But whanne thou goist with thin aduersarye in the way to the prince: do bisynesse to be dyleuered fro him, lest perauenture he take thee to the domes man; and the domes man betake thee to a maystirful axer [exactori], and the AWL. A. S. Aele, Ale; Ger. Ahl, Subula; maystirful axer sende thee unto prison.-Wiclif. Luk. c. 12. Dutch Els, Elsen; Sw. Syl; Fr. Alesne; It. Lesina. (Wachter); who thinks the Swedish Syl, from Sy, to sew, is the root. In R. of Gloucester Aules, is used as a weapon of war. In Junius, we find an opinion, that this word has the same origin with Eel, and was so called, because it can introduce and insinuate itself like an eel. An instrument to pierce or penetrate sharply. Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.-Chesterfield. Maxims. But Robin may not wete of this, thy knave, Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3557. And ye shul bothe anon unto me swere. And they him sware his axing fayr and wel, And him of lordship and of mercie praid, And he hem granted grace. Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 1826. AXE, see ADDICE. Corineus was tho somdel wroth, ys are on hey he drow, And smot hym vpon the hed.-R. Gloucester, p. 17. And now an axe is sett to the roote of the tre, and therfore every tre that maketh not good fruyt schal be kitt down. Wiclif. Luk. c. 3. We set the axe to thy vsurping roote: And though the edge hath something hit ourselues, Yet know thou, since we haue begun to strike, We'll neuer leaue, till we haue hewne thee downe. Shakespeare. 3 Part Hen. IV. Act. ii. sc. 2. And if you will contend still for a superiority in one person, you must ground it better than from this metaphor, which you may now deplore as the ax-head that fell into the water.-Milton. Animad. upon the Remons. Defence, &c. To the ground they cast, All cast their leafy wands, while, ruthless, he Spar'd not to smite them with his murd'rous are. Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. vi. AXIOM. 1 Fr. Axiome; It. Assioma; AXIOMATICAL. Sp. Axioma; Lat. Axioma ; Gr. Ağıwua, from agios, worthy, deserving. A position of worth, weight, or authority; proceeding from, laid down by, authority; not to be denied; a position admitted, acknowledged. There are a sort of propositions, which under the name of maxims and axioms have passed for principles of science. Locke. On the Hum. Underst. b. iv. c. 7. If there are such things as axioms, which are and always have been immutably true, and consequently have been always known to God to be so, the truth of them cannot be denied any way, either directly or indirectly, but the truth of the divine knowledge must be denied too. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 1. But the poem itself, to me, discovers, in the very first line of it, a great air of that solid axiomatical vein, which is observable in other productions of Ralegh's muse. Oldys. Life of Sir W. Ralegh. General ideas or notions, such as the mind frames by its innate powers, such as are said to be archetypes, and to refer to nothing besides themselves, may seem to be materials of axiomatical, scientifical, and, in a word, of absolute real knowledge.-Bolingbroke. On Hum. Knowledge, Ess. 1. That a conjectural critick should often be mistaken, cannot be wonderful, either to others or himself, if it be considered that in his art there is no system, no principle and axiomatical truth that regulates subordinate positions. Johnson. Pref. to Shakespeare. A'XIS. A'XLE. A'XLED. Fr. Essieu; It. Asse; Sp. Exe; Lat. Axis; Gr. Atwv, ab ayew; i. e. a circumagendo, from driving round, (Minshew.) That round which any thing rolls, revolves. The line, that we deuise from thone to thother so, As axell is; upon which the heavens about do go. Wyat. The Song of Topas. But marke me well also, these mouinges of these seuen, Be not aboue the axellree of the first mouing heauen. Id. Ib. Whe ye chariott was on the drawe-bridge, the ii. greate lubbers slewe the porters, and with their axes cutte the areltree of the waggone, so that the drawe-bridge could not be shortely drawen vp.-Hall. Hen. VI. an. 26. good reason firmly to expect. This desire and hope are the If the promises be true, as faith avers, then hope hath very wheels of the soul that carry it on, and faith the common axis on which they rest. Abp. Leighton. On the First Epistle of Peter. -And Hebe, she proceeds T' addresse her chariot, instantly, she giues it either wheele, Beam'd with eight spokes of sounding brasse, the axletree was steele. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. v. The turning of the earth upon its own axis every twentyfour hours, whilst it moves round the sun in a year, we may conceive by the running of a bowl on a bowling-green; in which not only the centre of the bowl hath a progressive motion on the green, but the bowl in its going forward from one part of the green to another, turns round about its own axis-Locke. Natural Philosophy, c. 4. Bright Hebe waits; by Hebe, ever young, And bade her spirits bear him far, T. Wharton. The grave of King Arthur. A kyng that striues with hise, he may not wele spede, Of port benigne, and wonder glad of chere, Lidgate. The Floure of Curtesie. Gower. Con. A. b. ii. Faire Hermia, question your desires, Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether (if you yeeld not to your father's choice) You can endure the liuery of a nunne, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To liue a barren sister all your life. Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dreame, Act i. sc. 1. And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, Ay round about Jove's altar sing.-Milton. Il Penseroso. And much, and oft, he warn'd him to eschew Falsehood and guile, and aye maintain the right; By pleasure unseduc'd, unaw'd by lawless might. Beattie. Minstrel. AYE. Tooke thinks is the imperative of a verb of northern extraction; and means have it, possess it, enjoy it. In Swedish, German, and Dutch, it is Ja; Goth. Ya, or Ja; A. S. Gea, Ja. In Shakespeare (old editions) constantly written I. BABBLEMENT. D. Babelen; Fr. Babille; Gr. Baßažev, Sw. Breablâ ; from the Heb. Babel, where, says Junius, the first confusion of speech arose. BABBLER. BABBLING, n. BA'BLISHLY. To babble, is to talk confusedly, inarticulately; to prate idly, unreasonably, inconsiderately. Saule knew Samuell by Samuel's owne report: and a Welch man is knowen by his tong; ergo, ministers are knowen by voyce, learning, and doctrine: is not this a proper kind of reasoning? Is this the reuerence due to the scriptures, thus bablishly to abuse them? Whitgift. Defence, p. 262. BABBLE, v. BA'BBLE, n. For this blessing is geuen to all them that trust in Cariste's bloud, that they thrust and hunger to do God's wyll He that hath not this fayth, is but an vnprofitable babler of faith, and workes, and wotteth neither what he bableth, nor what he meaneth, or wherunto his wordes pertagne.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 66. And on his shield enueloped seuenfold That deckt the azure field with her faire pouldred skin. (Weake masters though ye be) I haue bedymn'd He walkt with to support uneasie steps Be not bablers, or full of words, that is roλuλoyo, wherby the same thing is signified; yet are not long prayers heere condemned, but those that are vayne. fond, and superstitious. Whitgift. Defence, p. 804. VOL. I. The dazzling pomp of words does oft deceive, Rowe. Golden Verses of Pythagoras. BA'BE. BA'BERY. BABY, n. BABY, adj. BA'BYISH. Direct his eye and contemplation through those azure fields and vast regions above him, up to the fixt stars, that radiant numberless host of heaven; and make him understand, how unlikely a thing it is, that they should be placed there only to adorn and bespangle a canopy over our heads. Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 5. Churchill. The Conference. Though pointless satire make its weak escape, In the dull babble of a mimic ape, Boldly pursue where genius points the way, Nor heed what monthly puny critics say. Lloyd. Epistle to Churchill. A word, says Skinner, according to Menage, of Syriac origin. Skinner himself would derive it from the Italian, babbolo a babbo: but, as it is purely vor infantulis, BA'BYHOOD. and the infants of one country BA'BISH. do not borrow from those of It conanother, it needs no foreign etymology. sists of the repetition of ba, (sc. ba ba,) the earliest, because easiest consonant uttered by children; and framed merely by the interception of the breath from the closure of the lips. Akin to it is the Gr. Пanas, paрa; Heb. Ab; Syr. Abba. Udal uses the verb, to babish; and Young, the verb, to baby. To deceive or delude, as babies; to treat as debabies, who are easily deceived, or cheated; luded, or played upon. A'ZYME. Gr. Ağvuos, without ferment, composed of a, priv. and Juun, ferment, (Menage.) See Azymus in Vossius. This word appears to have been used by the translators of the Bibles published at Douay and Rhemes. They had, (they said,) [i. e. the translators of K. James's bible], on the one side avoided the scrupulosity of the puritanes, who left the old ecclesiastical words and betook them to other, as when they put washing for baptism, and congregation for church; and on the other hand, had shunned the obscuritie of the papists in their azymes, tunike, rational, holocausts, prepuce, pasche, and a number of such like, whereof their late translation was full, and that of purpose to darken the sense, that since they must needs translate the Bible, yet by the language thereof it might be kept from being understood.-Preface to King James's Bible. To be leyve leelly upon that litel baby. Piers Plouhman, p. 326. You, whome it behoued nowe to be strong and stablished in euangelicall Philosophie, haue nede as yet lyke tendre babes to be fed with the mylke of lowest doctryne: rather then be meete to receyue the strong meate of higher learnyng. Udal, Hebrues, c. 5. When the duke had doen, the temporal menne wholy, and the moste parte of the spirituall men also, thynkynge no hurte earthely ment toward the younge baby, condiscended in effecte, that yf he wer not deliuered he shoulde bee fetched oute.-Bp. Hall. Edw. V. God therfore of mereye, not wyllynge to lose that people of hys, but fauourably to beare with their babysh weakenes, gaue fourth certen rules and preceptes by hys seruaunt Moses.-Bale. Apology, Pref. The Phariseis had babished the simple people, with fained and colde religion, and had tangled theyr consciences with mannes ordinaunces.-Id. John, c. 7. And thus hitherto that same oure heauenly soueraigne lord and prince, who had for oure sakes adbassed and humbled hymselfe downe euen to swadlyng cloutes, to the cradle, to crying in his swathing bandes as other children doe, and to the strengthlesse babehoode of the bodye, was preached and declared to the worlde by the onelye testymonie of other folkes talkyng.-Udal. Luke, c. 2. So I have seen trim-books in velvet dight, If a yong jentleman be demure and still of nature, they say he is simple and lacketh witte; if he be bashfull and will soone blushe, they call him a babishe and ill brought up thynge.-Ascham. The Scholemaster, b. i. Neuerthelesse we do not thus babyshe womankynde, as thoughe we woulde exclude them from the felowshyp of saluation.-Id. Timothye, c. 3. How many a brave peer, thy too near allies, Drayton. The Miseries of Queen Margaret. To the child's speech impediment it brought, Amo. I am neither your minotaure, nor your centaure, nor your satyre, nor your hyæna, nor your babion, but your mere travailer, believe me.-B. Jonson. Cynthia's Revells. Of all the rest that most resembles man, Was an o'erworn ill-favoured babian; Which of all other (for that only he Was full of tricks, as they are us'd to be) Him in her craft so seriously she taught, As that in little time she had him brought, That nothing could afore this ape be set, That presently he could not counterfeit. Drayton. The Moon-Calf R Surely those who are acquainted with the hopes and fears of eternity, might think it necessary to put some restraint upon their imagination: and reflect that by echoing the songs of the ancient bacchanals, and transmitting the maxims of past debauchery, they not only prove that they want invention, but virtue.-Johnson. Rambler, No. 29. BACHELOR. Fr. Bachelier; It. Bacce Bachelor is now generally applied to any man before his marriage. Ben Jonson applies it to an unmarried woman. Ych wol the marie wel with the thridde part of my londe, With lockes crull as they were laide in press. Phebus, that was flour of bachelerie, And if thou were of suche lignage, So siker as I haue a life, Thou shuldest than be my wife.-Gower. Con. A. b. i. So thro' the whole course of his bachellorship there was It would not, methinks, be amiss if an old batchelor, who Faire maide send forth thine eye, this youthful parcell It must disappoint every reader's expectation, that, when at the usual time he [Swift] claimed the bachelorship of arts, he was found by the examiners too conspicuously deficient for regular admission, and obtained his degree at last by special favor; a term used in that university to denote Ore whom both soueraigne power, and father's voice I haue to vse; thy franke election make, Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake. But in a sicknesse.-B. Jonson. The Magnetick Lady. BACK, v. A. S. Bac, Barc; Ger. Bach; To back a horse, is to mount To back a friend, &c. is to stand to his back, to support, uphold, assist, encourage him. Back is much used as a prefix: before nouns it may be denoted an adjective; before verbs, an adverb. Philip of Flandres fleih & turned sonne the bak, & Thebald nouht ne deih, schame of tham men spak. Hire yelwe here was broided in a tresse, Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1052. } Bachilers, Baccalaurii, (Lye); but without cit- Then tooke she her strong lance, with steele made keene, There is a town in Warwickshire of good note, and for of Prynces, and great lordes there. for ours.-Bp. Hall. Episcopacy Asserted. The other Highlanders, who did not such military execuId. The Manciple's Tale, v. 17,074. tions, yet were good at robbing: and when they had got as much as they could carry home on their backs, they deserted. Burnet. Own Time, b. i. Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 16. Where behynde a man's backe For though he preise, he fint some lacke, That all the price shall ouercaste.-Gower. Con. A. b. ii. Richarde the Third, little of stature, ill fetured of limmes, croke backed, his left shoulder much higher then his right, hard fauoured of visage.-Id. Ib. p. 37. See I not gaunt revenge, ensanguin'd slaughter, For ghostly counsel; if it either fall • . Drops from the lips a disregarded thing. Couper. Task, b. ii. To defame, to slander, to revile, (any one absent.) In A. S. Bacslitol, from Slitan, to slit, to tear in pieces, is a backbiter, a slanderer. Gut am ich brocor of bagge bytynge. and blame mennes ware Among marchauns many tymes.-Piers Plouhman, p. 92. nesse. My britheren nyle ye bacbite ech othire: he that bacbitith his brothir, either that demeth his brothir, bacbitith the lawe, and demeth the lawe.-Wiclif. James, c. 4. Backbite not one another, brethre. He that backbiteth hys brother, and he that judgeth hys brother, backebiteth the lawe, and iudgeth the law.-Bible, 1551. Ib. This sinne of backbiting or detracting hath certain spices, as thus som man preiseth his neighbour by a wicked entente, for he maketh alway a wicked knotte at the last ende: alway he maketh a but at the last ende, that is digne of more blame, than is worth all the preising. The second spice is, that if a man be good, or doth or sayth a thing to good entente, the backbiter wol turne all that goodnesse up so doun to his shrewde entente. BACKSLIDE. What region can afford a worthy place For his exalted flesh? Heau'n is too base, BACKSLIDER. Sir J. Beaumont. On Ascension Day. turning back," in the older versions; in King To slide, or slip, back; (sc.) from good and virtuous principles or practices; to return to evil; to forsake or abandon good for evil. Milton. Paradise Regained, b. iv. Wherefore being well backed and stood to by his kinsmen, friends, and followers, he practised to make a stir among the Sabyns.-North. Plutarch, p. 90. Chaucer. The Personnes Tale. -Many envious tale is stered, He [M. Marcellus] knew full well that there were many Sicilians in the townes and villages neere unto the citie, backbiters and slaunderers of him, whom for his owne part he was so far off from hindering, but that they might freely for all him, divulgate and publish abroad in Rome, all those crimes which were devised and spoken against him by his adversaries.-Holland. Livy, p. 604. And the apostle ranks back-biters with fornicators, and murderers, and haters of God; and with those of whom it is expressly said that they shall not inherit the kingdom of God.-Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 43. From back and slide. The word does not appear to have been used in our ver sions of the Bible prior to "Disobedient, rebellious, Onias with many lyke backfallers from God fled inte Egypte.-Joye. Expos. of Daniel, c. 11. Corrupting Nero to all kinde of mischiefe, some things attempting vnwitting to him, and at last a traitor and backslider from him; whereupon both the ill and well willers of Nero, vpon diuers respects, cried out importunatly to make him away.-Savile. Tacitus. Hist. b. i. Neither fear, neither danger, neither yet doubting, nor backsliding, can utterly destroy and quench the faith of God's elect, but that alwayes there remaineth with them some root and spark of faith, howbeit in their anguish, they neither feel nor can discern the same. John Knox. The Admonition, p. 76. I have tasted of the sweetness of the heavenly gift, and of the powers of the world to come, yet I have fallen back to my carnal temper, from the holy ways of God, and have again backslided and wallowed in my former pollutions, from which I seemed sometimes to be cleansed and refined. Hopkins. Works, p. 535. He is able to save the oldest sinners, those that have frequently relapsed into the same sins, and the greatest and most notorious backsliders, if they do but at last repent and return to him.-Id. Ib. p. 536. BAC Here meeting with a smooth, though slippery path, I hurried on, but with back sliding haste, The trodden slime my tottering ancle turn'd. Swine's flesh dried by heat. The bacon was not fit for him, I trow, That som men have in Essex at Donmow. Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Prol. v. 5799. J. Beaumont. Horace, b. ii. Sat. 6. What frightens you thus, my good son?" says the priest: You murder'd, are sorry, and have been confest." O father! my sorrow will scarce save my bacon: For 'twas not that I murder'd, but that I was taken.' Prior. The Thief and the Cordelier. From back and ward. Ward in the A. S. Ward, or weard, is the imperative of the verb wardian, or weardian, to look at, or to direct the view. (Tooke, i. 408.) Ward may propriety be joined to the name of any person, place, or thing, to or from which our view or sight may be directed. In Shakespeare, "The dark backward or abysm of time;" is the point of time, back, or passed, to which our view may be directed: to be backward, is to be after or behind others, or (met.) as those are, whose sight, views, thoughts, wishes, inclinations are directed back; and who thus areSlow, dilatory, unwilling, reluctant; (sc.) to step or move forward. BACKWARDNESS. with BACKWARD, n. R. tille him ran, a stroke on him he fest, He smote him in the helm, bakward he bare his stroupe. R. Brunne, p. 190. Whanne sche hadde seid these thingis, sche turnyde bakword and sigh Jhesus stondynge, and wiste not that it was lesus-Wiclif. Jon. c. 21. And thou, Simois, that as an arow clere • • Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. iv. He ran, but ran with eye o're shoulder cast, If thou remembrest ought ere thou cam'st here, BAD Where then lies the difficulty; what should be the cause of all this backwardness which we see in men to so plain, so necessary, and so beneficial a duty ? Young, Sat. 1. The wisdom of the Roman republic in their veneration for custom, and backwardness to introduce a new law, was perhaps the cause of their long continuance, and of the Virtues of which they have set the world so many examples. Goldsmith. Essay on Custom and Law. BAD. Hurtful, injurious, destructive, mischievous, So longe hom spedde baddeliche, that hii migte as wel bline.-R. Gloucester, p. 566. Shakespeare. Tempest, Act i. sc. 2. Amongst all other encumbrances and delays in our way to heaven, there is no one that doth so clog and trash, so advantage and backward us, and in fine, so cast us behind in our race; as a contentedness in a formal worship of God, an acquiescence and resting satisfied in outward performauces-Hammond, Ser. 15. On each hand the flames Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i. Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act v. sc. 3. For in my conscience, I was the first man Ani does he thinke so backwardly of me now, Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 24. Deep would he sigh, and seem empassion'd sore, Of sondry doutes thus they jangle and trete, Of thinges, that ben made more subtilly, Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,538. Let me therefore beseech you once again to be serious in labouring after it, and to take pains with your backward hearts to bring them to it; have God always before your eyes; let him remain continually in your thoughts. Beveridge, vol. ii. Ser. 142. He sent a messenger to the old king of Aromaia, named Topiowary, who came the next day before noon, on foot, from his house, and return'd the same evening, being twenty-eight miles backwards and forwards, though himself was one hundred and ten years of age. Oldys. Life of Sir W. Ralegh. I told ye then he should prevail and speed whence, further, in Wachter's opinion, the Fr. Bague, a ring which likewise is applied to the reward bestowed on, or prize gained by, him, that does best in any game or exercise, (Cotgrave.) Hence, then, to any— Mark, or note, sign or ensign, of distinction. Therefore (q.d. she) if any wight should yeue a trew sentence on soche matters, the cause of the disease maiest thou see well, vnderstande therevpon after what end it draweth, that is to sayne good or bad, so ought it to haue his fame by goodnesse, or enfame by badnesse.-Id. Test. of Loue, b. i. For ofte tyme thei despise The good fortune as the bad.-Gower. Can. A. b. i. Christ hath so lefte loue and charity for ye badge of his christe people, that he cōmaudeth euery ma so largelye to loue other, that his loue shold exted & stretch vnto his enу. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 314. If thou wylte take vpon the to be Christes disciple, see that thou weare his badge, christen charitie. Udal. Prologue to Eph. Their hands and faces were all badg'd with blood, So with their daggers, which vnwip'd, we found Shakes. Macbeth, Act ii. sc. 3. Vpon their pillowes. When he [Sylla] was in his chiefest authority, he would commonly eat and drink with the most impudent jesters and scoffers, and all such rake-hells, and made profession of counterfeit mirth, and would strive with the baddest of them to give the finest mocks.-North. Plutarch, p. 386. Crashaw. The Hymn of the Holy Cross. Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 5. The great badge of our religion, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, is so shamefully laid aside, that a great part of the kingdom never receive it at all, and very few as oiten as the law requires.-Beveridge, vol. i. Ser. 24. Thereupon puffed vp with pride, as a conquerour of publicke seruitude, he [Nero] went to the capitoll, and gaue thanks to the gods: letting loose the raines to all lusts and licenciousnes of life, which before badly restrained, yet the reuerence towards his mother, such as it was, did in some sort bridle.-Grenewey. Tacitus. Annales, b. xiv. Look up, languishing soul! Lo where the faire Every one must see and feel, that bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions; and that if the latter only are forbidden, and the former left free, all morality will soon be at an end.-Porteus, vol. i. Lect. 7. Thy life is one long debt Of love to him, who on this painful tree The fact is, that charity, or love to man in all its extent, being the most eminent of all the evangelical virtues, being that which Christ has made the very badge and discrimina ting mark of his religion, is here constituted by him the representative of all other virtues.-Porteus, vol. ii. Lect. 20. Howell, b. ii. Let. 2. In the case of hunting the fox or the badger, a man cannot BAFFLE, v. It will be a third good use of what has been discoursed, or of the vol. Ser. 2. tenance. In addition to the above explanations— To baffle, is to defeat by perplexing, confusing, deceiving; to render or make useless, and ineffectual. The badness of the weather likewise, for several years 123 BA'DGER, n. } BADGER, v. I Junius offers no etymology. Skinner says, perhaps, from the Dutch Back, a cheek, a jaw, q.d. backer, (i. e.) endowed with strong jaws : et est sane animal mordacissimum. To badger, is to hunt, pursue, pester, persecute; as the badger is hunted, bayed, barked at, &c. Hys [the apes] wyse wylye confessoure sware after vnto the Bageard, that he was weary to syt so long and heare him.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1183. These being the holiest things, were to be taken down and trussed up by the priests, some of them in blue silk, some in scarlet, some in purple cloth, all in badgers' skins, and the bars and carriages to be put to them by the priests, as is prescribed-Spellman. On Tythes, p. 84. The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse, and make deeper gashes, than a goosequill sometimes; no not the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite, that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet, and the bones crack. And furthermore, the erle bad the herauld to saye to his master, that if he for his part kept not his appoyntment, then he was content, that the Scottes should baffull him, which is a great reproche among the Scottes, and is vsed when a man is openly periured, and then they make of hym an image paynted reuersed, with hys heles vpwarde, with hys name, wonderyng, cryenge and blowing out of hym with hornes, in the moost dispitefull manner they can. In token that he is too be exiled the compaignie of all good creatures. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 5. First, he is beard did shaue, and foully shent Then from him reft his shield, and it r'enverst, And blotted out his armes with falshood blent, And himselfe baffuld, and his armes vnherst, And broke his sword in twaine, and all his armour sperst. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 3. True to his charge, the close pack'd load behind, And having dropp'd th' expected bag, pass on. ; The furniture, utensils and other articles, bagged, or conveyed in bags, for the use of an army, a traveller, &c. Also to such articles in whatever manner conveyed; to any luggage, package; to the attendants upon such luggage, male or female. To women of a similar character to those who follow with the baggage; and, less strictly, to any playful, wanton, or saucy female. And to the barge me thought echone Horse male, trusse, ne baggage.-Chaucer. Dreame. Howe hansomly they vpholde, and how stubburnely they continue theyr popyshe baggage of dumme ceremonies, idolatrous worshyppynges.-Udal. Ephes. Prologue. After this the hole campe remoued wyth bag and baggage, and the same nyght in the euenyng kynge Henry with great pompe came to the towne of Leycester. Hall. K. Rich. III. an. 3. The whole camp fled amain, the victuallers and baggagers forsaking their camps, and running all away for very fear. Ralegh. Hist. of the World, b. iii. c. 10. s. 3. The lord deputy would not listen to any treaty with the contederates of traitors and rebels; no, not so much as to their departure with bag and baggage, or free passage to any one particular person; nothing but an absolute surrender. Oldys. Life of Sir W. Ralegh. One of them, that was older and more sunburnt than the rest, told him, that he had a widow in his line of life: upon which the knight cryed, Go, go, you are an idle baggage: and at the same time smiled upon me.-Spectator, No. 130. You have long desired a visit from your grand-daughter. accompanied by me. For this purpose our baggage is actually making ready, and we are hastening to you with all the expedition the roads will permit. Melmoth. Pliny, b. iv. Let. 1. Olivia and Sophia, too, promised to write, but seem to have forgotten me. Tell them they are two arrant little baggages, and that I am this moment in a most violent passion with them: yet still I know not how, though I want to bluster a little, my heart is respondent only to softer emotions.-Goldsmith. Vicar of Wakefield. A baggepipe wel coude he blowe and soune, I say to the that it is right well done, that pilgremys haue with them both syngers, and also pipers, that whan one of them that goeth barfote striketh his too upon a stone, and hurteth hym sore, and maketh hym to blede; it is well done that he or his felow begyn than a songe, or else take out of his bosome a bagge-pype for to driue away with soche myrthe the hurte of his felow. State Trials. Trial of William Thorpe, Hen. IV. an. 8. Now, by two-headed Janus Nature hath fram'd strange fellowes in her time: Some that will euermore peepe through their eyes, And laugh like parrats at a bag-piper. Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act i. sc. 1. Dorilus his dog doth chide, Lays his well-tun'd bagpipe by, And his sheep-hook casts aside; "There," quoth he, "together lie." Drayton. The Shepherd's Sirena. Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast himself into the saint-like mould; Groan'd, sigh'd, and pray'd, while godliness was gain, The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train. Dryden. The Medal. BAGPIPE, n. Į A wind instrument. From BAGPIPER. Banks. Why, foolish boy, dost thou know him? bag and pipe: the bag to Cud. No matter if I do or not. He's bailable, I am sure, hold or contain the air; the pipe, through which by law. But if the dog's word will not be taken, mine shall. it is emitted or expelled. Banks. Thou bail for a dog. Ford. The Witch of Edmonton, Act iv. sc. 1. BAIL, v. Fr. Bailler, to deliver; Dutch, BAIL, n. Bael, Bailliu; (in its legal apBA'ILABLE. plication) because a defendant, BAILIFF. &c. is delivered or bailed to his BA'ILY. sureties, upon their giving secuBAILIWICK. rity for his appearance. BA'ILMENT. Bailiff, a person to whom authority, care, guardianship, or jurisdiction, is delivered. Bail or baillie, the extent or compass, limit, or bound, of such jurisdiction. Bailment. See the quotation from Blackstone. To the baylys of the toun hastiliche heod wende, R. Brunne, p. 127. Shireues, balifes he ches, that office couthe guye. Id. p. 281. Now brother, quod this Sompnour, I you pray, Teche me, while that we riden by the way, (Sith that ye ben a baillif as am I) Som subtiltee. Chaucer. The Freres Tale, v. 7002. There was a duke, and he was hotte Mundus, whiche had in his baillie To lede the chiualrie Of Rome. Gower. Con. A. b. i. And the baylyf seide withynne himsilf, what schal I do ; for my lord takith awey fro me the baylie, delue may I not; I schame to begge.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 16. The next mornyng betymes, therle departed fro Tiorney, and came to saynt Amande, on the syde towards Mortayne; and incōtynet they made assaute, feers and cruell, and wan at the first the bayles, and came to the gate towarde Mortaygne.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 60. Howbeit, somtyme vitaylers would aduenture themselfe for wynning, when the hoost was aslepe to put themselfe within the bailes of Andwarpe, and so had into the towne. Id. Ib. vol. i. c. 354. Euery denizen to fynde suertie for his good abearyng, and al the other if they would be bayled to fynde suerties for their trueth and allegeaunce or els to be kept in prison, for the portes were so kept that they could not flye. Hall. Hen. VIII. an 14. Also the keeper of Newgate was sent to the Marshalsea, for giuing liberty to Doctor Powell and Doctor Abell his prisoners to go under baile.-Stow. Hen. VIII. an. 1540. They lefte no gentylmen's house vnbrent or cast downe to the erth; and thanne they cume agayne to Marlle, the erle's house, and beate downe all that they had left städyng before: and ther they founde the cradell wherein the erle was kept in his youthe, and brake it all to peces, and a fayre bayne, wherin he was wont to be bayned; also they beate downe the chappell, and bare away the bell. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 404. And when salt teares do bain my brest, Where loue his pleasaunt traines hath sowen, Her beauty hath the fruites opprest, Ere that the buds were sprong and blowne. Surrey. The Restless State. And Priam eke in vaine how he did runne To armes, whom Pyrrhus with despite hath done To cruel death, and bath'd him in the baine, Of his sonne's blood before the altar slaine. Mirror for Magistrales, p. 268. |