EN-DEAVOUR, v. a.

Add

I call God to my recorde yt ryght gladly I shall endeuoyre me to fulfyll it.

Golden Legende. Lyfe of St. Fyaere, fo. 371. All and euery persone, &c. that diligently and faythfulli endeuour themselues, to resorte to theyr parish Church, &c. Acte of Uniformitie. Ed. 6. Al tharchbisshops, &c. shall endeuour themselues to the uttermost of theyr knowledges that the due and true execution hereof may be had throughout theyr diocesses. Id. Ib.

Give us grace, that we may.... also daily endeavour ourselves to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life. Collect. 2nd Sunday after Easter. To prayer, repentance, and obedience due, Though but endevor'd with sincere intent, Mine ear shall not be slow, mine ear not shut. Milton. Par. L. iii. 193. As he (Christ) was a man, he was subject to the common law of humanity, which obliges to endeavour the common benefit of men.-Barrow. Sermons, iii. Ser. 39, p. 443. It seems rational to hope, that minds qualified for great attainments should first endeavour their own benefit. Johnson. Life of Savage, p.

1.

EN-DEMIAL, adj. Besides the common swarm (of diseases) there are endemial and local infirmities proper unto certain regions, which in the whole earth make no small number.

Browne. Letter to a Friend.

EN-DEYNE, EN-DEIGNOUS, adj. Disdainful. See DEIGNOUS.

Y biseche thee, he seith, ne indeyne thou (L. V. take thow not to indignacioun, ne indigneris), Lord, if I speke; What if thei weren foundun thretti?-Wic. Gen. xviii. 30. To whom he answerde, Ne endeyn (L. V. Be not wrooth, ne indignetur), my Lord, thou forsothe knewe this puple that it is redy to yuel.-Id. Er. xxxii. 22.

If anye woulde (be) endeinous or proude, or be enuious, hastilich haue I such voyded out of my schole. Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. i.

EN-DORSE, v. To back; met. as to back a friend, qv. an opinion; to support; to maintain it; give the validity or sanction of an endorsement. A low met. from the Counting-house (1850).

EN-DOW.

Her mete was very crude,

She had not well endude (i. e. digested).

Skelton. Ware the Hawke, v. 78.

EN-DUL, v. To blunt; to deaden; to weaken. See DULL.

If the Bishop of Rome or ony othir Antecrist, make a decretal contrarie to this part in endullynge the regalie and

ENG

power of seculer Lordis, foundid in holi Scripture, holi Doctoris, &c. &c. owen to despise. Wic. Bible. Pref. p. xxvi. col. 2.

EN-DURE. Therfor of whom God wole he hath mercy; and whom he wol he endurith or hardeneth (indurat). Wic. Rom. ix. 18. The Frenchmen were so strong that the Englysshmen could not endure them.-Berners Froissart, i. 392. ENEINTISE, v. See ANIENT.

Sotheli Achior siz the heed of Holofernes, and was angwisched for drede, and felde doun on his face on the erthe, and his soule suffride encyntisyng. (E. V. his lif quappide, astuavit anima ejus.) Wic. Judith xiii. 29.

ENEMY, v.

Queriye not to me that enemyen to me (L. V. ben adversaries to me, qui adversantur) wikkeli; that hatiden me without cause, and twincle with eten.- Wic. Ps. xxxiv. 19. And the Lord spak to Moyses, seiynge, Enemyes feele 3ou the Madianytess, and smyte ye hem; for and thei han enemylich (hostiliter) don atens tow.-Id. Num. xxv. 18. A bure he made agen the enmyable folc. (L. V. he made asauzt azens the folc enemy, gentem hostilem.) Id. Ecclus. xlvi. 7. Youre regioun denouren beforn you alienus, and it shal be desolate as in enemyful wastete. (L. V. distrying of enemies, in vastitate hostili.)-Id. Is. i. 7.

EN-FAT, s. To be or become fat, qv. For the herte of this peple is enfattid. (L. V. greetli fattid, incrassatum.)- Wic. Mat. xiii. 15.

EN-FEEBLE.

Who of his neizbore eny thing of thes askith to borwe, and it were enfeblished, or deed (L. V. feblid, debilitatum), the Lord not present, he shal be compellid to seeld. Wic. Ex. xxii. 14.

EN-FORCE. The Duke of Berrey might well repute me for an ignorant, whan he would have me enforce myne enemyes. Berners Froissart, ii. 416. (They) cam that tyme with grete multitude of people to socoure and enforce Jugurtha.

Oracion of Cayus Flammeus. Wurcestre, Erle of. This we shall endeavour to declare by propounding divers senses, grounded upon plain testimonies of scripture, and enforcible by good reason.-Barrow, vi. Ser. vi. p. 71. EN-FORGE, v. See To FORGE.

And there te shulen serue to Goddis, the which bi hoond of men ben forgid of tree (var. r. enforgid, fabricati sunt) and stoon, that seen not, ne heren, ne eten, ne smellen. Wic. Deut. iv. 28.

EN-FORM, v. One father maker of all goodnes enformed hem al (men), and al mortal folke of one sede are greined. Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. ii. To cause (anything) to

EN-FORTUNE, v.

And Moyses bilde an anter, and clepide the name of it, The Lord myn Enhaunsyng. (L. V. enhaunsere, exaltatio.) Wic. Er. xvii. 15. EN-HARDEN, v. See EFFRONT, supra.

EN-HARP, v. See HARPOON.

Thy sword enharpit with mortal drede.

Skelton. Erle of Northumberland, v. 125. EN-HATCH. See HATCH, infra.

EN-HAUNT. See HAUNT.

(1) thi seruant forsothe was enhauntide (L. V. exercised, exercebar) in thi iustefyingus.- Wic. Ps. exviii. 24, also 48. I shal ben enhauntide in thi merueilis.-Id. Ib. v. 27. EN-HORT.

Coumfort thi fitters atens the cytee, that thou distroye it, and enhurte them. (L. V. excite them, exhortare eos.) Wic. 2 Kings xi. 25.

EN-JOY, i. e. Rejoice.

Therfore a man departe nat that thing that God enioynde or knytte togidre (conjunxit).- Wic. Mat. xix. 6. EN-NEW, v.

Ennew thou signes and change marueilis. (L. V.make ennewe, innova.)- Wic. Ecclus. xxxvi. 6.

The vois of Hamor ennewith his ere.-Id. Ib. xxxviii. 30. ENNUY, s. i. e. Annoyed-in a usage peculiar ENNUYE. S to the French.

I am alone, and ennuyé to the last degree, yet do nothing.
Gray to Dr. Wharton, Letter 26.

ENOINT, v. i. e. Anointed.
The wake-plaies ne kepe I not to say;
Who wrestled best, naked with oil enoint.
Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2963.
See ANOURN.

ENOURN, v.

And both hir and hir dameselis she shulde enournen and arazen. (L. V. ournede and araiede, ornaret atque excoleret.)-Wic. Esth. ii. 9.

The whiche sorte not wymmenes enournyng but whateuere thing wolde Egee, gelding, the kepere of maidenes, thoo thingis to their enournyng he gaf. (L. V. ournement, ornatum.)-Id. Ib. v. 15.

Where is that temple that is not enourned with the ryche espoyle of their victory?

Oracion of Cayus Flammeus. Wurcestre, e. 2. EN-POUR, v. To pour in.

Enpoured and wasted the coutre of Normandy.

EN-SEAL, v.

Berners' Froissart, i. 462.

This dede I ensele.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 1109.
EN-SEAM.

She was not clene ensaymed,
She was not well reclaymed.

EN-SEARCH.

Skelton.

Ware the Hawk, v. 79.

if to me undirstonding and I schal enserche (exquiram) thi lawe.- Wic. Ps. exviii. 34.

Enserche the mynde of the faders. (L. V. seke diligentli, investiga.)-Id. Job viii. 8.

I pray you to make some good ensearche what my poore neighbours have loste. Sir T. More's Workes, p. 1418. To his Wife. EN-SIEGE, v.

Thou schalt be ensegid (L. V. bisegid, obsideberis) with ynne thi 3atis in al thi loond, that the Lord thi God shal yue to thee.- Wic. Deut. xxviii. 52.

EN-SIGN.

Whose favour the young volunteer acquired to such a degree, that he was recommended to the king for an ensigncy.-Peregrine Pickle, iv. c. 13.

EN-SISE, s. Mr. Tyrwhitt says, incisio, stamp, quality, kind.

They be sikre of the selfe ensise.

Chaucer. Plowman's Tale, v. 2565.

The sensible soule it selfe hath been hitherto taken for an entelechie, or self-moving facultie, and some function rather than a substance.

Wats. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. iv. c. 3. EN-TER, v.

Vincent Yanez Pinson sailed from Palos, January 13th, 1500, with four ships. He stood boldly out towards the South, and was the first Spaniard who ventured to cross the equinoctial line.-Robertson. America, b. 2.

EQUITATION. Fr. Equitation. A riding on

Chaucer. In Commendation of our Ladie, v. 159. ESPOIL, i. e. Spoil. See the Quotation from the Earl of Wurcestre, in v. En-ourn.

ESPRINGAL, s. Fr. Espringalle. An ancient engine of war for throwing missiles. See in Cot.

a conspiracy against his master.-Freeholder, No. 31.

ENTER-COMMUNE, v.

Chaucer. Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 5724.

For it was on to behold,
As though the earth envy wold
To be gayer than the heuen.

Dreame of Chaucer. Duchesse, v. 406.
Then honour was the meed of victory,
And yet the vanquished had no despight;
Let later age that noble vse envie
Vile rancour to avoyd, and cruell surquedry.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. i. v. 13.

EN-VIRON, v. In the Pref. Epis. of Jerome, Viroun appears uncompounded.

From all synne fully to be assurid

And of the Holy Ghoost round about enuyred.

Lyfe of our Ladye, b. 5, c. 2. Whether hast thou not strengthid hym, and his hous, and al his substaunce by enuyroun. (L. V. bi cumpas, per circuitionem.)- Wic. Job i. 10.

ENUNCIATE. See ENOUNCE.

EN-WAVED. Formed into waves.

But those (waters) that near the margin pearl did play Hoarsely enwaved were with hasty sway.

G. Fletcher. Christ's Victory and Triumph.

EN-WRAP, v.

And Saul seide to Cynee, Goth hens, goth awey, and de

Equus, a horse. Boswell (Tour to the Hebrides, 1773,) imagined himself and the then Lord Pembroke to be the makers of this word, but Mr. Todd produces an instance of its usage in the year 1728, from a Letter of that date published in the fourth volume of Nichol's Illustrations of English History. (See Todd's Johnson, in v. Equitation.)

EQUIVOKE, v.

But in translating of wordis equiuok, that is, that hath manie significaciouns undur oo lettre, mai litli be peril. Therfore a translatour hath grete nede to studie wel the sentence both bifore and aftir, and loke that suche equiuok wordis acorde with the sentence.

Wic. Bib. Prol. 59, 60. As words signifying the same thing are called synony mous, so equivocal words, or those which signify several things, are called homonymous, or ambiguous, and when persons use such ambiguous words, with a design to deceive, it is called equivocation.—Watts. Logick, pt. i. c. 4.

ERE, v.

He that cometh after me was before me: for he was yer then I.-Bible, 1549. John i. 15, 27.

ERGOTISM, s. Fr. Ergotisme, Arguing. Cot. Lat. Ergo, therefore, the common introduction to a logical conclusion.

Natural parts and good judgments rule the world, states are not governed by Ergotisms. Browne. Christian Morals, pt. ii. § 4.

ERKE. See IRK. ERM. A. S. Earme, miser. To erm is used for to grieve. Tyrwhitt. Is it not a form of Yrmian, to harm? Yrmed, Ge-yrmed, afflicted, made wretched or miserable; p. p. of Yrmian. Ermth, poverty, Yrmth, calamity, misery. See Somner. But wel I wot thou dost min herte to erme.

want.

ERR, v.

Chaucer. Pard. Prol. 12246.

And dowble money bere ye with tow, and that that e han foundun in the sackis bere ze azen, lest peradventure thourz errour (errore) it had be doon.- Wic. Gen. xliii. 12.

I shall not lag behind, nor err The way, thou leading.-Milton. Par. L. x. 266. And those untruely errant (the planets) call'd, I trow, Since he erres not, who them doth guide and move. Fairefax, Godfrey of Bulloigne, ix. 61. Lest from this flying steed unreined (as once Bellerophon, tho' from a lower clime) Dismounted, on the Aleian field I fall, Erroneous there to wander and forlorn.

ERST. See ERE.

Milton. Par. L. vii. 20.

ERUKE. Lat. Eruca, ear-wig, (qv.) is in Wic. sometimes interpreted, a worm of bowis, and a

wort-worm.

ESCAPE, v.

(That he) which sleeth a neigbour not wilnyng, . . . to oon of these citees migt ascape (evadere). Wic. Deut. iv. 42.

Now cometh Spes and speketh
That aspied the lawe.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 11436. ESSAY, s. Common from Ben Jonson to Hoole. The word itself not very old. See the Quotation from Bacon in the Dictionary.

ESSENCE. Augustine calls the Lat. Essentia a new word, and so it might in religious controversy; Seneca apologizes for using the word, though he refers to Cicero, as his authority; and also to Fabianus, his own contemporary. It is not found in any of Cicero's works extant. Quintillian and Seneca both speak of it as a word wanted to relieve the poverty of the Latin language. Quint. b. 2, c. 14. Sen. Ep. 58.

ESSOIN, s. The Fr. verb is very variously written. See in Roquefort, who to the Lat. Exonerare, adds, En basse Lat. Essoniare, exoniare, which latter appear to be an easy corruption from the former: and it may be remarked, that when a defendant is rendered by his bail, they are said to be exonerated, and an entry, called an Eroneretur, is made upon the Bail piece. Our Etymologists, however, present a variety of conjectures. Vossius (de Vit. p. 289), from D. Ver-suym-nis; Ger. Saumnis, impedimentum (see Sumpter). Hickes (Dissert. Epistol. p. 6, n*) refers to M. G. Sunyian, verificare, jurejurando confirmare. Budæus, who is quoted by Menage, and adopted by Minsheu, carries us back per saltum, from the Fr. and low Lat. to the Gr. čoμvvo@ai, to excuse upon oath. See also Essonciare, in Spelman; and Sunnis, in Du Cange. For certes ther availeth non essoine ne non excusation. Chaucer. Persones Tale.

ESTEEM. The Lat. Estimare is rendered by Wiclif to Eyme, (see Aim), and Estimatio by Eyming. If he were a pore man, and at the eymynge shal not mowe Jeelde, he shal stoonde before the preest, and how myche he eymeth (L. V. preisith), and seeth that he may seelde, that he shal gyue.- Wic. Lev. xxvii. 8, also v. 18.

If eny man harme feelde or vynzeerd, and leeve his beeste, that it waste other mennus thingis, what euer best thing he hath in his feeld or vynzeerd, he shal restore for estymacioun of the harm. (L. V. valu, æstimatione.) Id. Ex. xxii. 5.

ESTOPPEL. An Estoppel is an act done, or deed executed, which estops or precludes any one from averring anything to the contrary.

ESTRANGLE, i. e. Strangle.

He whiche had slayn his brother, and estraunglyd hym that was in hostage.-The Golden Legend, fo. 17, c. 2.

EVI

ETERMINABLE, i. e. Interminable.
To the pray we as prince incomparable,
As thou art of mercy and pyte the wel,
Thou bring unto thy joye eterminable
The soule of this lord.-Skelton.
Duke of Northumberland, v. 499.

ETERNITY.

On the Death of the

Thilke forsothe that weren taust schulen shyne as the shynyng of the firmament, and thoo that techen many men to ristwisnes, as sterres into perpetuel eternytees. (L. V. everlastyngnesses.)- Wic. Pref. Ep. p. 64.

Eternity is a negative idea, clothed with a positive name. It supposes, in that to which it is applied, a present existence; and is the negation of a beginning or of an end of that existence.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 24.

ETHE, i. e. Eath, Easy (qv.).
A folè is eith to begile.

ETHER.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 3955.

Not only the ancient philosophers, but some of the aneient Christian fathers did believe Angels to be clothed with some kind of bodies, consisting of the purest and finest matter; which they call Ethereal.

Tillotson. Sermons, v. ii. Ser. 21.

ETTWEE. See TWEEZ, in the Dictionary.
The cloud-wrought canes, the gorgeous snuff-boxes,
The twinkling jewels, and the gold etwee,
With all its bright inhabitants, shall waste
Its (the purse's) melting stores.

EVADE.

Shenstone. Economy, pt. i.

What strength, what art can then
Suffice, or what evasion bear him safe
Through the thick senteries and stations thick
Of Angels watching round?-Milton. Par. L. ii. 411.

EVANGEL, n.

The Lord shal zinen a woord; to the Euangeliseris (L. V. Hem that prechen the Gospel. Evangelisantibus) in myche vertue.- Wic. Ps. lxvii. 12.

All this seemed to me a daungerous compound of the worst errours of popery and Evangelicalism combined.

Arnold to Whateley, January 17th, 1833. Life, i. 305. EVEN. Is used very commonly as equivalent to fellow in rendering Latin nouns with the prefix con -as even caytyf, disciple, (h)eir, eldres, seruaunt, souker (collactaneus), concaptivus, &c. &c. Even against. So Wiclif renders contra, ex adverso.

And anoon he sent to citees of the see goost, and clepide together to even-biynge (ad coemptionem) of prisoneris, ether of bounde men of Jewis.- Wic. 2 Mac. viii. 11.

For the Lord is ristful, and louede riztfulnessis; his cheer siz equitee, ethir euennesse, var. r. euenhede.

Id. Ps. x. 8. Topasie of Ethiope schal not be maad eueneworth (adæquabitur) to wisdom.-Id. Job xxviii. 19.

This accordaunce attempreth by euenlike manners (æquis modis) the elements, that the moist thinges striuing with the dry thynges yeuen place by stounds (vicibus cedant). Chaucer. Boecius, b. iv. m. 6.

EXP

EXEMPT. Also to separate, to dispart.
Was not thy father, Richard, Earle of Cambridge,
For treason executed in our late King's dayes.
And by his treason, stand'st not thou attainted,
Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry?

Shakespeare. Henry VI. Pt. I. act ii. sc. 4 (Though) Protheus, Laconian-was against the enterprise of this war all that he could, Agesilaus would needs forward, hoping he had now found opportunity to be revenged of the Thebans, sith all Greece besides was in peace, and at liberty, themselves onely exempted (i. e. excepted, excluded) from treaty of peace.-North. Plutarch. Agesilaus.

EXERCISE. v. Also further; to work upon.
Where pain of unextinguishable fire
Must exercise us without hope or end.

Milton. Par. L. ii. 89.
To you such scabb'd harsh fruit is giv'n, as raw
Young soldiers at their exercisings gnaw,
Who trembling learn to throw the fatal dart,
And under rods of rough centurion smart.

Dryden. Juvenal, sat. v. by W. Bowles. EXERT, v. See the Quotation from Browne in v. Ideated, infra; and see also Unexerted.

He would attribute as much activity to the sun, that should say the sun had a power of educing light out of

Excess, written also both in Wiclif and Chaucer, Axess or Axcess. Pandarus, speaking to Troylus-night, or the dark air, as he that should say the sun had

a lover in a traunce-says:

Thou shalt up rise and se

A charme that was ysent right now to the, The whiche can helen the of thine axesse.

Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. ii. v. 1315. An access of soule, or rauysching of spirit. Wic. Deeds, x. 10. I forsothe seide in exces of my mind (the passynge, excessu), I am cast aferr fro the face of thin ezen. Id. Ps. xx. 23. And I sy in excess of my soule (L. V. rauysching of my mind) a visioun, sum vessel comynge doun.-Id. Deeds xi. 5. EXCEL, v. See the Quotation from Grafton in v. Adore, supra.

Excellent (tyrant, Shakespeare). Surpassing. Excellent pain. Surpassing pain. J. Taylor, Compare Donne and Pope.

Marg. That excellent grand tyrant of the earth
Thy wombe let loose to chase us to the grave.
Shakespeare. Richard III. act iv. sc. 4.
Yet there's one state

In all ill things, so excellently best
That hate towards them breeds pity to the rest.
Donne. Sat. ii. v. 4.
Yet here, as ev'n in hell, there must be still
One giant viee, so excellently ill,
That all beside, one pities, not abhors.
EXCESS. See EXCEED.
EXCISE.

Pope. Imit. of Donne.

We see all the townes of the Low-Countryes doe cut upon themselves an excise of all things towards the maintenance of the warre that is made in their behalfe. Spenser. Ireland. Works, v. viii p. 472.

EXCITE, v. And so the sones of Amon erieden togidere, that is, clePyden hem silf togidere to batel, and exciteden atens Israel. Wic. Judges x. 17.

Thylke thinges beene my drawers in, and exitours to the matters werne so painted and coloured that at the prime face me semed them noble and glorious to al the people. Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. i.

EXCLAIM.

Abig. But I will learn to leave these fruitless tears; And urged thereto with my afflictions, With fierce exclaims run to the senate house, And in the senate reprehend them all. Marlow. Jew of Malta, act i.

EXCLUDE. And so Marie (Mirian) was excludid out of the tentis bi senene daies. (E. V. putte out, exclusa est.) Wic. Num. xii. 14. Lest happili (perhap) hate of the prelatis name, shulde exclude the profit of the lessoun.-Id. Prol. to Rom. p. 300.

EXCUSE.

He (Henry VIII.) dispatched Sir Ed. Karne and Dr. Bonner, in quality of excusators, so they were called, to carry his apology.-Hume. Henry VIII. An. 1532.

EXCUSS.

The long stay I made the last year in Germany occa sioned me to take some pain in excussing some old Francick monuments.-Fr. Junius to Selden, May 8, 1654.

EXECUTOR and EXECUTRICE, in Chaucer, as we now use Executioner. See in Dictionary. 38

a power of exerting light out of his own body.
Cudworth. Immutable Morality, b. 4, c. 1, § 11.
So from the seas exerts his radiant head
The star, by whom the lights of heaven are led.

Dryden. Eneid, viii. 783. EXILE. Or from Exigilis. (See Exiguous.) The French had, from this adj., a verb, Exiler. Cotgrave writes, Exiler un pays, to destroy, depopulate, and lay waste a country.

Thei forsothe that temptaciouns resseyueden not with the drede of God, and brosten forth ther vnpatience and the repref of ther grucching azen the Lord, ben eriled of the exiliere (L. V. distried of a distriere, exterminati sunt ab exterminatore), and of serpentis pershiden.

But the greatest underweening of this life is to undervalue that, unto which this is but exordial, or a passage leading unto it.-Browne. Christian Morals, pt. ií. § xxv. EXPECT.

To render the exertion of papal power unbounded, ezpectative graces, or mandates, nominating a person to succeed to a benefice upon the first vacancy that should Robertson. Charles V. An. 1520. happen, were brought into use.

EXPEDIATE. EXPEDIENT. See first Quotation from Wiclif, and from Bible 1549, in v. Speed. "Whatever is expedient is right." But then it must be expedient upon the whole, at the long run, in all its effects, collateral and remote, as well as in those which are immediate and direct; as it is obvious, that in computing consequences, it makes no difference in what way or at what distance they ensue.-Paley. Moral Philosophy, b. ii. c. 8.

If here I shuld reherse the victoryous dedys of the Frenshe Kynge and his Knyghtes in order, after the expressement of the Frenshe booke, I shulde therof make a longe story.-Fabyan, v. i. c. 245.

EXPRIME, v. See EXPRESS.

I cannot with my tongue or pen exprime the inward joy, which I have taken and do take, to see him (Pope Clement VII.)... thus called by God to the supreme place and governaunce of Christ's religion.-Wolsey. State Papers under her Majesty's Commission, v. vi.

EXPUTORY, adj. Lat. Exspuere. To spue or spit out; to eject. The word is an uncirculated coinage of Cowper's.

I cannot immediately recollect the exsputory lines. Cowper to Unwin, Nov. 20, 1784.

EXTANT. See the Quotations from Evelyn,

Boyle, and Brown, in the Dictionary.

FAD

Eye-let. A little eye. Fr. Eillet, an oilette

hole.

Eye-let. The Lat. Ansula, a small loop, is rendered by Wiclif oilette.

Eyeliads (in Shakespeare, Eliads and Illiads). Fr. Eillade. An amorous look, affectionate wink; sheep's eye. Cot.

My face bolnyd of wepynge, and myn izeliddis (L. V. ey liddis, palpebre) wexiden derke. (Mar. note, that is, myn izen conteynede bitwixe the izcluddis.)—Wic. Job xvi. 17. The curtyn shal haue fifti oiletis, in either parti so set in, that o oilete (L. V. handle) may come azen another, and the other be leide to the other.-Id. Er. xxvi. 5.

With this he hung them up aloft, upon a Tamaricke bow,
As eyfull trophies.-Chap. Homer. Iliad, xiii. 9.
Gent. (He, Lear,) tears his white hair;
Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage,
Catch in their fury, and make nothing of.

Shakespeare. Lear, act iii. sc. 1.
Promise was that I
Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver;
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him
Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves,
Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke.

Milton. Samson Agonistes, i. 41. Reg. I know your Lady do's not loue her husband, I am sure of that; and at her late being heere She gave strange eliads, and most speaking looks To noble Edmund.-Shakespeare. "Lear, act iv. sc. 5. Fals. (She, Page's wife) even now gaue mee good eyes too, examined my parts with most iudicious illiads.

Id. Merry Wives of Windsor, act i. sc. 3. Red-with an eye of blue makes purple.-Boyle. EYME, v. See ESTEEM, and AIM. EYR. See AIR.

EYRE, i. e. HEIR.

And but his eyre love vertue as did he (the father),
He (the heir) is not gentyl though he richè seme.
Chaucer. Balade. Gentylness.

EYRISH. Aerial. See AIR, supra. EYTE. "The suburbs of the town (Christchurch, Twinham) were denominated Eggheite, a word derived from the Saxon Eage, a low wet place, or little island" (A. S. Eg or Ig-land) " and its derivative or Synonym, Eyte."-Warner's Hampshire, vol. ii.

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Small patches of land in the Thames, occasionally

overflooded, are called Eytes.

FABLE, v.

F.

And it was don while they talkiden (or fableden, var. r. fabularentur), and souten with hem silf, and Jhesu him silf neitynge, went with hem.-Wic. Luke xxiv. 15.

And the fablers, or ianglers (L. V. tale telleris, fabu̟latores) and seekers out of prudence, and of understondinge; sothelij thei knewen not the weie of wysdam, nether hadden mynde of the paathis therof.-Id. Bar. iii. 23. FABULIST. See FABLE.

Fine weather and a variety of extra-foraneous occupa tions (search Johnson's Dictionary for that word, not there, insert it, for it saves a deal of circumlocution, and is very lawfully compounded) make it difficult for me to find opportunities for writing.

Cowper to Unwin, April 2, 1781.

EXTRA-REGULAR.
These gifts were given extra-regularly.

Bishop Taylor. Office Ministerial, s. iii. § 7.

EXTRAVAGANT.

And at his (the cock's) warning
Th' extravagant, and erring spirit, hyes
To his confine.-Shakespeare. Hamlet, act i. sc. 1.
EXTURB. See DISTURB.

All these noble tenants and occupants were thus exturbed, dead, and gone.-Stowe. Chron. Univ. c. x.

EXUNDATION.

The fertility of Egypt depends on the regular exundations of the Nile. When that happens not, all tillage is vain.-Geddes. Gen. xlv. 6, n.

EY. See EGG.

EYE. Also, Sp. Ojo; It. Occhio. In Piers Plouhman also written Eighe. "Both his eighen watered."-Vision, v. 4148.

These heretics bark against the old ancient customs of Christ's church, mocking the setting up of candles, and with foolish faceties and mockery-blasphemous mockery -demand whether God and his saints lack light. Sir Thomas More. Works, fo. 118, ed. 1557.

FACT.

And Rachel and Lya, answeryden, Whether han te eny thing of residew in faculteis and erytage of the hows of oure fader. (L. V. catelis, facultatibus.- Wic. Gen. xxxi. 14.-Tobit i. 23. Substantia.)

FADE, v. FADE-LESS, i. e. the termination less added to the verb, as Dauntless, Quenchless.

To whiche Josue seide, How long faden ze (E. V. wolewen ye, marcetis) by cowardise, ethir by slouthe, and entren not to welde the land which the Lord God of poure fadris af to you.- Wic. Josh.xviii. 3.

Ther is a man fade (i. e. feble, failinge more than othire, mar. n.-marcidus) nedi of rekyuering.-Id. Ecclus. xi. 12. Thou shalt no while be in o state, But whilom colde and whilom hate (hot), Now red as rose, now yelwe and fade.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 2399. His colour, which was whilom white, Was than of water fade and pale.

Gower. Conf. Am. b. viii. fo. 177'.

Death is no foe to Virtue: earth has seen Love's brightest roses on the scaffold bloom, Mingling with freedom's fadeless laurels there, And presaging the truth of visioned bliss.-Shelley. Queen Mab, s. ix.; and in Prometheus, act ii. sc. 4. FADGE. A. S. Fag-enian, Fæg-nian. See FAIN. Thei seiden, to the wijf of Sampson, Faage to thi man, (L. V. glose, blandire), and moue hym, that he shewe to thee what bitokeneth the probleme.- Wic. Judg. xiv. 15. By the help of ditto note (for £25) we shall be able to fadge very comfortably till Christmas is turned. Cowper to Lady Hesketh, December 19th, 1787.

Ac er I hadde faren a furlong,
Feyntise me hente,

That I ne myghte ferther a foot,
For defaute of slepynge.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 2482. FAIR, adj. The Fr. Beau-pere, beau-frere, &c. Father or brother-in-law, are rendered by Berners, Faire-father, faire-brother, &c.

And whanne the Philistee hadde seen Dauyd, he despiside hym; forsothe he was a tong man, rodi, and fayre in sist (pulcher).- Wic. 1 Kings, xvii. 42.

There semeth not the fool faire set wordis (verba composita); ne the prince a liende lip.-Id. Prov. xvii. 7. Preise thou not a man in his fairnesse (specie); ne dispise thou a man in his sist.-Id. Ecclus. xi. 2. And though thou go, yet must the nede Thinken al day on her fairhede.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 2484. FAIRY, 8. A fay or fairy, may have been sc named from their fabled power to say (fari), to tell, to foresay, to foretell, to soothsay, to fore-speak; and further, to influence the fate, to fore-doom; to bewitch, to enchant.

FAIT, v. To idle, do as the idle do, beg, deceive.
But thoo that feynen hem foolis
And with faiteng libbeth.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 2678.

FAITH, s. The Ger. Fug-en, facere, preserves the original meaning of the A. S. Fag-an, i. e. to fag or fey. Fagth, a covenant, seems to be an extension of signification, similar to that of Deed, an act, or fact of covenanting or agreeing, &c.

FAITHFUL. Full of faith,-of fidelity.

FALL, s. Time of year when leaves fall, &c. &c. See the Quotation from the Spectator. Now faire falle yow, quod I tho For youre faire shewyng.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 10794. But nedefully, as thei saine Behoveth it, that thinges which that fall, That thei in certaine ben purveyed all.

Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, iv. 1007.
And therwithall on knees adoun he fill.
Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 1105.

In Septembre, at the fallinge of the lefe,
The freshe ceson was altogeder done,
And of the corne was gathered the shefe.

Id. Assemblee of Ladies, v. 1.
A facetions friend of mine, who loves a pun, calls this
present mortality among authors (occasioned by the Stamp
Act) the fall of the leaf-Spectator, No. 445.
FALLACY.

Milke of fallas, is venime of disceit. FALSE, v. The whiche (enuyous men) pronouncen me to be a falsere, and a distrožere, or apeirere of holi scripturis. Wic. James, Prol.

Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. 2,

Now strikes he out, and now he falsifieth.

Fairefar. Godfrey of Bulloigne, vi. 42. FAME. To defame, Chaucer; And in Wic. Matth. ix. 31, To Diffame, diffamare, is in some MSS. to fame.

Forsothe he (Holofernes) brak the richeste, eithir famous (opinatissimam) citee of Melothi (var. r. famousiste). Wic. Judith, ii. 13.

In your herte, iwis, there is no gentilnesse
That of your gilt, list thus to women fame.
Chaucer. Praise of Women, v. 83.
Nor few, nor fameless, were the English chiefs.
Southey. Joan of Arc, x. 253