It the dumb cane] grows wild in the mountains, and, by 13 use in sugar-making, should seem to be somewhat of an albalescent nature. What shulde I you reherse in special Chaucer. The Marchantes Prol. v. 9096. And whosoeuer wylbe chefe, shalbe seruant of all. Bible, 1539. Ib. For whan her housebande forsoke a right woorshipful mate whan it was offred hym, she fel in hand with hym the lande me) and all to rated him. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1224. Heaven doth with vs, as we, with torches doe; Not light them for themselues: For if our vertues Did not goe forth of vs, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.-Shakes. Meas. for Meas. Act i. Theological truths are so much more precious than all ethers, by how much divine knowledge is more excellent than all human arts and sciences whatsoever. Allay is alegge, (qv.) the softened into y, from the A. S. Alecgan, to lay, to lay down. ALLA'Y, v. ALLA'Y, n. ALLA'YER. ALLA'YMENT. To lay down, to put to rest, ALLO'Y. to ease, to quiet, to soothe, to tranquillize, to calm, to abate, or diminish, strength or violence; to assuage, to mitigate. Alloy, formerly written Allay. Bp. Hall. Peace Maker. And even at hand, a drumme is readie brac'd, That shall reuerberate all as lowd as thine. Sourd but another, and another shall (As lowd as thine) rattle the welkin's eare, And mocke the deepe mouth'd thunder. Shakespeare. King John, Act v. sc. 2. Ye sons of men, with just regard attend, Observe the preacher, and believe the friend, Whose serious muse inspires him to explain, That all we act, and all we think, is vain. Prior. Solomon. Knowledge. For if that they were put to swiche assayes, If he no lusty thought assaye, To hym, whiche other ioye misseth.-Gower. Con. A. b. vi. } un Grainger. Sugar-Cane, b. iii. (Note on v. 375.) ALL, n. A. S. El, eal, ealle, alle. The ALL, adj. etymology of this word is ALL, ed. settled. In A. S. hal is whole (formerly written hole, without the w.) Between al and hal the difference is so slight, and the application of the two words is so generally alike, metal. that there are fair grounds for supposing them to be the same word. See WHOLE. All is very commonly prefixed to other words. (See HYPHEN.) It is used to denoteEntirety, totality; the whole in number or magnitude. See Also. Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 9043. How can I moderate it? If I could temporise with my affection, Or brew it to a weak and colder pallat, The like alaiment could I give my grief; My loue admits no qualifying cross; No more my griefe, in such a precious loss. Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act iv. sc. 1. Gold incorporates with copper in any proportion, the common allay: gold incorporates with tin, the ancient allay. Bacon. Physiol. Rem. B. Jonson. On Vulcan. If any thing, sin, and our unworthy miscarriages toward God, should vex and discompose us: yet this trouble, Wisdom, by representing the divine goodness, and his tender mercies in our ever-blessed Redeemer, doth perfectly allay. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 1. Fine silver is silver without the mixture of any baser Alloy is baser metal mixed with it. Locke. Works, vol. ii. Further Considerations. Phlegm and pure blood are reputed allayers of acrimony. Harvey. On Consumptions. Yet leave me not! I would allay that grief, Beattie. Minstrel, b. ii. Gentle stroking with a smooth hand allays violent pains and cramps, and relaxes the suffering parts from their unnatural tension.-Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful. Consider what is root and ground Of thy mischief, which is plainly found Woman farced with fraud and deceipt To thy confusion most allectiue baite. Chaucer. The Remedie of Loue. To be the stronger in the setting furth their feate, thei, what wyth rewardes and faire promises, and what wyth declaration of great enormyties, committed by the kyngs counsailors, gainst the common wealth, allected and allured to them, lustye bachelars, and actiue persons, of a great numbre.-Hall. Henry VI. an. 30. And allected with the swetness of spoyle and prayes, they wasted al the countrey of Northumberlad. Id. Henry VII an. 11. But among all thinges, the very deadly pestilece is this: to be couersaut daie and night among them, whose life is not only on euery side an allectiue to synne: but ouer that all set in the expugnacion of vertue. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 12. The awakened needle leapeth towards its allicient. Robinson. Eudoxa, p. 121. If the loadstone attract, the steel hath also its attraction; for in this action the alliciency is reciprocal; which jointly felt, they mutually approach and run into each others arms. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 3. These preachers that were most infallible, and most urgent, prest the truth of these things upon their faith and affections with all evidence and importunity, suitableness of address and accommodation to their reason and their interest, with all the motives of hope and fear, and all the alliciencies and incentives that use to move reasonable nature.-Glanvil, Ser. 7. ALLEGE. tion. See LAW. Fr. Alléguer; It. Allegare; Sp. Alegar: as well as Alege, A. S. and Allay, from the Alecgan, to lay down; and differing only in the applica Allege is written aleyde by Gower, and others. To lay down-an opinion, argument, reason, assertion; and, consequentially— To assert, to affirm, to declare. I wene the kyng alegid, thei were of his tresour. Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9532. She had well deserued wreche.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii. Alway that parte semeth to be beleued whiche best & most clerely can alledge the scripture for their oppinion. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 167. Sathan vpon the pynnacle of the temple neuer bestowed his alleged scripture more peruersely, than thys Momus interpreted certayne of my allegacions, nor yet farther from their right vnderstanding.-Baie. Image of both Churches. Law and reason serueth, that the passing ouer of time not commodious to the purpose, is not allegeable in prescripcion for the losse of any right.-Grafton. Henry VIII. an. 34. Courageous chief! The first in flight from pain! hadst thou alleg'd To thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iv. But if thou shalt alledge through pride of mind, Thy blood with one of base condition join'd, 'Tis false; for 'tis not baseness to be poor; His poverty augments thy crime the more. Dryden. Sigismonda & Guiscardo. But notwithstanding this allegation in their behalf, all other copies and translations of the Pentateuch make against them [the Samaritans], and prove the corruption to be on their side.-Prideaux. Connections, b. vi. p. 1. And thus I have done with the first of the three propositions drawn from the words, viz. The exceeding great difficulty of men's believing a resurrection. And that, both by proving that actually it is so, from the most authentick examples alledgeable in the case, and by assigning withal the reasons and causes why it came to be so. South, vol. iv. Ser. 6. The narrative, if we believe it as confidently as the famous alleger of it, Pamphilio, appears to do, would argue, that there is no other principle requisite, than what may result from the lucky mixture of several bodies.-Boyle. They come to Saul with many complaints and allegements. Sanderson. Sermons, p. 636. Then by libel, libellus, a little book, or by articles drawn out in a formal allegation, set forth the complainant's ground of complaint.-Blackstone. Commentaries. b. iii. c. 7. ALLEGIANCE, n. Į Lat. Alligare, Ad-liALLE GIANT. gare to bind to. Applied (Skinner) "to the tie or bond of fidelity, by which we, who are subjects, are bound to our prince." See ALLY. Applied to Any tie, or bond of duty, or good faith. In this passe tyme, Robert duke of Normandy, moued in concyence to vysyte the holy sepulture of our Lorde, called before hym his lordes of his lande, wyllynge & comaundynge theym to owe theyr trewe allegeaunce vnto his yonge sone, Wyllyam; & to take hym for theyr lorde & duke, if he retourne nat agayne.-Fabyan, c. 207. Heare me, recreant, on thine allegeance heare me; Shakespeare. King Lear, Act i. sc. 1. Now wil I not lay ani maner blame at al, to any man that wil expoud all the whole processe of Genesis, by all allegories, and teache vs certayne conuenient vertues vnderstanden bi the four flouds of paradise, and tell vs that paradise is grace, out of whych al the floodes of all vertues flowe and water the earth, calling the earth mankinde that was made thereof, beynge barayne and fruytelesse, but yf it be watered with the floodes of vertue, and so forth in some suche maner expound vs all the remanant. The calamity of the want of the sense of hearing is much A'LLEY, n. The earth, or those influences [of the Heavens] have not this power concredited to them, but their production is irresistibly alligated to the Semen innatum and conjunction of sexes.-Hale. Origin of Mankind, p. 305. Brutes have little prospect to the future; if any at all; their provisions for things to come, as for the winter, for their young, and the like, seem not so much acts of distinct knowledge or foresight of the future, as certain connatural instincts alligated to their nature by the wise and intelligent disposition of their most wise Creator. Hale. Origin of Mankind, p. 375. (Ad-litera,) to a Churchill. Prophecy of Famine. And the activity that either of these instruments have, So long about the alleyes is he gon, Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 10,198. HALLOO. Sir G. Wheler. On the Churches of the Prim. Christ. Upon such a high tribunal or scaffold [the Bnua, or pulpit] we often see the emperor standing, and sometimes sitting in medals and ancient bass-relieves; both in adlocutions to the army, and in distributing their bounty to the people. Sir G. Wheler. On the Churches of the Prim. Christ. ALLO'DIAL. Law Lat. Allodium, from the A. S. Leod, the people, (Spelman, who has other conjectures as to the origin of this word.) "The writers," says Blackstone, "on this subject define Allodium to be every man's own land, which he possesseth merely in his own right, without owing any rent or service to any superior."-Com. b. ii. c. 7. This allodial property no subject in England has; it being a received, and now an undeniable, principle in law, that all the lands in England are holden mediately or immediately of the king.-Blackstone, (ut supra.) ALLO'O. interj. Į Awhile she walkt, and chauft; awhile she threw As women wont, but with deepe sighes and singulfes few. Writ- Alloo thy furious mastiff, bid him vex A sad memorial of their past offence.-Philips. Cider, b. i. ALLO'T, v. Fr. Allotir, Allotement. Lot, in the A. S. written Hlot, past ALLO'TMENT. ALLOTTERY. part. of Hlidan, tegere, operire, to cover; and means something covered, or hidden. Tooke, vol. ii. p. 195. Upon this past participle the verb allot has been See LOT. formed. To put to lot, to give by lot, to grant, or distribute by lot; and then, generally, to give, to grant, to distribute, to apportion. Of Priamus this was the fatal fine, Surrey. Virgile. Encis, b. ii. Then Jupiter in heaven aboue in equall ballance wayes And vato either diuers chance alots, who shall endure He is not dead, that sometime had a fall Sir T. Wyat. The Louer hopeth, &c. When his maister is from home in a straunge countrey C Sear his errors manifold, that many words dothe use, And if ye iyke it, and allowe it well, Then for their guydinge and their governaunce, The tourney is allow'd but one career, Of the tough ash, with the sharp-grinded spear, As Fe thinke meete to be both knowne and kept. But that on the other side, if it be weigh'd I may, if possible, thy pardon find.-Milton. Samson Agon. I cannot think myself engaged from these words to I should allowably enough discharge my part in this The ruin'd spendthrift, now no longer proud, Many have weighed carefully, and observe conscientiously, ALLUDE, v. ALLU'SIVE. Fr. Allusion; It. Allusione; ALLU'SIVELY. To hint at, to intimate, to refer to. These wordes good readers haue no great harme in theim Sir T. More. Workes, p. 860. As for the grace of the Latine tongue I thinke vnpossible He plac'd in the convex of every one of those vast capa- The rest were all Of that bright star to Satan paragon'd. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x. The Jewish nation, that rejected and crucified him, within The great art of a writer shows itself in the choice of The foundation of all parables is some analogy or simi- The people of the country, alluding to the whiteness of its To resume a former allusion, the running horse, when fattened, will still be fit for very useful purposes, though The meaning too is repeatedly obscure. This arises gene- To induce, or attract, by What shoulde I speake of the other lesse euils, that he Why did not entier loue towardes God allure you hither Udal. S. Luke, c. 3. And ouer and besydes al this, those persones who laied And incontinent, as sone as they can speake, it behoueth The faire Serena (so his lady hight), Allur'd with myldnesse of the gentle wether, Study such kisses as would melt a man, Beaum. & Fletch. Woman's Prize, Act i. Thus then, whereas by temptation here is meant any When will our losses warn us to be wise? Dryden. Prologue to the Prophetess. Among the Athenians, the Areopagites expressly forbade ALLUVION, n. Lat. Alluvio, (Ad-luere, lu- The washing away: particularly applied to- And likewyse vnto ye towne of Paperethus there came a dyuers of the kynges almoygners, to whom the goodes of [This was] A man that had been long in office vnder hys office, as deodandes to be geue in almes. such men as kyll themselfe be appoynted by the lawe, and Sir T. More. Workes, p. 235. As I loue my brother, and he haue nede of me, & be in pouertie, loue will make me put myne hand into my purse or almory, and to geue him some what to refresh him. Tyndal. Workes, p. 225. Clot. You sinne against Obedience, which you owe your father, for The contract you pretend with that base wretch, One, bred of almes, and foster'd with cold dishes, With scraps o' th' court.-Shakespeare. Cymb. Act ii. sc. 3. Richard Rich was a mercer, and founded almes-houses at Hodsden in Hartford-shire, which no doubt were by him competently endowed; though now the almes-houses are as poor as the almes-folk, the one needing repairing, as much as the other relieving.-Fuller. Worthies. London. When Lord-privy seal, he brought the Court of Requests into such repute, that what formerly was called the almesbasket of Chancery, had in his time well nigh as much meat in, and quest about it (I mean suits and clients) as the Chancery itself.-Id. Northamptonshire. The second was an almner of the place: Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 10. They live, and live without extorted alms Cowper. Task, b. iv. He [Yeldard] was educated in grammar and singing, as a boy of the almonry, or chorister, in the Benedictine convent, now the dean and chapter of Durham. Warton. Life of Sir T. Pope, App. No. 25. A'LOES. Fr. Aloès; It. Aloè; Sp. Aloe; Lat. Aloe; Gr. Axon, which some derive from the Gr. aλs, the sea, because in places near the sea it principally grows; but Vossius thinks it from the Hebrew, Ahaloth. Aloe is an hearbe which hath the resemblance of the sea onion, but it is bigger, and the leaves be more gross and fat, chamfered and channelled biais all along. Holland. Plinie, b. xxvii. c. 4 ALOFT, ad. On loft, luft, or luft, i. e. in ALOFT, prep. the luft or lyft. A. S. Lyft, the heavens, the air. The weder was fulle soft, the wynde held tham stille, We mygte be lordes aloft, and lyve as us lusten. For he that stant to daie alofte, Out of riches in to pouerte.- Gower. Con. A. b. iv. The thirde of aier, after the lawe, Through suche matere as is vp drawe Of drie thynge, as it is ofte, Amonge the cloudes vpon lofte.-Id. Ib. b. vii. And yet for the shorte whyle yt we be vpward and aloft, lord howe lusty and howe proude we be, buzzing aboue busily, like as a humble bee flieth about in summer, neuer ware that she shall dye in winter. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1199. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i. For there is such a kind of difference betwixt vertue shaded by a private, and shining forth in a publick life, as there is betwixt a candle carried aloft in the open air, and inclosed in a lanthorn.-Boyle. Occ. Reflections, § 6. Ref. 3. All hands unmoor! proclaims a boisterous cry, All hands unmoor! the cavern'd rocks reply. Rous'd from repose, aloft the sailors swarm, And with their levers soon the windlass arm. Falconer. Shipwreck, c. 1. Gr. a A'LOGY. Old Fr. Alogie, Alogique; priv. and Aoyos, speech: reasoning. Unreasonableness. The kynge, for so moch as he had often prouy'd her wys-origin with aloft. Shakes. Coriol. Act v. sc. 5. ALONG, v. ALO'NG, ad. & prep. ALO'NGST. Montagu. Ap. to Cæsar, p. 61. Or if my heedlesse youth has step'd astray, But take thy judgments from this mourning land. The heathen, trembling under all the terrors of supersttion: and the Jew appeasing the anger of an incensed Jebavah, by a thousand painful rites, were called on by a gracious voice to take refuge in that religion, which alone uld give them liberty and peace. Gilpin, vol. i. Ser. 3. From A. S. Lengian, to long, to make long, to lengthen, to stretch out } se. ourselves after, or for what we eagerly desre;) and, consequentially To desire eagerly. See To LONG. TOIL Along, the adv. in one usage, is merely on long, or on length, as in Chaucer. In the other usage it is the past part. and means produced: it was along of you; all produced, caused, effected of or by The Anglo-Saxon used two words for these purposes, Andlang, Andlong, Ondlong, for the frst; and Gelang for the second: and our most ancient English writers observed the same distinction, using endlong for the one, and along for the other. Tooke, vol. i. p. 42. Here I salle the gyue alle myn heritage, als along as I liue to be in thin ostage. R. Brunne, p. 196. I cannot tell whereon it was along, But well I wot gret stuf was among. Tho' gan that villien wex so fiers and strong, Id. Ib. King. I like him not, nor stands it safe with vs, Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 3. Id. Ib. b. iv. For Phormyo seing that they made towardes the towne & knowyng that it was vnprouyded of people, was cōstrayned to cause his people to be soubdenly embarqued, and to sayle longest by the lande, trustinge in the foote men of the Messeniens, which were already for to succour him by lande. Nicoll. Thucydides, fol. 68. VOL. L ALOOF, ad. All-off, entirely separate, (Skinner.) Junius suggests that it may be of the same Separate, apart, distant, or at a distance, re Bible, 1539. St. Luke, c. 19. ALOUD, ad. On loud; loudly: the past And these words said, she streight her on length and part. of the verb to low, or to bellow (i. e. be-low), Chaucer. Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,359. rected a while.-Id. Test. of Loue, b. ii. lowed, low'd. mote. Like the stricken hinde with shaft, in Crete Surrey. Virgile. Encis, b. iv. But surely this anker lyeth to farre aloufe fro thys shyppe, and hath neuer a cable to fasten her to it. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 759. None hath the heart in equall fight to meete him hand to hand, But throwing darts, and raising hugie noyse, aloofe they stand. Phaer. Eneidos, b. x. Then badd the knight his lady yede aloof, And to an hill herself withdrew asyde; From whence she might behold that battailles proof, And eke be safe from daunger far descryde. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11. There are some pleasures and conditions too in the world, which make so fine a show at a distance, that in those that gaze at them aloof off, they frequently beget envy at them and wishes for them.-Boyle. Occ. Reflections, § 6. Ref. 2. And as they were a lossynge ye colte, the owners therof sayde vnto them, why loose ye the colte? Every alphabetarian knows well that the Latin [of a city] is urbs or civitas.-Archbp. Sancroft. Sermons, p. 30. Consult the alphabetical index of his [Speed's] map, and there is no Selby in this shire.-Fuller. Worthies. Lincolnsh. The distinction of some verses may be said to be jure divino, as those in the Lamentations and elsewhere, which are alphabetically modelled.-Id. Kent. He [Alfred] was twelve years of age, before he could procure in the western kingdom a master properly qualified to teach him the alphabet. Warton. Hist. of Eng. Poetry, Dis. 2. The first and most manifest indication of verse in the Hebrew poetical books, presents itself in the acrostich or alphabetical poems.-Lowth. Isaiah. Prelim. Dis. ALREADY, ad. All-ready; wholly ready; or in readiness. Applied to That which is all ready, complete, perfect, finished, done, past. For if the wolfe come in the waie Their gostly staffe is then awaie, In any thynge, though it be lite, Thei ben all ready for to smite.-Gower. Con. A. Prol. That same Messias the deliuerer and sauer of his people, whiche long & many daies gon hath been promised, and many hundred yeres alreadie looked for, is now at hade to come in dede.-Udal. Luke, c. 1. In the spiritual heaven, in vain shall we expect any further insight, than the already revealed will of the Father hath vouchsafed to open to us.-Bp. Hall. Peace Maker. All things are God's already, we can give him no right by consecrating any, that he had not before.-Seiden. Tab. Talk. The tuneful lark already stretch'd her wing, And, flickering on her nest, made short essays to sing.! Dryden. Paiamon & Arcite. A. S. Elswa; al-so. So, from the Gothic article, sa, so ; it or that. Als is al, and es, or as, is it, that, or which, (Tooke.) A'LSO, ad. All-so, i. e. all that, or which, (with a subaudition) sc. in all that manner which, in that wise; in like or the same manner or wise; likewise. The cyte he barnde al clene, & a chyrche al so Of that was calculed of the clymat. the contrarye they H |