Thin the fethers they put a cole or sparke of fire, and the with a paire of smithes bellowes (the nose whereof went the pipe aforesaid) they blowed the cole and set it on a fire within the fethers.--Holland. Livivs, p. 987.

This gentleman, you must know, is always very exact and in his devotion, which I believe nobody blames ; then he is accustom'd to roar and bellow so terribly loud in the responses, that he frightens even us of the congregawho are daily us'd to him.-Tatler, No. 54.

The ingenious gentleman, out of compassion to those of a bad otterance, has plac'd his whole study in the new elling the organs of voice; which art he has so far adrated as to be able even to make a good orator of a pair of -Id. No. 70.

Te feign a red hot zeal for freedom's cause,

Te meth aload for liberties and laws,

For public good to bellow all abroad,

Serves well the purposes of private fraud.

Churchill. The Conference.

it the bittern heron] has two kinds of notes; the one king, when it is disturbed; the other bellowing, which mences in the spring and ends in autumn. Pennant. Brit. Zoology.

BELLY, . Goth. Balgs; A. S. Balg, BELLY, Balig; Ger. and Dut. Balg; BELLYFULL. Lat. Bulga. See Balgeis in Jas (Gloss. Goth.) and Bulga in Vossius.

To belly out, is to bulge, to swell out, to be or make tumid; to puff out, to inflate, to stretch, to ised

Belly is frequent in composition, prefixed to beer, fare, timber, &c., among our elder writers.

Brders & beggers. faste aboute goden
A hare bagge & hure bely. were bred ful ycrammyd.
Piers Ploukman, p. 3.

A te belged monke wyth a scarlet face, whose panche we papered and stuffed vp to the throte wyth all maner dates-Bale. Apology, fol. 120.

This excessyne riotous bankettyng, potte-companyondeichearynge more outragiously vsed, and the agricusnes lesse refreshed, than now?

Udal. Prologue to Eph.

The thou commest into thy neighbours vyneyarde, ya eate grapes thy belgful at thine owne pleasure: but state pat none in thy bagge.-Bible, 1551. Deut. c. 23. Ye take they falsely vpon them the honor of an apostles and make as though they were hyred into the vineare of the lorde, and that they are hys woorkemen, when Synder hys businesse, and vnder the pretence of the Geke theyr belly-fare.-Udal. 2 Corinth. c. 11.

This night, wherein the cubdrawn bear would couch,

Then and the belly-pinched wolf

Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs,

And bids what will take all.-Shakes. K. Lear, Act iii. sc.1.

Bar-gods, whose food is Sathan's bate,
Thinath shall cut away your meate,
And for your honey, furnish you with gall.

And vnder that thei maden lowe

A tombe riche for the nones

Of marble and eke of Jaspre stones,
Wherin that Iphis was beloken.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.
And after of his owne choys

He toke his death vpon the croys,

And howe in graue he was beloke, And howe that he hath helle broke,

And toke hem out, that were hym leue.-Id. Ib. b. ii.

Mar. My husband bids me, now I will vnmaske.
This is that face, thou cruell Angelo
Which once thou sworst, was worth the looking on:
This is the hand, which with a vow'd contract
Was fast belockt in thine.

Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Act v. sc. 1. BE-LONG. Be and Long, to lengthen, to BELONGING, n. stretch out, to extend, to reach, to attain to. A. S. Lengian; Ger. Langen, Belangen, prolongare, pervenire, attingere; Dut. Langhen.

Stirling. Doomes-day, 2d houre.

Orane of Capernaitans, senseless of divine doctrine, and only of loaves and belly-cheer!

To reach, to attain, to pertain, to appertain; to be in, or become within, the reach, the grasp; into the power, or possession; to be or become the property of.

Milton. Animadversions upon the Rem. Defence. What he doe to these beastly belly-slaves, which, void Acesse or vertuous behaviour, not once, but contally day and night, give themselues wholy to bibbing,

and banqueting!

Homily against Gluttonie and Drunkennesse.

A friendly wind,

Cre the fair, of human race divine,
Propitious sent—to ply the struggling oar
need remain'd, the fresh'ning gale suffic'd
Elying canvas-Fenton. Hom. Odys. b. xi.

And though knights-errant, as some think,

Odd neither eat nor drink,

Because when thorough deserts vast,

At regions desolate, they past,

We belly-timber above ground,

under was not to be found,

ess they graz'd, there's no one word

cher provision on record-Hudibras, pt. i. c. 1.

pride like this the emulating mob

e for the mastery-who first may fill

The bellying bin, and cleanest call the hops.

Muse not to muche ther on quath Faith. tyl thow more

knowe

Ac looke thow leyve hit leelly. al thy lyf tyme
That thre by longeth to on lorde.-Piers Plouhman, p. 315.
Thus hath this robbour, and this homicide,
That many a man made to wepe and pleine,
Swiche guerdon, as belongeth unto pride.

Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,546.

As yf a iudge would swere me generally in a courte to make trewe aunswer to suche thynges as shoulde be asked of me, and after mine othe geuen, he would ask me certaine questions of maters nothing belonging to him. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 218. The meeter for his purpose seemed Tyssaphernes, a man bothe of more experience and actiuity then the other, and also better furnished with the souldioures that belonged sometime to king Cyrus.-Goldyng. Justine, p. 34. There is a kinde of character in thy life, That to th' obseruer, doth thy history Fully vnfold: thy selfe, and thy belongings Are not thine owne so proper, as to waste Thy selfe vpon thy vertues; they on thee.

Smart. The Hop Garden, b. ii.

, who like true churchwardens eat,

as the parish pays the treat,

And of their bellyful secure,

Um, or over-look the poor.

Lloyd. Charity. A Fragment.

BE-LOCK. A.S. Be-lucan; Dut. Be-luycken.

See BLOCK.

To shut, to close; to shut up, to block up.

VOL L

For as he is not moderate nor tolerable, who calleth the upper superfices onely and cope of the heaven, avo, that is to say, aloft, or superior; and all the rest, kaтw, that is to say, beneath; so he who termeth the earth, or rather the centre of it onely Karw, that is to say, below or inferior, is not to be endured.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 950.

Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Act i. sc. 1. These I cannot liken better than to the Borderers between two countries, who live in the marches and confines of two powerful kingdoms, both which have a great influence upon them, so that it is hard to say whose subjects they are, and to which Prince they belong.-Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 15.

Sieur Gaurlard, who when he heard a gentleman report that he was at a supper, where they had not onely good company and good cheare, but also sauory epigrammes, and fine anagrammes; he returning home, rated and belowted his cooke as an ignorant scullion that neuer dressed or serued vp to him, either epigrammes or anagrammes. Camden. Remains. Anagrams.

The Roman law adjudged, that if one man wrote any thing, on the paper or parchment of another, the writing should belong to the owner of the blank material. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 26.

BE-LOVED. To love, is

All expressions, did I say! yea, and conceptions too: for his nature is so pure, his goodness so great, his knowledge so transcendent, his power so boundless, his wisdom, justice, and mercy so mysterious, his glory so incomprehensible, and all his perfections so high, so infinitely high, that our highest conceptions of him are still infinitely below him.

Beveridge, vol. i. Ser. 13.

All truth is from the sempiternal source
Of light divine. But Egypt, Greece, and Rome,
Drew from the stream below. More favour'd, we
Drink, when we choose it, at the fountain head.

Couper. Task, b. ii. BEL-SWAGGER. Perhaps, no more than a fine, a brave, swaggerer, a braggart, a bully.

Let Mims be angry at their S. bel swagger, and we pass in the heat on't and be beaten, beaten abominably.

Beaum. & Fletch. Wit without Money, Act iii. sc. i. Gom. Indeed you are a charitable belswagger: my wife cry'd out, fire, fire; and you brought out your churchbuckets, and called for engines to play against it. Dryden. The Spanish Fryar, Act v.

BELT, v. A. S. Belt; Ger. and Sw. Belt; BELT, n. It. and Sp. Balteo; Lat. Balteus, "Balteum, quod cingulum e corio habebant bullatum, balteum dictum," (Varro.) A girdle of leather studded with bosses was called a belt.

To gird; to surround, to inclose.
Ay by his belt he bare a long pavade,
And of a swerd ful trenchant was the blade.

Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 3927.
That goodly belt was Cestus hight by name,
And as her life by her esteemed deare.
No wonder then, if that to winne the same
So many ladies sought, as shall appeare;
For, peerelesse she was thought, that did it beare.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 5. These ramperts seem intended to have had some effect even on the eye. Being dug out of a bed of chalk, and belting the hills far and wide with white, more especially if we suppose some assistance from an artificial facing, they must have been visible at a vast distance. Warton. History of Kiddington, p. 67.

Thus in delit he liveth, and hath don yore,
Beloved and drad, thurgh favour of fortune,
Both of his lordes, and of his commune.

Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 7944.

And netheles by daies olde,
Whan that the bokes weren leuer,
Wryting was beloued euer

Of them, that, weren vertuous.-Gower. Con. A. Prologue. We are more sottish than the Trojans, if we retain our Helena, any one beloved lust, a painted devil, any sugar'd temptation, with (not the hazard, but) the certainty of having such horrid miseries, such invaluable losses. Bp. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 19.

Dare then, thou much belov'd by smiling fate,
For Anna's sake, and in her name be great:
Go forth, and be to distant nations known
My future favourite, and my darling son.

Prior. A Letter to M. B. Despreaux.

Were kingship as true treasure as it seems,
Sterling, and worthy of a wise man's wish,
I would not be a king to be belor'd
Causeless, and daub'd with undiscerning praise.
Cowper. Task, b. v.
BE-LOW. Low, or inferior, under, nether,
BE-LOWT. beneath.

Lowt is lowed, low'd, low't. To belowt; to treat as a lowt.

For who can brook, to see a painted crowe
Singing aloft, when turtles mourn belowe.
Gascoigne. A Remembraunce, &c.

Againe there is not that so ill
Bylowe the lampe of Phoebus light,
But man may better if he will
Applie his wit to make it right.

Turberville. All Things as they are used.

supposed to be one of the Gilbert de Gants, the antient owners.-Pennant. Journey from Chester.

What need of these

For gamesters, jockeys, brothellers impure,
Spendthrifts, and booted sportsmen, oft'ner seen,
With belted waist and pointers at their heels
Than in the bounds of duty?-Cowper. Task, b. ii.
BE-LUTED. Covered with mud (lutum).

When he [Obadiah] did stop his beast, 'twas done with such an explosion of mud, that Obadiah had better have been a league off: never was a Dr. Slop so beluted. Sterne. Tristram Shandy, vol. ii. c. 9. BEL-WEATHER. Belled weather. A weather, or wether, with a bell to his neck. See WETHER. Much like a well grown bel-weather, or felt'red ram he shewes,

BE-MANGLE. To hack or maim; to hew,

to mutilate, to tear, to lacerate.

For those bemangled limbs which scatter'd be
About the picture's verge, the ruins are
Of seav'n unloved lovely babes, which she
Fear'd not with her remorseless claws to tear.

Beaumont. Psyche, c. 2. s. 71. But when they had opened Cæsar's testament, and found a liberall legacy of money bequeathed unto every citizen of Rome, and that they saw his body (which was brought into the market-place) all bemangled with gashes of swords, then there was no order to keep the multitude, and common people quiet, but they plucked up forms, tables, and stools, and laid them all about the body, and setting them afire, burnt the corps.--North. Plutarch, p. 615.

BE-MARTYR. To slay, to murther, as martyrs, as witnesses of the truth;-of their own faith or belief.

See here how he bemartyreth such who as yet did survive; but in so servile a condition (condemned to the mines) that they were almost hopelesse, without miracle, to be released. Fuller. General Worthies, vol. i. BE-MASK. To put on, to wear a mask, a something to disguise, cover or conceal.

To all those compliments, the doleful lady answered nothing; and although Dorotea made her again larger offers of her service, yet stood she ever silent until the bemasked gentleman (whom the lackey said, the rest did obey) came over. Shelton. Don Quixote, b. i. c. 9.

BE-MAUL. To mill, to grind, to bruise, to beat heavily.

So the poor soul [Sancho] was sore bruised and bemauled, and scarce imagined what had happened to him. Shelton. Don Quixote, vol. iv. c. 22.

Others, who knew nothing of musical expression, and merely lent their ears to the plain import of the word, imagined that Phutatorius, who was somewhat of a choleric spirit, was just going to snatch the cudgels out of Didius's hands, in order to bemaul Yorick to some purpose. Sterne. Tristram Shandy, vol. iv. c. 27.

Which whoso sees, no longer wanders lost, With intellects bemaz'd in endless doubt, But runs the road of wisdom.-Cowper. Task, b. v. BE-MERCIED. A word formed for the occasion, and explained in the quotation.

And when he [Paul] enters upon this narrative of conversion, he at first useth a word somewhat uncouth, whereby to express the mercy of it; a word whereof in the English tongue we cannot give the full and proper force in one word (which the Greek it self is), I was bemercied (if we may so speak), misericordia donatus, endowed with mercy, encompassed with mercy.

Goodwin. Of Justifying Faith, pt. i. b. iii. c. 2.
BE-METE. To mete, to measure.
Away thou ragge, thou quantitie, thou remnant,
Or I shall so be-mete thee with thy yard,

As thou shalt thinke on prating whilst thou liu'st:
I tell thee I, that thou hast marr'd her gowne.
Shakespeare. Tam. of the Shrew, Act iv. sc. 3.

BE-MINGLE. To mingle, to mix.
This blade in bloodie hand, which I do beare,
And all this gore bemingled with this glew,
In witnesse I the dreadfull monster slew.

Mirror for Magistrates, p. 106. BE-MIRE. To cover with mire, mud, or dirt.

Those few which remained, laid his body (basely God wot, but as necessity suffered) into a collier's cart, which drawne with one silly leane beast, through a very foule and filthy way, the cart broke, and there lay the spectacle of worldly glory, both pitifully goared, and filthy bemired.

Speed. W. Rufus. an. 1096. Fair maidens all, attend the muse, Who now the wandering pair pursues : Away they rode in homely sort, Their journey long, their money short; The loving couple well bemir'd: The horse and both the riders tir'd.

Swift. The Progress of Love. His active will-o'the-wisp may be gone nobody can guess where, whilst he leaves us bemired and benighted in the bog. Burke. On Regicide Peace, Let. 4. BE-MIST. To overcloud, to darken, to dim. Admitting Christianity had not by our Saviour and his apostles been confirmed by miracles; yet it would in time have been taken up, and entertained and rooted in men's hearts for the very honesty and integrity of it: yet, by the but meanly wise and common ductions of bemisted nature, it would have been no very powerful oratory, to persuade the taking up of our cross to follow him.-Feltham, pt. ii. Res. 66.

Verst the castel of Notingham vpe is brother he nom,
& suththe is other londes, deseritede him al clene,
& alle that with him hulde, (hii nere nogt to bi mene.)
R. Gloucester, p. 490.

Then shalt thou stoupe, and lay to ere
If they within aslepe be

I mean all saue thy lady fre
Whome waking if thou maist aspie
Go put thy selfe in ieopardie
To aske grace, and the bimene
That she may wete without wene
That thou night no rest hast had

So sore for herr thou were bestad.-Chaucer. Rom. of the R.
And he his hors head aside
Tho torned, and to hir he rode,
And there he houed, and abode,
To wit what she wolde mene

And she began him to bemene.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.

So it fortuned that in this mean season one of the duke of Lancaster's great barons died, a right valyant man, called the lorde Fitzwater; he was greatly bemooned but against dethe none may striue.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 105. Whereby I dare with humble bemonynge, By thy goodness, this thynge of thee requyre; Chastyce me not for my deseruing According to thy iuste conceaued yre.-Wyatt. Psalme 6.

When a poor-spirited creature that dyed at the same time for his crimes bemoaned himself unmanfully, he rebuked him with this question, Is it no consolation to such a man as thou art to dye with Phocion?-Spectator, No. 133.

BE-MOCK. To deride, to scoff at; to jeer or gibe, to ape or imitate, scoffingly, jestingly, in derison or contempt.

You fooles, I and my fellowes
Are ministers of fate, the elements

Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well
Wound the loud windes, or with bemockt-at-stabs
Kill the still closing waters, as diminish
One dowle that's in my plumbe.

Shakespeare. Tempest, Act iii. sc. 2.
Bru. Mark'd you his lip and eyes.
Sicin. Nay, but his taunts.
Bru. Being mou'd, he will not spare to gird the gods.
Sicin. Bemocke the modest moone.
Id. Coriolanus, Act i. sc. 1.
BE-MOIL. Fr. "Mouiller, to wet, moisten,
soak or steep in moisture," (Cotgrave.)

Thou shouldst have heard in how miery a place, how she was bemoil'd, how hee left her with the horse vpon her. Shakespeare. Tam. of the Shrew, Act iv. sc. 1. BE-MONSTER. Monster-any thing enormous, prodigious, frightful.

Alb. Thou changed and self-cover'd thing, for shame, Be-monster not thy feature.

BE-MOURN.

lament.

Shakespeare. King Lear, Act iv. sc. 2. To mourn, to grieve for, to

And there suede him myche puple: and wymmen that weiliden and bimorneden him.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 23.

BE-MUFFLED. Wrapt; covered, as with a muff, or muffler.

See, I beseech you, how he is cloaked up with sermons, prayers, and sacraments; and so bemuffled with the externals of religion, that he has not a hand to spare for a worldly purpose.—Sterne, Ser. 17.

BE-MUSE. To bemuse, in wine, or beer; to indulge the musings; the thoughts or meditations, which wine or beer produces. See AMUSE.

Wine's generous spirit makes the coward brave,
Gives ease to kings, and freedom to the slave.
Bemused in wine the bard his duns forgets,
And drinks serene oblivion to his debts.

Fawkes. Imitation of Horace, b. i. Ep. 5.
Called, denominated.

BE-NAMED.

All eminent or rising places for sitting or lying; (for any purpose.)

So that the erl of Wareine slou, atte verste touche,
Biuore the justises atte benche, sir Alein de la Souche.
R. Gloucester, p. 570.

For giftes som justise lete the lowe go doun,
& som on other wise did wrong to the croun.
The first justise in benk Sir Thomas of Weland,
For falshed & for wrenk he forsuore the land.

R. Brunne, p. 246.

An halle for an hygh kynge an houshold to holden, With brode bordes abouten, ybenched wel clene.

Piers Plouhman. Crede

Thomas, quod he, God yelde it you, ful oft
Have I upon this benche faren ful wele,
Here have I eten many a mery mele,
And fro the benche he drove away the cat.

Chaucer. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7334

I found a delectable place,
That was beset with trees young and olde,
Whose names here for me shall not be tolde,
Amidde of which stoode an herber grene,
That benched was with colours new and clean.
Id. The Blacke Knigh

Upon the benche sittende on high
With Auarice Vsure I sighe.-Gower. Con. A. b. v.

BEND, v.
BEND, n.
BENDER.

BENDING, n.
BENT.

A. S. Bendan; Fr. Bender Bander.

To move out of a right straight line, to bow, to cro to curve; to turn, (sc. out o direct course, to a particular end,) to incli And thus the noun is applied to

The inclination, the disposition of the mind; course, direction, determination of the thoug studies, pursuits, passions.

For bent, as applied by Chaucer and Dry to the bending, curvature, declination, declivit land, see ARMIPOTENT.

The maister of the messageres (Imbred was ys name
Bend ys bowe & schette a non to Corineus to gronde
R. Gloucester,

Stonde he nevere so styfliche. thorgh sterynge of the
He bendeth and boweth, the body is vnstable
Ac gut he is saf and sounde.-Piers Plouhman, p. 16
The heuen lyche vnto a bowe,

She bende, and she cam downe lowe.-Gower. Con. A
But much more prayse to Gascoign's penne is due,
Whose learned hande doth here to thee present,
A posie full of hearbes, and flowers newe,
To please all braynes, to wit or learning bent.
T. B. In Prayse of Gascoign's.
Under the bent of her brows iustly pight,
As diamondes or saphires at the least
Her glistring lights the darkness of the night.
Vncertaine Auctors. Description. &c. of hi

Ye noble princes, that protect and saue,
The pilgrime Muses, and their ships defend
From rocke of ignorance, and errors waue,
Your gracious eies vpon this labour bend:
To you these tales of loue and conquests braue

I dedicate.-Fairefax. Godfrey of Boulogne, b. î.

With that she rose, like nimble roe,
The tender grass scarce bending,
And left me there perplex'd with fear
At this her sonnets ending.

Dabridgcourt Belchier. Ellis

Beneficiary services were those, which were done by the middling or lesser Thanes to the King, and the greater Thanes either militarily in war, or ministerially in peace. Spelman. On Feudes & Tenures, c. 25.

The fathers and children, the benefactors and the beneficiary shall knit the wreath, and bind each other in the eternal inclosures and circlings of immortality. Bp. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 13.

We long'd for the assembling of this parliament, as gladly as your beneficiaries the priests came up to answer the complaints and out-cries of all the shires.

Milton. Animad. upon Remon. Defence.

In 1524 he [Richard Croke] commenced D. of D. at Cambridge, being then, or about that time, tutor to the King's natural son the Duke of Richmond then with him at King's College, and beneficed, if not dignified in the church.

Wood. Athene Oxon. Church, vol. i. p. 105.

They [the ungrateful] discourage the inclinations of noble minds, and make beneficiency cool unto acts of obligation, whereby the grateful world should subsist and have their consolation.-Brown. Chr. Mor. vol. ii. p. 17.

Contrary to common account he esteemed every advantage of being useful and serviceable to God and men a rich benefice, and those his best patrons and benefactors, not who did him good, but who gave him the opportunity and means of doing it.-Tillotson. Ded. to Ser. 23.

All mortals once beneficently great,

(As fame reports) and raised in heavenly state;
Yet, sharing labours, still they shunn'd repose,
To shed the blessings down by which they rose.
Parnell. On Queen Anne's Peace.

God also by his order of things designs, that a charitable entercourse should be maintained among men, mutually pleasant and beneficial; the rich kindly obliging the poor, and the poor gratefully serving the rich. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 31.

Where the church benefices are all nearly equal, none of them can be very great, and this mediocrity of benefice, though it may no doubt be carried too far, has, however, some very agreeable effects.

Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 1. You displease all the clergy of England now actually in office, for the chance of obliging a score or two, perhaps, of gentlemen, who are, or want to be, beneficed clergymen. Burke. Speech on the Acts of Uniformity. Whose work is without labour; whose designs No flaw deforms, no difficulty thwarts; And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper. Task, b. vi.

The number of indigent persons being also greatly increased, by withdrawing the alms of the monasteries, a plan was formed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, more humane and beneficial than even feeding and clothing of millions, by affording them the means (with proper industry) to feed and clothe themselves.-Blackstone. Com. b. iv. c. 33.

The true weakness and opprobrium of our best general constitutions is, that they cannot provide beneficially for every particular case, and thus fill, adequately to their intentions, the circle of universal justice.

Burke. Tracts on the Popery Laws.

'Tis, perhaps, somewhat dangerous to affix a determinate value upon any of God's benefits; (for to value them seems to undervalue them, they being really inestimable :) what then is it to extenuate, to vilifie, to despise the greatest? Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 8.

He now therefore found that such friends as benefits had gathered round him, were little estimable: he now found that a man's own heart must be ever given to gain that of another. Goldsmith. Vicar of Wakefield.

BE-NE GROE. To blacken. See NEGROE.

And if at the coming and appearance of the humanity of Christ, the sun shall be benegroed in darkness, as a petty light at the coming of a greater; how if you cast an eye upon the life of God!-Hewyt. Sermons, (1658,) p. 79.

BE-NEMPT, a word of Spenser's; also used by Thomson in imitation of Spenser. Benamed. Chaucer uses Nempne. See BENAMED, and NEMPNE.

If thy rymes as round and rufull been
As those that did thy Rosalinde complaine,
Much greater gifts for guerdon thou shalt gaine;
Then kid or coslet, which I thee benempt.

Spenser. Shepherd's Calendar. November.

"I will," he cry'd, "so help me God! destroy
That villain, Archimage."-His page then straight
He to him called, a fiery-footed boy,
Benempt dispatch.-Thomson. Castle of Indolence, c. 2.

BE-NET. To catch, inclose, cover, as with a net; to entangle, to ensnare.

Ham. Being thus benetted round with villaines, Ere I could make a prologue to my braines, They had begun the play.-Shakes. Hamlet, Act v. sc. 2.

Fr. Bénévole, Bénévolence; It. Bene-volo, Bene-volencia; Sp. Benevolére, Benevogliente,

BENEVOLENCE. BENEVOLENT. BENEVOLENTLY. BENE VOLOUS. Benevoglienza; Lat. Benevolentia, from Bene and volo, volens, volentia; Gr. Bovλew, to will. See the quotation from Cogan. for benevolent.

Puller writes benevolous

Good will; a will or wish for good, for the good, or happiness of others; of our kin or kind: kind will, wish, or desire.

O leude booke with thy foule rudenesse
Sith thou hast neither beautie ne eloquence
Who hath thee caused or yeue thee hardinesse
For to appere in my ladies presence

I am full siker thou knowest her beneuolence.

Chaucer. The Cuckow and the Nightingale.

And after that he rode about the more parte of the lande, and vsed the people in suche fayre maner, that he reysed therby notable summes of money, the whiche way of the leuyinge of his money was after named a beneuolence. Fabyan. Edw. IV. an. 1475.

Proper benevolence is the most graceful and agreeable of all the affections, it is recommended to us by a double sympathy; as its tendency is necessarily beneficent, it is the proper object of gratitude and reward, and upon all these accounts it appears to our natural sentiments to possess a merit superior to any other. Smith. Moral Sentiments, pt. vii. s. 2. c. 3.

When our love or desire of good goes forth to others, it is termed good-will or benevolence. Benevolence embraces all beings capable of enjoying any portion of good; and thus it becomes universal benevolence; which manifests itself by being pleased with the share of good every creature enjoys; in a disposition to increase it; in feeling an uneasiness at their sufferings; and in the abhorrence of cruelty, under every disguise, or pretext. When these dispositions are acting powerfully towards every being capable of enjoyment, they are called the benevolent affections; and as they be come, in those who indulge them, operative rules of conduct, or principles of action, we speak of the benevolent principle. Cogan. On the Passions, pt. i. c. 2.

BE-NIGHT.

To go down (sc. in darkness, gloom,) to overtake, to overshadow, to shrowd, to overwhelm, (sc. in darkness, in gloom, in ignorance.)

So, go break off this last lamenting kiss,
Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,
Turn thou, ghost, that way, and let me turn this,
And let ourselves benight our happiest day.
Donne. The Expiration.

Now jealousie no more benights her face,
Her courage beauteous grows, and grief decayes,
And with such joy as shipwrack'd men embrace
The shore, she hastens to the house of praise.

Davenant. Gondibert, b. iii. c. 5
But oh! alas! what sudden cloud is spread
About this glorious king's eclipsed head?
It all his fame benights, and all his store,
Wrapping him round, and now he's seen no more.

Cowley. Davideis, b. ii Beneath her roof he might be pleas'd to stay; Or some benighted angel, in his way, Might ease his wings, and, seeing heaven appear In its best work of mercy, think it there.

Dryden. Eleonor

Where art thou, poor benighted traveller!
The stars will light thee; though the moon should fail,
Where art thou, more benighted! more astray!
In ways immortal? the stars call thee back;
And, if obey'd their counsel, set thee right.

BENIGN.

BENIGNANT. BENIGNITY.

BENIGNLY.

Young. The Complaint, No. Vossius rejects both the ety mologies of Festus; sc. benign dicitur proprie, qui bonis, et dis nis largitur; or benenignus from bene gignendo. He prefers benus, addito gn but what gnus is he says not. Fr. Bénigne, B nignété; It. & Sp. Benigno, Benignita, Benignida The application of the word is toThose qualities or dispositions which are pr ductive of good, with a kind intent. To th Gentle, courteous, gracious, kind, liberal, bou tiful. See the quotation from Elyot. Mercy hihte that mayde. a mylde thyng with alle And a ful benygne burde. and buxom of speche. Piers Plouhman, p. 3 To geve mercy for mysdedes. yf men wolde hit aske. Buxumliche and benygneliche. and bydden hit of grace Id. p. 2

BENEFIT, v. Į BENEFIT, n.

Elyot.

To do well for, good to; to serve, to advantage;

If eny man doth me a bynfet. othr helbeth me at nude Ich am unkynde ageyns courtesye. Piers Plouhman, p. 112. And they that han feithful lordis dispise hem not for thei ben britheren, but more serue thei for thei ben feithful and loued which ben partneris of benefice.-Wiclif. Tymo. c. 6.

So that they whyche haue beleuynge masters, dispise the not bycause they are bretheren: but so muche the rather do seruice, for as much as they are beleuing and beloued, and partakers of the benefite.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Whan Jupiter this hurt hath sene,
Another benefite there agene
He yafe.

Gower. Con. A. b. iii.

He hathe made to the thys reasonable offers and this sant accordynge to right and reason, trustyng in his quarel to be ayded and supported by his beneuolente subiectes and fauourable well willers.-Id. Hen. V. an. 2.

To whome hys maiestie shall euer after beare so muche the more tender fauour, in howe much he shall perceiue you the more prone & beneuolently minded toward his eleccion.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 64.

When I remembre, what incomparable goodnes hath euer proceded of this vertue benevolence, mercyfulle God what swete flavour fele I, percyng my sprytes. Elyot. The Governovr, b. ii. c. 9.

If the chylde be of nature inclyned (as many haue ben) to peynte with a pen, or to fourme images in stoone or tree, he shulde not be therfrom withdrawen, or nature be rebuked, whiche is to hym beneuolent.-Id. Ib. b. i. c. 8.

Puller. Moderation of the Church of England, p. 509. For my own part, amongst a thousand other obligations which I owe to my parents, I must particularly acknowledge that of instilling an early benevolence to mankind, in general, and a desire of fixing myself in the affections of one or more who should appear best qualified for so near an alliance.-Tatler, No. 314.

It is the benevolent passions only which can exert themselves without any regard or attention to propriety, and yet retain something about them which is engaging.

Smith. Moral Sentiments, pt. vii. s. 2. c. 3.

Youre mede schal be myche, and ye schulen be the so of the higheste: for he is benygne on unkynd men and y men.-Wiclif. Luk. c. 6.

The prynce of the yle pupplius bi name which resseyu us bi three daies benyngneli and foond us.-Id. Dedis, c. Knowist thou not that the benygnyti of God ledith t to forthinkyng.-Id. Romayns, c. 2.

For whan they came from any strange place
He wolde of his benigne curtesie

Make hem good chere, and besily espie
Tidings of sundry regnes, for to lere
The wonders that they mighte seen or here.

Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4 For which sayth Seint John Chrisostome: penance treineth a man to accept benignely every peine, that hi enjoined, with contrition of herte.-Id. The Persones 1 That ye so longe of your benignitee Han holden me in honour and nobley, Wheras I was not worthy for to be,

That thank I God and you.-Id. The Clerkes Tale, v.
And for he was to loue strange,
He wolde not his herte change
To be benigne and fauourable

To loue.

Gower. Con. A. b. iii.

And than the Prince of Wales [the Black Prince] opened nd regarded towarde heuen, and ioyned his handes togar and sayd, very God Jesu Christ, who hath formed and created me, cisent by your benggne grace, that I may bts day victory of myne enemyes, as that I do is in a y quarrell-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol.i. c.237. Yet be there thre principall, by whom humanitie is chiefly beneuolence, benificence, and liberalitie, which ath up the sayd principall vertue called benignitie or putes-Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. ii. c. 8.

Tyas loyed, to heare that one man yet

Vade him benignly, and would truth abet

In those contentions.-Chapman. Homer. Odysses, b. viii.

The meient heroes were illustrious.

For being benign and not blustrous

Against a vanquish'd foe; their swords

Were sharp and trenchant, not their words.

Hudibras. pt. i. c. 3. In a thermometer 'tis only the purest and most sublimed spirit, that is either contracted or dilated by the buy or inclemency of the season.-Spectator, No. 238.

*Fair dame, united to the bravest chief,"

la les he answers, fortune more benign Preserv'd those husbands for the happiest lot, Society with you."

Glover. Athenaid, b. vii.

The king whom he [Monk] gave us was indeed the very reverse of your benignant sovereign, who in reward for his aterpt to bestow liberty on his subjects, languishes himis prison.

Barte. A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly.

Yet by immense benignity inclin'd

To spread around him that primeval joy

Th'd himself, he rais'd his plastic arm,

And sounded through the hollow depth of space

The strong, creative mandate.

But when the said heat is altogether vanquished, there must needs ensue a benumming and congelation of the body, but if heat get the victory, it bringeth a certain warmth, and dilatation, with pleasure.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 814. Scarce had she finish'd when her feet she found Benumb'd with cold, and fasten'd to the ground. Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. i. Some on a broken crag were struggling cast, And there by oozy tangles grappled fast; Awhile they bore th' o'erwhelming billows' rage, Unequal combat with their fate to wage; Till all benumb'd, and feeble, they forego Their slippery hold, and sink to shades below. Falconer. Shipwreck, c. 1. To paint; to cover, to colour

BE-PAINT. with paint.

And with that word she spy'd the hunted boar;
Whose frothy mouth, bepainted all with red,
Like milk and blood being mingled both together,
A second fear through all her sinews spread,
Which madly hurries her she knows not whither.

Shakespeare. Venus & Adonis.
Jul. Thou knowest the maske of night is on my face,
Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheeke,
For that which thou hast heard me speake to night.
Id. Romeo & Juliet, Act ii. sc. 2.
BE-PALE. To make white, to whiten. See
APPAL.

When first those perjur'd lips of thine,
Bepal'd with blasting sighs, did seal

Their violated faith on mine,

From the soft bosom that did heal
Thee, thou my melting heart didst steal.

Carew. To an Inconstant Servant.

BE-PE/ARLED. Covered with shining, bright,

Ask me why I send to you

This primrose all bepearl'd with dew;

I straight will whisper in your ears
The sweets of love are wash'd with tears.

Carew. The Primrose.

BE-PE/PPER. Į To throw at, pelt as with BE-PO'WDER. pepper-corns, or with the grains of pepper from a pepper-box.

O ye water-drinkers! it is then by the delusive fountain, that ye have so often governed and turn'd this world about like a mill-wheel,-grinding the faces of the impotent ;-bepowdering their ribs,-bepeppering their noses, and changing sometimes even the very frame and face of nature. Sterne. Tristram Shandy, vol. viii. c. 5. BE-PINCH. To press or nip, closely, sharply. So crakt their back bones wrincht With horrid twiches. In their sides, armes, shoulders (al bepincht,)

Ran thicke the wals, red with the bloud, ready to start out. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xxiii.

To cover, to spread over See EMPLASTER.

BE-PLA'STER. with (plaster).

Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart,
The man had his failings, a dupe to his art.
Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread,
And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red.
Goldsmith. Retaliation.

BE-PLUME.

Plume is applied to feathers worn as an ornament, as a mark of honour, &c.

The young, in armour bright, which shone like gold, beplumed with each gay feather of the east,-all-all-tilting at it like fascinated knights in tournaments of yore for fame and love.-Sterne. Sentimental Journey.

BE-POWDER. To cover, to sprinkle, with powder, with dust. See BEPEPPER, and an example from Search, in v. BECURL; from Goldsmith, in v. BETAILED.

I have lived to see generals who once had crowds hallooing after them wherever they went, who were bepraised by newspapers and magazines, those echoes of the voice of the vulgar, and yet they have long sunk into merited obscurity, with scarce even an epitaph left to flatter.—Goldsmith, Es. 8. BE-PROSE. To write or speak, to reduce to, prose; as distinguished from verse.

Phi. Gods my life, how he doe's all to bequalifie her! in genious, acute, and polite! as if there were not others in place as ingenious, acute, and polite, as shee. B. Jonson. Cynthia's Revels, Act iv. sc. 3. A. S. Becwathan. Be and cwathan. See QUOTH.

Such was his doom impos'd by heaven's decree,
With ears that hear not, eyes that shall not see,
The low to swell, to levell the sublime,
To blast all beauty, and beprose all rhyme.
Mallet. Of Verbal Criticism.
BE-PUDDLED. Muddled, clouded.

BE-QUEATH. BEQUEST, v. BEQUEST, N.

BEQUEATHER.

To say, to announce, to declare, (sc.) the will or determination; the manner in which the bequeather wills or determines that his property should be disposed of.

This also is very evident, and of great consideration in the first ages while their tradition was clear and evident, and not so be-puddled as it since hath been with the mixture of hereticks, striving to spoil that which did so much mischief to their causes.-Bp. Taylor. Episcopacy Asserted,s.18.

Atte laste, tho he ysey, that toward hys ende be drou,
Hys byquide in hys manere he made byuore hys deth.
Wyllam, the rede kyng, hys sone al Engelond he byqueth
The gongere al hys porchas; ac, as lawe was & wone,
Normandye hys erytage he gef hys eldoste sone
Roberd the Courtese; and Henry hys gongoste tho
He byqueth hys tresour, vor he nadde sones nanmo.
R. Gloucester, p. 381.

Fare wel quath the frere. for I mot hethen fonden
And hyen to an housewiif. that hath us byquethen
Ten pound in hir testament.-Piers Plouhman. Crede.
To penaunces and to pilgrimages. ich wol passe with othere
For thi ich wolle er ich wende. do wryten my by quyste.
Id. Vision, p. 133.

For though they yeve us all hir heritage,
For which we claime to ben of high parage,
Yet may they not bequethen, for no thing,
To non of us, hir vertuous living.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6701.

He dyed, liuing after hym iii. sonnes, to the which he bequethid his possessions and goodis, but for ye yongest. named Gryffon, held hym not contentyd with such bequeste as his fader to hym gaue he therefore made warre opon his other ii. bretherne.-Fabyan, vol. i. c. 48.

And as good men, in charitte should live,

I crave my faults may no mans mind offend,
So hur is all, I have to bequest,
And this is all, I of the world request.

Gascoigne. A Remembraunce

If the bequether or maker of any will be on line, the will taketh no place, and may be voyde.

Wilson. Arte of Logike, p. 48.
With cruell spots

Out of his will his doubtlesse heires he blots
And all his goods to Phiale bequeathes.

Sir J. Beaumont. Juvenal, Sat. 10.

Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thyself thy beautys legacy?
Natures bequest gives nothing but doth lend,
And being frank, she lends to those are free.

Shakespeare, Son. 4.

I have often read with a great deal of pleasure a legacy of the famous Lord Bacon, one of the greatest genius's that our own or any country has produced: after having bequeathed his soul, body, and estate, in the usual form; he adds, "My name and memory I leave to foreign nations, and to my countrymen, after some time be passed over." Tatler, No. 133.

But haste to thy illustrious task; prepare
The noble work well trusted to thy care,
The gift bequeath'd by Addison's command,
To Craggs made sacred by his dying hand.

Young. Let. to Tickell.

Saint John instantly saw the meaning, and felt the force of this moving bequest. He considered our Lord's mother as his own, and from that hour (as he himself with his usual modesty and simplicity tells us,) "he took her to his own home."-Porteus, vol. i. Ser. 18.

BE-RAIN. To run, to flow down, to bedew, to bewet, to moisten.

So after that he long had hir complained
His honds wrong, and said that was to sey
And with his teires salt her brest berained
He gan the teires wipen all of ful drey.

Chaucer. Troilus, b. iv.

And Polimite, of whome I speak late
With the tempest bete, and all bereined,
By grace only the citie hath atteined.

Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. ii