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Therfor thou schalt speke my wordis to hem, if perauenture thei heren and resten, for thei ben terreris to wraththe. (L. V. wraththen, irritatores.)

Wic. Ez. ii. 6; and v. 8, exasperatriz. Neuerthelatre the Lord is not turned aweye fro the wrath of his grete woodnes, in the whiche his wodnes is wrothe azeynas Juda, for the terryngis in the whiche Manasses had terred hym (propter irritationes quibus provocaret eum).-Id. 4 Kings xxiii. 26.

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Twei spices apperiden harde and perilonse to me; a marchaunt is delyuered of hard (difficile) fro his necgligence, and a tauerner (capo) schal not be iustified of synnes of lippis.- Wic. Ecclus. xxvi. 28.

TAUELLYS. An instrument for a silk-woman
Sto work with.

TAUELL.

Well sped in spyndell and twining of tauellys.

TAUNT.

TAX. TAXLESS.

TEM

They (the Royalists in Rd. Cromwell's Parliament) depicted in glowing colours, the happy, tranquil, taxless times, which the more aged might still remember. Campbell (Hyde), v. ii. p. 179.

TEACH.

Teche me to no tresor,

But tel me this ilke,
How I may saue my soule.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 624. A wis man is strong, and tast man (L. V. lerned, doctus) is stalwrth and miști.

Wic. Prov. xxiv. 5; and Wis. xiii. 11, taztli, docte. Forsothe the techeresse (doctriz) it (wisdom) is of the discipline of God, and the cheseresse (electriz) of the werkis of hym.-Id. Wis. viii. 4.

TEAR, 8.

Whan she him sawe, she gan for sorowè anon
Her tery face atwixt hire armes hide.

Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. iv. v. 821. TEAR, v. See Wiclif, in v. Unceasing, infra. Pharao shal take awey thin heed, and shal honge thee in the crosse, and foulis shulen teere (lacerabunt) thi fleisch. Wic. Gen. xli. 19. And alle placis, in the whiche she was wont to gladen, with to-tering (L. V. to-breidyng, laceratione) of heris she fulfilde.-Id. Esth. xiv. 2.

TEASE.

Clooth that cometh fro the wevyng
Is noght comly to were,....
Til,-wasshen wel with water
And with taseles cracched.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 10532. The sendingus out of leitis shal gon euene rist, and as at the teising the bowe of cloudis bent (L. V. and as the sidis of a reynbowe, whan the bowe of cloudis is beakid, tanquam a bene curvato arcu nubium), thei shuln ben outlawid. Wic. Wis. v. 22. TEEN. See Piers Plouhman, in v. Untidy, infra. Tiraunts that teneth trewe men.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 10460. There is no manne on liue that may come to a precious thing long coueted but he sometime suffer teneful diseases. Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. ii. TEGGYS, i. e. Taggys. Worthless things? See

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And so it is toold to Joab of tellers (a narrantibus) Abner,
the son of Ner, cam to the Kyng.-Wic. 2 Kings iii, 23.
That he (Nero) so litel of his moder told (accounted).
Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14404.
Morne had got the start of night
When the shepheards from their fold,
All their bleating charges told

Both their sheepe told, and none mist
Of their number.-Browne. Shep. Pipe. Ec. 5.
Com. Here is your niece, whom I have married; witness
These gentlemen, the knight, captain, and parson,
And this grave, politic, tell-troth of the court.
B. Jonson. Magnetic Lady, act iv. sc. 3.

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Sey thou to hem that dawben or leyn morter withouten Skelton, v. i. p. 94. Dyce. temperynge (L. V. temperure, temperatura), that it is to fallynge doune.-Id. Ib. xiii. 11.

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Who is sweete lineth in temperings. (L. V. temperaunces, vini demorationibus.)-Id. Prov. xii. 11.

Adr. It (the island) must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate temperance (temperature).

Shakespeare. Tempest, act ii. sc. 1. TEMPEST. See Quotation from Golden Legend, in v. Terroir, infra.

Forsothe the tabernacle of the Lord that Moyses hadde maad in desert, and the auter of brent sacrifices was in that tempest (tempestate) in the heizt of Gabaon. Wic. 1 Par. xxi. 30.

TEMPORAL.

And prelates thei hem maden

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Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12555. The which seith, ze tenden to ydeleres (L. V. gyuen tent, vacatis otio): and therfor ze seyen, Go we, and sacryfye to the Lord.-Wic. Ex. v. 17; also Judg. v. 17.

Now thanne, Son myn, here thou me and tac tente (L. V. perceive, attende) to the woordis of my mouth.-Id. Prov. vii. 24; and Wisd. xii. 20. Tentifnesse, in the E. V. is perseyuyng, in the L. V. from the Lat. attentio.

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The king Dauyd entune did his harpe,

And with the tenours and the treblys sharpe,
He to heuen gan enhaunce and reyse
This day of dayes.-Lyfe of our Ladye. Carton, g. 87.
TENTER, v.

Parchment or leather will stretch, paper will not; woollen cloth will tenter, linen will not.

TEREBYNTH.

Bacon. Natural History, § 841.

As a terebynte and as an oek, that spreadeth out his braunchis, holy sed shal it ben.-Wic. Is. vi. 13.

TERM.

Of briddes and of beestes
Men by olde tyme

Ensamples token and termes,

As telleth the poetes.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 7903. Kynges. sholde... taken transgressores

And tyen hem faste,

Til treuthe hadde y-termyned

Hire trespas to the ende.-Id. Ib. v. 653.

I enuyrounde it with my termes (terminis), and sette the heenglis and doris.- Wic. Job xxxviii. 10.

He (Demophon) falsely gan his terme pace (pass the time limited).-Chaucer. House of Fame, b. i. v. 392. TERRE. See TAR, s.

TERROIR. Fr. Terroir; the land; the terri

tory.

They toke the vessel wherein the body (Pylate's) was. and sente it for to berye it in the terroir of the cyte of Losane, the whiche also was tempested.

The Golden Legend. Carton, fo. 18, c. 2. TERSIS. Is in Wiclif Bible, 1 Kings xviii. 25, rendered from the Lat. Præputia. Also written Tarse. See Teors, in Lye and Somner, and Teers, in Kilian.

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TETCH.

THE

Such a thing am I!

To anger rapid and as soon appeased,

For trifles mourning, and by trifles pleased,
Break friendship's mirror with a tetchy blow,
Yet snatch what coals of fire on pleasure's altar glow!
Coleridge. To an Infant.

TETTISH. See TETCH.
.TEW.

And many dayes he (Peter) dwellide in Joppe at Symound, sum coriour, or tawier (quemdam coriarium). Wic. Deeds ix. 43.

Tuly coloure. Puniceus, Vel Punicus, Prompt. Par. Dyce. Skelton, v. ii. p. 319. THAN is used not only as a conjunction, but as a preposition; and as such affects cases. Thus: "He is wiser than me," is good English. So also is, "He is wiser than I, i. e. than I am;" in the first instance than is a preposition, in the second it is a conjunction. We have various other words which are used both as prepositions affecting cases, and as conjunctions affecting sentences or numbers of sentences. See in Dictionary Since, and supra, But, where an illustration should have been given. "They are all gone out but me." See Diversions of Purley, v. i. p. 324, 4to. ed.

THANK, s. In thank; thankfully, gratefully.
For wete thou well, withoun were (doubt)
In thanke that thing is taken more,
For which a man hath suffered sore.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 2741.

And he his knee to grounde bente,
And thongeth him and hir also.

Gower. Conf. Am. b. viii. fo. 1791.
THAR, or A. S. Thearf-an; Dut. Derv-en;
THARE, v. Ger. Darb-en. To need or have
need. Mr. Tyrwhitt. Him behoveth not, &c.
And therfore this proverb is sayd, ful soth,
Him thar not winnen wel, that evil doth.

Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 4315.

THAT. See UNDERTAKE.

I find that you make not a due distinction between that and who. A man that is not proper. The relative who is proper. That, ought always to signify a thing; Who, a person.-Dryden to Walsh. Works. Bell's ed. 1853.

THE, v.

Ac I swere now, so thee ik!

(So may I thrive).-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 2927.

THEANTHROPISM. Gr. θεος, God, ανθρωπος, man. See ante PSILANTHROPISM.

THEANTHROPOPHAGY. See the Quotation. Cardinal Penon says, That they (the Primitive Christians) deny anthropophagy (qv.), but did not deny theanthropophagy, saying, that they did not eat the flesh, nor drink the blood of a meer man, but of Christ who was God and man, which is so strange a device, as I wonder it could drop from the pen of so great a wit.

Bp. Taylor. Of the Real Presence, sec. xii. § 14. THEFT. See THIEVE.

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THO

to gidere, as ze ben therf (azymı), or without sour thing.

Wic. 1 Cor. v. 7.

THEW.
Nyle te be disseyued; forsothe yuele spechis corumpen
or distroyen goode thewis or vertues (mores).
Wic. 1 Cor. xv. 33.

Al thewes good, as sitteth well to be,
Haue women euer of custome and vsage.

Chaucer. Works, fo. 3283.
Wel y thewed, &c.—ld. Assemble of Foules, v. 47.
THEY. See HIR, in Tyrwhitt's Essay.
Ac tho heo (when they) were al bi hem selue, and no man
hem neyg,

He drow ys knyf, and slow the kyng.

Robert of Gloucester, p. 104. If thou kepist alle my comaundementis and goist by tho. (E. V. hem, per ea.)- Wic. 3 Kings vi. 12. THICK.

As thycke as ameten crepeth in an amete (emmet) hulle.
Robert of Gloucester, p. 296. |

Wyde wyndowes y-wrought,
Y-wryten ful thikke.-Piers Plouhman's Creed, v. 348.
THIEVE. See Piers Plouhman, in v. Skill, su-

pra; Thieve-thorn, in v. Thorn, infra.
Thef-liche thow me robbedest.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12755. Theuelich (L. V. theefli, furtim) Y am had a wey fro the lond of Hebrew, and here an yunocent Y am sent into a laak. (L. V. prisoun.)- Wic. Gen. xl. 15.

THIGH. In Wiclif Bible, Gen. c. 32, hip is the reading for thigh. In Lev. xi. 21, Thies (crura) is a var. r. for hips. In Is. xlvii. 2, E. V. thees; L. V. hips.

THIN.

My spirit shal be maad thynne (L. V. feble, attenuabit), my dazis sbal be shortid.- Wie. Job xvii. 1.

THINK. Piers Plouhman and Wiclif write,
Athink, qv.; the latter also, Othink.
Sorre it me a-thynketh,

For the dede that I have doon
I do me in your grace.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12253. The entrailes of a fool (præcordia) as the whel of a carre, and as a turnende ful axtre the thenkingus (L. V. his thouztis as an extre able to turne aboute, cogitatus) of hym.

Wic. Ecc. xxxiii. 5. Thilke Margarite hath been to thee deare in thy heart, and for hast thou suffered many thoughtful diseases. Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. ii. Then thoughten they, it was the bestè rede To lede them bothe to the juge again..

Id. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7612.

And tho thought I upon Boece
That writeth, A thought may flye so hie,
With fethers of philosophie,
To passen everyche element.

Id. House of Fame, b. ii. v. 465.
Where shall we sojourne till our coronation?
Where it thinks best unto your royal self.

Shakespeare. Richard III. fo. 136, act in. sc. 1.

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And alle the trees seiden to the thorn (L. V. ramne, ether theue thorn, rhamno), Com, and comaund thow vpon us. Wic. Judg. ix. 14.

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Cursid (be) child Canaan, thral of alle thrallis (L. V. serumunt of seruaunts, servus servorum) he shal be to hise britheren.- Wic. Gen. ix. 25.

Thi seed (Abram's) is to be a pilgrym in the lond not his, and men shulen suget hem to thraldom. (L. V. seruage.)-Id. Ib. xv. 13.

Ther (in Egipt) thow shalt be sold to thin enemyes, into thrallis and thrallessis. (L. V. hand maidis.) Id. Deut. xxviii. 68.

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THRESHOLD.

And whan he drough to the dore,
Thanne dymmed hise eighen:
He stumbled on the thresshfold,.
And threw to the erthe.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3187. And the litil sprynkil of Ysop wetith in blood, that is in the nethir threswold (L.V. threisfold, limine), and sprengith of it the ouerthreswold (L. V. lintel, superliminare), and either post. Wic. Er. xii. 22; also xxiii. 7.

THRILL.

He shal thril his eer with an alle (L. V. perse, perforabit), and he shal be to hym a seruaunt in to the world. Wic. Er. xxi. 6.

He coude his comming not forbere,
Though ye him thrilled with a spere.

THRING.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 7638.

A thousand of men tho Thrungen togideres.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3524. Comaundour, cumpanyes thringen and turmentyng thee (L. V. thristen, comprimunt), and thou seist, Who touchide me-Wic. Luke viii. 45.

A man throng'd up with cold.

THROAT.

Shakespeare. Pericles, act ii. sc. 1.

The whiche (Hieu) seith, Takith hem on lyne. Whom when thei hadden taken alyue, thei throtyden (L. V. strangliden, jugulaverunt) hem in the cystern.

Wic. 4 Kings x. 14.

THRONE, v.
There (in heaven) treathe is in trinitee,
And troneth hem alle (i. e. soules).

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 724.

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TILL, v.

TOE

(He) sent the sonne to saue A cursede mannes tilthe,

As brighte as to the beste man.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 13828. In that dai the tilthis that ben laft (L. V. cornes, segetes) fro the face of the sonus of Irael (shul be forsakun). Wic. Is. xvi. 10. And the werk of ristfulnesse schal be pees, and the tilth of ritfulnesse schal be stilnesse and sikirnese. (E. V. heriyng, cultus justitiæ.)-Id. 1b. xxxii. 17.

Therfor thei tildiden (E. V. strauzten, tetenderunt) Absolon a tabernacle in the soler.-Id. 2 Kings xvi. 23. Forsothe he was a man (Osie) giuen to erth tillyinge. (L. V. erthetulthe, agricultura.)-Id. 2 Par. xxvi. 10.

TIMBREL.

Taketh (3e) salm, and yueth timbre (L. V. tympan, tympanum) a merie sautre with an harpe. Wic. Ps. lxxx. 3. TIME. Time-server, one who acts conformably, expediently to times and seasons: who observes and uses times and seasons to suit purposes good or ill. It is now generally applied to those who observe and use it to suit their own selfish purposes. See Trench, On the Study of Words, lec. 2.

Lo! an erthe tilyer abideth precious fruyt of the erthe, paciently suffringe til he receyue tymeful (temporaneum) and lateful (fruyt).- Wic. James v. 7.

There be four kinds of time-serving: first, out of Christian discretion, which is commendable; second, out of humane infirmity, which is more pardonable; third and fourth, out of ignorance or affectation, both which are damnable: of them in order.-Maxim, 1. He is a good time-server, that complys his manners to the several ages of this life; pleasant in youth, without wantonness; grave in old age, without frowardness. 2. He is a good timeserver, that finds out the fittest opportunity for every action. 3. He is a good time-server, that improves the present for God's glory and his own salvation. 4. He is a good time-server, that is pliant to the times in matters of mere indifferency. 5. He is a good time-server, that in time of persecution, neither betrays God's cause, nor his own safety.-Fuller. Holy State, b. iii. c. 19.

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And right anon in comen tombesteres,
Fetis and smale.

Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12411.

TON and TOTHER (now common in Notts and other parts), i. e. the one and the other. And ther weren to hym (Job) sene sones and thre do tris; and he clepide the name of the ton (unius) Diem. Wic. Job xlii. 13.

if any shal smyte thee in the rist cheeke, zeue to hym and the tother (et alteram).-Id. Mat. v. 39. TO-NAME, i. e. Surname, qv.

TONGUE.

Striue thou not with a tungy man. (L. V. a man, a ianglere, linguato.)-Wic. Ecclus. viii. 4.

As a graueli steezing vp in the feet of an old man, so a tungy womman (L. V. a womman, a greet ianglere, linguata) to a quyete man.-Id. Ib. xxv. 27.

TOOT.

Then sayed Laban; Thys heape be wytnes, between the and me this day; and this totehil which the Lord seeth (sayd he) be wytnesse between me and the.

Bible, 1549. Gen. xxxi. (48.) Forsothe Dauid took the tote hil (arcem) Syon; that is the citee of Dauid. Forsothe Dauid dwellide in the tote hil, and clepide it the citee of Dauid. (L. V. tour, arce.) Wic. Is. xxi. 5, 8. Specula, 2 Kings v. 7, 9. And these thingus forsothe seide the Lord to me, Go, and put a tootere (speculatorem), and whateuere thing he shal see telle he.-Id. lb. xxi. 6. and pale

The other side ben Who toteth on hem?

pore

Chaucer. Plowmans Tale, v. 2014. For in your court is many a losengeour, And many a queint toteler accusour, That tabouren in your eres many a soun Right after hir imaginacioun.

Id. Legend of Good Women Prol. v. 353. TOOTH, s. D. and Sw. Tand; Ger. Zan. Wachter and Ihre notice the Persian Dandan, Gr. o-dovT-Eg, Lat. Dent-es. And see Tugga in Ihre.

TOP.

And thou mow not be heelid fro the sole of the foot til to the top. (E. V. nol, verticem.)- Wic. Deut. xxviii. 35.

TOPAZ.

Wisdam forsothe is drawen of hidde thingis; ne ther shal be maad euene to it topasie (topazius) of Ethiope. Wic. Job xxviii. 19.

TOPSY-TURVY. When the head or top is where the feet or bottom should be, q. d. tops in turves. Tops or heads in the turf; heads strewed on the ground. Skinner.

TORET, i. e. Turret, qv. TORMENT.

In what nature soever they are (malice, and envy, and revenge), they are as vexatious and tormentful to itself, as they are troublesome and mischievous to others. Tillotson, v. iii. p. 192, fo. ed. TORRENT, adj. See Milton, in v. Rapture. TORRID. See SINGE, supra.

TORT. Torcencious, in Chaucer; Using extortion. Speght.

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And thei hadden tiles for stoons, and tow cley (L. V. pitch, bitumen) for syment.- Wic. Gen. xi. 3.

TOUGHT, i. e. Tight, qv.

The king glosede her, and ther and made it some del
tourt (i. e. tought).-Robert of Gloucester, v. 510.
Than shul this churle, with bely styffe and tought
As any tabour, hither ben ybrought.

Chaucer. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7849.
But now the ramme vpon the rampiers sleepe,
On mighty beames his head aduanced hath,
With dreadful hornes of iron tought tree great,
The wals and bulwarks trembled at the threat.
Fairefax. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. xi. st. 37.

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And Phebus eke a faire towail him brought
To drie him with (Croesus).

Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14663. And on his mete borde there shal ben borde clothes and towelles many paire.-ld. Test. of Loue, b. ii.

TOWN. See TYNE, infra.

The firste seide, I haue bout a toun (villam), and I haue nede to go out, and to se it; I preie thee, haue me excused. Wic. Luke xiv. 18. TRACES. With which a horse or other animal draws.

And as the guise was in his contree,
Ful highe upon a char of gold stood he;
With foure white bolles in the trais.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2141.

TRADE. Junius says, The trade of life, is the way of life,-via vitæ, odoç Bus-the path pursued

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He that sekith the lawe schal be fillid therof; and he that doith tretourousli, schal be sclaundrid ther ynne. (L. V. aspiendli, insidiose.)- Wic. Ecclus. xxxii. 19. TRAMP.

A man apostata.. twinclith with the eten, he tramplith (L. V. trampith, terit) with the foot, with the fingir he spekith.-Wic. Prov. vi. 13.

TRANCE. Transition and Transitional, are now common terms-especially in geology. O where is al the transitorye fame, Where is your boste?

Lyfe of our Ladye, c. 6, col. 1. Carton. Are we not all predestined transiency, And cold dishonour?-Coleridge. Kemorse, A. iii. sc. 2. TRANSCEND.

All relative and adventive (adventitias) conditions and characters of essences, we have named transcendents (transcendentes), as multitude, paucity, identity, diversity, possible, impossible, and such like.

Wats. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. iii. c. 4. The most universal conceptions of things are usually stiled transcendental, metaphysicall. Wilkins. Real Character, pt. ii. c. 1.

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to support life. In Dan. Traad, or traad sti, from fro o place to another, transtulit.)-Wic. Job ix. 9.

træde, gradi, caleare; and that the English trade, is the same.

His forward spirit

Would lift him where most trade of danger rang'd.

Shakespeare. King Henry IV. Pt. II. act i. sc. 1. He (Cromwell) stands in the gap and trade of more preferments.-Id. King Henry VIII. act v. sc. 1.

Rich. Or Ile be buried in the kings high-way,
Some way of common trade, where subjects feet
May hourely trample on their soveraignes head.

Id. King Richard II. act iii. sc. 3.
The winds, when we came to a distance from the shore,
seemed to be more steadily against us, blowing almost
trade, as we call it, from E. and E. N. E.
Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
TRADITOR, i. e. Traitor, qv.

I had such experience of one before, who, instead of keeping the flock within the fold, encouraged them to stray-that I was afraid of a traditour.

Ken's Prose Works. Let. xxxvi. p.

81.

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I hadde ben as I were not-fro the wombe translatid. (L. V. ether borun ouer.)-Id. Ib. x. 19.

When Maty has done with the copy, &c. you must return it (specimen of Homer) to my translatorship. Cowper to Lady Hesketh, Feb. 11, 1786. TRANS-LUCENT. See TRANS-PARENT. TRANS-PARENT. Transparent is equivalent to translucent; but not translucent to transparent. Glass is both; a mirror is only the latter.

TRANSPECIATE, v. To change from one species (qv.) to another.

I do not credit those transformations of reasonable creatures into beasts or that the devil hath power to transpeciate a man into a horse, who tempted Christ (as a trial of his divinity) to convert but stones into bread.

Browne. Religio Medici, pt. i. § xxx. TRANSVERBERATE, v. Lat. Transverberare. To beat or strike through.

The appetencies of matter, and the most universal passions (passiones) in either globe are exceeding potent, and transverberate (transverberant) the universal nature of things.

Wats. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. iv. c. 3. TRAP. Trappers, written Trappures by Chaucer. See in v. Tester.

It is plain you understand trap, as we used to say at school.-Couper to Bagot, Dec. 1, 1790.

He (J. Johnson) understands booksellers' trap as well as any man.-Id. to Lady Hesketh, Dec. 15, 1785.

TRE

TRASHED. Betrayed. Tyrwhitt. See TRAI

TOR and BETRASHED.

3.

Her (Idlenesse) acquaintaunce is perillous;
First soft, and after-full noious:

She hath the trashed without wene.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 3231. TRATE. See TROT.

TRAVAIL. Qy. Shakespeare, Othello, act i. sc. Travel's history-travailous history; see the word in the Quotation from Wiclif.

Myn affliccioun and the traueil of myn hondis (laborem) the Lord bihelde.- Wic. Gen. xxxi. 49.

Forwhi, bodili exercitatioun or traveling, or abstinence (exercitatio) to litil thing is profytable.-Id. 1 Tim. iv. 8. Sones camen til to the childberyng, and the traveler of childe. (E. V. childberere, parturiens.) Id. 4 Kings xix. 3.

As an herte desireth shadewe, and as an hirid man abideth the ende of his werk; so and I hadde voide monethis, and travailous (laboriosas) nygtis I noumbride out to me.-Id. Job vii. 3.

Therfore sey to the sones of Yrael, Y, The Lord, that shal lede you out of the travellous prisoun (ergastulo) of Egipciens. Id. Ex. vi. 6.

The crockere, the nesshe erthe threstende (premens) trauailously (laboriose) maketh to oure uses eche vessel. Id. Wis. xv. 7. Plato to thilk brynk of Itali, the which sum tyme was seid Grete Grece, ful traveilousli şede. Id. Bible. Pref. Ep. p. 61.

TRAVEL. See TRAVAIL.

TRAVERSE.

Truthe that trespased nevere,
Ne traversed ayeins the lawe.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 8002.

TRAY, v. i. e. Betray. See TRAITOR.

I am trazid (L. V. takun, traditus sum) and I wente not out.- Wic. Ps. lxxxvii. 10.

Lo! Demophon

How he forswore him falsely; And trayed Phyllis wickedly.

This lecheraft

Chaucer. House of Fame, b. i. v. 390.

Were well fitting, if that I were a fiend,
To traien a wight, that true is unto me.

Id. Troylus and Cressida, b. iv. v. 437. TREACHER. See Piers Plouhman in v. Trifler,

infra.

TREAD, v.

No man shal mowe withstonde to thee, to the tyme that thow al-to trede hem. (L. V. al-to breke, conteras.) Wic. Deut. vii. 24. I shal breke doun his wal, and it shal ben in to to-tredyng (L. V. defoulyng, conculcationem); and I shal setten ít desert.-ld. Is. v. 5.

Wyn in the presse he shal not trede, that to treden was wont; the vois of the trederes I toc awey. (L.V. wringeres, calcantium.)-Id. lb. xvi. 10.

Thou woldest han ben a trede-foul a right,
Haddest thou as grete leve, as thou hast might,
To parfourme all thy lust.

TREAT.

Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 13951.

Forsothe te han not come to the tretable fyer. (L. V. able to be touchid; var. r. toucheable, tractabilem.) Wic. Heb. xii. 18. When Calchas knew this tretise (treaty) should yholde In consistorie.

Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. iv. v. 64. Here endeth the thirde traytye (treatise).

The Boke of Tulle of Old Age, d. 12. Caxton. They had treated (i. e. entreated) the Erle of Derby to be their kynge.-Berners' Froissart, v. ii. p. 742.

TREE. Piers Plouhman (as below) writes the pl. trowes. In Wielif and Chaucer, tree is wood. In Wiclif treen is wooden, and the tree worker, lignarius opifex; and in Chaucer, Cristes tre is the cross; the rood.

That there be corrupte rennyng bloode in al the loond of Egipte, as wel in treen vessel as in stony. (L. V. vessels of tree, ligneis.)- Wic. Ex. vii. 19.

Ful wel ye know, a lord in his houshold
Ne hath not every vessell all of gold,
Som ben of tree.

Chaucer. Wif of Bathes Prol. v. 5682.
What Absolon? What-Cristes swete tre!
Why rise ye so rath!-Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3765.
A quiet, treeless nook, with two green fields.
Wordsworth. Excursion, b. ii.
Thus through all the stages thou hast push'd
Of treeship; first a seedling, hid in grass;
Then twig; then sapling.-Cowper. Yardley Oak.

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TREND. Is in Tooke's Index Expurgatorius. (See in Todd.) To trendle is, to trundle.

Y saw a sweuen, and it seemed to me as a loof of barlich maad undir asshen to be trendlid (L. V. walewid, volvi) and into the tentis of Madyan to goo doun. Wic. Judges vii. 13. And Y schal cumpas as a round trendil (E. V. bal, sphæram) in thi cumpasse, and Y schal caste erthes azens thee. Id. Is. xxix. 3.

TRENTAL.

Trentals, sayd he, deliveren fro penance,
Hir frendes soules, as wel olde as yonge.

Chaucer. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7306. TREPEGET. A military engine. Mr. Tyrwhitt refers to Trebuchetum in Du Cange, who explains, with Cotgrave, A large engine or machine for throwing stones and battering walls. See also Roquefort.

Withouten stroke it might be toke
Of trepeget or mangonell.

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He loketh how his tyme is lore,
And is so wo begone therfore,

That he within his thought conceineth
Tristesse, and so himself deceiueth,

That .-Gower. Conf. Am. b. iv. fo. 814.
Now hath he ben my synguler refute (refuge)
To my trystesse.

Lyfe of our Ladye, a. iiii, c. 1. Carton.
TRIST. See TRUST.

TRISTE. A post or station in hunting. TyrChaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 628. whitt. Speght, A mark (meta). And see Skinner.

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Chaucer. Canterbury Tales, Prol. v. 152.

As white as lilie or rose in rise,
Her face was gentil and tretise.

Id. Rom. of the Rose, v. 1016.

TREW. See TRUE, TRUCE. TRIACLE. See TREACLE. TRIBULATION. The Vulg. Lat. Tribulatio is from the Gr. Sig, from beiv, to rub; to afflict, to distress. TRIBULATION, or AFFLICTION. So applied by ecclesiastical writers from the classic Lat. Tribulare, to draw a tribule or tribulum (an implement or instrument, quo (frumentum) teritur, Varro,) over the corn in the ear, and by attrition separating the grain from the husk or chaff. Tribulare proprie est hominem calamitatibus terere haud secus ac

Lo! holde the at thy triste close, and I
Shal wel the dere unto thy bowe ydrive.

Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. ii. v. 1534. TRIUMPH. To triumph, to conquer.

So oft they (Satan's compeers) fell
Into the same illusion, not as man,
Whom they triumphed, once lost.

TROLL.

Milton. Par. L. b. x. v. 592.

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See TRUNCHEON, in v. Trun

TROMP, &c. See TRUMPET.
TRONCHEON.
cate, in Dictionary.
TROT.

Fals sat on a sisour
That softeli trotted.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 1213.
This Sompnour clappeth at the widewes gate:
Come out, he sayd, thou olde very trate,
I trow thou hast som frere or preest with thee.
Chaucer. The Freres Tale, v. 7164.
TROUBLE.

And a greet troubling (E. V. sturbling; var. r. turbling, turbatio) was maad in that dai, of the weie of the Lord. Wic. Deeds xix. 23. They shul crien to the Lord fro the face of the trublere forfi;tere, that delyuere them.-Id. Is. xix. 20. (tribulantis), and he shal send to them a saneour, and a

At Gessury fro the trubli flood (L. V. troblid, turbido) that weetith Egipt, vnto the teermys of Accharon azens the North.-Id. Joshua xiii. 3.

TROW. See the Quotation from Ford, in Dicspicæ tribula toruntur. Voss. See Trench. On the tionary. Truage-pledge of truth, or truce granted Study of Words, Lect. i.

TRICE, v. i. e. Thrust.

By God! out of his seat I will him trice.

Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14443. TRICHOTOMY. A cutting into three. See DICHOTOMY.

His (Aristotle's) trichotomy into hypotheses, definitions, and axioms, as to what belongs to the members of the divisions in general, and with respect to every science, seems to be most perfect; but as to the explication, otherwise.-Barrow. Math. Lec. viii. p. 119.

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(on payment of tax). Also, the tax.

Thow shalt drede nytt and day, and thow shalt not trowe to thi lyf. (L. V. bileue, credetis.) Wic. Deut. xxviii. 66. As we do by Jues who dwelleth by truage under us. Berners' Froissart, v. ii. p. 139.

TROWEL.

And the Lord saide to me, What seest thou, Amos? And Y saide, A truel (trulla) of masoun.- Wic. Amos vii. 8.

TRUAND. Truandise is written Trowandise by Chaucer in Rom. of the Rose, v. 3954.

TRUCE.

Sens, wel ye wote, that it is nowe a treuce, Ye shal ful wel al mine estate yhere;

And ere that truce is done, I shal ben here.

TRUST.

TWA

Wo! that gon doun in to Egipt to helpe, in hors hopende, and hauende trost (L. V. trist, fiduciam) vpon foure horsid

carres.- Wic. Is. xxxi. 1.

And ther shul be fed the first goten of pore men, and pore men trostly shul resten. (L. V. feithfulli, fiducialiter.)-Id. Ib. xiv. 30.

And in this tristnynge (L. V. tristyng, confidentia) I wolde firste come to zou.-Id. 2 Cor. i. 15. And Eph. iii. 12, E. V. trustnynge; L. V. tristenyng, fiducia.

TRUTCH. See TRUCHMAN.

And about my hearse,

For a trutch sword, my naked knife stick up.

Beaumont and Fletcher. Woman Hater, act i. se. 3. TRY. Trie tree,-choice, as tried, proved. It is a ful trie tree, quod he,

Trewely to telle.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 10800.

TUCK. Toukere is in Wiclif used as Fuller or Walkere in various readings.

Cloth that cometh fro the wevyng

Is noght comly to were

Til it be fulled under foot,

Y-touked and y-teynted.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 10533. Thei stoden bisidis the water cundijt of the hizere cistern, which is in the weie of the fullere, ethir toukere (fullonis). Wic. 4 Kings xviii. 17. Thy grace by bering may set the in such plight, that no jangling may greeue the least tucke of thy hemmes. Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. i. TUCK, s. A net used in the pilchard fishery, to draw up the fish confined in the seine. TUITION.

Daniel was of age sufficient at his carrying away to Babylon to have been some time before under the discipline and tuterage of that prophet (Jeremiah). Prideaux. Con. pt. i. b. 4. TULL, v. Tyrwhitt, To allure; Qy. toil, or, take in a toil.

Gar us have mete and drinke, and make us chere;
And we sal paien, trewely, at the full;
With empty hand men may na haukes tull.
Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 4132.

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Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. iv. v. 1312. ynge, tornus. TRUCHMAN.

His truchmen now, and now hemselfe doth say
What spoyle his folke shall gaine, &c.

Fairefax. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. xx. st. 24.
See TROW.

TRUE. TRUNK.

Take a trunk, and let one whistle at one end, and hold your ear at the other, and you shall find the sound strike so sharp as you can scarce endure it.

TRUSS.

Bacon. Natural History, § 138.

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The Lord mengd in his myddel (Egipt's) the spirit of turngidy. (L. V. errour, vertiginis.)-Id. Is. xix. 14.

TWAIN.

The word of God is more able to perse than any tweyne eggid sword (anceps).-Wic. Heb. iv. 12. A male tweifold on his croper lay,

It semed that he caried letel array.

Chaucer. The Chan. Yem. Prol. v. 16033.
The pretty shame

Of babe, that tempts and shuns the menaced kiss,
From its twy-clustered hiding place of snow.
Coleridge. The Pang more sharp, §e.
She had there been left

A guard upon the wain, which I beheld
Bound to the twyform beast (the gryphon).

Cary. Dante. Purgatory, b. xxxii. v. 95.

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