A'GUE, v. Skinner says, perhaps from the A'GUE, n. Fr. Aigu, acutus, sharp, because, A'GUED. in the paroxysm at least, it is A/GUISH. an acute disease. Serenius and Tooke, from Goth. Agis, trembling. R. Brunne writes Hage.

A disease; the distinguishing mark of which is, trembling, shivering, shuddering.

Tooke quotes with approbation the remark of Johnson, that "the cold fit is, in popular language, more particularly called the ague; and the hot, the fever." By Tindale, More, North, &c. this distinction is disregarded.

But Thesu thorgh his myght, blissed mot he be, Reised him vp right, & passed that hage.-R.Brunne,p.333. For I will bring vpon you fearfulnesse, swellyng of body, and the burnynge agew, to consume youre eyes and gendre sorow of hert.-Bible, 1539. Leuit. c. 26.

If he [the cunnyng phisicion] haue his pacient in an ague, to the cure wherof he nedeth his medicines in their woorking cold; yet if he hap ere that feuer be full cured, to fall into some such other disease, as except it were holpen with hoate medicines, wer likely to kill the bodye before the feuer coulde be cured, he would for the whyle have hys most care to ye cure of that thyng, wherin wer most present perill. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1195. But now will canker-sorrow eat my bud, And chase the natiue beauty from his cheeke, And he will look as hollow as a ghost, As dim and meager as an ague's fit, And so he'll dye.-Shakespeare. K. John, Act iii. sc. 3.

And this is the cause why the cholerick man is so altered and mad in his actions, as a man set on fire with a burning ague for when a man's heart is troubled within, his pulse will beat marvellous strongly.-North. Plutarch, p. 193.

Aristotle saith of it [faith] that it differs from knowledge, as a sickly man from a strong, 'tis very weak and aguish, subject to sweats, and colds, and hourly distempers. Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 627. Ser. 10.

Mar. All hurt behinde, backes red, and faces pale With flight and agued feare, mend and charge home, Or by the fires of heauen, Ile leaue the foe,

And make my warres on you.-Shakes. Cor. Act i. sc. 4.

If we be not blind at home, we may as well perceive that this worthy motto, No bishop, no king, is of the same batch, and infanted out of the same fears, a meer ague-cake coagulated of a certain fever they have, presaging their time to be but short.-Milton. Of Reform. in Eng.

Cold shivering agues, melancholy care,
And bitter blasting winds, and poison'd air.
Dryden. Palamon & Arcite.

So calm, and so serene, but now,
What means this change on Myra's brow?
Her aguish love now glows and burns,
Then chills and shakes, and the cold fit returns.

It may enjoy th' advantage of the north,
And aguish east, till time shall have transform'd
Those naked acres to a sheltering grove.

See GUISE.

AGUISE, v.
To prepare a mode of fashion, of dress; a dress.

Cowper. Task, b. iii.

The flattering index of a direfull pageant;
One heau'd ahigh, to be hurl'd downe below.
Shakespeare. Rich. III. Act iv. sc. 4.
From the dread somnet (summit) of this chalkie bourne
Looke vp aheight, the shrill-gorg'd larke so farre
Cannot be seene, or heard: Do but looke vp.

Id. Lear, Act iv. sc. 6. AHOLD. To lay a ship a-hold; or to stay her or place her so that she may hold or keep to the wind.

Also thou shalt not swere for envie, neyther for favour, ne for mede, but only for rightwisenesse and for declaring of trouthe to the honour and worship of God, and to the aiding and helping of thin even Cristen.

Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

Brenne had three skore and fiue thousande chosen footemen of the best in all his hoste, wheras the Delphians and their aiders were in all but foure thousande fighting men. Goldyng. Justine, b. xxiv. p. 111.

She can unlock

The clasping charm. and thaw the mumming spell,
If she be right invok'd in warbled song;
For maidenhood she loves, and will be swift
To aid a virgin, such as was herself.-Milton. Comus.

Oft have I seene a timely-parted ghost,

Of ashy semblance, meager, pale, and bloodlesse,
Being all descended to the labouring heart,
Who, in the conflict that it holds with death,
Attracts the same for aydance 'gainst the enemy.
Shakespeare. 2 Part Hen. VI. Act iii. sc. 2
Cor. All you vnpublish'd vertues of the earth,
Spring with my teares; be aydant, and remediate
In the goodman's desires.-Id. Lear, Act iv. sc. 4.
I found the place,
Where that damn'd wisard, hid in sly disguise,
(For so by certain signs I knew) had met
Already, ere my best speed could prevent,
The aidless innocent lady, his wish'd prey.-Milton. Con

Cowper. Task, b. And the party suffering shall also have his private acti against the person committing, and all his aiders, advise and abettors, and shall recover treble costs, &c. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c.

Lat. Acicu.

Fr. Aiguillette;

or AGLET.} dim. of Acus, a point.

He gyueth alwaye hys old point at one end or other so new aglet. But when al his cost is don theron, it is not worth an aglet of a good blewe poynte.

Sir T. More. Workes, p. 6

All in a silken camus, lilly white,
Purfled vpon with many a folded plight,
Which all aboue besprinkled was throughout,
With golden aygulets, that glistred bright,
Like twinkling starres, and all the skirt about
Was hemd with golden fringe.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. And yonder pale faced Hecate there, the moon, Doth give consent to that is done in darkness: And all those stars that gaze upon her face, Are aglets on her sleeve, pins on her train. Spanish Tragedy, Act. Why giue him gold enough, and marrie him to a pupi or an Aglet-babie, or an old trot with ne're a tooth in t head, though she have as manie diseases as two and fif horses.-Shakespeare. Taming of the Shrew, Act i. sc. 2.

AIL, v. Junius inclines to the A. S. E AIL, n. an, to feel pain or grief, to a A'ILMENT. (Somner); and Egl-an, he deriv from the Gr. axy-ew. Tooke thinks Ail is th past part. of the A. S. Aidlian; to be sick, empt useless, spoilt.

To disease, to disorder, to cause or feel pain uneasing; to deprive of soundness, health, strength; to make useless. See IDLE.

AIM, v. Fr. Esme, anciently written AIM, R. Aesme; from the Lat. Adastimare, AIMING, R. Duchat in Menage. Skinner inAIMLESS. clines to Estimare, i. e. to weigh attentively: for we usually, before we throw or strike at a mark, consider it well, and estimate or reckon the distance of it accurately. And in this application it is constantly used, both literally and metaphorically: as the Fr. Esmer,

6.

To aim or level at, to make an offer to strike, &c.; also to purpose, determine, intend." Cotgrave.

He that seethe no marke, muste shoote by ayme.
Jewell. A Replie vnto M. Hardinge, p. 31.
Whose glemes of burning fire, and easy sparkes of flame
In balance of vnegal weight he pondereth by aime.
Surrey. Descrip. of the Fickle Affections, &c.
First, that I must kneeling yield
Both the bow and shaft I held
Unto her; which love might take
At her hand, with oaths, to make

Me the scope of his next draft,

dimed, with that self-same shaft.-B. Jonson. Underwoods.

Distemper'd, discontented thoughts, Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires, Blown up with high conceits ingendering pride. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iv.

Thus hauing spoke

In his blind agelesse hand a pile he shooke, And threw it not in vaine.-May. Lucan, b. iii.

Therefore let not even those (who, without any designe do sfer their tongues to run loose by fashion, in the praises of women's graces and beauties) thinke this aymelesse roving of their fancies altogether innocent.

Mountague. Treat. 13. § 5.

But no man goes about to deceive, or ensnare, or circumvest another in a passion; to lay trains, and set traps, and give secret blows in a present huff. No; this is always done with forecast, and design; with a steady aiming, and a long projecting malice, assisted with all the skill and art of an expert, and well managed hypocrisie.

South, vol. i. Ser. 12.

Make the dead ancients speak the British tongue;
That so each chattering daw, who aims at song,
In his own mother-tongue may humbly read
What engines yet are wanting in his head
To make him equal to the mighty dead.
Otway. To Mr. Creech.

There are, who, deaf to mad ambition's call,
Would shrink to hear th' obstreperous trump of fame;
Supremely blest, if to their portion fall
Health, competence, and peace. Nor higher aim
Had he, whose simple tale these artless lines proclaim.
Beattie. Minstrel, b. i.

VOL. I.

Fr. Air; It. Aria; Sp. Aire; Lat. Aer; Gr. Anp, a-eiv, (anμi,) to blow; to breathe.

AIR, n. AIR, v. AERIAL. AE RIE. The application of this noun is A'IRINESS. various; to the wind, to that A'IRING, n. which is exhaled, evaporated, A'IRLESS. which gains vent, or utterance:— A'IRLING. consequentially, to exhalation, A'IRY. evaporation or vapour, vent, utterance, emission, effusion, diffusion, dispersion, publication.

To that which is light, gay, giddy, unsteady, fluttering.

To motion through the air; to manner of moving generally; to the mien, carriage, or deportment of men.

To motion in the air, of sound, in music and poetry.

I fighte not as betynge the eyr.-Wiclif. 1 Cor. c. 9. They crieden, and kesten awei her clothis and threwen dust into the eir. Id. Dedis, c. 22.

Or if you list to fleen as high in the aire,
As doth an egle, whan him list to sore,
This same stede shal bere you evermore,
Withouten harme, till ye be ther you lest.

Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,437.
Ayer is the thirde of elementes:
Of whose kinde his aspirementes
Taketh euery liuishe creature,
The whiche shall vpon erth endure.-Gower. Con.A. b.vii.

For Ioue vnto his sister downe her airie rainbow sent With message nothing milde, and how that some should soone repent.-Phaer. Eneidos, b. ix.

Then if you can, Be pale, I begge but leaue to ayre this jewel: See! And now tis vp again.-Shakespeare. Cymb. Act ii. sc. 4. It is fifteene yeeres since I saw my countrey: though I have (for the most part) been well ayred abroad, I desire to lay my bones there.-Id. Winter Tale, Act iv. se. 1.

Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee ayres from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy inuents wicked or charitable.-Id. Hamlet, Acti.sc.4. It grew from the airs which the princes and states abroad received from their ambassadors and agents here. Bacon. Hen. VII. They are of the same cadence as yours, and airable. Howell, b. ii. Let. 22. Nor stonie tower, nor walls of beaten brasse, Nor ayre-lesse dungeon, nor strong linkes of iron, Can be retentiue to the strength of spirit: But life being wearie of these worldly barres, Neuer lacks power to dismisse itselfe.

Shakespeare. Julius Cæsar, Act i. sc. 3. Like, for those, That feare the law, or stand within her gripe, For any act past, or to come. Such will From their own crimes, be factious, as from ours. Some more there be, slight ayrelings, will be won, With dogs, and horses.-B. Jonson. Catiline.

Aeriall spirits or devils are such as keep quarter, most part, in the aire, cause many tempests, thunder, and lightnings, teare oakes, &c.-Burton. Anat. of Melancholy, p. 46.

There is a little contemptible winged creature, an inhabitant of my aërial element, namely, the laborious bee, of whose prudence, policy, and regular government of their own commonwealth, I might say much.

Walton. Angler, pt.i. c. 1.

As for the cause, it is not so reasonably imputed unto the breaking of the gall as the putrefaction or corruptive firmentation of the body, whereby the unnatural heat prevailing, the putrifying parts do suffer a turgescence and inflation, and becoming aery and spumous affect to approach the ayr and ascend unto the surface of the water.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 6. The nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud musick out of her instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. Walton. Angler, b. i. c. 1.

Or wicker baskets weave, or air the corn, Or grinded grain betwixt two marbles turn. No laws divine or human can restrain, From necessary works the labouring swain.

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Dryden. Virgil. Geor. b. i. It is certain, that married persons, who are possessed with a mutual esteem, not only catch the air and way of talk from one another, but fall into the same traces of thinking and liking.-Spectator, No. 605.

Mr. Charwell visits very few gentlemen in the country; his most frequent airings in the summer-time are visits to my lady Lizard.-Guardian, No. 9.

Too great liberties taken [in translation] in varying either the expression or the composition, in order to give a new air to the whole, will be apt to have a very bad effect.

Lowth. On Isaiah. Prel. Diss.

I never in my life chanced to see a peacock fly; and yet before, very long before I considered any aptitude in his form for the aerial life, I was struck with the extreme beauty which raises that bird above many of the best flying fowls in the world.-Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful.

Airy dreams Sat for the picture; and the poet's hand Imparting substance to an empty shade Imposed a gay delirium for a truth.-Cowper. Task, b. iv. The summit of the whole semi-circular range is finely adorned with scattered trees, which often break the hard lines of the rock; and by admitting the light, give an airiness to the whole.-Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes.

An airing in his patron's chariot has supplied him with a citizen's coach on every future occasion.-Golds. Pol. Learn. AIREY, or AERY. See EYRY.

AISLE, n.

Fr. Aisle, Aile; It. Ala; Sp. Ala; Lat. Ala, a wing. Applied toThe wings, or

sides of churches; expanding

The abbey [of Saint Gaul, in Switzerland] is by no means so magnificent as one would expect from its endowments. The church is one huge nef, with a double aisle to it.

Addison. Italy. Switzerland. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long drawn aisle and fretted vault, The peeling anthem swells the note of praise.-Gray. El.

At the end of the western aisle stands the ruins of a low, simple tower, where the bells of the abbey are supposed to have hung; and from the south aisle projects a building, which is called the chapter-house.-Gilpin. Tour to the Lukes. AKE'LE. See ACOLD. AKIN. Of kin. See KIN.

Nor let not a woman cast in her husband's teeth any benefit done vnto him by her, which is an vnfitting & displeasant thing, yea, among those that be nothing a kin together.

Vives. Instruct. of a Christ. Woman. by R. Hyrde, b. ii.c.5. We have stinted ourselves onely to the legitimate issue of kings; and after such who are properly princes, we have inserted some who in courtesie and equity may be so accepted, as the heires to the crown though not possessed thereof; or else so near a-kin thereunto, that much of history doth necessarily depend upon them. Fuller. Worthies of England, c. 3. Some limbs again, in bulk or stature Unlike, and not akin by nature, In concert act, like modern friends, Because one serves the other's ends. The arm thus waits upon the heart, So quick to take the bully's part.

ALA'RGED. See ENLARGE.

Going aland with the choicest and best armed men he had, he [Alubrades] approached the walls of the city, without any manner of noise, and left order with them that remained in the ships, that in the mean season they should row with all force into the haven, with as great cries and shouts as might be, to fear and trouble the enemies. North. Plutarch, p. 179. Three more fierce Eurus, in his angry mood, Dash'd on the shallow of the moving sand, And in mid ocean left them moor'd aland. Dryden. Eneid, b. i. Given largely, says Tyrwhitt.

A ghe corynthis, oure mouth is open to ghou oure herte is alargid ghe ben not angwischid in us, but ghe ben angwischid in ghoure ynwardness and I seie as to sones, ghe that han the same reward, be ghe alargid.-Wiclif. 2 Corinth. c. 6.

O ye Corinthians, oure mouth is open vn to you oure hert is made large; ye are in no strayte in vs but are in a strayte in youre awne bowelles; I promise vnto you lyke reward, as unto children. Set yourselves at large.

Bible, 1539. Ib.

Though she [nature] would all her conning spend
That to beautie might auaile

It were but paine and lost trauaile
Such part in their natiuitie

Was then alarged of beauty.-Chaucer. Dreame.

Fr. Alarme; Sp. Alarma; It. All' armé. To arms.

ALARM, v. ALARM, n. ALARMING. ALARMINGLY. ALARMIST. ALA'RUM, V. ALA'RUM, N. To give notice of danger; to disquiet, to disturb, to cause or excite, or fill with apprehensions.

To sound to arms; to summon to arms; or to be ready, prepared in arms ; for defence: and thus, generally

Ne Turnus sluggish sloth doth stay, but fierce with speed he bends Gainst Troians all his power, and on the shore afront them tends.

They blow alarme.-Phaer. Eneidos, b. x.

On the one side, Satan alarmed, Collecting all his might dilated stood, Like Teneriff or Atlas unremov'd.-Milton. Par. L. b. iv. By proof we feel Our power sufficient to disturb his heaven, And with perpetual inroads to alarm, Though inaccessible, his fatal throne: Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.-Id. Ib. b. ii.

This sayd, he runs downe with as great a noyse and showting as he could, crying al'arme, help help citizens, the castle is taken by the enemie, come away to defense. Holland. Livy, p. 331. And when he saw my best alarum'd spirits, Bold in the quarrel's right, rous'd to the encounter, Or whether gasted by the noyse I made, Full sudainly he fled.-Shakespeare. Lear, Act ii. sc. 1. Now are our browes bound with victorious wreathes, Our bruised armes hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums, chang'd to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches, to delightful measures. Id. Rich. III. Act i. sc. 1.

For nowe fortune is thus my fo.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.
Alas, my father there, my only ioy in care and wo,
Anchises I do lose (alas) he there departs me fro.
Phaer. Eneidos, b. iii.
Alas! what boots it with incessant care
To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade,
And strictly meditate the thankless muse?-Milton. Lyc.
But why, alas, do mortal men in vain
Of fortune, fate, or providence, complain?
God gives us what he knows our wants require,
And better things than those which we desire.
Dryden. Palamon & Arcile.

Alas, regardless of their doom,
The little victims play,

No sense have they of ills to come,

Nor care, beyond to-day.-Gray. Eton College.

ALATE. See LATE.

Lately, not far back, not long since, or ago.

What news from Agrippinas?

Sej.
Pors. Faith, none. They all lock themselves up alate,
Or talk in character, I have not seene

A company so chang'd.-B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act ii.
Tyll that I came unto a ryall gate,
Where I sawe stondynge the goodly portres,
Whyche axed me, from whence I came a-late.
Hawes. The Tower of Doctrine, 1505. In Percy.
ALBE'.
ALBE'IT.
Saturne anon, to stenten strif and drede
Al be it that it is again his kind,
Of all this strif he gan a remedy find.

Al be it. Be all.

Be it all.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2441. And daily hee his wrongs encreaseth more ; For neuer weight he lets to passe that way, Ouer his bridge, albee he rich or poore, But he him makes his passage-penny pay.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 2. Jess. Who are you, tell me for more certainty, Albeit I'll sweare that I do know your tongue. Lor. Lorenzo, and thy loue.

That, saith Aristotle, which is not watery and unprolifical will not conglaciate; which perhaps must not be taken strictly; but in the germ and spirited particles: for eggs I observe will freeze in the albuginous part thereof. Browne. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. I. ALCHYMIZE, v. A'LCHYMY, N. ALKY MISTRIE. ALCHYMICAL. ALCHYMICALLY. A'LCHYMIST.

Fr. Alquemie, Alchimie; It. Alchimia; Sp. Alquimia; Low. Lat. Alchimia; perhaps from χύμα; a XEVEL, to pour: for he, (says Vossius) who pours, infuses or mixes metals, changes them, and converts the baser to a purer. See CHYMIST.

ALCHYMI'STICAL.
ALCHYMI'STICALLY.

Sex and twenty baners of Inglond alder best,
Of armes that knewe the maners, to werre were alle prest.
Id. p. 271.
And which of you that bereth him best of alle,
That is to sayn, that telleth in this cas,
Tales of best sentence and most solas,
Shal have a souper at youre aller cost.
Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 801.
Wel coude he rede a lesson or a storie,
But alderbest he sang an offertorie.-Id. The Pardonere.
Alderfirst thou shalt considre that in thilke thing that
then purposest, and upon what thing that thou wolt have
Conseil, that veray trouthe be said and conserved.

Id. The Tale of Melibeus.

And alderlast of euerichone
Was painted Pouert all alone,
That not a peny had in hold,
Althoug she her clothes sold.-Id. The Rom. of the Rose.
Ensample why, see now these great clerkes,
That erren aldermost ayen a law,

And ben conuerted from his wicked werkes
Throgh grace of God.-Id. Troilus, b. i.

Queen. Great king of England, and my gracious lord, The mutuall conference that my minde hath had, By day, by night; waking, and in my dreames, In courtly company, or at my beades, With you mine alder liefest soueraigne, Makes me the bolder to salute my king.

Shakespeare. 2 Part Hen. VI. Act i. sc. 1. A'LDER. Fr. Aulne, Aune; It. Alno; Sp. Alamo; Lat. Alnus; so called, quod alatur amne, because nourished by a stream.

Thon yt art alderfarest, bearing ye fair world in thy thoght: formedest this world to thy likenes semblable, of yt fair world in thy thought.-Id. Boecius, b. iii.

The alder is of all other the most faithful lover of watery and boggy places, and those most despised weeping parts or water-gulls of forests.-Evelyn. Sylva, c. 18.

Then first on seas, the hollow'd alder swam.

Dryden. Virgil, Geor. 1. A.S. Ealdorman (a word which, even in A. S., says Skinner, had become a title of dignity), from Eld,

A'LDERMAN, n. ALDERMA'NITY. A'LDERMANLY. A'LDERMANSHIP. Eldor, old, older, and man. See the quotation from Verstegan.

O happy art! and wise epitome

Of bearing arms! most civil soldiery!
Thou canst draw forth the forces, and fight dry
The battles of thy aldermanity;
Without the hazard of a drop of blood.

B. Jonson. On the Artillery-yard. These [lord Bacon, the earl of Strafford, archbishop Laud], and many more, under different princes, and in different kingdoms, were disgraced, or banished, or suffered death, emboldened them in great exigencies and distresses of state merely in envy to their virtues and superior genius, which (wanting a reasonable infusion of this aldermanly discretion) to attempt the service of their prince and country out of their common forms.-Swift. On the Fales of Clergymen. The lumber stood Pond'rous and fix'd by its own massy weight. But elbows still were wanting: these, some say, An alderman of Cripplegate contrived.-Cowp. Task, b. i. ALE. A. S. Alod, the third per. sing. A'LEGER. indicative of Elan, to kindle and inflame, applied to a strong beer, from its warming, heating quality, (Skinner and Tooke.) And to certain festivals at which it was a principal promoter of mirth.

Aleger, is ale-eager, or sour. See EAGER.
Wel coude he [the Coke] knowe a draught of London ale.
Chaucer. The Prologue.
A gerlonde hadde he sette upon his hede,
As gret as it were for an alestake.-Id. The Sompnour.

For as a siue keepeth ale,

Right so can Cheste kepe a tale,
All that he wote, he woll disclose,

And speke er any man oppose.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii.

For the alepole doth but signyfie that there is good ale in the house, where the alepole standeth, and wil tell him that he muste go neare the house and there he shall finde the drinke, and not stand sucking the alepole in vayne. Frith. Workes. p. 113.

In this island the old drink was ale, noble ale; than which, as I heard a great foreign Doctor affirm, there is no liquor that more increaseth the radical moisture, and preserves the natural heat, which are the two pillars that support the life of man.-Howell, b. ii. Let. 54.

-From old records, Of antique proverbs, drawn from Whitson-lords: And their authorities, at wakes and ales, With country precedents, and old wives tales, We bring you now, to shew what different things The cotes of clowns are from the courts of kings. B. Jonson. Tale of a Tub. Prol. Yet ne'er to those dark paths by night retire; Mind only safety, and contemn the mire. Then no impervious courts thy haste detain, Nor sneering alewives bid thee turn again.

Gay. Trivia, b. iii. Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Goldsmith. Deserted Village.

ALE/GGE. Fr. Alléger; It. Allegare; ALE GEANCE. from the A. S. Alecgan, Lecgan, dern writing is Allay, (qv.) the g softened into y. ALE'GEMENT. to lay, to lay down. The mo

To lay down; to put down; to put to rest, to ease, to quiet, to soothe, to tranquillize.

Tho he was ycrouned kyng at Westmynstre y wys,
He byhet God & that folc an byheste, that was thys.
To alegge alle luther lawes, that yholde were byuore,
And betere mak than were suththe he was ybore.

R. Gloucester, p. 422.

It would haue brought my life againe,
For certes euenly, I dare well saine
The sight only and the sauour

Alegged much of my languor.-Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.

Sore I complained that my sore On me gan greuen more and more I had none hope of allegiance.

Now were they easie, now were they wood
In hem I felte both harme and good
Now sore without allegement
Now softyng with oyntment.
Thomalin, why sitten we soe,
As weren overwent with woe,
Upon so fayre a morow?
The ioyous time now nigheth fast,
That shall alegge this bitter blast,
And slake the winter sorow.

Id. Ib.

Id. Ib.

Spenser. Shep. Calender. March His feeling wordes her feeble sence much pleased, And softly sunck into her molten hart: Hart, that is inly hurt, is greatly eased With hope of thing that may alegge his smart. Ia. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 2. But hurt his hart, the which before was sound, Through an unwary dart which did rebownd From her faire eyes and gratious countenaunce. What bootes it him from death to be unbownd, To be captivated in endlésse duraúnce

Of sorrow and despeyre without aleggeaunce!

ALGEBRA.

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Fr. Algébre; It. Algebra; ALGEBRAICK. Sp. Algebra. Menage supALGEBRA ICAL. poses the word to ALGEBRA'ICALLY. from the Arabic, Algiabaral, which signifies rei redintegratio; the restoration of any thing. It was called by Sir Isaac Newton, universal arithmetick: it is also variously denominated: the science which teaches the general properties and relations of numbers; the science of computing by symbols; the science that comprehends in general all the cases which can exist in the doctrine and calculation of numbers; in distinction from Arithmetick, which extends only to certain methods of calculation occurring in common practice.

A'LIEN, v. A'LIEN, n. A'LIEN, adj.

Fr. Aliené, Aliéner; It. Alieno, Alienare; Sp. Alienar; Lat. Alienus, alius. Another.

A'LIENABLE, A'LIENATE, V. A'LIENATE, n. A'LIENATE, adj. ALIENATION. ALIENATOR. To alienate (met.) is to estrange, to remove from, to withhold from; to put away, or part from.

To give, sell, or otherwise convey from one to another. -An alien (written by old writers, alyaunt) is one from another country; a foreigner; a stranger.

The politick Earl of Kent, Godwyn, finding this weakness in the King [Hardicanute], began to think himself of aspiring; and to make the better way for it he sought by all means to alien the subjects' heart from the Prince.

Baker. Chronicle. Danish Kings. It is enacted in the lawes of Venice, If it be proued against an alien, That by direct or indirect attempts He seeke the life of any citizen, The party gainst the which he doth contriue, Shall seaze one halfe his goods.

Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act iv. sc. 1. Thou strong retreat! thou sure entail'd estate, Which nought has power to alienate. Thou pleasant, honest flatterer! for none Flatter unhappy men but thou [Hope] alone. Cowley. Poem for Hope.

O alienate from God, O spirit accurs'd, Forsaken of all good! I see thy fall Determin'd, and thy hapless crew involv'd In this perfidious fraud.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v. There are laws in Scotland, loosely worded, that make it capital to spread lies of the king or his government, or to alienate his subject from him.-Burnet. Own Time, b. i.

Alien, misplaced, ambitious ornaments, no doubt are every where disgusting: but in the grand entrance of a house, they should particularly be avoided. Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes.

In examining the nature of alienation, let us first inquire briefly, who may aliene, and to whom; and then, more largely, how a man may aliene, or the several modes of conveyance.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 19.

It is notorious, that many popish bishops were no less alienators of their episcopal endowments, than many other bishops of the Protestant church proved afterwards, in the reigns of Edward the Sixth and Elizabeth.

T. Warton. Life of Sir T. Pope. ALIGHT. A. S. Alightan, lightan; to alight, to light; to descend from a horse or carriage, says Junius, perhaps, because this is no other than to lighten a carriage or horse of its burden: and then used, generally

To come down, to descend, to fall upon, to dismount.

Kyng Henry in the senethe ger of hys crounyng,
And enlene hondered ger and seuene of our Lorde alygtyn.
R. Gloucester, p. 430.
Ac as sone so the Samaritan hadde sighte of that syke
He alyghte a non of lyarde.-Piers Plouhman, p. 324.
But now is time to you for to telle,
How that we baren us that ilke night,
Whan we were in that hostelrie alight.-Chaucer. Prolog.
Achilles vpon hym alight,
And wolde anone, as he well might,
Haue slain him fulliche in the place.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.
Cutting betwixt the windes and Lybian landes,
From his graundfather by the mothers side
Cyllene's child so came, and then alight
Upon the houses with his winged feete.
Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv.
Mean while upon the firm opacous globe
Of this round world, whose first convex divides
The luminous inferiour orbs, enclos'd
From chaos, and the inroad of darkness old,
Satan alighted walks.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii.

Sir Roger rode forward, and alighting, took up the hare in his arms; which he soon after delivered up to one of his servants with an order, if she could be kept alive, to let her go in his great orchard.-Spectator, No. 116.

On horseback it was impossible; and when we had alighted, we stood hesitating on the brink, whether it were prudent, even on foot, to attempt so dangerous a march. Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes.

ALIGHT. To light, or enlighten; to kindle, to set fire to. See LIGHT.

And for to speaken ouer this,

In this parte of the aire it is,
That men full ofte sene by night

The fire in sondre forme alight.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii.
The next morow, with Phoebus laump, the earth
Alighted clere; and eke the dawning day
The shadowes dark gan from the poale remoue.
Surrey. Eneis, b. iv.
The officer having by this time alighted his lamp, entered
into the room to see him whom he accounted to be dead.
Shelton. Don Quixote.

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ALIKE. In like; similar, resembling.
LIKE.

The bisshop of Canterbire in common alle o liche
Schewed it in ilk schire, all his bisshop riche.

R. Brunne, p. 301.

Prudence is goodly wisedome in knowinge of thynges.
Strength voydeth al aduersitees aliche euen.

Chaucer. Test. of Love, b. iii.

For to the reason if we see
Of mans byrthe the measure,
It is so common to nature,
That it yeueth euery man aliche

As well to the poore as to the riche.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. This ought in no wise to hinder our concorde, yt the giftes of god be not al after one sorte, nor al alike appearing in al men no more tha we see the mébres of the body not agre, or to be racked one frō an other, because they be not indifferently apt al to one vse, or fele al alike ye influence of ye head.-Udal. Ephesians, c. 4.

Hope! whose weak being ruin'd is,
Alike, if it succeed, and if it miss;
Whom good or ill does equally confound:
And both the horns of Fate's dilemma wound.
Cowley. Poem against Hope.
Who finds not Providence all good and wise,
Alike in what it gives and what denies?

Pope. Essay on Man, Epist. 1.
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Await alike th' inevitable hour;

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.-Gray. Elegy.