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INGAGE, v.

INN

There be Monks in Russia, for penance, that will sit a whole night in a vessel of water till they be ingaged with hard ice.-Bacon. Essays. Of Custome.

IN-GEM, v. To cover or inclose with gems.
Living topaz! that ingemm'st

This precious jewel.-Cary. Dante, Par. xv. 82.
IN-GO, v.

IN-GOING, S.

To go into; to enter.

It is ful hard, by myn heed! quod Piers,
For any of tow alle

To geten in-going at any gate there.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3766. And he (Judas) yngoynge to hir, seith (L.V. entride, ingrediens), Lat me that I goo togidre with thee. Wic. Gen. xxxviii. 16. Thei sezen thin ingoingus, God: the ingoing of my God, my king, that is in holy. (L. V. goynge in, ingressus.) Id. Ps. lxvii. 25.

IN-GRAFF, v. So the Lat. inserere is rendered by one of Wiclif's followers, referred to in var. r. on 1 Tim. vi. 10. Both E. V. and L. V. read Bisett. IN-HESION. See INHERE. IN-HILD, v. To pour into. See HILD. Ye, (O blissful light) in my naked hertes-sentiment. Inhild.-Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. iii. v. 44.

IN-JOIN, v. Chaucer writes Joigne, i. e. to warn.
First, I joigne the, here in penaunce,-

That ever without repentaunce
Thou set thy thought in thy loving
To last withouten repenting.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 2355.

A new order of vestry was obtained for the ringing of the five o'clock bell; which occasioned the plaintiffs to bring their bill to injoin the ringing of this bill; and on motion Lord Chancellor Macclesfield granted an injunction to stay the ringing until the hearing.

P. Williams. Rep. v. ii. 226. Case 67.

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IN-PUT, v.

And Phtolome entride Antioche, and ynputtide (L. V. puttide, imposuit) two dyademes to his hed, of Egipt and Asie.- Wic. 1 Mac. xi. 13.

If any good be in gentilliesse, it is only that it semeth a maner of necessity be input to gentilmen, that they shoulden not varien fro the vertues of their auncestors.

Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. ii. INQUIRE, v. i. e. to call or name. Now Cantium, which Kent we commonly inquyre. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 10, § 12. IN-RISE, v. IN-RISER, S. In and rise, qv. Ther han in risen azen me wicke witnesses. (L. V. han rise, insurrexerunt.- Wic. Ps. xxvi. 12.

In thee oure enemys we shal winnewe bi the horn, and in thi name we shul dispise inriseris in us. (L. V. hem that risen azen us, insurgentes.)-Id. Ps. xliii. 6.

IN-RUN, v. IN-RUNNING, 8. In and run, qv.

Fro the arwe fleende in dai; fro the nede (negotio, M.V.
That folke ungilty suffren here injure,
pestilence) goende in dercness thur: fro the inrennyng
And who that gilty is, al quite goeth he?
Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. iii. v. 1018. (L. V. assailing, incursu), and the myddai deuel.
Wic. Ps. xc. 6.
IN-SCIENT. Lat. Insciens. Unknowing, igno-

INKLE.

When people are intimate, we say they are as great as two inkleweavers, (who) contract intimacies with each other sooner than other people, on account of their juxta-position in weaving inkle.

Cowper. To Lady Hesketh, May 6, 1788.

IN-LEAD, v.

And he inladde them in to the hil of his halewing; the hil that his rişt hond purchaside. (L. V. brouşte hem, indurit.-Wic. Ps. lxxvii. 54.

IN-LIGHTEN.

For God that seide the lyst for to schyne of derknessis, he hath ynlistid (illurit) in oure hertis to the illuminyng (L.V. listnyng) of the science of the cleerenesse (claritatis) of God into the face of Ihesu Crist.- Wic. 2 Cor. iv. 6.

Makynge mynde of zou in my preieris;-the yzen of your herte inlistened (L. V. listned, illuminatos), that je wite whiche is the hope of his clepinge; and whiche the richessis of the glorie of his heritage in Seintis.-Id. Eph. i. 18. INLY.

The wrdis of a groynere, i. e. groaner, (ben) as simple; and thei comen thur; to the inmostis (L. V. inneste, intima)

thingis of the hertes.- Wic. Prov. xxvi. 22.

The swerd of the Lord fulfild is of blod, innerly fattid it is (incrassatus) with the taly of blod of lambis.

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No defendant could refuse battail offered; but such as were too excellent, as the king; or too sacred, as the clergy; or too weak, as women, maimed persons, and children; or too inscient, as ideots and lunaticks; or too mean, as villains.-N. Bacon. Historical Discourse, c. xxxvii. p. 90.

IN-SCRIBE.

Alle the salmyes, that ben inscriued to hym Dauid, pertenen to the sacrament of Crist, for Dauid is seid Crist. Wic. Ps. Prol. p. 738. Therfore what other man is understonde in the firste but the firste goten, that wrthili inscripcioun shul not be necessarie.-Id. Ib.

IN-SEEK, v. See SEEK.

Forsoth it bihoueth a man comynge to God, for to bileue for he is, and he is rewarder of men ynseekinge him. (L. V. that seken, inquirentibus.)—Wic. Heb. xi. 8.

IN-SEND, v. See SEND.

plente of malice, in myldenesse or homelynesse, receine ze For which thing 3e, casting awey al unclennesse, and the word insent, or ioyned that mai saue poure soules. (L. V. plauntid, insitum.)-Wic. James i. 21.'

IN-SET, v. See SET.

She monestede eche of hem by voice of cuntree strongly
fulfillid with wijsdam, and ynsettinge mans ynwitt (inserens)
to wommans thoust, saide to hem...

Wic. 2 Mac. viii. 21.
But and thei schulen ben ynsett (L. V. set in, inserentur),
if thei schulen not dwelle in unbileue.-Id. Rom. xi. 23.
IN-SHED, v. See Shed.

Osias risende, the teris inshed (L. V. bisched with teeris,
infusus lacrymis).- Wic. Judith vii. 23.

With beestus and wild beestis thi dwellynge shal be, and thou shalt ete hay as an oxe, but and (also) in dewe of heuene thou shalt be inshed. (L. V. bished, infunderis.) ld. Dan. iv. 22.

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IN-SMITE, v. See To SMITE.

And whan the first cumpaignye of Judas appeeride, dreed is ynsmyten (incussus est) to the enmyes of the presence of God, that biholdith all thingis.-Wic. 2 Mac. xii. 22.

IN-SOLENT. Lat. Insolens, was sometimes used as-not accustomed to, inexperienced; and in Chaucer's Court of Love (quoted in the Dictionary), Insolence is Inexperience.

IN-SOLUBLE.

The whiche (priest) is not maad up the lawe of fleischly maundement, but up vertu of lyf insolible (insolubilis), or that may not be undon.- Wic. Heb. vii. 16.

IN-SOUL, v. To have or cause to have a soul; to inspirit.

The soul must be informed, insouled, or animated with the propositions that you put in, or you shall never do any good, or get disciples to Christ.

J. Taylor. Sermon before the University of Dublin. IN-SPECT, s.

Not so the man of philosophic eye,

And inspect sage: the waving brightness he
Curious surveys, inquisitive to know
The causes, and materials, yet unfixed,
Of this appearance beautiful and new.
Thomson. Seasons.

IN-STANT, IN-STANDING. the Lat. instans, instant.

Autumn, v. 1132. So Wiclif renders

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(The spirit of wisdom is) manli (humanus), benigne, alle hauende vertue, alle thingus beholdende, and that taketh alle intelligible spirits (spirits able to understonde, intelligibiles).-Wic. Wisd. vii. 23.

The heuen intellectuell be thaugellis, and thaugellis bē called heue by ye reasō of dignity, and of their understanding.-The Golden Legend, fo. 25, c. 1. In head, in voice,

In body, and in bristles, they became
As swine, yet intellected as before.

Cowper. Odyssey, b. x. v. 297. IN-TEND. In Gordon's Tacitus Ann. b. i. ch. "Intendency of religious rites," is super-intendency (præditus auguratu).

62,

And because some men's pens of late have ranged into a denyal of the Commons' ancient right in the legislative power, and others, even to admit the right, both of Lords and Commons, therein, resolving all such power into that one principle of a King, quicquid libet, licet; so making the breach much wider than at the beginning, I shall intend my course against both. N. Bacon. Hist. Disc. pt. ii. Preface. Go therefore, mighty powers, Terror of heav'n, though fall'n; intend at home, While here shall be our home, what best may ease The present misery, and render hell More tolerable.-Milton. Par. L. b. ii. v. 457.

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Domitian is believed to have tried by secret inter-agents

to corrupt the fidelity of Cerialis.

Gordon. Tac. Hist. b. iv. ch. 86. By the inter-agency of Rubrius Gallus the mind of Cæcina came to be shaken.-Id. Ib. b. ii. ch. 99. INTERAIL, or INTERALL, i. e. Entrail, or inside. The naked boys unto the waters' fall, Their stony nightingales had taught to call, When zephyr breathed into their wat'ry interall. G. Fletcher. Christ's Triumph on Earth.

INTER-DICT.

INT

It is of custome after the lawe of Rome for to interdire and take away the administration of good from them that do not approue it profitably.

The Boke of Tulle of Old Age, c. 5.

INTERESS, v. INTER-ESTINGNESS.
The last daie is the ende of myne entresse.

Chaucer. The Balade of the Village. The axe the emblem of having been beheaded, which is engraved under those (heads) of the Sir Thomas Mores, of the Rhaleighs, the Russells, the Sydneys, &c. sheds a real dignity and interestingness over their characters. Smith. Moral Sent. pt. vi. § 3. INTER-KNITTE. To knit; to connect toge

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The science of public or international law-a study so congenial to the generalizing and philosophical turn of Mr. Mackintosh's thoughts, was a department of jurisprudence which had long peculiarly attracted his attention. Life of Sir J. Mackintosh, by his Son, ch. iii.

INTER-PONIBILITY. Barrow, Math. Lec. x.
p. 176. See PONIBILITY and SPACE.
INTER-PROCESSION.

That this eclyps was causid al to sone
By her sodeyne introprocessyone.

INTER-SPERSE, v.

Lyfe of our Ladye, e. 2, c. 2.

As is likewise (to be admired) that particular art, which he (Milton) has made use of in the interspersing of all those graces of poetry, which the subject was capable of receiving.-Spectator, No. 315.

INTER-TRAFFIC. Traffic of one with another. Tongues might be enricht and perfected by mutuall intertrafique one with another.-Wats. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, b. vi. ch. 1.

See THRONG.

IN-THRONG, v. To press in.
They saw how eastward stretcht in order long,
The happy ilands sweetly flowring lay;
And how the seas betwixt those iles inthrong,
And how they shouldred land from land away.
Fairefar. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. xv. st. 41.
His people like a flowing streame inthrong.

IN-TONATE, v.

Id. lb. b. xix. st. 37.

With holy water next,
A father went, therewith from hyssop branch,
Sprinkling the graves the while, with one accord
The solemn psalm of mercy all entoned.

Southey. Madoc, pt. i. § 13.
No choristers the funeral dirge intoned.

INTRIGUE, v.

Id. lb. pt. ii. § 5.

His family (Orl. Bridgman) was very ill qualified for that place, his lady being a most violent intriguess in business.-North. Life of Lord Keeper North, i. 168. Quoted in Lord Campbell."

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within the limits of the property, which exposes this strong natural affection to an annoyance that is felt to be intolerable.-Chalmers. On the Constitution of Man, pt. i. ch. 7.

IN-TURN, v. To turn in.

And thei berynge the whete in her assis zeden forth, and the sak of oon openyd, that he myst gyue to his beest in an inturnyng place to rest (L. V. in the yn, in diversorio); biholdun the money in the mouth of the sak. Wic. Gen. xlii. 27.

INVENT, v.

Because a great part of our food is dry; therefore nature hath provided several glandules to separate this juice (the spittle) from the blood, and no less than four pair of channels to convey it into the mouth, which are of late invention, and called by anatomists, Ductus Salivales.

Ray. Wisdom of God, pt. ii. p. 311, 4th Ed. INVERT, v.

An indurate and invertible conscience:-qy. that cannot be turned. Cranmer. See Southey, Book of the Church, ch. xii. INVICT. See IN-VINCIBLE.

IN-VIOLABLE.

But now Marie hath fonde an ordre newe
To kepe her clene and invyolate.

Lyfe of our Ladye, b. 2, c. 2.
IN-WET, v. In and wet, qv.
That inwet (L. V. deppide, intingatur) be thi foot in
blood; the tunge of thin hoondis fro hym of the enemyes.
(L. V. be dipped in blood of the enemyes of hym.)
Wic. Ps. lxvii. 24.
IN-WIT, s. Common in Wiclif. And see OUT-
WIT, Piers Plouhman.

Esau forsothe fourti wynter olde took two wynes; . the whiche bothe hadden offended the inwitt of Ysaac and Rebecca. (L. V. soul, animum.)- Wic. Gen. xxvi. 35.

For which thing, 3e men, be of good inuitt, or herte (L. V. coumfort, bono animo); forsothe I bileue to my God, ld. Deeds xxvii. 25; also 22.

for so it schal be as it is seide to me.

IN-WLAP, v. In and lap, qv.

No man holdinge knitthod to God, inwlappith (L. V. wlappith, implicat) him silf with worldli nedis, that he plese to him, to whom he hath proued him silf. Wic. 2 Tim. ii. 4.

And I see; and loo! a wynde of tempest, or whirlwynde, cam fro the north, and a grete cloude, and fyre invlappynge (L. V. wlappynge in, involvens), and a schynyng in the cumpas of it.-Id. Ez. i. 4.

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Thorow lyght of vertu invardely joconde,
Only thorowe grace that in her habounde.
Lyfe of our Ladye, a. 6, c. 2.
JOGELOUR. See JUGGLER.

JOIN, v. Is used by Chaucer as injoin, qv. supra.
And whanne thei had takun up the aneris, thei bitoken
hem to the see, to gidere slakinge the ioyntours of gouer-
nalis (juncturas gubernaculorum).- Wic. Deeds xxvii. 40.

JOURNEY. The work, the travel, the battle of the day.

If he may be taken by this means, the jorney shall be ours.-Berners' Froissart, v. i. p. 286

JOWL.

In the cheek boon of an asse, that is the iow of the colt
of assis (L. V. the lowere cheke boon, maxilla), I haue doon
hem awey, and smyten a thousand men.
Wic. Judges xv. 16.
And the Aungel seide to hym, Take thou his gile, either
iowe (E. V. fin, maxillam), and drawe hym to thee.
ld. Tobit vi. 4.
JOY.

The fruyt that brynge forth Arn foule wordes,

In jelousie joye-lees.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 5511.
lozende I shal toten in the Lord (gaudens gaudebo), and
ful out iozen (exultabit) shal my soule in my God.
Wic. Is. lxi. 10.
Then round our death-bed every friend should run,
And joy us of our conquest early won.
Dryden. Palaman and Arcite, b. iii.

IRE.

And Saul was wrooth with irefulness. (E. V. wrath-
fulness, iracundia.)- Wic. 1 Kings xix. 21.
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IRRITATE, v. Lat. Irritare (of the lower ages), from Ir-ritus, i. e. inratus; in, neg., and ratus, not ratified, invalid; and hence, null, void. Irritation is somewhere used by Bp. J. Taylor. See IRRITANT, in Jamieson. To be or cause to be; to render null, void, of no effect.

If any thing should come to pass otherwise than it doth, yet God's foreknowledge could not be irritated by it, for then he did not know that it should come to pass as it doth.-Bp. Bramhall's Works, p. 72 (in Todd).

The states elected Harry, Duke of Anjou, for their King, with this clause irritant; that if he did violate any part of his oath, the people should owe him no allegiance.

Hayward. Answer to Doleman (1608), ch. v. (in Todd). ISINGLASS. Ger. Haus-blase; Sw. Hus-blaes, Icthyophylla;-Composed of haus, the name of a large fish (the sturgeon) found in the Danube; and blase, a bladder; the glutinous matter, called housblase or isinglass, being extracted from the bladder of this fish. Pliny says,-" A fish there is, named Icthyocolla, which hath a glewish skin, and the very glue that is made thereof, is likewise called icthyocolla. Some affirme, the said glue is made of the belly and not of the skin of the said fish." (B. xxxii. ch. 7.)

Iethyocolla, or ising-glass, is also made of the sound of our fish (the common sturgeon), as well as that of the others, but the beluga affords the best.

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If the English verse is not isochronous with the Latin, it must be shorter.-Southey. Pref. to Vision of Judgement.

ISOLATED. Mr. Todd produces the authority of Warburton for this word, and says that Lord Chesterfield somewhere uses it; yet the following quotation from Lord Bolingbroke, shows it was "The events we are not in established currency. witnesses of in the course of the longest life, appear to us very often original, unprepared, single, and unrelative, if I may use such a word for want of a better. In French, I would say, Isoles." R. C. Barnard, Notes and Queries, Feb. 25, 1854.

Short, isolated sentences, were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts for the regulation of human conduct. Warburton. Doctrine of Grace. Preface.

ISSUE. The Lord kepe thin entre, and thi issu (L. V. goyng out, exitum) fro this now, and unto the world. Wic. Ps. exx. 8. IT. It's seems of comparatively modern introduction: though in Waller (1653) it is admitted I

JUS

as an established formation. See HER, HIS; and
second Quotation, infra, in v. Jubilee.
If any peple perfourme that text
It are thise poore peeres.
Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 10272.
Which (gate) opened to them by his owne accorde.
Acts xii. 10. Bible, 1549, and Mod. Ver.
He toke a braunche from a cedre tree, and brake of
the toppe of his twigge.
Ezek. xvii. 4. Bible, 1549; also Mod. Ver.
A spacious plain outstretch'd in circuit wide
Lay pleasant; from his side two rivers flow'd.
Milton. Par. Reg. b. iii. v. 255.

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Herie ye hym in cymbalis sownynge wel; herye ye hym in cymbalis of jubilacioun (L. V. huze iozing, jubilacionis); eche spirit herye the Lord.- Wic. Ps. cxx. 6.

And thow shalt halowe the fyftith teer, and clepe it fortifnesse to alle the dwellers of the loond; for he (the jeer) is forsothe the jubilee; a man shal turne azen to his possessioun, and eche shal turne azen to his before hadde menye, for the jubilee jubileus) it is, and the fyftethe jeer. Id. Lev. xxv. 10. Jubilee, I am inclined to think with Masius and Michaelis, that it derives its name from the trumpet, and this from Jubal, a son of Lamech. (See Gen. iv. 21.)

JUGGLE.

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Geddes on Lev. xxv. 10.

Jape ne jogele.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 8490. The miracles which Jesus did were not the delusions and jugglements of the devil.-Beveridge. P. Thoughts, Art. 2. JUICE.

It is a puple whiche eten swines fleisch, and unhooli iwisch. Var. r. iwce, iuyshe. E. V. broth, jus.) Wic. Is. lxv. 4. The venomous ieuse out wrongen, it is likely to enpoysenen all tho that thereof tasten.

Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. iii.

JUMENT. See BEAST. Lat. Jumentum; Jugomentum; a beast for the yoke (jugum). See in Vossius other etymologies.

And make je redy jumentis, or hors (jumenta), that thei, puttinge Poul vpon, shulden lede him saf to Felix, President. Wic. Deeds xxii. 24.

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And whan hooli thingis of Libe, that is Balus, weren maad solempli, thei weren crownyd with yuy (E. V. edera), and weren constreyned for to go aboute with Liber. Wic. 2 Mac. vi. 7.

KALE.

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Manye cole plauntes.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 4374. KALENDAR. Guide, director.-Tyrwhitt. (Thou) wotest well that Kalender is she

To any woman that wol lover be,

For she taught all the craft of trewe loving.
Chaucer. Legend of Good Women, Prol. v. 542.

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KEMB. See Piers Plouhman in v. Card, supra. He (Raleigh) told me he was wont to keem his head a whole hour every day before he came to the Tower. Sir T. Wilson's Journal, Sept. 21, 1618.

KEN. Sones, here ze the techyng of the fadir, and perceiue ze that že kunne prudence. (E. V. knowen, sciatis.) Wic. Prov. iv. 1. Also (he broute forth) the tree of lyf in the mydle of Paradys, and a tree of kunnyng (scientiæ) of good and of yuel.-ld. Gen. ii. 9.

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KERNELS. Corners or holes of Battlements, Skinner, from Fr. Cornelle, dim. of Corne. A corner. But in Chaucer Kernels are by Tyrwhitt said to be Battlements.

The walles ben

kernelled with Cristendom.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 2682.

And eke about at the corners,
Men seinen over the wall stonde
Gret engins, which ywere nere honde;
And in the kernels here and there
Of arblasteres grete plentie were.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 4195. KERSE, for Kress. Skinner. See Piers Plouhman in v. Card.

This vailyth nat a karse.

Chaucer. Merchantes Second Tale, v. 239. KETCH, v. i. e. Catch, qv. And see Quotation from Chaucer in v. Mucker.

An express ketch came out from Holland on board their admiral.-Clarendon, iii. 459.

KETCH, i. e. JACK-KETCH. Rd. Jaquette, Lord

of the Manor of Tyburn, temp. Edward VI.

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What thing of siche thing faln to deeth falle shal be unclene, other forneyses, or ketels (var. r. L. V. vessels of thre feet, chytro-podes).- Wic. Lev. xi. 35. KEVER. See COVER.

ΚΝΑ

KEY, v. See Piers Plouhman in vv. Keep and Clicket.

It is the pleasure of Telemachus,

Sage Euryclea, that thou key secure

The doors.-Cowper. Odyssey, b. xxi. v. 457. KICHELL. Dim. of Cake, qv. A goddes kichel, because given by godfathers, &c. to godchildren. Yeve us a bushel whete, or malt, or rye, A goddes kichel.

KID.

Chaucer. The Sompnoures Tale, v. 7329.

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Thei schulen offre twey kydeneris (E. V. reyns, rênes) with the fatnesse by which the guttis-cleped ylyon-ben hilid.- Wic. Lev. iii. 4.

There are also, in later times, decrees made by Popes of another kidney.-Barrow. On the Pope's Supremacy.

KILL. In Piers Plouhman, Kulle, kille, kulled, killed.

(The Jewes) contreyveden
To kulle hym whan thei myghte.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 11081.
And kilde ful manye.-Id. Ib. 14123
KIMBO.

The hoost made an hidouse cry,
And set his hand in kenebowe.

And this

Chaucer. The Merchantes Second Tale, v. 1105. KIME, s. Silly kime, silly fellow, Tyrwhitt, who suggests A. S. Guma. See GROOM. etymology Skinner proposes as most probable of all. The Emperour yafe the Pope somtime So highe lordeship him about, That at the last, the sely kime, The proudé Pope put him out.

Chaucer. The Plowman's Tale, v. 2635. KIN, KIND. In our Litany the kindly fruits of the earth are the natural fruits of the earth.

Wiclif renders, ex naturali oleastro, from the kyndeli wielde olyue tree; kindeli braunchis, naturales rami; agens kynde, contra naturam; and kindeli, adv. naturaliter, and kindeles or kyndelyngis (see in Dictionary), genimina.

Forsothe ze ben a kynde chosun (L. V. kyn, gens), a kyngly presthood.- Wic. 1 Pet. ii. 9.

Sotheli what euer thingis thei han knowe kyndely (naturaliter) as doumble beestis, in thes thei ben corrupt. Id. Jude 10. KING.

Crist Kyngene Kynge (of Kings).

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 669. Crist kepe thee, Sire Kyng! And thi kyng-ryche.-Id. lb. v. 250. Thou art become as one of us, they cry, It was for thee yon kingless sphere has long Swung blind in unascended majesty, Silent alone amid an heaven of song.

Shelley. Adonais. KINREST. Explained quiet rest, i. e. kindly Skinner.

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KNOB.

His cloke of calabre,

ΚΝΟ

With all the knappes of golde.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 4342. With his knoppede shon, Clouted ful thykke.-Id. Crede, v. 843.

KNOCK.

To the askere me yueth, and to the knockere me openeth. Wic. Bib. Jerome, Pref. Ep. p. 74.

KNOLL. See KNELL.

KNOT. See KNIT.

KNOW, s. See KNEE.

KNOW.

For, lo! my witnesse is in heuene; and the knowere of my conscience is in hize places (conscius meus).

Wic. Job xvi. 20. Hou good (it) is to undernymyn (reprove) than to wrathen, and to not forbeden the knowlechere (L. V. a man knoulechyng, confitentem) in orisoun.-ld. Ecclus. xx. 1. We consideren, and knowelechen that we han offended and greved my Lord Melibeus. Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus.

Knowledges (the plural) is not uncommon in older

writers.

There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and

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KORAN. Al koran, The Book. The sacred book of the Mahometans; which, they believe, was dictated to Mahomet by the Angel Gabriel.

Mahomet was content with a character more humble (than that of composer) yet more sublime, of a simple editor. The substance of the Koran, according to himself or his disciples, is uncreated and eternal; subsisting in the Essence of the Deity, and inscribed with a pen of light on the table of his everlasting decrees. Gibbon. Decline and Fall, c. 50.

KYEN. See Cow and KINE.

KYKE, v. To look at, to behold; D. Kücken, Spectare, inspicere. Kilian.

This Nicholas sat ever gaping upright,
As he had kyked on the newe mone.

Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3445.

The folk gan laughen at his fantasie,
Into the roof they kyken, and they gape
And turned all his arm into a jape.-Id. Ib. v. 3839.

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3 Out. Know then that some of us are gentlemen, Such as the fury of ungovern'd youth Thrust from the company of awfull men. Shakespeare. Two Gent. of Verona, fo. 323, act iv. sc. 1. Rich.

We thought oureselfe thy lawfull king; And if we be, how dare thy joynts forget To pay their aufull duty to our presence?

Id. King Richard II. fo. 361, act iii. sc. 3. BRIBE, v. i. e. to steal. A bribed buck is a stolen buck. Fal. Diuide me, like a brib'd-bucke, each a haunch. Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor, fo. 59, act v. sc. 5.

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All the studious, and particularly the poets, about the end of August, began to set themselves to work; refraining from writing during the heats of the day. They wrote by night, and sat up the greatest part of it; for which reason the product of their studies was called their elucubrations, or nightly studies.-Dryden. Persius. Sat. vi. n. 1.

ENSWATHE, v. See SWATHE.
(She) found more letters sadly pen'd in blood,
With sleided silk feat, and affectedly
Enswath'd, and seal'd to curious secresy.

Shakespeare. A Lover's Complaint.

EQUIVALENT, s. Is said by Macaulay to have been introduced from France, on the occasion (in the year 1687) referred to in the following quota

tion from Halifax.

Thus after Whig, Tory, and Trimmer have had their time, now they are dead and forgotten, being supplanted by the word equivalent, which reigneth in their stead. If you will take away the oaths and tests, you shall have as good a thing for them. This put into a fashionable word is now called an equivalent.— Halifax (Marquis of). Anatomy of an Equivalent. Miscellanies, pp. 167, 8.

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FELON. FELO DE SE. A suicide; a selfmurderer. Qui sibi ipsi mortem sponte consciscit. Du Cange.

A felo de se is he that deliberately puts an end to his own existence, or commits any unlawful, malicious act, the consequence of which is his own death; as if attempting to kill another, he runs upon his antagonist's sword: or, shooting at another, the gun bursts and kills himself.

Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. p. 189. FINE. FINALITY came into use during the discussions on the Bill for Parliamentary Reform, 1832.

GUT, v. To gut a house; to strip the walls of all within them. Macaulay says this expression first came into use in the year 1688, during the riots in London immediately after the flight of James the Second.

IDIOSYNCRACY. Swift, in his Letter to a Young Clergyman, cautions him against the use in his sermons of such words as idiosyncracy, ubiquity, entity, and of others less abstract, as above the comprehension of his congregation.

KRESS. See KERSE, supra.

So truely their might is not worth a cresse.

Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. ii. fo. 3012.

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