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But faire before the gate a spatious plaine,

Mantled with greene, itself did spredden wide,

On which she saw sixe knights, that did darraine
Fierce battaille against one, with cruel might and maine.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 1.

And in the townes as they do march along,
Proclames him King, and many flye to him,
Darraigne your battell, for they are at hand.

Shakespeare. 3 Part Hen. VI Act ii. sc 2.

For battell was design'd a plot of ground
Within a little isle, which Olney hight,
Whom Seuerne with his armes incircleth round,
Where we as combatants in single fight
Should d'araine battell in both armies sight,
While they assigned were by our command,
On th' other side of Seuern's streame to stand.

Mirrour for Magistrates, p. 599. DART, v. Fr. Dard; It. and Sp. Dardo; DART, n. Ger. Dard; Mid. Lat. Dardus, DA'RTER.jaculum, telum missile. Martinius, (in v. Sagitta,) derives Dart from the Gr. Aopariov, the diminutive of dopu, hasta, a spear; and this etymology, says Wachter, snatches the palm from all that I have seen: he thinks, however, the Gr. and Ger. had a Celtick origin. Junius also prefers δοράτιον.

"Fr. Darder, to dart ;-to fiing, hurl, cast or throw a dart; also to hit, wound, pierce or hurt with a dart." (Cotgrave.) Generally, to throw,

to cast.

Oft tille our Inglismen was schewed a marvaile grete, A darte was schot to them, bot non wist who it schete. R. Brunne, p. 178. In alle thingis take ghe scheeld of feith in which ghe moun quenche all the fyry dartis of the worst.-Wiclif. Effes. c. 6. Right with her loke, through shotten & darted. Chaucer. Troilus, b. i.

She the castel nil not assaile Ne smite a stroke in this battaile With dart, ne mace, speare, ne knife.-Id. R. of the Rose. And anone after, the Boeotians caused a certaine nomber of slingers and dart-casters to comme from Malie wyth two thousande good souldiars on fote.-Nicoll. Thucid. fol. 118.

Sussex, the next that was to come aboard,
Bore a black lion rampant, sore that bled
With a field-arrow darted through the head.

Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt.

Dire was the tossing, deep the groans, Dispair
Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch;
And over them triumphant Death his dart
Shook, but delai'd to strike, though oft invok't
With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii. Himself taking a torch-light in his hand shewed them the way what they should go, appointing his archers and darters to hurl and bestow their darts and other fiery instruments, to the tops of the houses.-North. Plutarch, p. 391.

Disconsolate, not daring to complain,
Silent he wander'd by the sounding main :
Till safe at distance, to his God he prays,
The God who darts around the world his rays.
Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. i.

Ought not the light of reason to be look'd upon by us as a rich and a noble talent, and such an one as we must account to God for? For it is certainly from him. It is a ray of divinity darted into the soul.-South, vol. ii. Ser. 11.

Then to their succour ran with eager haste,
And, fondly griev'd, their stiff'ning limbs embrac'd,
But in the action falls; a thrilling dart,
By Phoebus guided, pierc'd him to the heart.
Croxall. Ovid. Metam. b. vi.

But to return from the old treatise on archery to the practise of it in the present age. The ladies seem to be ambitious of shooting darts, in a literal sense, as they have long been celebrated for doing execution by their figurative artillery.-Knox. Winter Evenings, Even. 36.

You will be able when you come to London, to examine with the minutest scrupulosity, as Johnson would call it, the properties of that singular animal, who is in the rivers of South America, what Jupiter was feigned to be among the Gods, a darter of lightning, and should be named aστparηpopos, instead of gymnotus.

Sir W. Jones. To Lord Althorp. DASH, v. Percutere, allidere, contunDASH, n. dere, perfundere, confundere. DA'SHING, n. The original of this word is unDA'SHISM. certain; its meaning and various applications are plain. Dash, daze, daw, are probably the same word, differently written and applied.

To dash (sc.) the foot against a stone, is simply to strike it against a stone.

To dash any one, (met.) is to strike him (sc.) with surprise, with astonishment, with shame with fear. And thus

To daunt, to depress, to lower the character or quality, and by striking or throwing one thing into another, to mix, and thus to alter.

To dash,-to do any thing with a dash, with a stroke, at a blow, with a show of ease, of dexterity, with a flourish;-hastily, carelessly, precipitately, flourishingly, ostentatiously.

The pykes smyte hem thoru out, or thei wyste wat yt were,
And daschte and a dreynte fourty schippes there.
R. Gloucester, p. 51.

So wo begon a thing was she
She all to dasht herselfe for wo
And smote togider her hondes two.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.
For I my faulte confesse,
And my deserte dothe al my comforte dashe.
Wyat, Psalm 38.
For it is wrytten, he shall giue his aungels charge over
thee to kepe thee, and with their handes they shall stay the
vp that thou dashe not thy fote agaynst a stone.
Bible, 1551. Luke, c. 4.
And whan he perceyueth, that Scriptures wyl not ayde
hym in approuynge of hys bablynges, he heapeth me in, an
whole halfe leafe at a dash, out of Saynt Augustyne.
Bale. Apology, fol. 37.
Sam. Go, baffl'd coward, lest I run upon thee,
Though in these chains, bulk without spirit vast,
And with one buffet lay thy structure low,
Or swing thee in the air, then dash thee down
To the hazard of thy brains and shatter'd sides.
Milton. Samson Agonistes.

What was the snaky-headed Gorgon shield
That wise Minerva wore, unconquer'd virgin,
Wherewith she freez'd her foes to congeal'd stone,
But rigid looks of chaste austerity,

And noble grace, that dash'd brute violence
With sudden adoration, and blank awe?-Id. Comus.
For Th. hee would haue the Saxon letter Thorne, which
was a D with a dash through the head, or p.

Camden. Remains. Languages. Aut. Now (had I not the dash of my former life in me) would preferment drop on my head. Shakespeare. Winter's Tale, Act v. sc. 2. Whatever moves is moved by nature and necessity, and the mutual occursions and rencounters of atoms, their playes, their stroaks and dashings against one another, their reflexions and repercussions, their cohesions, implexions, and entanglements, as also their scattered dispersions and divulsions, are all natural and necessary. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 97. With just bold strokes he dashes here and there, Showing great mastery with little care, Scorning to varnish his good touches o'er To make the fools and women praise them more.

Rochester. An Allusion to Horace.

Should he find but upon one single sheet of parchment or paper an epistle or oration written full of profound sense, express'd in proper and significant words, illustrated and adorn'd with elegant phrase; it were beyond the possibility of the wit of man to persuade him that this was done by the temerarious dashes of an unguided pen, or by the rude scattering of ink upon the paper, or by the lucky projection of so many letters at all adventures.

Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. Fountains and cypresses peculiarly become buildings, and no man can have been at Rome, and seen the vast basins of marble dashed with perpetual cascades in the area of St. Peter's, without retaining an idea of taste and splendour. Walpole. On Modern Gardening.

The dashing fellow, as great genius usually shows strong indications of it at the earliest age, begins his career of glory at the public school, to which he is sent by his parents, to rub off the shyness incident to natural modesty and the immaturity of youth.-Knox. Winter Evenings, Even. 28. He must fight a duel, before his claim to complete heroism, or dashism, can be universally allowed.-Id. Ib. DA'STARD, v. DA'STARD, adj. DA'STARD, n. DA'STARDIZE. DA'STARDLINESS. DA'STARDLY. DA'STARDNESS. DA'STARDY. DA'STARDLIKE.

Dastard, i. e. territus, the past part. of Dastrig-an, adastrig-an, terrere. Dastriged, dastryed, dastried, dastred, dastr'd, (Tooke.) Upon this past part. Dryden has formed the verb.

To terrify, to dash or strike with terror, to intimidate, to

Cow or cower.
Scant could they hold the teares that furth gan burst,
And almost fell from bloody hands the swordes;
Only the sterne Herennius, with grym looke,
Dastards, why stand you still? he sayeth; and straight
Swaps of the head with his presumptuous yron.

Vncertaine Auctors. Marcus Tullius Ciceroes Death.

Dastardes whe they come forth of their dennes, bring nothing with them but names of men. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 92.

Then the Lorde Willoughby, set on them before and the Erle behynde, shotynge so fierseley, that the dastarde people partly amased with the sodaine chaunce, and partly galled and wounded with the shot of the arrowes threwe awaie their harneis.-Hall. Hen. VI. an. 12.

But Hildebrand accuseth them of negligence and dastardnesse, threatneth them with excommunication, vnlesse they cause their priests to obeie his decree.

Fox. Martyrs. Marriage of Priests Defended, p. 159. Conuey me Salisbury into his tent, And then wee'le try what these dastard Frenchmen dare. Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. VI. Act i. sc. 4.

And this their pusillanimity and cowardice, as well as their cunning and craft, may be imputed to their various thraldoms, contempt and poverty, which hath cow'd and dastardized their courage.-Howell, b. i. s. 6. Let. 14.

The Romans have ever esteemed magnanimity, even in their greatest enemies; but dastardness, though it be fortunate, yet it is hated of every body.

North. Plutarch, p. 216.

The standard bearer for the tenth legion desperately leapt souldiers and asking whether they would dastardly forsake foorth of the ship with his eagle, calling on the danted their ensigne and betray it through cowardize to the enemy.

Speed. The Romans, b. vi. c. 2. 8. 3.
I'm weary of this flesh which holds us here,
And dastards manly soul with hope and fear.

Dryden. The Conquest of Mexico, Act ii. se. 2. Darest thou not, O heartless dastard, to do that, which is in thy power easily to doe, which thou art infinitely concerned to doe, which upon so many accompts thou art obliged to doe, out of fear to cross thine equal, yea far thine inferiour in this case.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 34.

For if he liv'd, and we were conquerors,
He had such things to urge against our marriage
As, now declar'd, would blunt my sword in battle,
And dastardize my courage.

Dryden. Don Sebastian, Act ii. sc. 2. There is a dastardly poorness in guilt and faction that wil shrink before the face of justice, and the aspect of authority. South, vol. vii. Ser. 4. But think not, though these dastard-chiefs are fled, That Covent Garden troops shall want a head: Harlequin comes their chief.-Churchill. The Rosciad. No efforts should be declined in such a cause, (civil liberty a handing them down as they received them, sink, with nor should men, sensible of their blessings, and desirous of dastardly indolence, into a state of despair.

V. Knox. On Despotism, s. 34. DATE, v. Fr.Date; It.Data; Sp.Data; DATE, n. Lat. Datum, past part. of dare, DA'TER. to give, which was written by the DA'TELESS. Romans at the bottom of their DA'TARY. epistles; denoting the time at which they were written.-As, Datum pridie idus Junii. Accepi literas datas, &c. And thus date, generally, is—

Any given time; any fixed or settled time; and to date, Sp. Datar; Fr. Dater.-to mark, note. or fix the time.

Datum, pl. Data,-any thing or things, any fact or facts, given or granted.

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Cotgrave has, Dataire, a dater of writings; and (more particularly) the dater or despatcher of the pope's bulls."

The date of Jhesu Criste was written in this lyue
Auht hundreth wynter sexti & fyue.-R. Brunne, p.21.
As for the date ye shall know verely
That ye may haue a space in your comming.

Chaucer. The Assemblie of Ladies. And the king by his ordinance, dated the Munday after Midlent, Anno 1302, (set doune in the register of ancient orders of Parliament, fol. 45) willed, that for the commodity of his subjects there should be every yeare two parliaments at Paris, and in other provinces.

Prynne. Treachery of the Papists, &c. pt. i. p. 15. But yet, in common acceptation, it's an enemy to verity. which can plead the antiquity of above six thousand: and Glanvill. The Spirit of Dogmatizing, c. 15. Then can I drown an eye unus'd to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long-since cancel'd woe, And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight. Shakespeare, s. 30.

bears date before the chaos.

Pius V. sent a greater aid to Charles IX. and for riches. besides the temporal dominions, he hath in all the countries before named the datary or dispatching of Bulls.

Howell, b. i. s. 1. Let. 38.

From the blessings they bestow,

Our times are dated and our eras move:

They govern and enlighten all below,

As thou dost all above.-Prior. Hymn to the Sun.

He at once,

Down the long series of eventful time,

So fixed the dates of being, so dispos'd

To every living soul of every kind

The field of motion and the hour of rest,
That all conspir'd to his supreme design,

To universal good.-Akenside. Pleasures of Imagin. b. ii.

Any writer, therefore, who mentions the rising or setting of any star, at any particular time of the year, with respect to the sun, furnishes us with data sufficient to determine the time in which he wrote.-Priestley. History, Lect. 12.

DATE. Fr. Datte, dacte, dactil, dactyle; Sp. Datel; It. Dattero; Lat. Dactylus, a species of palm tree, so called from some resemblance in the fruit, or the husk of the fruit, to the finger. The Fr. Dactyle, Cotgrave calls the date or finger

grape.

There were cherubins and date trees made also, so that the date tree stode euer betwixte two cherubyns.

His observation that the lights and shades in the different parts of the picture came from opposite sides, is unanswerable, and demonstrate it no genuine picture of Holbein, unless that master had been a most ignorant dauber, as he might sometimes be a careless painter.

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 4.

In truth the age demanded nothing correct, nothing compleat, capable of tasting the power of Dryden's numbers, and the majesty of Kneller's heads, it overlooked doggrel and daubing.-Id. Ib. vol. iii. c. 4.

And did you step in, to take a look at the grand picture in your way back?-'Tis a melancholy daub, my lord? not one principle of the pyramid in any one group.

Sterne. Tristram Shandy, vol. iii. c. 12.

DAUGHTER. DAUGHTERLY. DAUGHTERLINESS.

DAUGHTERLess.

Goth. Dauhtar; A. S. Dohtor; Dut. Dochter; Ger. Tochter. Junius, from the Gr. Ovyarnp. Skinner, from the Lat. Dos; puella enim sine dote vix Wachter, from Low Sax. Tygen, gignere, parere, elocari potest. (In Scotch, Tocher is dowry.) procreare; to beget, to bring forth.

The daughter of a man or woman is his or her Bible, 1551. Ezekiel, c. 41. female child; the son is the male child.

Date-trees love a light and sandie ground, and specially (for the most part) if it stand much upon a veine of nitre besides.-Holland. Plinie, b. xiii. c. 4.

The fig and date, why love they to remain la middle station, and an even plain.

DAUB, v. DAUB, R. DA'UBER.

DA'UBING, n. DA'UBRY.

DA'UBY.

Prior. Solomon. Knowledge.

Junius thinks daub is of the same origin as dabble, (qv.) i. e. from dab, to dab or dip, (sc.) in the dirt; tingere, inficere; and thus, consequentially,

Thre dogtren this kynge hadde, the eldest Gornorille,
The mydmost hatte Regan, the gongest Cordeille.
R. Gloucester, p. 29.
Offa, kyng of Lyndsay, a fayre doughter had,
Brittrik hir wedded, and quene home her lad.

R. Brunne, p. 10. And he that lovith son or douhtir over me is not worthie of me.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 10.

And certes if I of him faile,

I wot right welle withoute faile,

Ye shall for me be doughterles.-Gower. Con. A. b. viii.

For Christian charitie, and naturall loue, & youre very daughterlye dealing, funiculo triplici, qui (vt ait Scriptura)

To stain or smear, to dirty; to difficile rumpitur, both bynde me and straine me thereto.

cover with, to lay on any thing thickly, coarsely; and thus, (met.) to disguise, and also to flatter. Daubing, in the quotation from Piers Plouhman, is dabbing, or dibbing.

Tho was Peers ful proude. and putte hem al to werke
In daudyng and in delvyng.-Piers Plouhman, p. 138.
Thus wyll I perfourme my wrathe vpon this wall, and
vpon them that haue dawbed it with vntempered morter,
and then wyll I say vnto you: The wal is gone, and the
daubers are awaye.-Bible, 1551. Ezekiel, c. 13.

Her forehead faire is like a brazen hill
Whose wrinkled furrows, which her age doth breed,
Are daubed full of Venice chalk for need.
Bp. Hall, b. vi. Sat. 1.

I am a younger brother, basely borne, of mean parentage,
a durt dander's sonne, am I therefore to be blamed?
Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 320.

So smooth he dawb'd his vice with show of virtue

That his apparent open guilt omitted,

I meane, his conuersation with Shore's wife,

He liu'd from all attainder of suspects.

Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act iii. s. 5.

She workes by charmes, by spels, by th' figure, and such dawory as this is beyond our element: we know nothing.

Id. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act iv. sc. 2.

It is built from top to bottom with brick, all over daub'd thick with mud and dirt.-Dampier. Voyage, an. 1688.

She duely, once a month, renews her face;
Mean time, it lies in daub, and hid in grease.
Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 6.

But how should any sign-post dauber know
The worth of Titian or of Angelo.-Id. Ep. 4. To Mr. Lee.

But this was false daubery and within a day or two I was Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 345.

constrained to make satisfaction.

Yet some stricter persons censured this work much, as being a political daubing, in which, they said, there was more pains taken to gratify persons, and serve particular ends, than to assert truth in a free and unbiassed way, ch as became divines.-Burnet. Hist. of Ref. an. 1536.

And therefore, not in vain, th' industrious kind,
With dewby wax and flow'rs the chinks have lin'd.
Dryden. Virgil, Geor.

Sam.

Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1449.
She pleas'd

Me, not my parents, that I sought to wed,
The daughter of an infidel.-Milton. Samson Agonistes.

This must assuredly be a considerable accession to the womanliness or daughterliness, if I may so speak, of the church of Rome.-More. On the Seven Churches.

The great plenty of fruitful vines upon the sides of these mountains, was the occasion that Jacob in the spirit of prophesy, Gen. xlix. 22, compared Joseph's two branches, Ephraim and Manesseh, to the branches of a fruitful vine planted by the well side, and spread her daughter-branches along the wall.-Ralegh. Hist. of the World, b. ii. c. 9. s. 1.

Cecil cared not to go along with the purposes of the ambitious Duke of Northumberland, to advance his daughter-inlaw, married to Guildford Dudley his son, to the crown, and so to bring on the kingly dignity into his blood. Strype. Life of Cheke, an. 1553.

My daughter, my only daughter, from whose tenderness I expected all the comforts of my age, died last night of a fever. My views, my purposes, my hopes are at an end: I am now a lonely being disunited from society.

DAUNT, v. DA'UNTER. DA'UNTING, n. DA'UNTLESS.

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Johnson. Rasselas, c. 18.

"Daunt," says Skinner, "is to terrify, to confound, to reduce to silence by great daring or threatening; perhaps from Fr. Domter, domare, and this immediately from Lat. Domitare. "Fr. Dompter or donter, to tame, to reclame, to break, daunt; vanquish, overcome, subdue, bring under," (Cotgrave.)

G. Douglas calls a breaker of horses or a horsebreaker, a danter of horses, (b. xii. )

The Gywes and Herodes (that here king was)
He a dauntede harde ynow, and non harme yt nas.
R. Gloucester, p. 61.
And David that be diademy'd. and daunten alle oure
enemyes.
Piers Plouhman, p. 60.

Thy foly more fro day to day
Shall grow, but thou it put away:
Take with thy teeth the bridell fast
To daunt thy hart.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.

And furthermore, for as moche as reson of man wol not daunt sensualitiee whan it may, therefore is a man worthy 4. to have shame: and thus suffered our Lord Jesu Crist for man whan they spitten in his visage. Id. The Persones Tale.

No passions to plague him, no cause to torment,
His constant companions are Health and Content,
Their lordships in lace may remark, if they will,
He's honest though daub'd with the dust of the mill.
Cunningham. The Miller.

Thus haue I herd oft in saiying
That man may for no daunting
Make a sperhauke of a bosard.-Id. Rom. of the Rose.

But for all that, this he him graunteth

That which of hem, that other daunteth,
In armes, hym she shulde take,

And that the kinge hath vndertake.-Gower. Con. A. b.iv.
When drie of teares; and tir'd with tumbling there,
Th' old tel-truth thus my danted spirits did cheare.
Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. iv.
Impudence!

Thou goddess of the palace, mistress of mistresses,
To whom the costly perfumed people pray,
Strike thou my forehead into dauntless marble,
Mine eyes to steady sapphires.

Tourneur. The Revenger's Tragedy, Act i. sc. 1.
Will God incense his ire
For such a petty trespass, and not praise
Rather your dauntless vertue, whom the pain
Of death denounc't, whatever thing death be,
Deterr'd not from achieving what might leade
To happier life, knowledge of good and evil.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix.

The danter then of trespassers
Perceauing Theseus drie
His grieuous wounds, and at his feete
Pirithous dead to lie,

Desirous to reuenge them both,
Laies lustie lode about.

Warner. Albion's England, b. i. c. 6. A doctor of Jesuits, that is, a doctor of five D D's as dissimulation, deposing of kingdoms, daunting and deterring of subjects, and destruction.

State Trials, an. 1606. Henry Garnett. About the middle of August, the prince, exposing himself upon all occasions, received a musket shot in his arm; at which perceiving those about him were daunted, he immediately pulled off his hat with the arm that was hurt, and waved it about his head, to show the wound was but in the flesh, and the bone safe. Sir W. Temple. Memoirs, pt. ii. (1672-79.)

Let this suffice: nor thou, great saint, refuse
This humble tribute of no vulgar muse:
Who, not by cares, or wants, or age deprest,
Stems a wild deluge with a dauntless breast;
And dares to sing thy praises in a clime,
Where vice triumphs, and virtue is a crime.

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eldest son of France, called so, of Dauphiné, a province given, or (as some report it) sold in the year 1349, by Humbert, earl thereof, to Philippe de Valois; partly on condition that for ever the French king's eldest son, should hold it (during his father's life) of the empire." And see the quotation from Stow.

Wherefore the whole nobilitie and sage fathers made humble request, to Kyng Edward to help and ayde the yonge ladye and Prynces of Burgoyne, allegynge that as farre as they could perceyue the maryage of his doughter with the Dolphine, was but dissimuled and fayned. Hall. Edw. IV. an. 18.

Wherof John, then Duke of Burgoyn, beynge warned, suspectyd the quene that she with ayde of the duke wold covey the Daulphin into Germanye, and there to hold hym at theyre pleasure.-Fabyan, vol. ii. Car. VII. an. 26.

Euery daye almost talkyng with the quene his wife, of the mariage of his daughter, whom he caused to be called Dolphinesse, thynkyng nothyng surer then that mariage to take effect, according to the treatie.-Hall. Edw. IV. an. 14. And [they] passed the ryuer, and so entred into the Dolphynny of Vyen, and lodged abrode in the vyllages. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 177. And in yt season vnder the kyng there ruled in the Dolphynry the Lorde Eugueram Dardyn. Id. Ib.

Phillip of Valois the nine and fortyeth kinge of France in the yeare of our Lorde and Sauiour Jesus Christ one thousand three hundred forty and nine, bought the prouince of Dawphine of Imburtus Dawphin, for a small summe of money: uppon condition that for euer after the eldest sonnes of the Kinge of Fraunce, should be called the Prince Dawphin: which our English Chronicles call Prince Dolphin. and the French Chronicles call our Prince, the Prince of Wales, Prince of Gaules.-Stow. King James, an. 1609.

The best of Ovid's expositors is he that wrote for the Dauphin's use, who has very well shown the meaning of the author, but seldom reflects on his beauties or imperfections. Addison. Ovid. Met. b. ii. Notes.

It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.-Burke. On the French Revolution.

DAW, n. DA'WISH. DA'WCOCK.

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Skinner thinks it is so called from the sound it utters. Junius strongly suspects that it was originally written dawl: and that through the Ger. Tul, vel tule, it is, perhaps, from the Gr. Oveλλa, a sudden and heavy storm; which these birds usually presage.

And make here of a sickel or a saw

For though ye live a hundred yere ye shall dye a daw.
Skelton. Ware the Hawke.

Complaine or do what you will,
Of your complaint it shal not skill;
This is the tenor of my bil,

A daucocke ye be, and so shalbe still.

Id. Why come ye not to Court?

I see women can find in their hearts to tumble and lie with vicious and filthy men, & drunkards and braulers, and dawish, and brainelesse, cruel, and murderers.

Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. i. c. 16. Pompey being overthrown, one Nonius said, that there was yet good hope left, because they had taken seven eagles within Pompey's camp. Thy perswasion were not ill, quoth Cicero, so we were to fight but with pies and daws. North. Plutarch, p. 725. Endless as to sound each grating note With which the rooks, and chattering daws, and grave Unwieldly inmates of the village pond, The changing seasons of the sky proclaim.

Akenside. Pleasures of Imagination, b. ii.

DAW, v. To daw or adaw seems equivalent to-to dash, to daze, to daunt, and so Mr. Gifford interprets the word in B. Jonson (and all may have had the same origin. See ADAW.) "To dauer, daiver," Dr. Jamieson says, "is to stun, to stupefy, also to become stupid; Su. G. Daur-a, infatuare, dofw-a, stupere. To the same import is the Ger. Teuben. The Ger. Daver-en, tremere, tremiscere, he considers to be cognate. Ihre says, that dofw-a, properly denotes, sensu privare; to deprive of sense or sensation. In the quotation from Uncertain Authors it is,-to tame, to mitigate.

For he that sendeth grisely stormes,

With whisking windes and bitter blastes, And fowlth with haile the winter's face, And frotes the soile with hory frostes;

Euen he adawth the force of cold,

The springe in sendes with somer hote: The same full oft to stormy hartes

Is cause of bale, of ioy the roote.

Vncertaine Auctors. The Meane Estate, from Horace. Wit. He then had no barren head.

You daw him too much, in troth, sir.

B. Jonson. The Divell is an Asse, Activ. sc. 4.

DAW, v. A. S. Dag-ian, lucescere, DAWN, v. to daw.-Dawn, past part. DAWN, n. Dawen; and hence the verb, DA'WNING, n. to dawn, to be or become day. DA'WNING, adj. To bring out of daw is not an Jamieuncommon expression in R. Gloucester. son says, to do out of dawys, to bring of daw, is, to kill. Daw, he observes, is often used to denote life, and thus out of daw denotes death; and on daw, (q. on days,) may denote in life. But see DAW, supra.

To show or exhibit, or cause to show or exhibit, the appearances of light; and (met.) of any brilliant quality; any talent or virtue; and, consequentially, to awaken, to arouse.

Thoru ssedynge of thy brother blod, that thus ys brogt of

dawe.

R. Gloucester, p. 291.

"Ver, [for] gode syre kyng," quath thys thef, "vor thy loue ych hym slow.

Here ys that knyf al blody, that ych brogte hym wyth of Id. p. 311.

dawe."

Vor the heye blod, of wam hii come, the kyng hym by thogte,

An adde reuthe of hem gret, & ys wille gan wyth drawe,
And ne mygte, vor reuthe, vor non thyng bring hym of
lyf dawe.
Id. p. 315.

So that hii come to her felawes in dawynge.-Id. p. 208.
To Keningwurthe hii come in the dawninge.-Id. p. 557.

To haf tho lawes, That Samuel the gode kyng gaf bi olde dawes. R. Brunne, p. 168. Joye by gynneth to dawen. Piers Plouhman, p. 349.

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Tyll with good rappes,
And heuy clappes
He dawde hym vp agayne.

Sir T. More. Workes. These Fowre Thinges.

Watch therefore for ye know not when the master of the house wyll come, whether at euen or at midnight, whether at the cocke crowing or in the daunynge: least yf he come sodenlye he should find you slepyng.

Bible, 1551. Mark, c. 13.
The dawning day this while, ye ocean sea had cleerely cleft.
Phaer. Virgill. Eneidos, b. xi.
As when with crowned cups unto the Elian god
Those priests high orgies held; or when the old world saw
Full Phoebes face eclips'd, and thinking her to daw,
Whom they supposed falln in some enchanted swoun'd,
Of beaten tinkling brass still play'd her with the sound.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 6.
Now when as sacred light began to dawn
In Eden on the humid flours, that breath'd
Their morning incense, when all things that breath,
From th' earth's great altar send up silent praise
To the Creator, and his nostrils fill

With grateful smell, forth came the human pair
And joyn'd their vocal worship to the quire
Of creatures wanting voyce.-Milton. Par. Lost, b. ix.
But now at last the sacred influence

Id. Ib. b. ii

Of light appears, and from the walls of heav'n Shoots far into the bosom of dim night A glimmering dawn. Const. Would it were day! Alas poore Harry of England: hee longs not for the dawning, as wee doe.

Shakespeare. Hen. V. Act iii. sc. 7. There by th' vncertaine glimse of starry night, And by the twinkling of their sacred fire He mote perceiue a little dawning sight, Of all which there was doing in that quire.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 8.

Heare we no bird of day, or dawning morne,
To greet the sun, or glad the waking eare:
Sing oute, ye scrich-owles, lowder then aforne,
And ravens blacke of night.

Bp. Hall. Elegy on Dr. Whitaker.
The painted birds, that haunt the golden tide,
And flutter round the banks on every side,
Along the grove in pleasing triumph play,
And with soft music hail the dawning day.

Pitt. Virgil. Æneid, b. vii. And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks; And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks, and groves, in hollow-whispering gales. Thomson. A Hymn. The darkness and shadows of death pass away as soon as the Sun of Righteousness dawns upon the soul.

F. Knox. Works, vol. vi. Ser. 4.

In such an anxious state of things, if dawnings of success serve to animate our diligence, they are good; if they tend to increase our presumption, they are worse than defeats. Burke. On the Economical Reform.

DA'WDLE, n. & v. Daw, in Scotch, (see To DAW or ADAW,) is, consequentially, a sluggard, one who is lazy and idle, (Jamieson.) And dawdle, in English, seems to be a diminutive.

To move sluggishly, lazily, idly; to loiter or idle away time.

Be quick-why sure the gipsy sleeps!
Look how the drawling daudle creeps.-Lloyd. Chit-Chat.
DAY, n.
A. S. Dæg, from Dag-ian,
DA'ILY, adj. lucescere, to grow or become
DA'ILY, ad. light. Dut. Dagh; Ger. Tag.
Day is much used in composition; as day-
break, day-spring. See Daw, v.

The Kyng Cassibel anon for ioye made ys heste,
That alle the knyghtes of hys lond com to ys feste,
To London at a certeyn day, and here wyues al so.
Here sacrifice to here Godes, as rygt was, to do.
R. Gloucester, p. 52.

A countes to gelde

Howe we ladde oure lyf here. and hus lawes kepte And hou we dude day by day. the dome wol reherce. Piers Ploukman, p. 165

Techinge hem to kepe alle thingis whatever thingis I have comaundid to you and lo I am with you in alle daies unto the endyng of the world.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 28.

And anoon the man was maad hool & took up his bed, and wente forth and it was Saboth in that day.-Id. John, c. 5. His sone succedeth in his heritage; In rest and pees, after his fadres day.

Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 9012, Thus passeth yere by yere, and day by day, Till it felle ones in a morwe of May That Emelie, that fayrer was to sene Than is the lilie upon his stalke grene.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 1010. Wherefore was all their daily labour, Who could approch next in her fauour.

Id. The Remedie of Leur.

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God saw the light was good
And light from darkness by the hemisphere
Divided: light-the day, and darkness-night
He nam'd: thus was the first day eev'n and morn.
Milton. Paradise Losí, b. vi.
Other creatures all day long
Rove idle unemploid, and less need rest;
Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed, which declares his dignitie,
And the regard of heav'n on all his waies.-Id. Ib. b. iv.
Redouble then this miracle, and say,

How cam'st thou speakable of mute, and how
To me so friendly grown above the rest

Of brutal kind, that daily are in sight?-Id. Ib. b. ix.
That and the rest are in my daily care;

But should I shun the dangers of the war,
With scorn the Trojans would reward my pains,
And their proud ladies with their sweeping trains.
Dryden. Homer. Iliad, b. vi.

A patient, useful creature, born to bear
The warm and woolly fleece, that clothed her murderer,
And daily to give down the milk she bred,
A tribute for the grass on which she fed.

Id. Ovid. Met. b. xv.
At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still,
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,
When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill,
And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove.
Beattie. The Hermil

DA'YESMAN. An arbiter, as it were, bestowing a day, to decide a matter, (Minshew.) In Ger. Tag is day, and emphatically the day, the fixed or appointed day; and Tagen, is condicere diem, to appoint a day. In Dut. Dagh, is day; and dagh vaerden, diem dicere, constituere, præfinire alicui; to fix, appoint or determine a day for any one. And daghen, citare, to cite or summon. And thus, dayesman, he who fixes the day, who is present or sits as judge, arbiter or umpire on the day fixed or appointed. In Paul, 1 Cor. iv. 3, Wiclif's translation "of manny's dai," is literal from the Lat. Vulgate, "ab humano die. In Gr. Anо aveρwins nuepas; and this Mr. Parkhurst observes, is spoken in opposition to the coming of the Lord, in ver. 5, and also to nep the day, i. e. the day of the Lord, in the preceding chapter, ver. 13; where the Vulgate renders nuepa, Dies Domini,

If one man synne agaynst another, dayseman may make hys peace: but yf a man sinne agaynst the Lord who can be hys dayseman?—Bible, 1551. 1 Sam. c. 2.

To whom Cymochles said; For what art thou, That mak'st thyselfe his dayes-man, to prolong The vengeance prest.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c.. A shameful precedent for the time to come: namely, that vmpiers and daies-men, should convert the thing in suit unto their own and proper vantage.-Holland. Livius, p.15

There shall be no more need of a days-man for to mak intercession and reconciliation, for all distances, and enmuly shall be utterly abolished.-Hopkins, Ser. 15. DAZE, v. DA'ZING, n. DA'ZZLE, v.

DA'ZZLEMENT.

Dut. Daesen, delirare, insanire, phantasmate turbari. Also Dut. Dayselen: Vertigin laborare, obstupere, mente e animo perturbari, attonitu fieri, (Kilian.) Junius and Skinner think fro the A. S. Dwaes, stultus, foolish.

DA'ZZLINGLY.

To daze or dazzle, seems equivalent to

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And also dombe as a stone

Thou sittest at another boke

Til fully dased is thy loke.-Chaucer. House of Fame, b. ii.

For in good faith thy visage is ful pale
Thin eyen dasen, sothly as me thinketh.

Id. The Manciples Prologue, v. 16,980.

If any do but lift vp his nose to the smell after the truth, they swap him in the face with a fire brande to senge hys smellyng, or if he open one of his eyes once to looke towards ye light of God's word, they bleare and daze his sight with their false jugglyng.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 277.

I gessed long ago that God would send a dasing into the head of the spiritualitie, to be catched theselues in their owne subtiltie, and I trust it is come to passe.

Ïd. Ib. p. 455.

And the Lorde shall smyte the with madnesse, blyndnesse and dasynge of herte.-Bible, 1551. Deut. c. 28.

Whereby I learne that grieuous is the game

Which follows fansie dazled by desire.

Gascoigne. Flowers. To the same Gentlewoman.

Then takes he forth the shield, whose light so dazed

The lookers on, they fall down all amazed.

Harrington. Orlando, b. x. s. 93.

As where th' Almighties lightning brond does light,

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 8.

The which, O pardon me thus to enfold

In couert veile, and wrap in shadowes light,

The lowest order of the clergy in the apostolical and our

church is, that of a deacon, which deserves a great esteem,
none ought rashly to undertake it, nor suddenly to be ad-

because the meanest office in God's house is honourable, and

mitted into it, because it is the foundation of, and first step
toward the higher orders; and being instituted by the in-
spired Apostles, it is a sacred order, which gives a man
power to minister about holy things.

Comber. On the Office for making Deacons.

DEAD, or DE'ADEN, v. DEAD, n. DEAD, adj. DE'ADISH. DE'ADLY, adj. DEADLY, ad. DE'ADLIHOOD. DEADLINESS.

DE'ADNESS.

DEATH.

DEATHFUL.

DEATHFULNESS. DEATHLESS.

Ga-dauthnan, mori. Af-
dauthjan, morti tradere.
"A. S. Adead-an, fatiscere,
to fail or decay, to dye:
it. vastare, subruere, mor-
tificare, to lay waste, to
destroy, to mortify," (Som-
ner.) Ger. Todten; Dut.
Dood-en, mori, necare, to
die or cause to die; to kill.
Sw. Doe, mori, to die:
Doela, necare, to cause to
die; to kill.

To fail or decay, or dis-
DEATHLY.
solve, or cause to fail or
decay, or dissolve;-to lose or destroy, (sub.)
motion or sensation; any natural power or qua-
lity; to be or make, or cause to be, motionless,

Ne certes she was fatte nothing
But semed wery for fasting

Of colour pale and dedde was she.-Chaucer. R. of the R.
When she had swounded, with dedly chere,
That it was reuthe for to seen and here.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 915.

And whan a beest is ded, he hath no paine;
But man after his deth mote wepe and pleine,
Though in this world he have care and wo,
Withouten doute it maye stonden so.

And thus there were many dede,

Id. Ib. v. 1322.

Her heades stondinge on the gate.-Gower. Con. A. b.viii.

Wherof the seruant as he hadde,

Whan he was deade, his sonne hath ladde
To Bethuel, where he Robecke
Hath wedded with the white necke.

Thus hate I deadely thilke vice.

Id. Ib.

Id. Ib. b. iii.

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And the Duke of Gloucester aduertised of hys desyre, caused him in the dead of the night after al other folk auoyded, to be brought to him in his secret chamber. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 69.

Lest that suche short forgeuenes, as wel of al the payne as of the displeasure of God, and of the deadlynesse, or as men might say, of the damnabilitie belōging to the mortall lesse by sinne.-Id. Ib. p. 438.

I wretch astonisht was, and thought the deathful doom, Of heaven, of earth, of hell, of time and place was come. Sydney. Arcadia, b. iii.

It dimmes the dazed eyen, and daunts the sences quight. senseless, useless; without life, animation, breath, offence, myght make men waxe the worse, & sette much the spirit; to have or cause to have any of the peculiar or distinguishing qualities or appearances of any thing dead, of any thing without action or sensation, light or life; the stillness, dullness, darkness, gloominess, sameness. Death is that which deadeth. The third pers. sing. of A. S. Dead-ian, to dead or deaden, to kill. Death is much used in Composition.

That feble eyes your glory may behold,

Which else could not endure those beames bright.
But wold be dazled with exceeding light.-Id. Ib. b. ii.

It beat back the sight with a dazzlement.

Donne. Hist. of the Sept. p. 55.

There are but few, whom Fortune bathes in blesse,
But blinded are, and dazelingly they looke:
They see nought else but worldly happinesse,
At that they only fish with fortune's hooke.

Mirrour for Magistrates, p. 56.

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Middleton. Free Enquiry, Introd. Dis.

Lat. Diaconus; Gr. Alakovos; It. and Sp. Diacono; Fr. Diacre; Dut. Diaker; Ger. Diacon. Gr. Alakovos, qui festinat, qui sedulus est; a diligent servant or minister, from Ala-Kav-ev, to serve, to minister diligently; (compounded of dia, and Kov-ew, to hasten, to be diligent.)

See the quotation from Comber.

Also it behoueth dekenes to be chaaste, not double tunged, not gheuen mych to wyn, not suynge foul wynnynge, that han the mysterie of feith in cleen conscience, but be thei prened first and mynystre so, hauing no cryme. Wiclif. 1 Tim. c. 1.

Likewise must the deacons be honest, not double tonged, et geue vnto muche drynkynge, neither to fylthy lucre: but having the mistery of the faith in pure conscience. And let them fyrste be proued, and then let the minyster, yf they be found faultless.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

And Rom. xvi. I commende vnto you Phebe the deaconisse of the church of Cenchris.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 250. More plainly, if the Scriptures had intended, and held forth many churches, as making one church, and the elders of those many churches, to have been elders in common to those churches, as one church, then the deacons of all those churches, should make up a common deaconry; and be descons in common, unto all those churches in an ordinary Goodwin. Works, vol. iv. pt. iv. p. 188.

way, as the other elders.

He drow ys knif, & slow the kyng, that no man yt yseyg.
He was sone forth ywent, er any mon were war.
And tho me hadde al y sought, the kyng lay ded thar.
R. Gloucester, p. 105.
As he wolde schete an hert, al ageyne his wille
To dethe he schet ys owne fader, that he lay ther stille.
Id. p. 11.
The date a thousand right a hundreth & fifty,
That Steuen to dede was dight, now comes the Secunde
Henry.
R. Brunne, p. 127.

And he wonded the kyng dedely fulle sore.-Id. p. 33.
Dede him toke & he died, als it salle do vs.-Id. p. 5.

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Id. p. 195. Ac ouercome vas he nogt, they ys wounden [though his wounds] dedlych were.-Id. p. 223.

Of Englysse al vor nogt that valeye was ney As heye yfuld myd dedemen, as the doune an hey. Id. p. 362. That ys to seye sothliche. ge sholde rather deye. Than eny dedliche synne do. Piers Plouhman, p. 121. And seide I to the Jewes That seeth hym synneles. cesse nat ich hote To stryke with stoon othr with staf. this strompett to dethe. Id. p. 231. And of the risynge agen of ded men have ye not red, that it is seide of the Lord, that seith to you, I am God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, he is not God of dede men but of lyvynge men.-Wiclif. Matt. c. 22.

As touchinge the resurrectio of the deade: haue ye not redde what is sayde vnto you of God, which saythe: I am Abraham's God, and Isaac's God, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the deade: but of the lyuynge. Bible, 1551. Matt. c. 22.

And he seide, nay fadir Abraham but if ony of deed men go to hem: thei schulen do penaunce. And he seide to him, if thei heren not Moyses and profetis: neither if ony of deed men rise agen thei schulen byleeue to him. Wiclif. Luke, c. 16.

them, from the dede they woulde repente. He sayde vnto And he sayde: naye father Abraham, but if one came vnto hym: If they heare not Moses and the prophetes, neyther

wil they beleue though one rose from death agayne. Bible, 1551. Ib.

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Beaum. & Fletch. Faithful Shepherdess, Act i. sc. 1. Thei pierce the turffie ground, and under it meet with a black and deadish water, and in it small fishes do swim. Fuller. Worthies. Lancashire.

How comes it then, that in so near decay
We deadly sleep in deep security,
When every hour is ready to betray

Our lives to that still watching enemy? P. Fletcher. The Purple Island, c. 7. As for my relapses, I confess them with sorrow and shame, I know their danger, and (had I not to do with an infinite mercy) their deadlinesse.

Hall. Satan's Fiery Darts Quenched, Decad. 2.

They said that by the deadness of trade they did want employment, in such a measure, as did make their lives very uncomfortable.-Clarendon. Civil War, vol. i. p. 412.

At last this odious offspring whom thou seest
Thine own begotten, breaking violent way
Tore through my entrails, that with fear and pain
Distorted, all my nether shape thus grew
Transform'd: but he my inbred enemie
Forth issu'd, brandishing his fatal dart
Made to destroy: I fled, and cry'd out Death;
Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd
From all her caves, and back resounded Death.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii.
And now the deathlesse Gods, and deathful earth
He sung beginning at their eithers birth,
To full extent of all their emperie.

Chapman. Homer. A Hymne to Hermes. What hinders, while we are living and among the living, but that we may study to adorn our looks, so as may be most remote from a deathfulness, and most agreeable by their lovliness to those with whom we live?

Bp. Taylor. Artificial Handsomeness, p. 70.

Oh, my dear angel! in that friend I've lost

All my soul's peace; for every thought of him
Strikes my sense hard, and deads it in my brain.
Otway. Venice Preserved, Act iv. sc. 2.

This motion of the parts of the sounding bell may be further argued by this; that if the finger, or some other soft body, be laid upon it, the sound will be checked or deaded, and much more if a broad string, though of a soft substance, be tied about it.-Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 30.

And, by his mother, stood an infant Love
With wings unfledg'd; his eyes were banded o'er;
His hands a bow, his back a quiver bore,
Supply'd with arrows bright and keen, a deadly store.
Dryden. Palamon & Arcite.

When he seemed to show his weakness in seeking fruit upon that fig-tree that had none; he manifested his power, by cursing it to deadness with a word.-South, vol. vii. Ser.1.

Happy to whom this glorious death arrives,
More to be valued than a thousand lives!
On such a theatre as this to die,
For such a cause and such a witness by.

Waller. Instructions to a Painter.

To Philoctetes care
He leaves his deathful instruments of war,
To him commits those arrows, which again,
Must see the bulwarks of the Trojan reign.

Gay. Ovid. Metam. b. ix.

He rais'd the low, and fortify'd,
The weak against the strongest side:
Ill has he read, that never hit

On him in Muses' deathless writ.-Hudibras, pt. i. c. 2.

Vary both your style and your elocution, as in conversation you always do, suitably to your matter. For monotony both absolutely prevents emotion, and soon deadens attention.-Secker. Eight Charges, Char. 8.

Gods! I behold a prodigy. My spear
Lies at my foot, and he, at whom I cast
The weapon with such deadly force, is gone.

Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xx. And are you sure, that old age will come with all these circumstances inviting to repentance? It may be, and is very likely to be, to life, what the winter is to the year, a time of chillness and numbness, and of deadness of the faculties for repentance.-Pearce, vol. iii. Ser. 16.

A sullen, dire, unhospitable cell,
Where deathful spirits and magicians dwell.

Sir W. Jones. The Seven Fountains.

So shines our prince. A sky-born crowd Of virtues round him blaze:

DEAF, or DE AFEN, v. DEAF, adj. DE'AFELY.

Ne'er shall oblivion's murky cloud Obscure his deathless praise.-Id. From the Chinese. A. S. Deaf-ian, adeaf-ian, surdescere; Dan. Doof; Ġer. Taub; Sw. Dofw-a, sensu privare, to deprive of sense or sensation. And Wachter and Junius agree that that is deaf, which has lost any of its natural strength. Deaf corn, is barren corn. A deaf nut, Grose says, is a nut whose kernel is decayed. And deafely, lonely, solitary, far from neighbours. As now restricted, to deafen, is

DEAFNESS.

To deprive of the sense of hearing; to stun the sense of hearing.

-"That ys vor nogt," the other seyde, "vor the folke's herte ys,

"So yharded, that hii beth blynde & deue ywys, "That hii nolleth non god thyng yhure ne yse." R. Gloucester, p. 352. For God is def now a dayes. and deyneth nouht ous to huyre. Piers Plouhman, p. 186.

Blind men seen, crokide goen, mesels ben maad clene, defe men heren.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 11.

And said, frend, though that I still lie

I nam not deefe, now peace and cry no more
For I haue herd thy words, and thy lore.

Chaucer. Troilus, b. i.

Monardus writeth that a little of the powder of that horne put into the ear cureth deafenesse. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 650.

This eager river seems outrageously to roar,
And counterfeiting Nile, to deaf the neighbouring shore.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 13.

I will stay here,

It is enough, my hearing shall be punish'd,
With what shall happen, 'gainst the which there is
No deafing, but to hear.

Beaum. & Fletch. Two Noble Kinsmen, Act v. sc. I.

Now had the stilnesse of the quiet night
Drown'd all the world in silence and in sleepe,
When suddenly we heard a dreadfull sound,
Which deaf the earth, and tremble made the ground.

Fairefax. Godfrey of Bovlogne, b. viii s. 16.

What shall be the harmony of hell, where the ears shall be deafned with the cries and complaints of the damned. Bp. Taylor. Cont. b. ii. c. 7. The hollow abyss Heard farr and wide, and all the host of hell With deafning shout return'd them loud acclaim. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii.

He answered that it was impossible for him to hear a man three yards off, by reason of deafness that had held him fourteen years which being found true, the witness was rejected.-State Trials. Earl of Strafford, an. 1640.

A blind or deaf man has infinitely more reason to deny the being, or the possibility of the being, of light or sounds; than any atheist can have to deny or doubt of, the existence of God.-Clarke. On the Attributes, Prop. 4.

While, from below, old Ocean groans profound, The walls, the rocks, the shores repel the sound, Ring with the deafning shock, and thunder all around. Rowe. To the Earl of Godolphin. With a shout All sprung towards the ships: up flew the dust And overhung them; deaf'ning were the cries, To clear the grooves and slide the barks to sea. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. ii. The deafness seems the unconquerable part of the malady: for none deaf and dumb from their birth have been brought to hear.-Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 11.

DEAL, n.
DEAL, v.
DEALER.

DE'ALING, n.

Goth. Dail-jan; A. S. Dælan, dividere, partiri, distribuere, to divide, to distribute, to impart, to deale, (Somner.)

Dut. Deyl-en; Ger. Theil-en.

To deal cards,-is to share or distribute them among the company; to deal in business, is to share or partake or participate in business or the concerns of business; and thus,

To trade or traffic, or treat with, to have any transactions with.

A deal, a part, portion, share.

A deal-board, a board dealt or divided from a larger mass or trunk.

Deal supplies the dimin. term.-dle.

He three jewels, as thou knowest well,

A ring, a brooch, and a cloth, thee bequeath,
Whose vertues he thee told every deal,

Or that he past hence and yald up the breath.
Browne. The Shepheard's Pipe, Eclogue 1
Opinion's stamp does virtue currant make;
But such small money (though the people's gold
With which they trade) great dealers skorne to take,
And we are greater than one world can hold.
Davenant. Gondibert, b. i. c. 3

To be officious getteth friends,
Plaine dealing hated is,
Yeat better plainly to reproue,
Than fainedly to kisse.

Warner. Albion's England, b. xi. c. 61 Having with great importunity (as a thing upon which the service depended) gotten from the commissioners of Devo above a thousand deal-boards to make huts for the soldiers he employed them all in the building a great riding hous at Buckland for their own pleasure.

Clarendon. Civil War, vol. ii. p. 675 Though the Earl of Clarendon did often prevail with the king to alter the resolutions taken there, he was forced t let a great deal go that he did not like.

Burnet. Own Time, an. 1661 Arthur More, who had risen up from being a footma without any education, to be a great dealer in trade, an was the person of that board in whom the lord-treasure confided most, moved that they might first read it every on apart, and then debate it.-Id. Ib. an. 1713.

The generality of these have been very malignant a much disaffected to a parliamentary or thorough reformati and from whom they cannot but expect very severe dealing Parliamentary History, an. 1

Lord of his own paternal field,
He liberal dealt his store;
And call'd the stranger to his feast,
The beggar to his door.-Logan. A Tale.

It [charity] must preside with a superiority over all t desires of our hearts, that neither wantonness nor lust, n anger and revenge, nor covetousness and ambition, m carry us aside from the ways of righteousness and equity our dealings one with another.-Sherlock, Dis. 38.

DEALBATION. Lat. Albus; Gr. A white; which Scheidius supposes to have the same origin with Axırov, farina hordeacea, barle meal; and to have signified originally commolite R. Gloucester, p. 31. bruised or ground; and thence applied to co

Ther aftur euene a two he delede hys kyndom,
And gef hys twei dogtren half, & half hym self nom.

From Douere in to Chestre tilleth Watlinge-strete,
From south est in to north west, and that ys some del
Id. p. 8.
grete.

To while that thise men bold with ther folk gan daile,
Sir Robert de Brus the old to Dauid gan trauaile.
R. Brunne, p. 116.
Parfay. quoth Pacience. propeliche to telle
In English hit is ful harde. ac som del ich shal telle the.
Piers Plouhman, p. 268.

Let nat thy lyft half. oure Lord techeth
Ywite what thow delest. with thy ryht syde.-Id. p. 41.

And whan he hadde take the fyve looues and twey fisches:

he biheelde into hevene, and blesside and brak, and delide

to hise discipilis: that thei schulden sette forth bifore the

cumpanyes.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 9.

And of her good to him deles
And yeueth him part of her ioweles.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.

That selie Dido hath now such desire
With Eneas her newe gest to deale
That she lost her hewe and eke her heale.

His garment was euery deale Ipourtraied and iwrought with floures

quod farina commolita album colorem præbet, b cause meal bruised or ground, or rather co ground to meal, presents a white colour.

I have been here time enough in conscience to pass a the degrees and effects of fire, as distillation, sublimatic mortification, calcination, solution, descension, dealbali. rubification, and fixation.-Howell, b. ii. Let. 42.

Phil. To see her negligence! she hath made this che By much too pale, and hath forgot to whiten The natural redness of my nose; she knows not What 'tis wants dealbation.

Randolph. The Muse's Looking-glass, Act iv. se. DEAMBULATION. Lat. De, and amba DEA'MBULATORY, adj.

DEA'MBULATORY, n.

spoken of men

are; (see AMBLE which (Vossius)

Going about this way, and that; as herdsm do when following their rambling cattle.

Let them beware lest iustice, equite, and judgment Id. Legend of Dido. neglected, as they were in this kyngis ydle deambulac

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Henry Donn said, do the people expect I should say any thing?. I was acquainted I confess with their practices, but I never did intend to be a dealer in them.

State Trials, an. 1586. Mary Queen of Scots.

Therefore shal the Lorde rewarde me after my righteous dealynge, and accordynge vnto the cleannesse of my handes in his eye syghte.-Bible, 1551. Psalme 18. To thee, O greatest goddesse, onely great, An humble suppliant loe! I lowly fly. Seeking for right, which I of thee entreat; Who right to all dost deale indifferently.

Spenser. Of Mutabilitie, c. 7. s. 14.

Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c Touchinge suche exercises, as may be vsed within house, or in the shadowe (as is the olde maner of speaky as deambulations or moderate walkynges.

Sir T. Elyot. Governorr, b. i. c. The deambulatory actors used to have their quietus and to forego their employments for want of continua more or less.—Bp. Morton. Episcopacy Asserted, p. 142.

The sides of every street were covered with fresh al [allies] of marble or cloisters, crowned with rich and pinnacles, and fronted with tabernacular or open vaulted like the dormitory of a monastery, and called de bulatories, for the accommodation of the citizens in ail thers.-Warton. History of Eng. Poetry, vol. ii. p. 93.

DEAN. DEANERY. DE'ANESS. DE'ANSHIP.

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Gr. Aekavos; from de decem, ten: because a deane is—

An ecclesiastical magistrate, who hath pow over ten canons at the least, (Minshew.)

See the quotation from Blackstone, and D

CANAL.

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