Much more sweet thy labouring steps to guide Dryden. Lucretius, b. ii. The ways of heaven are dark and intricate; Addison. Cato, Act i. sc. 1. First fear his hand, its skill to try, Collins. Ode. The Passions. They were bewildered by their passions, and by their want of knowledge, or want of consideration of the subject. Burke. Observations on a late State of the Nation. BE-WY'MPLED. Dut. Wimpelen, to veil, to cover with a veil, to infold, to involve. (Kilian.) And sought about with his honde That other bedde tyll that he fonde, That was he glad in his courage.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. BE-WINTER. effects of winter. When I record within my musing mind, Gascoigne. The Louer encouraged. There were ye triüphe the great feast and glory of Tindalles deuelishe prowde dispituous hearte, to delite and reioice in the effusion of such peoples blood as hys poysoned books had miserably bywitched, and from trewe christen folke, turned into false wicked wretches. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 354. But to forsake the causes wherefore we liue her for the desier and loue to prolog our life as it wer for thre daies in this deceatful world, and to be separated from God the author of lyfe, is such a bewitching and furiouse madness, that I know not with what wordes we ought to expresse and shew it.-Calvin. Four Godlye Sermons, Ser. 2. O folyshe Galathyans: who hathe bewitched you that ye shoulde not beleue the truth, to whome Jesus Christ was discribed before the eyes, and among you crucifyed. Beauty rests not in one fix'd place, But seems to reign in every face; "Tis nothing sure but fancy then, In various forms, bewitching men. Parnell. On the Number Three. The truth is, he who shall duly consider these matters, will find that there is a certain bewitchery, or fascination in words, which makes them operate with a force beyond what we can naturally give an account of. South, vol. ii. Ser. 9. p. 337. Let me observe, that oblique vision, when natural, was anciently the mark of bewitchery and magical fascination, and to this day 'tis a malignant ill look.-Spectator, No. 250. Death was his dread; nor was it in the pow'r Of love's bewitchment, or in money'd show'r, Of Venus, Jupiter, or all the fry Of Homer's heav'n to hire the man to die. And there we beheld one of the cruellest fights between two knights, that ever hath adorned the most martial story. So as I must confess, a while we stood bewondered, another while delighted with the rare beauty thereof; till seeing such streams of blood, as threatened a drowning life, we galloped toward them to part them.-Sidney. Arcadia, b. ii. The other seeing his astonishment Fairefax. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. x. s. 17. BE-WRAP. To involve, to infold; to enrap, (qv.) This Miles, Forest and John Dighton aboute mydnight, the sely children lyinge in their beddes, came into ye chaubre and sodenli lapped them up amongest the cloathes and so bewrapped them and entangled them keping downe by force the fetherbed and pillowes harde vnto their mouthes that within a while thei smōred & styfled them. Hall. King Rich. III. an. 1. There is no man of so lowe estate, that he careth not to couerre hys persone wyth some sorte of clothynge. And the nombre of them is infynyte, that for to geue it more grace & deckynge, be not contented or take it to be suffycyent to bewrappe it in golde, pourple & delicate silkes, except they travayle strange countres of the worlde, for to get stoanes, most rare and precyous, and employ them to the curiosite of theyr nyce trymmynge.-Nicolls. Thucydides, p. 5. His sword that many a Pagan stout had shent, Bewrapt with flowers, hung idlie by his side, So nicely decked, that it seem'd the knight Wore it for fashion sake, but not to fight. betrayer. Ritson supplies an example of the us of the simple word wray. O messager, fulfilled of dronkenesse Strong is thy breth, thy limmes faltren ay, And thou bewriest all secrenesse ; Thy mind is lorne, thou janglest as a jay. Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5181 And thus whan loue is euill wonne Whan that the counseil is bewrayed.-Gower. Con. A. b. Nay mastres, as mote I thee, Ye schall newyr be wrayed for me, I had leu her dede to be Ancient Songs. Ritson, p. 78 Then I of force no longer may In couert keepe my piersing flame, But yeelde myself to fancies frame. For when in sighs I spent the day, Surrey. The Restless State of a Low I do not say yt thou shouldest bewray thyself publick neither that thou shouldest accuse thyselfe to others, bu would haue thee obey the prophet, saying: reuele thy wa vnto the Lord.-Barnes. An Epitome of his Workes, p. 3 For the darkenes of this worlde doeth cōtinually str against the lyght, wiche the worlde hateth as the betra of his works, and that darkenes doth eyther quench darken the beams of many, but against this liuely eternal lyghte it could nothing preuaile.-Udal. John, But know, Grimaldi, tho' (may be) thou art My equal in thy blood, yet this bewrays A lowness in thy mind." Ford. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Act i. s If you could mayntayne euery place, or manie of places, I dare say you would, but surely I commende y rhetorike. Those places that you would seeme to giue s countenaunce vnto, bewray your lacke of abilitie to del eyther them, or the reste.—Whitgift. Defence, p. 61. Besides, that when a friend is turned into an enemy, (as the son of Sirach calls him) a bewrayer of secrets, world is just enough to accuse the perfidiousness of friend, rather than the indiscretion of the person who fided in him.-Spectator, No. 225. BE-WREKE. To pursue, to persecute. Fairefax. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. xvi. s. 36. punish, to avenge, to revenge. O wretched wight bewrapt in webs of woe, Mirrour for Magistrates, p. 32. Bible, 1551. Galathians, c. 3. haps, from the verb array, vestire, i. e. concacare, O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? Bible. Modern Version. Ib. I will not here with an allegory applyed to oure tyme touche oure spirituall Magos and subtyle sorcerers (enchaunters) and bewitchers.-Joye. Expos. of Daniel, c. 5. And honour, glory, praise, renowme and fame, Come, come away, fraile, silly, fleshly wight, Spenser. Faery Queene, b. i. c. 9. I will counterfet the bewitchment of some popular man, and giue it bountifull to the desirers: Therefore beseech you, I may be consull.-Shakes. Coriolanus, Act ii. sc. 3. There is on the other side both ill more bewitchfull to entice away, and natural yeares more swaying, and good more availeable to withdraw to that which you wish me. Milton. Letter to a Friend. All that time that his brains are turgid and full of this humour, he is wonderful eloquent, and bewitchingly taken. Hallywell. Account of Familism, p. 106. Do not suffer yourselves to be cheated and bewitched by sensual satisfactions, and to be destroyed by ease and prosperity. Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 54. To dirty, to befoul; to bespatter with dirt. Let them that do so, vnderstand, that they beray & file their hands more, when they lay them on any other man than their owne husbandes than though they blacked them in soote.-Vives. Instruction of Christian Women, b. i. c. 3. But the event will shew that with many sluggish and ignoble vices he [Ethelred] quickly shamed his out-side; born and prolong'd a fatal mischief of the people, and the ruin of his country; whereof he gave early signs from his first infancy, bewraying the font and water while the bishop was baptizing him. Wherat Dunstan much troubled, for he stood by and saw it, to them next him broke into these words, "by God and God's mother, this boy will prove a sluggard."-Milton. History of England, b. vi. Tentes they had none to couer them: nor medicaments to heale the wounded; and diuiding their meate partly stained with bloud or berayed with dirt, they bewailed that vnfortunate darknes; and that onely daie left for so many thousands to liue.-Grenewey. Tacitus, Annales, p. 27. Being, as it were, in a small puddle of mire, she [the moon] is but a little sullied or berayed therewith, and so quickly getteth forth of it.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 956. BE-WRAY. BEWRA'YER. BEWRA'YING, N. A. S. Wregan; Dut. Wroeghen, accusare, prodere, deferre, to accuse, to discover, to bewray, (Somner.) Wreg-an may be wrig-an, to act covertly. To accuse; i. e. to inform or be an informer; a The strokes thou strook'st, hurt me not at all, I gate my sword from thee, for all thy fame: I wole me off hym so bewreke, Richard Coer de Lion. Weber, v He was ryght sore displeased, and had many a ymaginacyon agaynst the hostages of France, that styll with him at Lōdon. Howebeit he thought it s be a great crueltie, if he shulde bewreke his displeas them.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 247. BE-WROUGHT. A. S. Wyrcan, to w Had their napkins, and posies, B. Jonson. The Masque of BE-YETTE. Skinner "No bit, no w says, The meaning is probably this, the beget, the the gain, the possession, the advantage. Bernd expectation; be expectation passed, passed, exceeded. The king of Northumburlonde kyng was ich vnderstonde fal the lande bigonde Homber anon in to Scotlonde. R. Gloucester, p. 6. R. Brunne, p. 214. barne he was in fer contree, la Flandres, al beyonde the see. Chancer. The Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 13,648. Hebende Athlans the highe hille These monsters sought.-Gower. Con. A. b. i. There is a place beyond that flaming hill From whence the stars their thin appearance shed, Apace beyond all place, where never ill, Na pure thought was ever harboured. G. Fletcher. Christ's Victory and Triumph. If we can find in our hearts to take our leave of sin, if we tan disengage our selves from the witcheries of present ment; if we can but get over the threshold of vertuous versation, we shall find the rest beyond expectation mth and expedite.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 17. And be it so: let those deplore their doom, BEZZLE, n. To waste or squander in guzzling, or drinking ; arist or prodigality; (perhaps, money embezzled or purloined from others, or from better purposes.) Thus walkes hee up and downe in his Majistie, taking a and of ground at every step, and stampes on the earth so , as if he ment to knock up a spirite, when (foulebezzle) if an Englishman set his little finger to hm, he falls like a hogs-trough that is set on one end. Parte Pennilesse. His Supplication to the Devil, 1592. Me. Yes, s'fact, I wonder how the inside of a tavern Ianks now. Oh! when shall I bizzle bizzle? Bel. Nay, see thou art thirsty still for poison; come, I will not have thee swagger. Aloë is an hearbe which hath the resemblance of a sea We cannot allege her oblique and byass declination. Id. Ib. p. 953. In this extant moment, faith and troth, Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act iv. sc. 5. When we determine amiss concerning the obligations incumbent upon us in respect of other men; 'tis by reason of that strong weight of self-love, which like a biass, inclines, and secretly sways our minds towards that side on which our own interest lies.-Atterbury, vol. i. Ser. 9. I am of opinion, there has not, for these many years, appeared any thing more finished of the kind; if, indeed, my great affection for him, and the praises he bestowed upon me, do not bias my judgment. Melmoth. Pliny, b. iv. Let. 27. If you suppose a dye to have any bias, however small, to BIB, n. BIBBER. BrBBING,n. BIBULOUS. A man who drinks much, frequently, is called a Bibulous, drinking, soaking, absorbing. This miller hath so wisly bibbed ale, Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 4160. And other abhoreth his brother because he is a great bibber, whereas he himselfe hath in his harte a number of murders and sorceries.-Udal. Matt. c. 7. The Son of Man is come eating and drinking, and ye say, behold, a gluttonous man, and a wine-bibber, a friend to publicans and sinners.-Bible. Luke, vii. 34. Demosthenes made his complaint unto him, that where he had taken more pains than all the orators besides, and had almost even worn himself to the bones with study, yet he could by no means devise to please the people: whereas other orators that did nothing but bib all the day long, and mariners that understood nothing, were quietly heard, and Dekkar. The Honest Whore, Act i. sc. 1. ii. Mer. Thou art a wast-thrift, and art run away from continually occupied the pulpit with orations. thy master, that lov'd thee well, and art come to me, and I have laid up a little for my younger son Michael, and thou thinkst to bezle that; but thou shalt never be able to do it. North. Plutarch, p. 701. Six legions he left in garrison among the Gauls, under the Beaum, & Fletch. Knight of the Burn. Pestle, Act i. sc. 1. charge of one Varius, a companion of his that would drink O mee! what adds there seemeth 'twixt their chere And the swolne bezell at an ale house fyre, That tonnes in gallons to his bursten paunch Our great clerks think that these men, because they have de, (as Christ himself, and St. Paul had) cannot theree attain to some good measure of knowledge, and to a Rason of their actions, as well as they that spend their thin laitering, bezzling, and harlotting, their studies in ustable questions, and barbarous sophistry, their middle age in ambition and idleness, their old age in avarice, tage, and diseases.-Milton. Animad. upon Remonst. Def. BIAS, D. BRAS, . Bras, adj. Bas, ed. lustily with him, and therefore in mockery was surnamed We'll have a bib, for spoiling of thy doublet; Beaum. & Fletch. The Captain, Act iii. sc. 5. Tis now become The shewing horne bezeler's discourse. Jack Drum's Entertainment, (1616,) Sig.A 3. Fr. Biais or Bihay, Biaiser or Bi-hayser. To crook, stand aslope, to fetch a comBAS-DRAWING. (Cotgrave.) Menage says pass, go away, make about, from the It. Bieco, and the It. Bieco from Bisods. The editor of Menage, "that the old Gallic By resembles the English Biway." Hayser is probably Hauser, to hoist, or raise (sc.) out of an borizontal position; turn out of a straight or right angle. It is used met. forTo turn away, from a right, fair, impartial judgment. VOL L But only fools, and they of vast estate, Strow'd bibulous above I see the sands, Thomson. Autumn. contrariwise so much tongue and bibble-babble, such vaine Maluolio, Maluolio, thy wittes the heauens restore: en- The errours committed in this kind have been the cause why there is found so little wit and understanding, and 177 BIBLE. BIBLIOTHEKE. BIBLIOTHECAL. Βύβλος sive Βιβλος, is an Egyptian plant, of which a material for writing upon was made. Bible is applied by pre-eminence to the holy scriptures. Chaucer furnishes usages of the word as applied to any book. Bibliothecary. Fr. Bibliothèque; It. Biblioteca; Sp. Bibliotheca; Lat. Bibliotheca, from Gr. Bißλtov, a Book, and Onкn, а Depository: the store room or depository for books; now commonly called the library. It sais in a storie, the Bible may not lie, Of his diete mesurable was he, To tell all, wold passen any Bible, Id. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,322. But what is this I see, Satan himselfe with a bible under his arme, with a text in his mouth, it is written, he shall give his angels charge over thee? Bp. Hall. Cont. Christ Tempted. What I said in my epistle to my reverend and worthy friend master Doctor James, the incomparably industrious and learned Bibliothecary of Oxford, I professe still, that I hold those Canons of the Apostles uncanonicall. Id. Honour of the Maried Clergie, b. i. s. 28. This invention of erecting libraries, especially here at Rome, came from Asinius Pollio, who by dedicating his bibliotheque, containing all the books that ever were written, was the first that made the wits and workes of learned men, a publicke matter and a benefit to a commonweale. Holland. Plinie, b. xxxv. c. 1. In every town where he came, [he] explained to them the contents of the Bible; declaring, that therein was set forth the true and only God, and his mighty works; that therein was contain'd the true doctrine of salvation through Christ; with many particulars of miracles and chief points of religion.-Oldys. Life of Ralegh. I trust that the natural patrons of biblical learning, I mean, societies founded for the advancement of religious knowledge, and the higher ecclesiastics, will soon enable every scholar to command this inestimable treasure [the Syriac Milan MSS.].-Newcombe. Minor Prophets, Pref. These, and a world of controversies more Byrom. On Church Communion, pt. vi. Id. Upon the Bp. of Gloucester's Doctrine of Grace. BICIPITOUS. Gr. Kepaλn, the head. Two headed. If by the art of Taliacotius, a permutation of flesh, or transmutation be made from one man's body into another, as if a piece of flesh be exchanged from the bicipital muscle of either parties arm, and about them both, an alphabet circumscribed; upon a time appointed as some conceptions affirm, they may communicate at what distance soever. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 3. It is not denied there have been bicipitous serpents with the head at each extream, for an example hereof we finde in Aristotle.-Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 15. of Anglo Saxon origin. He suggests the verb pickeer, to fight with pikes. In the A. S. Pycan; Dut. Pichen or Bichen, pickeren; Ger. Bichen, is to peck at: and bicker (p into b) may be To be always pecking at, attacking, skirmishing; squabbling, or quarrelling with; also, to move unsteadily, to quiver. Bituene the castel of Gloucetre and Brinefeld al so And at the field fought before Bebriacum, ere the battailes joyned, two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together in all their sights.-Holland. Suetonius, p. 243. In this so terrible a bickering, the Prince of Wales being then but sixeteenth yeeres old, shewed his wonderful towardnesse, laying on very hotely with speare and shielde. Stowe. Edw. III. an. 1346. And he sente hise servauntis for to clepe men that weren bede to the weddingis and thei wolden no come. Estsoone he sende othere servauntis, and seide seye ye to the men that ben beden to the feeste, Lo, I have maad redy my mete, my bolis and my volatilis ben slayne, and alle thingis ben redy, come ye to the weddingis.-Wiclif. Matt. c. 22. And [he] sent forth his servauntes, to call them that were This carpenter said his devotion, Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3641. Now nothyng lacketh but cumming of the geastes, that the preparacion be not made in vaine. But they againe neglected the bidder. And whan the bidders called vpon Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, them, euery man made his excuse.-Udal. Matt. c. 22. what more worth is it then to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking or fighting in the air? Millon. History of England, b. iv. So stood they both in readinesse thereby, The world is wondrous feareful nowe, for danger bids men And aske how chaunceth this? or what meanes all this A princess being born, and abbess, with those maids, Which there should after live. Meantime unnumber'd glittering streamlets play'd, And indeed several histories of these times make no secret of it, where they shew the bickerings between prince Henry and the aforesaid favourite Car, in regard to the countess of Essex, not to mention other motives. Oldys. Life of Ralegh. Lat. Bis, Binus, two, and BICO'RNED. Cornu, a horn. BICO'RNOUS. Your body being revers'd did represent Brome. To a Potting Priest. We should be too 'critical to question the letter Y, or bicornous element of Pythagoras, that is, the making of the horns equal.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 19. BID. To require, or demand, (sc.) for a certain price; to offer, or propose to give. To the eldest he seide first, "Dogter ich bidde the "Ther fore ich bidde, that ich mowe my stat holde thorg the, So ageyn Edward thei held it half a gere, Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 13. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. i. Lep. Heere's more newes. Mes. Thy biddings haue been done, and euerie houre Of other care they little reckoning make, Milton. Lycidas. Having performed that with great dexterity, he [South] lays by the text for the present, and according to the ancient and laudable custom he addressed himself to the Bid-prayer. Wood. Athena Oxon. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry.-Spectator, No. 106. In the thirty sixth year of his age he repaired to Longdeserted by their first masters and exposed to the purchase Lane, and looked upon several dresses which hung there of the best bidder.-Id. No. 264. Have I not said, not what I ought, Churchill. The Ghost, b. iv. BIDE. That of long time here haue I bene, More perfit joy haue ne might.-Chaucer. Dream. We haue bene but yuell cousayled to take this way; yet it had bene better to haue gone by Saynt Omers than to bid in this danger.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 413 They are in maruellous awe of the Spaniards, and very simple people, and liue maruellous sauagely: for the brought us to their bidings about two miles from the har" borough, where wee saw their women and lodging, which is nothing but the skin of some beast layd vpon the ground Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 809 Westm. Farwell faint-hearted and degenerate King, In whose cold blood no sparke of honor bides. Shakespeare. 3 Part K. Hen. VI. Act i. sc. F No eruel guard of diligent cares, that keep Crown'd woes awake, as things too wise for sleep: But reverend discipline, and religious fear, And soft obedience, find sweet biding here. Crashaw. A Religious Hous The wary Dutch this gathering storm foresaw, BIDENTAL. I desire you will tell her Grace, that ill manageme of forks is not to be helped when they are only bidcat which happens in all poor houses. Swift to Gay, March 19, 17 [Oniscus.] With seven scales, the last bidentate. Pennant. British Zoolo BIDE'T. Fr. Bidet, of unknown etymolog A little nag or curtall, (Cotgrave.) I will returne to my selfe, mount my bidet, in a dan and corvet upon my curtall.-B. Jonson, Masque. Chloris BIENNIAL. Bis, and annus, a year. Living, lasting or enduring, two years. You can by no culture or art extend a fennel stalk to stature and bigness of an oak: then, why should some very long-lived, others only annual or biennial? Ray. On the Creation, p That which bears a sick person; a litter. Uter, the gode kynge, (of wham we speke by vore) Was feble after that he was in horse bere y bore. R. Gloucester, p. And he cam nygh and touchide the beere, and thei baren, stoden, and he seyde yonge man Y seye to thee up.-Wielif. Luke, c. 7. Womā, saith he, make no more weping. And whe had so said, he came unto the biere whereon the dead was carried, and put his hand to it. And immediatly whiche carryed the corpse stayed.—Udal. Ib. It is a shame to behold the insatiablenesse of some c ous persons in their doings: that where their ances left of their land a broad and sufficient beerebalk, to the corps to the Christian sepulture, how men pinch at beerebalks, which by long use and custome ought to violably kept for that purpose. Homily for Rogation Weeke, I Truly so long as he [Strabo] lived, they feared his ness obtained by arms, for indeed he was a noble cap but being stricken with a thunderbolt, and dead, they him from the bier whereon his body lay as they carrie to burial, and did thereto great villany. North. Plutarch, But when Heliodorus, I wot not whether by sickne by some devised violence, was dead (loth I am to much, would God the thing itselfe could not speak it) his corps was carryed forth to be buried by the biere b many honourable personages went before it, as mour blacke.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 360. -A bier is next prepared, Or which the lifeless body should be rear'd, Dryden. Palamon & Arcite, b. iii. His dead, the fun'ral bell dev'ry friend to bid farewell. 1ned the melancholy bier. And cropp'd the unavailing tear. Cotton. Vision. The last Death. BL-FID. Bis and findo. To cleave in two. Cleft in two: common in works on Natural Eistory. ter. With jointed body; legs eleven on each side; 4&c.-Pennant. British Zoology. The characters (of the hemlock] are: the leaves cut into segments, the petals of the flowers bifid, &c. Miller, in v. Cicuta. BL-FOLD. Twofold. Thus, the quarto Shakepare. The first folio reads by foule. -The condition Ofur affairs exacts a double care, Masinger. The Maid of Honour, Act ii. sc. 3. BI-FURCATED.) Bis, two, and furca, a BIFURCATION, fork. Separated, divided, cleft asunder, like a fork; ¡Furkel The disciples of Antychriste with their byfurked ordinaries violently packe from the trewe Christen Church (whose Inge la not of the world) the eternal worde of the Lorde. Bale. Image, pt. ii. The first a Catechresticall and far derived similitude, it the mandrake, helds with man; that is, in a bifurcation in of the rest into two parts, which some are content tarali thigha-Browne. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 6. The mouth (of the lesser lamprey] is formed like that of theding, on the upper part is a large bifurcated tooth. Pennant. British Zoology. BIG, c. Bs, adj. Perhaps from the A. S. Bycgan, Byggan, Sw. Bygga; Eng. to , orbig, to build. Edificare, struere, adstruere, to build, to pile or heap up; and thus to increase alk or size, to enlarge, to form into a large to magnify. Kirkes & houses brent, nouht than wild he spare. But they can doublin their rentall Chaucer. The Plouhman's Tale. Id. Troilus, b. iv. He wyll dystroye thy bygly landys, Le Bone Florence. Ritson, vol. iii. Sche seyde, God, of myghtys moost, As y dud nevyr thys dede, For thy grete godhede. Id. Ib. Then came oon hyght Awdromoche, And enhabyted cuntreys clene.-Id. Ib. And surely sauing that in that chapyter he brawleth bygly, and scoldeth strongelye and raileth ryallye, and lyeth puissauntlye els is all hys matter besyde marueylouse feable and weake.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 701. In the somer folowynge, about Mary Magdaleyne tyde fell hayle of suche bygnesse that it slewe both men and beestys. Fabyan, vol. i. c. 238. The elephantes of that countrey bee stronger then those that be made tame in Aphrike & their bignes do aunswer vnto their stregth.-Brende. Quintus Curtius, p. 233. [William Rufus] was of person a square man, red coloured, &c. . . . . not of any great stature, though somewhat big bellied.-Stowe. William Rufus, an. 1087. And those which erewhile were so warie and wise, waxt forward enough after the euent, and grew to speake bigly. Savile. Tacitus, p. 194. Hence oftentimes authoritie Lookes biglier than a bull, With suiters poore too sternely quicke, In helping them too dull. Warner. Albion's England, b.ix. He look'd a lion with a gloomy stare, Mar. O Lucia, Lucia, might my big-swoln heart Addison. Cato, Act iv. sc. 1. -It is the kind of man, Chaucer. Of Queen Annelida, &c. Dr. Jamieson says, "that a biggin is a house perly of a larger size, as opposed to a cottage." alau produces, from Ritson, some instances of he was bigamus; this good woman perceyuyng that her And therefore was it alleged against this goldsmyth that former mariages shoulde shorten her husbands dayes, came into the open courte before the judges and affyrmed by her othe contrarye to the truthe, that she was neuer maryed to Hall. Hen VIII. an. 35. eof bygly, signifying habitable, commoand others where it may signify big, i. e. era thern the same word differently applied. Ritson gives no explanation, but evidently no man other then to the sayde goldsmyth. Large, enlarged, great, ample; magnified, of Eze, magnitude or extent; extended, disend; expanded; filled out in bulk, swoln, Buy is much used as a prefix. of Gryme a fishere. men redes git in ryme, That be biggest Grymesby Gryme that ilk tyme. R. Brunne, p. 26. Which is a plain proofe yt cöcernig ye phibició of any mō wiues then one & the forbiddig of bigamy by ye weddig of one wife after another, was the special ordinace of God & not of Sait Poule.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 229. Saint Chrysostome saithe, that S. Paule suffereth not them, that haue twise married, to atteine sutche a roume, By these woordes, saithe M. Hardinge, Chrysostome condemneth the impure bigamie of our holy gospellers. Jewel. A Defence of the Apologie, p. 173. Greater is the wonder of your strickt chastitle, than it would be a nouell to see you a bigama. Warner. Albion's England, Addition to, b. ii. Their false god Vulcan is not very hard to unmask, he was a mortal man, and one of the sons of the other Lamech, the prime bigamist and corrupter of marriage. Donne, Hist. of the Septuagint, p. 202. Bigamy, according to the canonists, consisted in marrying two virgins successively, one after the other, or once marrying a widow.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b.iv. c. 13. note b. BIGGIN. A kind of cap, Mr. Steevens says, at present worn only by children, but so called from the cap worn by the Beguins, an order of Nuns. "From the biggen to the nightcap;" Mr. Gifford interprets, "from infancy to age.' A biggin he had got about his brane, " Spenser. Shepherd's Calendar. May. Yet not so sound, and half so deepely sweete, Shakespeare. 2 Part Hen. IV. Act iv. sc. 4. Here is nothing but a little fresh straw, Massinger. The Picture, Act iv. sc. 2. You that have suck'd the milk of the court, and from thence have been brought up to the very strong meats and wine of it; been a courtier from the biggen to the night cap: (as we may say) and you, to offend in such a high point of ceremony, as this! and let your nuptials want all marks of solemnity!-B. Jonson. The Silent Woman, Act iii. sc. 6. BIGOT, adj. BIGOT, n. BIGOTED. BIGOTICK. BIGOTICAL. The French at this day apply the word bigot, to one superstitiously religious, not certainly from the oath be-got, as Menage thinks; but rather from the A. S. Bigan, colere; and hence also begine, a religious woman, (Wachter in v. Bein- Gott.) Cotgrave says, bigot, an old Norman word, (signifying as much as de par Dieu, or our-for God's sake) made good French, and signifying BIGOTICALLY. BIGOTRY. An hypocrite, or one that seemeth mucn more holy than he is also a scrupulous, or superstitious fellow. Speight says, "Bigin, bigot, superstitious hypocrite." Upon which Thynne remarks, "whiche sence I knowe yt maye somewhat beare, because yt sauorethe of the dispositione of those Begins or Beguines, for that ys the true wrytinge." Wher findest thou a swinker of labour Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. There came to him an English gentleman, who having run himself out of breath in the inns of court, had forsaken his country, and therewith his religion; and was turned both bigot and physitian, residing now in Bruxels. Bp. Hall. Some Specialties in his Life. The same fortune once happened to Moliere, on the occasion of his Tartuffe: which notwithstanding afterwards has seen the light, in a country more bigot than ours, and is accounted among the best pieces of that poet. Dryden. Limberham, Epist. Ded. This Proclus, though he were a superstitious Pagan, much addicted to the multiplying of gods, (subordinate to one supreme) or a bigotick polytheist, who had a humour of deifying almost every thing, and therefore would have this nature forsooth to be called a goddess too; yet does he declare it not to be properly such, but abusively only. Cudworth. Intel. Syst. p. 686. It hath been indeed of late confidently asserted by some, that never any of the ancient philosophers dream'd of any such thing as incorporeal substance; and therefore they would bear men in hand, that it was nothing but an upstart and new fangled invention of some bigotical religionists. Id. Ib. p. 18. Because he [Julian] was an emperour, and had so great an animosity against Christianity, and was so superstitiously or bigotically zealous for the worship of the gods. Id. Ib. p. 274. It may be doubted, with good reason, whether there ever was in nature a more abject, slavish, and bigotted generation than the tribe of Beaux Esprits, at present so prevailing in this island.-Spectator. No. 234. To take up half on trust, and half to try, Dryden. The Hind and the Panther, pt. i. They are terribly afraid of being called bigots and enthusiasts; but think there is no danger of falling into the opposite extreme of lukewarmness and want of piety. Porteus, vol. i. Ser. 1. Nor think the Muse, whose sober voice ye hear, A rich chain of great pearls and small vases, red and gold, are other ornaments to our bigotted sovereign. Pennant. Journey from Chester. I shall only in one word mention the horrid effects of bigotry and avarice, in the conquest of Spanish America; a conquest on a low estimation effected by the murder of ten millions of the species.-Burke. Vindication of Nat. Society. BILANDER. Dut. Be-landen, to land; Fr. Belandre, a boat or vessel, fit only to keep close to land. Why chuse we then like bilanders to creep BILBO. Bilbou. Dryden. The Hind & Panther, pt. i. A kind of sword or rapier, and also of stocks for the feet; so called because made at Tell that brave man of hope, He shall the Mountford's find in th' head of all their troops, To answer his proud braves; our bilbows be as good BILE. A. S. Bile, ulcus; Dut. Buyle; Ger. Buhel; Sw.Bald. Junius says, " Buyle vel puyle est tuber, a puylen; protuberare, prominere." Wachter, that Beul is a stroke, a blow; the mark made by a blow; a tumour; from the A. S. Bluan, to give a blow, to strike; yet he doubts whether the signification can be transferred from a tumour (a tuberculis) to an ulcer (ad ulcera). See BOIL. Applied to An ulcerous tumour. And there was a beggar Lazarus by name: that lay at hise gate ful of bilis, and coueytide to be fulfillid of the crummys that fellen doun fro the riche mannes boord: and no man gaf to him, but houndis camen and likkiden his bylis.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 16. When there is a byle in the skynne of any mans flesh, and it is healed and after in the place of the byle there appeare a whyte rysing, either a shynynge white somewhat redysh, let him be sene of the preast.-Bible, 1551. Lev. c. 13. But when once settled in the stomach, it excited vomitings, in which was thrown up all that matter which physicians call discharges of bile, attended with excessive torture.-Smith. Thucydides, b. ii. The bile is of two sorts, the cystick, or that contained in the gall-bladder, which is a sort of repository for the gall; and the hepatick, or what flows immediately from the liver. Arbuthnot. On Aliments, c. 1. The liver minds his own affair; Still lays some useful bite aside, To tinge the chyle's insipid tide; Else we should want both gibe and satire; And all be burst with pure good-nature.-Prior. Alma, c.1. Some of them [voracious animals] have the biliary duct inserted into the pylorus.-Arbuthnot. On Aliments, c. 1. Why bilious juice a golden light puts on, And floods of chyle in silver currents run. Garth. Dispensary, c. 1. BILK. Mr. Gifford says, " Bilk seems to have become a cant word about this (Ben Jonson's) time, for the use of it is ridiculed by others, as well as Jonson. It is thus explained in Cole's English Dictionary, Bilk, nothing; also to deceive." Lye, from the Goth. Bilaikan, which properly signifies insultando illudere. To cheat, to defraud, to elude. Tub. Hee will ha' the last word, though he take bilke for't. Hugh. Bilke? what's that? Tab. Why nothing, a word signifying nothing; and borrow'd here to express nothing. B. Jonson. Tale of a Tub, Act i. sc. I. [He] was then ordered to get into the coach, or behind it, for that he wanted no instructors; but be sure you dog you, says he, don't you bilk me.-Spectator, No. 498. Patrons in days of yore, like patrons now, BI-LITERAL. letters, (literæ.) Churchill. Independence. Consisting of, formed by, two It is the genius of the Sanscrit, and other languages of the same stock, that the roots of the verbs be almost universally biliteral.-Sir W. Jones. Fourth Anniversary Discourse. BILL, v. A. S. Bile. Perhaps from the A. S. BILL, n. Pullian, to pull. The beak, that which pecketh; the bill, that which pulleth. So in Lat. Vellicare, (from vellere, to pull,) is to pull, as a bird does. The bill, beak, or nib of a bird, the nose or snout of a beast or fish, the snout or beak of a ship, (Somner.) To bill (met.), to fondle, to play the part of fond lovers. And of a rauen, which was tolde, Of nyne hondred wynter olde, She toke the head, with all the bille.-Gower. Con. A. b. v. Browne. British Pastorals, s. 3. On whose [the cup's] swelling sides, four handles fixed were And upon every handle sate, a pair of doves of gold; Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xi. A dove sent forth once and agen to spie Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xi. On the other side, Tom Faddle and his pretty spouse, wherever they come, are billing at such a rate, as they think must do our hearts good who behold 'em. Spectator, No. 300. His eyes with milder beauties beam, Moore. Solomon, pt. iii. O let them ne'er, with artificial note, BILL. BILLETS. BILLMAN. A. S. Bill; Dut. Byl; Ger. Beil; which Skinner thinks is Securis rostrata, a beaked axe, so called from its great resemblance to the bill of a bird. Junius thinks billets are pieces of wood cut with a bill. A hooked tool or weapon, to cut, mow, hew. Agayne loke how vncomely a thyng it were if a philosophier would with his cloke & long beard scip about the stage, & play a parte in an interlude: or els holde a bill & a net in his hande in the place where the swordplayers are wont to fyght at vtteraunce, and syng theyr accustomed song. Udal. Mark, Pref. For where before tymes there were sent ouer, for the ayde and tuicyon of the tounes, and citees, brought vnder the obeysaunce of the English nacion thousands of men, apte and mete for the warre, and defence: now were sent into Fraunce, hundreds, yea scores, some rascall, and some not able to drawe a bow or carry a bill. Hall. Hen. VI. an. 14. When that the stak of wood was reared vp He in the mornynge caused the Mayre of the citie t apparell in armure the beste and most coragious persones( the citie: whiche brought to him iii. m. archers and iii. n bilmen besyde them that were deputed to defend the citie. Hall. Hen. IV. an. The souldiers Englishmen were all asleep except th watch, the which was slender; and yet the shout arise bowes and bils, bows and bils; which is a signification extreme defence, to avoide the present danger in all tow of war.-Knox. History of Reformation, p. 91. Cocceius Proculus a bilman of the garde had a suite wi his neighbour about a small parcell of ground, which la doubtfull betweene them, Otho with his owne money boug his neighbours whole ground, and freely bestowed it vp him.-Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 18. Enuy, when it is once conceiued in a malicious heart, like fire in billets of juniper, which (they say) continues mo yeares than one.-Bp. Hall. Cont. Anna & Peninna. Firing the wood cut in length like our billets, at the en and joyning them together so close, that though no flame fire did appeare, yet the heat continued without intermissi Sir F. Drake. Revived, p. Come, pierce your old hogsheads, ne'er stint us in sher For this is the season to drink and be merry; That, reviv'd by good liquor and billets together, We may brave the loud storms, and defy the cold weath Fenton. Imit. of Horace, b. i. Od The ranks of bill-men in order to battle are always viron'd with pike men; for the bill-men serve specially execution if the enemy be overthrown. Oldys. Life of Rale Though winter reigns, our labours never fail : Then all day long we hear the sounding flail; And oft the beetle's strenuous stroke descends, That knotty block-wood into billets rends. BILL, v. BILL, n. BILLET, V. BILLET, n. Scott. Amabean, Ec Spelman, Schedula, libellus, s graphus; A. S. Bille unde Gra Barb. BAλos; Gal. and Bel. Bi The verb occurs in our old tra lators; Conquirere milites, in modern usage enlist, to enroll, to put or write upon the mus roll; is rendered to bill by Sir Henry Sa To billet a soldier or other person is by n bill, or particular in writing, to appoint his quar or lodgings. A bill seems to be applied to a statemer writing of certain particular things, as a bi indictment, a bill of costs, a bill of exchan the first setting forth the particular offe charged; the second, the particular sums clair and the last, the particular sum to be paid time when, the place where, &c. This salfe cherl came forth a ful gret pas, And saide; lord, if that it be your will, As doth me right upon this pitous bill, In which I plaine upon Virginius, And if that he wol sayn it is not thus, I wol it prove, and finden good witnesse, That soth is that my bille wol expresse. Chaucer. The Doctoures Tale, v. He desyred to haue a byll drawen of the sayde resyg that he myght be perfyght in the rehersall thereof. Fabyan, an This bil putteth he fourth in ye pore beggers name we verely thinke if them self haue as much wit proctour lacketh, they had leuer see their bylmaker then their supplicacion spedde. Sir T. More. Workes, Again, whereas divers of their neighbours, and Ilotes themselves, (whom they had billed in their t soulders) stole away and ran to their enemies. North. Plutarcl Pelopidas seeing every man afraid of this eclips he would not compell the people to depart with this with so ill hope to hazard the loss of seven thousa bans, being all billed to go this journey.-Id. Ib. p Which being of itselfe a burdensome thing, w much more insupportable, by the auarice and lewd tion of the officers, who billed chiefly such as we impotent persons, and then for money released the Savile. Tacitus. Histori The father of Alenas denied, and said that he h no lot for him; and it seemd unto every man that some error in writing of those billes or names for th Holland. Plutar Item, you haue caused the sixt of October la Hampton Court for the defence of your owne cau seditious bils to bee written in counterfeited h secretly to be throwne abroad in diuers partes of th Stowe. Edw. Vi |