because he was not minded to lodge him.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 390.

Met he any passengers or waifaring men, he would fawn upon them and wag his tail; contrariwise he barked eagerly at the thief, and was readie to flie upon him.-Id. Ib. p. 789.

Once only, O blessed Jesu, whiles thou wert wayfaring upon this globe of earth, didst thou put on glory; even upon Mount Tabor, in thy heavenly transfiguration.

Bp. Hall. The Great Mystery of Godlinesse, § 3. The prophet hath what he would, what he must will, a sight of his owne blood: and now disguised herewith, and with ashes upon his face, he way-laies the king of Israel. Id. Cont. Ahab & Benhadad.

Dost thou way-lay me with ladies ?

Beaum. & Fletch. The Little French Lawyer, Act ii. When on upon my wayless walk As my desires me draw,

I like a madman fell to talk

With every thing I saw.-Drayton. Quest of Cynthia.
Where Cowen in her course

Tow'rds the Sabrinian shores, as sweeping from her source,
Takes Towa, calling them Karkenny by the way,
Her through the wayless woods of Cardiff to convey.
Id. Poly-Olbion, s. 5.

I cannot but affirm thy pride hath been
A special means this commonwealth to mar;
And that thy wayward will was plainly seen
In vain ambition to presume too far.

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. v. Therefore, in great condescension to the waywardness of our natures, he is often pleased to keep the treasury of outward blessings in his own hands, [and] deliver them out by little and little, according to our present exigencies.

Hale. Cont. Meditations upon the Lord's Prayer.

The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easie is the way:
But to return and view the chearful skies,
In this the task, and mighty labour lies.

Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. vi.

The scripture aptly resembles our life to a wayfaring, a condition of travel and pilgrimage.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 15.

It is ordinary to feed their humours into unnatural excrescences, if I may so speak, and make their whole being a wayward and uneasy condition, for want of the obvious reflection that all parts of human nature is a commerce. Spectator, No. 202. Other miseries which waylay our passage through the world, wisdom may escape, and fortitude may conquer. Rambler, No. 69.

We, at all adventures, resolve to disregard him whenever we please, and boldly pursue our worldly interests, our sensual appetites, our ill-natured passions, our wayward humours, our wildest fancies, right or wrong, let who will be the worse for it.-Secker, vol. i. Ser. 24.

He takes the field, the master of the pack
Cries-"Well done Sammt!" and elaps him on the back.
Is this the path of sanctity? Is this
To stand a way-mark in the road to bliss?
Cowper. Progress of Errour.

WE. Goth. Weis; A. S. We; Dut. Wy: Ger. Wir; Sw. Wy See Wно.

We is used by the person speaking for or instead of the names (nouns) by which they are called, to fix the action of the verb, expressed or understood, upon the persons so speaking; and is, in grammar, denominated the first personal pronoun in the plural number.

It is sometimes used by a single person, by kings, &c.

Lord, he seyde, we beth men wyde ydriue aboute
From contrey to contrel.
R. Gloucester, p. 39.
Ther fore we wolde bidde the, that thou es sum plase geue,
That amty were in thi lond.
ld. p. 40.

I rede we chese a hede that us to warre kan dight
& to that ilk hede I rede we us binde.-R. Brunne, p. 2.
Consailest thou ous to gelde

Al that we owen eny wyght. er we go to housele. Piers Plouhman, p. 386. Lord, whanne sighen we thee hungry, and we fedden thee? thirsty and we gaven thee drynke? And whanne sighen we thee herborles, and we herboriden thee? or nakid and we hiliden thee?-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 25.

Master, whe saw we the an hongred, & fedde the? or a thurst, & gaue the drincke? when saw we the herbourlesse and lodged the ?-Bible, 1551. Ib.

When saw we thee an hungred and fed thee? or thirsty and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger and took thee in? or naked and clothed thee. Common Version. Ib. And if we sechen to be iustified in Crist, we ouresilf ben foundun synful men, whether Crist be mynyone of sin? God forbede.-Wiclif. Galathies, c. 2.

If then whyle we seke to be made ryght wyse by Christ, minister of synne? God forbyd.-Bible, 1551. Ib.. we ourselves are founde sinners, is not then Chryst the

But if while we seek to be justified by Christ, we our selves also are found sinners, is Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.-Common Version. Ib.

So that wesilf glorien in ghou in the chirchis of God for ghoure pacience and feith in alle ghoure persecuciouns and tribulaciouns which ghe susteynen into the ensaumple of the iust doom of God.-Wiclif. 2 Tessal. c. 1.

So that we our selues reioyce of you in the congregacions of God, ouer your pacience and faythe in all youre persecucions and trybulacyons that ye suffre, whyche is a token of the ryghtwes iudgement of God.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Therfor alle seiden. Thanne art thou the sone of God? and he seide, ye seyen that I am. And thei seiden, what yet desiren we witnessing? for we us silf han herd of his mouth.-Wiclif. Luk, c. 22.

What need we any further witness? For we our selves haue heard of his own mouth.-Common Version. Ib.

We seken fast after felicite,

But we go wrong ful often trewely,
Thus we may sayen alle, and namely I.

Chaucer, vv. 1268, 69, 70.
Good is, that we also
In oure time amonge us here
Do write of newe some mattere
Ensampled of the old wise
So that it might in such a wise
Whan we be deade and els where
Beleue to the worldes ere

In tyme comyng after this.-Gower. Con. A. Prol.
To morrow ere fresh morning streak the east
With first approach of light, we must be ris'n,
And at our pleasant labour, to reform
Yon flourie arbors, yonder allies green,
Our walk at noon, with branches overgrown,
That mock our scant manuring, and require
More hands than ours to lop thir wanton growth.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iv.

WEAK, adj. WEAK, V. WEA'KEN, v. WEA'KENER. WEA'KLY. WEA'KLING, n. WEAKNESS.

A. S. Wac, waie; Dut. Wack, week, weyk; Ger. Weich; Sw. Wek; from A.S. Wic-an; Ger. Weichen, labare, to totter, to fail. See WAX. Tottering, failing or falling, faint; feeble, frail, debilitated; without power, strength, or firmness. Ac the vel & fless was so bard, & the scolle hard & thycke, That, vor they yt ne com nogt thoru, the dunt was nogt wycke. R. Gloucester, p. 208. The lengthe of a lenton, flesh moot I leue, After that Estur is ycome, and that is hard fare, And Wednesday ich wyke withouten fleshmete. Piers Plouhman. Crede. A mantel hong her fast by Upon a bench weake and small.-Chaucer. Rom. of the R.

Som what to weken gan the paine

By length of plaint.-Chaucer. Troyl. & Cres. b. iv.

Thus we did remaine the sixt day: then we were very weake and wished all to die sauing onely my selfe which cid

comfort them and promised they should come soone to and by the heipe of God.—Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. lit.

We also finde double the perill in the reciduacion, that was in the first sicknes, with which disease nature being forelaborid, foreweried and weaked, waxeth the lesse able to beare out a new surfet.-Sir T. More. Worker, p. 49.

By mean wherof, his people were so sore mynesshed & wekyd, that he was forced to take peas wt his enemyes. Fabyan. Chronycie, c. 171.

But in the ende, thorough the prayer of the holy by shop Wolstan, the Walshe men were so weked and febled, that a fewe knyghtes scomfyted of theym a great host.

Id. Ib. c. 223.

It filleth our persones full of vices, strengtheth our sinewes to wickednes, weaketh our hertes in vertues, &c. Golden Boke, Let. 1.

In number we were diminished, and in strength greatly weakned, both by reason of our sicknesse and also of the number that were dead.—Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii p.228.

The Lord perceyuing that his disciples (who were as yet but rude, & weaklynges) did geue no credence vnto his doctrine, attempted many wayes to bring forth in them, and stablish this faith.-Udal. Mark, c. 4.

Emong christian spouses let there not be grenous displeasures & offences, neyther lette hym nor her seke any diuorce or separacion for lyght displeasures, but the one must be reconciled vnto the other yf any thyng chaunce through humaine frailtie, and weakenesse.—Id, Mats, c. §.

But she now weighing the decayed plight
And shrunken sinewes of her chosen knight,
Would not a while her forward course pursew,
Ne bring him forth in face of dreadfull fight,
Till he recouer'd had his former hew:
For, him to be yet weake and weary, well she knew.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, d. i. c. 9.
But when as him (all in bright armour clad)
Before her standing she espied had,
As one out of a deadly dreame affright,
She weakely started, yet she nothing drad.

Id. Ib. biel The condition of man in this world is so limited and he does he does weakly, and the best things he hath am imperfections in their very constitution.

depressed, so relative and imperfect, that the best things

Bp. Taylor, vol. iii. Ser. 7.

The error of the judge does not make the sentence in valid; his authority prevails above his error: but in the other it is the case of souls, and therefore is conducted by God only as to all real and material events, and depends not upon the weakness and fallibilities of men.

Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, d. ii. c. 4.

We are furnished with faculties (dull and weak as they are) to discover enough in the creatures to lead us to the knowledge of the Creator, and the knowledge of our duty.

Locke. Hum. Underst. b. ii. c. 21,

Cook. Third Foyage, Introd

WEAL, a.
WEALTH.
WEALTHY.
WEALTHILY.
WEALTHINESS.

WEALTHFUL.
WEALTHFULLY.

weelde.

A. S. Wel-an, opes; welegian, ge-welegian, locupletare; to enrich, to make or wax rich or wealthy, (Somner.) Wealth, that which enricheth, (the third person of the verb.) Dut. Welde,

See WELL. That which causes or produces riches, prosperity; good, or good fortune or happiness; affluent or abundant property or possession; affluence, abundance.

Bot de crie thorgh the toun, that non for wele no wo,
In strete walk vp & doun bot to ther innes go.
R. Brunne, p. 334.
Ther nys squier ne kyght. in contreye a boute
That he nei bowe to that bonde. to bede hure an hose-
bonde

And wedden hure fro hure welthe.-Piers Plouhman, p. 180.

But he is ryche and well bego,

To whome that God wol sende wele.-Gower. Con. 4.b. v.

Madame, I am a man of thyne,

That in thy courte have longe serued,
And aske that I haue deserued,
Some wele after my longe wo.
For what so faile or wele or wo,
That thought foryete 1 neuermo.
So ben thei commonly diseased.
There maie no weith ne pouerte
Attempren them to the deserte
Of buxomnes by no wise.

Id. Ib. b. i.

Id. Ib. b. iv.

Id. Ib. b. i.

Wherfore taking comfort & boldnes, partly of your graces most beneuolent inclination towarde the vniuersall weale of your subiectes, partly inflamed with zeale, I haue nowe enterprised to describe in our vulgar tunge, the forme of a fuste publike weale.-Sir T. Elyot. The Governour.

Great is the loue of the countrey, syth that many leaue dyuers wealthes that they haue in straunge landes, and lyue straitly, for to lyue on their owne land. Golden Boke, Let. 16. There mirthful wealth; there kingdome is for thee; There a king's child prepar'd to be thy make. Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. ii. This in tracte of tyme made him welthy, and by meane of this wellhines ensued pryde.-Fabyan. Chronycie, c. 56.

They [yeomen] haue a certain preheminence and more estimation than labourers and artificers, and commonly liue wealthily, keepe good houses, and doe their busines, & trauaile to acquire ritches.-Smith. Commonwealth, b. i. c. 23. Nowe be those griefes passed, and all is (Godde bee thanked) quiete, and likelie righte wel to prosper in wealthfull peace.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 39.

For a great part of this matter resteth in thy hand : either with pure chastitie, meekenes, buxume vsing of thy selfe

to haue thy husband pleasant and louing to thee, and to lead thy life wealthfully.

Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. ii. c. 2. Esteem not fame more than thou dost thy weal.

Daniel. Complaint of Rosamond.

Then bows and bills were only in request,
Such rage and madness doth possess the land:
Set upon spoil on either part they were,
Whilst the weal-publick they in pieces tear.

Drayton. Miseries of Q. Margaret.

Beneath him with new wonder now he views
To all delight of human sense expos'd
In narrow room nature's whole wealth, yea more,
A heav'n on earth.
Millon. Paradise Lost, b. iv.

I come to wiue it wealthily in Padua:
If wealthily, then happily in Padua.

Shakespeare. Taming of the Shrew, Act i. sc. 2.

Meeting two such weales-men as you are (I cannot call you Licurgusses,) if the drinke you giue me, touch my palat aduersly, I make a crooked face at it. Id. Coriolanus, Act ii. sc. 1. Where men are to act by rules or laws for the public weal, some must of necessity be appointed to judge, when those laws are transgrest, and how far; to decide doubtful cases, and the like-Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 7.

Besides merchants and others that trade by sea from this port, here are other pretty wealthy men, and several artificers and trades-men of most sorts, who by labour and industry maintain themselves very well.—Dampier. Voyages, an. 1699.

It were better for us to live under a kind beneficent governour, though a little defective in knowledge and ability, than one unlimited in either, but regardless of our weal or woe-Search. Light of Nature, vol. ii. pt. i. c. 16.

That wealth consists in money, or in gold and silver, is a popular notion which naturally arises from the double function of money, as the instrument of commerce, and as The measure of value.—Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c. 1. VOL. II.

or strokes remaining in the flesh, (Somner.) AndA. S. Hwel-an, contabescere, putrescere. Hwele, putrefactio,-putrefaction, rottenness, corruption, whence our wheale, (Id.)

Also win a while his cheekes and his chin brake out of scabbs, wheales, and of skales, that no barbour, neyther well could, nor gladly would shaue him.

Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. ii. c. 4. [It] represseth and keepeth downe all wheales and itching pimples which are readie to breake forth. Holland. Plinie, b. xxii. c. 25.

O my blessed Saviour, was it not enough that thy sacred body was stripped of thy garments, and waled with bloudy stripes; but that thy person must be made the mocking stock of thine insulting enemies?

Bp. Hail. Cont. Christ before Pilate.

Mar. Rough, stubborn Cynick.
Soph. Thou art rougher far.
And of a courser wale fuller of pride,
Less temperate to bear prosperity.

Beaum. & Fletch. Moral Representations. The wales, marks, scars, and cicatrices of sine and vice remaine to be seen, in some more, in others less. Holland. Plutarch, p. 459. Aridices one of the philosophers there in place, asked him presently again, what the reason was, that the wales or marks of stripes and lashes were all red indifferently whether the whippes were made of white or black leather thongs! Id. Ib. p. 547. A. S. Weald; Dut. Wald, wored. A wood, a forest, a woody

also,

WEALD. WEA'LDISH. place, (Somner.) The bischopriche of Salesbury & al South sex, he hadde The welde, & al the bischopriche of Chichestre ther to. R. Gloucester, p. 5. A considerable part of this county [Kent] is called the Wealde, that is the Woodland Ground, the inhabitants whereof are called the Wealdish men.

WEAN, v. WEA'NEL. WEA'NING, n.

Fuller. Worthies. Kent.

A. S. Wen-an, awen-an ; Dut. Wennen; Ger. Ent-wennen. Perhaps the same word WEA'NLING, adj. as wun-ian, assuescere, to accustom, to inure, (sc. as applied to infants,) to other food; generally, to other things: or from wen-an, to ween, to think; ge-wan-ian, inclinare animuin, to bend one's mind, (Somner,) to incline it. And hence

To entice, allure, withdraw, disengage, (sc.) from any habit, any former pursuit, or enjoy

ment.

And her vowe was to offer that child of her owne bodye vnto God for terme of lyfe. And her vowe lasted no logar, than tyll her chylde was wened.—Bale. Apologie, fol. 33.

After that shee is once weaned and beginneth to speake and goe, let al her play and pastime be with maides of her owne age, and within the presence either of her mother or her nurce.

Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. i. c. 2. Pinch never thy wennels of water or meat, If ever ye hope to have them good neat.

Tusser. Husbandry. May. Know. How happy yet should I esteem myself, Could I, by any practice, wean the boy From one vain course of study he affects.

B. Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act i. sc. 1. And before The tender impe was wained from the teat The Princesse Maud him tooke.

Fairefax. Godfrey of Bovlogne, b. i. c. 59. Tho when as Lowder was farre away, This wooluish sheepe would catchen his pray, A lambe or a kid, or a weanell wast.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. September. Whose nigh starved flocks Are always scabby, and infect all sheep They feed withal; whose lambs are ever last, And dye before their waining.

Beaum. & Fletch. Faithful Shepherdess, Act i. Let us not stand upon a formal taking of leave, but wean ourselves from them [the allurements of the world] while we are in the midst of them.-Spectator, No. 27.

For he of joys divine shall tell,
That wean from earthly wo,
And triumph o'er the mighty spell

That chains his heart below.—Beattie, Retirement,
2169

WEAPON. Goth. Wepna; A. S. Wapun; WEA'PONED. Dut. Wapen; Ger. Waffen WEAPONLESS. Sw. Wapna; telum, arma, armatura. A. S. Wepnian, ge-wæpnian; Dut. Waepenen; Ger, Wafnen, to arm, to harness, to put on weapons. Applied to

Any instrument of defence or offence; arms of defence or offence.

& alle that suerd mot bere, or other wapen weld,
Were sette R. to dere enbussed thorgh the feld.

She hath a warde in redy aie,
Whiche is so wounderfull a wight,
That hym ne maie no mans might
With swerd, ne with no wepon daunte.

He sette a lawe for the pees,

That none but he be wepenies

R. Brunne, p. 187.

Gower. Con. 4. b. v.

Shall come into the counseyle hous.—Id. Ib. b. vii.

That whiche they call their phalanx, is an immouable square of footemen, wherin euery one stande close to other, ioyning weapon to weapon. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 22.

Than Jesus turnyng to the multitude that wer come to take hym, sayed: now weponed with swerdes & clubbes, yo come forth to take me.-Udal. Matt. c. 26.

There shal moreouer come great pestilences, whiche by their infeccion shal wast awai and cōsume a mightie greate noumbre of people, in sort as though the aier wer armed & weaponed to doe vengeaunce vpo the euil sort. Id. Luke, o. 21.

He sent them out weaponlesse, leste that mannes aydes should chalenge any thyng in this heauenly busynesse. Id. Mark, c. 6. Thir weapons were a short spear and light target, a sword also by thir side, thir fight somtimes in chariots phang'd at the axle with iron sithes. Millon. History of Britaine, b. ii.

Thick upon shoar stood several gross bands of men well weapn'd, many women like furies running to and fro in dismal habit with hair loose about thir shoulders, held torches in thir hands.—Id. Ib.

Soone as the knight she there by her did spy,
Standing with emptie hands all weaponlesse,
With fresh assault vpon him she did flie,
And gan renew her former cruelnesse.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 5.
Lam. Mine, Sir, and had my will rank'd with my power,
And his obedience, I could have sent him
With more ease, weaponless to you, and bound,
Than have kept him back, so well he loves his honour
Beyond his life.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Little French Lawyer, Act Hi. Why is the part of the weapon, the beginning of the wound is made with, taken notice of to make the distinct species called stabbing, and the figure and matter of the weapon let out.-Locke. Hum. Underst. b. iii. c. 5.

Now both these weapons, the sword and the arrow, are emblems of one and the same thing; which is no other than the word of God, in its different effects and different manners of operation on the minds of men, represented under these two different images.-Bp. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 7. WEAR, v. A. S. Wer-an, awer-an, inWEAR, n. duere, gerere, gestare, to wear, WEA'RER. to put on clothes; also as the WEA'RING, n. Dut. Weren, weyren, to defend. (See WAR, WARE, &c.) And Wachter thinks the Ger. Weren is applied to the clothing, because the body is defended and protected by it. To wear, is

To protect, to clothe, to invest; to bear or carry, clothing or vestment; generally, to bear, bring, or carry; then, to bear or endure use, to endure, to last; further, with a subaudition or implication of injury by use,—to waste, to decay; to consume, to spend, to spoil, to tire. But whan God woll, it shall weare out.

Gower. Con. 4. Prol. This kyng also to reforme the greuous correccyons that he sawe there, executyd to Englysshe men for spirituall offencis, as in werynge of irons and guyues, he graŭted of euery fyre house of his lande i. d. as Iue beforesayde had done. Fabyan. Chronycie, c. 162.

Or if thou hast not sat as I doe now
Wearing thy hearer in thy Mistris praise,
Thou hast not lou'd.

Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act 11. sc. di
12 U

Win 'em, and wear 'em, I give up my interest.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Wild Goose Chase, Act li. sc. 2.

Pet. Would they were setled

To give me some new shoos too; for I'll be sworn
These are e'en worn out to the reasonable souls
In their good worships' business.

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

Marg You must not look to be my Mr. Sir,
Nor talk i' th' house as though you wore the breeches,
No, nor command in any thing

Beaum. & Fletch. Rule a Wife and have a Wife, Act ii. And they do so commend and approve my apparel, with my judicious wearing of it, its above wonder.

B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Act ii. sc. 2. The waved water chamelot, was from the beginning esteemed the richest and bravest wearing. Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 49. The Chinese in other countries still keep their old custom, but if any of the Chinese is found wearing long hair in China, he forfeits his head; and many of them have abandoned their country to preserve their liberty of wearing their hair, as I have been told by themselves.

Dampier. Voyages, an. 1687. Indeed 'tis [iron] fit for armour, to bear off insults, and , preserve the wearer in the day of battle.

Dryden. Palamon & Arcile, Ded.

Indeed as it is, are not some ready to say or imagine, though very unjustly, that the credit of the gospel history is less for its being so ancient; and wearing out continually, as time runs on !-Secker, vol. ii. Ser. 25.

"A mask," says Castiglione, "confers a right of acting and speaking with less restraint, even when the wearer happens to be known."-Rambler, No. 208.

The frequent loss of those metals from various accidents by sea and by land, the continual waste of them in gilding and plating, in lace and embroidery, in the wear and tear of • coin, and in that of plate, require, in all countries which possess no mines of their own, a continual importation, in order to repair this loss and this waste. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 5. WEAR, v. To wear ship. Dut. Wieren, to veer, (qv.)

As our ship kept the wind better than any of the rest, we were obliged in the afternoon, to wear ship, in order to join the squadron to the leeward, which otherwise we should have been in danger of losing in the night. Anson. Voyages, b. i. c. 8. WEAR, n. See WEAR, v. A. S. Wer-an, ante. A. S. Wier, wiier.

A place or engine for catching or keeping fish, (Somner ;) also a dam, to keep up, keep back the flow of water.

All weares from hencefoorth shall be utterly put downe by Thames and Midway, (Magna Charta, c. 23.)

This worlde also hath nettes of its own, & Sathan hath fishers of his owne too: who doe wt flatteryng enticemetes allure the miserable solles of men, and towe them into the were & net of damnacion, and so bring the at last to perishyng for euer.-Udal. Luke, c. 5.

All our feare was of the two moneths betwixt in which meane space if the sauages should not helpe vs with Cassaui, and Chyna, and that our weares should faile vs, (as often they did,) we might very well starue, notwithstanding the growing corne, like the staruing horse in the stable, with the growing grasse, as the prouerbe is.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 261.

With strength incredible, the scaly race
O'er rocks and weires their upward passage trace;
Bent head to tail, in an elastic ring,
Safe o'er the steepest precipice they spring.

Moses Browne. Pisc. Ecl. Ecl. 4. When a weire or a flood gate comes in their way, they will not take their leap immediately, but remain still for a while in some pool, till they gather strength after the fatigue of swimming, and then coming below the flood-gate,

they bend themselves in a circle, with their tail in their mouth, and, exerting their utmost force, spring upwards sometimes to the height of eight feet perpendicular. P. Fletcher. Pis. Ecl. Ecl. 5. Note 2.

WEA'RISH, or Skinner thinks it may be WE'RISH. Wegerish; from Ger. Wegern, recusare; applied to a taste causing nausea and dislike. It is probably formed upon the adj. Weary, A. S. Werig, which Somner explains, not only lassus, fessus, but naught, malicious, cursed.

Werish opinions,-opinions of naught, or no worth.

A wearish elf, a wearish man, a weerish countenance,-malicious, evil, cursed, shrew.sh.

But it must nedes be an excellet & a notable high thing, which by his strength and vertue muste moue and draw the whole world, being ouerwhelmed with wer ishe opinions, & with vaine lustes & appetites.-Udal. Matt. c. 5.

Of all whiche neuerthelesse, not one hath there beene so eloquente or so well learned, that he hath beene hable to bryng anye one nacyon in the mynde that he woulde haue them in, so weryshe and vneffectual was the vertue of the

medicine of phisicke which they brought.-Id. Luke, Pref.

[He has] a voice not softe, weake, piping, womanishe, but audible, stronge, and manlike; a countenance not werishe and crabbed, but faire and comelie; a personage not wretched and deformed, but taule and goodlie. Ascham. The Schole-master, b. i

There entring in, they found the good man selfe,
Full busily vnto his work ybent;

Who was to weet, a wretched wearish elfe,
With hollow eyes and raw bone cheeks for-spent,
As if he had in prison long been pent.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 5. Beside the old lean jade, he set a lusty tall fellow; and behind the goodly horse he placed a little wearish man, and seeming to sight to have but small strength. North. Plutarch, p. 492.

Id. p. 1.

Ac on a May morweynyng. on Malverne hulles
Me by fel for to slepe. for weyrynesse of wandryng.
The dede slepe, for wery besinesse,
Fell on this carpenter, right as I gesse.

Chaucer. Milleres Tale, v. 3644.

Of the travailes that our Lord Jesu Crist suffered in preching, his werinesse in travelling, his temptations whan he fasted, his long wakinges whan he prayed, his teres whan he wept for pitee of good peple.-Id. Persones Tale.

This Narcissus had suffred paines

For renning all daie in the plaines
And was for thurst in great distresse

Of herte, and of his werinesse

That had his breth almost benomen.-Id. Rom. of the R.

For if thy lawe be certeyne,

As thou hast tolde, I dare well seyne,
Thou wolt beholde my distresse,
Whiche am so full of werinesse,

That I ne maie vneth go.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii.

Our ship was so sore beaten with shot from our enemies and brused with shooting off our owne ordinance, that our wearie and weake armes were scarce able to defende and

keepe out water.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 525.

So that in conclusion many hauing a long time wearied their armes, chose rather to cast their targets out of their hands, and to feight wyth their bodies naked.

Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 19.

But herin they had the dysaduauntage, that our ennemies when they were wearyed wyth continuance of feyghting, wold wythdrawe them out of the prease, and other succeeded fresh and lustye in theyr steades.-Id. Ib. fol. 67.

Thane they retourned homewarde without array or good order, for they thought then to haue no trouble, and so they went weryly by heapes. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 186.

For werinesse he was constrayned to entre into an olde barne, without the citie, where he castinge him selfe on the bare gronde, with wepynge and dolorous cryenge bewayled his fortune.-Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. ii.

Whether by fate, or missing of the way,
Or that she was by weariness detain'd.
Surrey. Virgile. Æneis, b.

Wee found it a wearisome way backe from the borders of Emeria, to recouer vp againe to the head of the river Care rupana.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 659.

I confesse indeede that I endeuour to be briefe, not so much in regard of wearisomnesse, as for feare least I hand bene ouer tedious vnto you.-Id. Ib. vol. ii. p. 96.

Their scope was obedience, ours is skill; their endeavour was reformation of life, our vertue nothing but to heare

gladly the reproofe of vice; they in the practise of their religion wearied chiefly their knees and hands, we especially

our eares and tongues.

Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 81.

But the condemnation of his sin he received,-wearines and labour, and to eat in the sweat of his brows, and to turn to dust again.-Bp. Taylor. Deus Justificatus.

O turne thy rudder hitherward awhile:
Here may thy storme-bet vessell safely hide;
This is the port of rest from troublous toyle,
The world's sweet inn from paine and wearisome
turmoyle.-Spenser Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 12.

The roote hereof, diuine malediction; whereby the instruments being weakened wherewithail the soule (especially in reasoning) doth worke; it preferreth rest in ignorance, before wearisome labour to know.

Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, d. i.c.7.

But no worthy enterprise can be done by us without continuall plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.-Millon. Tetrachordon.

It is a calling, the business whereof doth so exercise 80 not to weary, so entertain as not to cloy us. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 16.

Thus with a flowing tongue old Nestor spoke:
Then, to full bowls each other they provoke;
At length with weariness, and wine oppress'd;
They rise from table; and withdraw to rest.

Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xii.

There was once a time when wreaths of bays or oak were considered as recompences equal to the more wearisome labours and terrific dangers, and when the miseries of long marches and stormy seas were at once driven from the remembrance by the fragrance of a garland.-Idler, No. 6.

In the whole of this work, we must be careful, neither to hurry over any part thoughtlessly, nor lengthen it wearssomely.-Secker, vol. vi. Lect. 38.

A duty so hard, as undergoing sharp torments, or continued wearisomeness, may well admit of some imperfection in the performance, and yet entitle us, through our merciful Father's bounty, to a large recompence.-Id. vol. ii. Ser. 14.

WEA'SEL. A. S. Wesle; Dut. Wesel; Ger. Wisel; said to be so called from the noise it utters.

Fayre was this yonge wif, and therwithal
As any wesel hire body gent and smal.

Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 1225.

The serpent aspis also, the wezill and the fly called the bettill, they reverence, because they observe in them I wat not what little slender images (like as in drops of water we perceive the resemblance of the sun) of the divine power.

Holland. Plutarch, p. 1070.

In hollow caverns vermine make abode,
The hissing serpent, and the swelling toad:
The corn-devouring weezel here abides,
And the wise ant her wintry store provides.

WEA'SY. WEA'SINESS. WEA'SAND.

Dryden. Virgil. Georgies, b. L. A. S. Hweosan, difficulter respirare, to breathe with diffculty. Weasand, that which breathes, or through which we breathe.

Weasy and weasiness,-applied, (met.) to— That which causes or accompanies it; full feeding, sensual indulgence, carnal pride.

And the peple of Israell as oft as they wexed weary and fatte as saith the song of Moses & were dilated, so ofte did thei kik ayenst, forsake, and forget their Lorde God. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 4. when they crye peace and securite then is there present a Let siche fewer weasy rulers beware of a soden fall; for

soden destruccion.-Id. Ib. c. 5.

But he acknowledged not God to be the auctor of them. And therfore of pryde and weasynes gaue himselfe vp vata his owne lustis. Id. Ib. c. 11.

The other is more inward, called properly the gullet, or the wezand, by which we swallow downe both meats and drinke, and it goeth to the stomacke first, and so to the belly-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvii.

And to him driuing strongly downe the tide,
Vpon his iron coller griped fast,
That with the straint, his wesand nigh he brast.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 2

Ant. I say cut his wezand, spoil his piping: Have at your love-sick heart, sir.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Chances, Act ii.

He might have thought thus much: That this wezill of the throat, otherwise called Epiglottis, was not made for nothing, and to no purpose, but ordained for this, that when we swallow any food it might keep down and close the conduit of the wind-pipe -Holland, Piutarch, p. 609.

Now this will abovesaid, being placed just in the midst, and indifferent to serve both passages, when we speake, doth shut the mouth of that conduit or wezand that leadeth to the stomack.-Id. Ib.

WEATHER, n. WEATHER, V.

Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xii.

Anciently also written Weder. A. S. Weder, weWEATHERING, R. ther; Dut. Weder, wedder; Ger. Wetter; perhaps from Ger. Wehen; Goth. Waian, to blow. (See Wachter.) Weather, is applied to

The state of the atmosphere, as either windy or calm, wet or dry, hot or cold, stormy or tempestuous, still or quiet. To weather,

To bear up against, to endure, to overcome, the difficulties, the stress of weather; any stress or difficulty.

Ac that heo mygte ofte y se, in cler weder, there
Est ward as the sonne a ros, a lond as yt were.

R. Gloucester, p. 41.
The weder was fulle soft, the wynde held tham stille,
The saile was hie o loft, thei had no wynde at wille.
R. Brunne, p. 169.
Thorwe flodes and foule wederes. frutes shallen faile.
Piers Ploukman. Vision, p. 146.
Fraunceys bad his brethern barfot to wenden
Now han they buclede shone, for blenyng of her heles
And hosen in harde weder.-Id. Crede.

Therefore I rede ye take them as ye find,
For they are sad as wedercocke in wind.

Chaucer. Complaint of Creseide.

And yet the wynde to mans ere
Is softe, and as it semeth oute,

It maketh clere weder all aboute.-Gower. Con. A. b. ii.

Then he after syttyng vnder a busshe in the felde, the kynges herdemen passyd by, and seynge this bysshop with his company syttyng in the weder desyred hym to his howse to take there such poore lodgynge as he had.

Fabyan. Chronycie, c. 83. In this yere, that is to saye, ye v. yere of kyng John, by reason of the vnreasonable wederynge, as in ye laste yere fell, yt whete was solde for xvs. a quarter.-Id. Ib. an. 1204.

He did consider what time he should spend yet he should get so far to wind-ward againe, which would haue bene, with the weathering which we had, ten or twelve dayes worke.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 515.

Yt most of our shyps were thus broosed and weatherbeaten and the residew vameete to sayle in.

Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 103.

I maruailed why he departed so suddenly, and went ouer the shoales amongst the islands where it was impossible for vs to follow them. But after I perceaued them to be weatherevise.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 281.

Then whom no better on a boistrous sea
Could guide a ship, none better knew then he
To morrow's weather, if the sunne he spy'de,
Or moone, and could for future stormes prouide.

May. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. iii.

3 Guard. Well, well, you have built a nest That will stand all storms, you need not mistrust A weather-wrack.

Beaum. & Fletch. Wit at several Weapons, Act il.

Say my spirit,

How fares the king, and 's followers?

Ar. Confin'd together

In the same fashion, as you gaue in charge,
Just as you left them; all prisoners sir
In the line-groue which weather-fends your cell.
Shakespeare. Tempest, Act v. sc. 1.

And sooner may a gulling weather-spy, By drawing forth Heav'n's scheme, tell certainly What fashion'd hats or ruffs, or suits, next year Our giddy-headed antic youth will wear, Than thou, when thou depart'st from me, can shew Whither, why, when, or with whom, thou would'st go. Donne, Sat. 1. The flowers of Pimpernel, the opening and shutting of which are the countryman's weather-wiser; whereby Gerard saith, he foretelleth what weather shall follow the next day; for saith he, if the flowers be close shut up, it betokeneth rain and foul weather; contrariwise, if they be spread abroad, fair weather.-Derham. Physico-Theology, b. x.

When the wind is thus settled, we have commonly fair weather, and a clear sky, especially if the sun is in the southern sign; but if in a northern sign, the weather is usually cloudy.-Dampier. Discourse of Winds, c. 1.

In weathering this point all the squadron, except the Centurion, were very near it; and the Gloucester being the leewardmost ship, was forced to tack and stand to the southward, so that we lost sight of her. Anson. Voyages, b. ii. c. 7.

To repair these defects the caulkers were set to work, as soon as we got into fair and settled weather, to caulk the decks and inside weather-works of the ships; for I would not trust them over the sides while we were at sea. Cook. Third Voyage, b. i. c. 3.

Peace to the artist, whose ingenious thought Devis'd the weather-house, that useful toy! Fearless of humid air and gath'ring rains, Forth steps the man-an emblem of myself! Cowper. Task, b. i. After much delay by contrary winds, we weathered Pulo Pare on the 29th [December] and stood in for the main. Cook. First Voyage, b. iii. c. 13.

WEAVE, v. WEA'VER. WEFT, n. WE'FTAGE. WOOF.

Goth. Waib-yan, biwaib-yan, amicire; A. S. Wef-an, wef-can, weof-an; Dut. Weven; Ger. Weben; Sw. Waf-wa, tegere, texere. See WEB.

To cover, (by crossing one over another ;) to infold, to insert, to interpose; to intermix so as to form into one substance.

Weft, (A. S. Wefta,)-weaved, weav'd, weaft, weft.

Woof-that which is woven; the texture. See the quotation from Cook.

Weaver-fish,-called by Holland the dragon or spider of the sea, (Draco Aranous.) It has webs connecting its sharp spines.

And the coote was without seem and wouun al aboute, therfore thei seiden togidre, kitte we not it, but caste we lott whos it is.-Wiclif. Jon, c. 19

And whan she taketh hir werke on honde
Of weuyng, or of embroudrie,

That can not but muse and prie

Upon hir fingers longe and small.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.

Then shaking a pike of fire in defiance of the enemie, and wearing them amaine, we had then come aboord; and an Englishman in the gallie made answer, that they would come aboord presently.—Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 566.

Neither is the fleete itselfe onely transported thence, but also diuers & sundry stuffes wouen thereof, for the Chinians do greatly excel in the art of weauing, and do very much resemble our weauers of Europe.-Id. Ib. vol. ii. p. 91.

The commodities which we brought home were pepper and elephants teeth, oyle of palme, cloth made of cotton wooll very curiously wouen, and cloth made of the barke of palme trees.-Id. Ib. pt. ii. p. 128.

I woulde shee shuld be euer among her maids: whether they be in her kitchin dressing of meate, or els spinning, wearing, sowing, or brushing: For while ye maistres is by, al things shal be better done.

Vives. Instruc. of a Christian Woman, b. ii. c. 10. The meane craftes wolde haue euery thyng at their pleasure, and the great men wolde nat suffre it, and so they rebelled; and a certayne weyuers and fullers were slayne, and the other apeased. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 375.

spinning of others, and to order such as should bee woven. Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. i. c. 3.

The cobwebs that spiders weave, which serve for patterns, as well for our women to make their webs of cloth, as for fishers to knit and work their nets, are in many respecta very admirable: first in regard of the fine threads, and the subtile weaving thereof, which are not distinct one from another, nor ranged after the order of the warpe and woofe in our artificial webs upon the loom, but are continued and run all into one.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 786.

Not any damsell, which her vaunteth most
In skillfull knitting of softe silken twine;
Nor any weauer, which his worke doth boast
In diaper, in damaske, or in lyne.-Spenser. Muiopotmos.
The weaver, which although his prickles venom be
By fishers cut away, which buyers seldom see:
Yet for the fish he bears, 'tis not accounted bad.

Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 25.

Now lyest thou of life and honour reft;
Now lyest thou a lumpe of earth forlorne,
Ne of thy late life memory is left,
Ne can thy irrevocable destiny be weft.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. fi. c. 4. The whole muscles, as they lie upon the bones, might be truly tanned; whereby the weftage of the fibres might more

easily be observed.-Grew. Museum,

So Herford for her says, give me woof and warp.

Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s, 23.

It [Industry] taught us from the wool of the sheep, from the hair of the goat, from the labours of the silk worm, to weave us clothes to keep us warm, to make us fine and gay. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 19.

Can they receive and assent to adventitious notions, and be ignorant of those which are supposed woven into the very principles of their being, and imprinted there in indelible characters, to be the foundation and guide of all their acquired knowledge, and future reasonings? Locke. On Hum. Underst. b. i. c. 2.

Then weavers stretch your stays upon the weft. Dryden. Virgil. Georgics, b. I. The silk-worm weaves her web for a safeguard to herself, and at the same time furnishes us with materials for our cloathing and ornament.

Search. Light of Nature, vol. ii. pt. i. c. 19. The capital which employs the weavers, for example, because it not only replaces that capital with its profits, but must be greater than that which employs the spinners;

pays, besides, the wages of the weavers.

Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 6.

It is made in a kind of frame of the size of the cloth, generally about five feet long, and four broad, across which strained, and the cross threads, or woof, are worked in by the long threads, which lie close together, or warp, are hand, which must be a very tedious operation.

WEB, n.
WE'BBED.

WE'BBY.

WEBSTER.

Cook. First Voyage, b. ii. c. 9. A.S. Webba, by change of ƒ into v, and v into b; Wef-an, wer-, web.

That which is woven or weaved;

the texture, intertexture or involution, the stuff

woven.

Fairefax seems to apply it to the material ot which the sword was wrought.

Al ich sauh slepyng, as ge shullen hure after
Bothe bakers & brywers. bouchers & othere
Webbesters and walkers. an wynners wt handen.
Piers Plouhman, p. 11.

And ouer them Arachne high did lift
Her cunning web, and spred her subtile net,
Enwrapped in foule smoak & clowds more black than iet.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7.

What should I speake of the strength that this web hath to resist the puffes and blasts of wind? of the toughnesse te hold and not breake, notwithstanding a deale of dust doth weigh and beare it downe? Many a time ye shall see a broad web reaching from one tree to another; and this when she learneth to weave and beginneth to practise and trie her skill.-Holland. Plinie, b. xi. c. 24. ·

Go you then, in; and take your worke in hand;
Your web, and distaffe, and your maids command
To plie their fit worke.

Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. i. c. 13. Neuerthelesse with in the same tyme, enteringe into the handes of a chaplaine, it hath bene handeled and tosed cytie.-Bale. Apologie, fol. 16. amonge the spyders webbe weuers of Babylon the greate

The sword was broke, therein no wonder lies,
If earthly tempred metall could not hold
Against that target forged in the skies,
Downe fell the blade in peeces on the mold.-
The brittle web of that rich sword he thought
Was broke through hardnesse of the counties sheeld.
Fairefar. Godfrey of Bovlogne, d. vii. 8. 4.