Thickest thou that they be coblers, tapsters, or such like hase mechanicall people, that write these bills and scrolls which are found daily in thy prætor's chair, and not the west men and best citizens that do it? North. Plutarch, p. 820. The peeres and captaines of Israel are driven manicled the Assyrian streets, and billeted to the severall ares of their perpetuall servitude. Bp. Hall. Cont, The Utter Destruction of Israel. Betome ever hath extremity of mischief seized, where er affictions have not been billeted before. Id. Cont. Haman Disrespected. Rabie, you must know, is the best man in town for carryle; the fellow has a thin body, swift step, demure suficient sense, and knows the town. Spectator, No. 498. Our countrymen could not forbear laughing when they brand a lover chanting out a billet-doux, and even the superon of a letter set to a tune.-Id. No. 29. As he never said-no-to any request in his life, he has ven them a bill, drawn by a friend of his upon a merchant the city, which I am to get changed. Goldsmith. The Goodnatur'd Man, Act iii. sc. 1. 1vnte this, Eliza, at Mr. James's whilst he is dressing, the dear girl, his wife, is writing beside me, to thee.-I ayu melancholy billet before we sat down to dinner. Sterne, Let. 84. BILLOW, v. BELLOW, BILLOWY. Sw. Goth. Bulg-ia, to bulge, to belly out, to swell. To swell or heave; usually applied to the swelling or heaving of the waves. The mariner amidde the swelling seas, seeth his barke with many a billowe beaten, Now here, now there, as winds and waues best please, . When thundring Joue with tempest list to threaten, And dreades in depest gulfe for to be eaten, Yet leates a meane by mere necessitie To himselfe in such extremitie. Gascoigne. Chorus to Jocasta, Act ii. Within two dayes after, there arose another great storme, at the north-east, and we lay a trie, being driven far into the ars and had much ado to keepe our barke from sinking, the "we was so great.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 334. -No sleepe could seise His er-lids; he beheld the Pleiades ; The Beart, saman'd the Waine, that round doth moue About Orion; and keeps still aboue The blowe ocean-Chapman. Homer. Odysses, b. v The billowing mow, and violence of the shower, And wer the vales collected ruin pour. Their legions roam without a guide, versels tost on ocean's billowy tide, Whose course unsteer'd the winds and tempests sway, That this last [judgment] the vessel is tossed by every -, and will find shipwreck in every breeze. Goldsmith. Citizen of the World. The first the kingdom to thy virtues due Warton. On the Marriage of the King. BIN. Skinner, and after him, Tooke, derive the A.S. Pyndan, to enclose, to pen, or pin; differing merely in the application, from to Anything that encloses, that confines; as a radia, a wine-bin. Toode he kepe a garner and a binn You might have sene them throng out of the town: O'er twice three pickers, and no more, extend Bis, Binus, two. Thor. I have 'em already, Somerton. Ford. Witch of Edmonton, Act iii. sc. 2. Pythagorus affirmeth, that of the two first principles, unity was God, and the soveraign good; which is the very nature of one, and is understanding it selfe: but the indefinite binary, is the devill and evill, about which is the multitude materiall, and the visible world.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 665. So that this matter was rightly called heaven and the union of the passive and active principle in the creation of this material heaven is the second day's work, and the binarie denotes the nature thereof. More. The Philosophick Cabbala, c.1. Goth, and A. S. Bindan: Dut. and Ger. Binden; Sw. Binda. See BOND. BIND, v. BIND, n. Bi'nder. BINDING. To tie, to fasten, to knit, to connect, to confine, to put into confinement, under constraint or obligation; to constrain, to oblige. Sir mercy, my life thou saue it me, Do not that vilany, fettred that I be. In prison thou me do, but nouht in bondes bynde, I pray gow it be so, for schame of my kynde. R. Brunne, p. 167. And I pursuyde this weie tel to the deeth, byndynge and bytakyng into holdis men and wymmen. Wiclif. Dedis, c. 23. & I persecuted this way vnto the deathe byndinge and deliuerynge into prison both men and women. Bible, 1551. Ib. Eroude had holden Jon, and bounden him, and puttide him into prisoun.-Wiclif. Matt. c. 14. Now sith it may nat goodly be withstound Chaucer. Troilus, b. i. And vnto thys your fathers set their hades & seales, binding them selues to compell the king to keepe thys contracte. Barnes. Workes, p. 89. The hunter seelynge both his eyen, and byndinge his [the lyon's] legges strongly together, fynally daunteth his fiercenesse, and maketh hym obediente to his ensygnes and tokens. Sir T. Elyot. The Governovr, b. ii. c. 14. And likewyse they did calculate that whiche mighte transcende and be ouer the ioynters or byndinge togiders of the sayd bricques.-Nicolls. Thucydides, p. 76. Well Jessica goe in, Perhaps I will returne immediately; Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act ii. sc. 5. Euen in those actions whereby an offence may bee occasioned (though not giuen) charity bindes us to cleare both our owne name, and the conscience of others. Bp. Hall. Cont. Altar of the Reubenites. For he knows, that we have no strength but what he gives us; and therefore, as he binds burdens upon our Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 11. There grew by this a field of corne, high, ripe; where reapers wrought, shoulders, so he gives us strength to bear them. And let thicke handfuls fall to earth; for which, some other brought Bands, and made sheaves. Three binders stood, and took the handfuls reapt From boyes that gatherd quickly up; and by them arme- There too he form'd the likeness of a field In frequent handfuls; there, they bound the sheaves. And off'ring still their bundles to be bound.Cowper. Ib. We both are bound to follow heavens beheasts, men, a name. Having two names. So that as most animals are binocular, spiders for the most part octonocular, and some senocular; so flies, &c. are multocular, having as many eyes as there are perforations in their cornea.-Derham. Phys. Theol. b. viii. c. 3. note a. As in certain circumstances we invariably see one object appear double, so in others we as invariably see two objects unite into one; and, in appearance, lose their duplicity. This is evident in the appearance of the binocular telescope. Reid. Inquiry, c. 6. s. 13. From Bios, life, and ypapew, to grave, to write. A writer of the lives of BIOGRAPHER. BIOGRAPHICAL. individuals. The character of the author, that industrious and exact antiquary and biographer, Mr. Anthony Wood, is well known to the learned world. Wood. Athena Oxon. Booksellers to the Reader. But in that he came so late thither as this author men tions, and stayed so long there as three years, which he afterwards mentions; and, as the biographical fry who follow have nibbled out of him ;-they are all mistaken, for he will presently appear two years before that time amounts to, in the wars abroad.-Oldys. Life of Ralegh. His biographical writings teach philosophy, at once by precept and by example. His morals and his characters mutually explain and give force to each other. His sentiments of the duty of a biographer were peculiarly just and delicate.-Langhorne. Life of Plutarch. Those parallel circumstances and kindred images, to which we readily conform our minds, are, above all other writings, to be found in narratives of the lives of particular persons; and therefore, no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography, since none can be more delightful or more useful, none can more certainly enchain the heart by irresistible interest, or more widely diffuse instruction to every diversity of condition. Johnson. Rambler, No. 60. You cannot compare the history of the same events as delivered by any two historians, but you will meet with many circumstances which, though mentioned by one, are either wholly omitted, or differently related by the other; and this observation is peculiarly applicable to biographical writings.-Watson. Apology for Christianity. BI-PARTITE. Bis, two, and Partiri, parBI'PARTED. }titus, to part. Shared, separated, divided, into two parts. By our by-parted crowne, of which The moyetie is mine, By God, to whome my soule must passe, Warner. Albion's England, b. iv. The divine fate is also bipartite; some theists supposing God, both to decree and to doe all things in us (evil as well as good) or by his immediate influence to determine all actions, and so make them alike necessary to us. Cudworth. Intellectual System, Pref. p. 1. BI-PED. Gr. Arous; Lat. Bipes. Bis, two, and pes, a foot: in natural history as distinguished from quadruped. ་ For the keeping the body steady, and upright in flight, it generally holds true (if I mistake not) that all bipennated insects have poises under the hinder parts of their wings, but such as have four wings or wings with elytra, none. Derham. Phys. Theol. b. viii. c. 4. BIRCH. A. S. Bire, Birce; Dut. Berke; BIRCHEN. Ger. Birke, which Wachter thinks is from the verb Brechen, splendere, to be bright; so called from the brilliant whiteness of the bark. Pliny (xvi. 18,) speaks of the mirabilis candor of the birch. It showeth wonderful white, says Holland. But how the fire was maked up on highte, As oke, fir, birch.-Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2921. An allegory is as much as to say as strauge speakyng or borrowed speach. As whe we say of a wanton child, this sheepe hath magottes in his tayle, he must be annoynted with byrchin salue, which speach I borow of the shepheardes. Tindall. Works, p. 166. The eugh, obedient to the benders will, As there is a preparedness to good works, so there is a preparedness to evil; when the heart is thus bird-limed, then it cleaves to every thing it meets with. Goodwin. A Christian's Growth, pt. ii. c. 3. Sweet fellow-prisoners, 'twas a cruel art, Of birds, how each, according to her kind, How oft your birds have undeserving bled, Or early-mounting lark !-Warton. Ode on Shooting. That government being so situated, as to have a large range of prospect, and as it were a bird's eye view of every thing, they might see distant dangers, and distant advantages, which were not so visible to those, who stood on the common level.-Burke. Letter to Thomas Burgh, Esq. Piers Plouhman, p 169. ration. The birds that han left her song So glad, that they shew in singing Chaucer. The Rom. of the Rose. These louers know well inough, the vaineglorious mindes of many, which haue a great delight in their owne prayses wherewith they be caught like as the byrder beguyleth the byrdes.-Vives. Instruct. of Christian Women, b. i. c. 14. The yonger sorte, come pyping on apace, The should haue lacked leisure to haue separate the oyntmentes and swete spices from the bodye, seeyng they cleaued as fast thereto as byrdelime.-Udal. John, c. 20. And Jhesus passinge, saygh a man blynd fro his birthe; And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blynd And whanne a covenable day was fallen Eroude in his birth-day made a soper to the princes and tribunes and to the grettist of Galilee.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 6. But when a couenient day was come: Herode on his birth-day made a supper to ye lordes, captains & chief estates of Galile.-Bible, 1551. Ib. On of the gretest adversitees of this world, is whan a free man by kinde, or of birthe, is constreined by poverte to eten the almesse of his enemie.-Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus. And Jacob sayd: sel me thys daye thy byrthright. And Esau answered: lo I am at the poynt to dye, and what profite shall this byrthright do me: and Jacob sayd: swere to me then this daye. And he swore to hi, and solde his Another parte followynge the flighte of byrdes (for the Frenchmen are above all other nations cunninge in bird spellinge,) with muche slaughter of the barbarous nations pearsed vnto the coste of Sclavonie, and reasted in Pan-byrthright vnto Jacob.-Bible, 1551. Genesis, c. 25. nonie.-Goldyng. Jusline, p. 108. Though we were exempted from the common condition of our birth, yet he would not deliver himselfe from those ordinary rites, that implied the weaknesse, and blemishes of humanity.-Bp. Hall. Cont. The Purification. And so those od dayes the Egyptians do call at this present, the dayes of the Epact, celebrating and solemnizing them as the birth-dayes of their gods. Holland. Plutarch, p. 1051. Macd. Let vs rather Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act iv. sc. 3. But howsoever it was, he [Polymnis] descended from one of the most noble and ancient houses of the Thebans, of whom they report this notable thing: that the most part of this noble lineage carried upon their body even for a No ominous star did at thy birthtide shine, Drayton. Dudley to Lady Jane Gray. It is in effect therefore the birth-day of the world; beginning of a new, better, eternal life to men, (offere all, and effectually bestowed on those, who will embrace which we now do celebrate.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 43. However it comes about, that now they celebrate Qu Elizabeth's birth night, as that of their saint and patrone yet then they were for doing the work of the Lord by an against her.-Dryden. Religio Laici, Pref. But why your wonder should I vainly raise? Fawkes. Argon. of Apollonius, b. An eminent person of later times, was reproached by of better birth, though of meaner parts, for having forine been a carrier. His answer, for his temper and excell judgement in it, is not to be forgotten, which was, "tha he who reproached him had once been a carrier, he wo have been a carrier still."-Tatler, No. 294. Useful discoveries are sometimes indeed the effect superior genius, but more frequently they are the birth time and of accidents.-Reid. Inquiry, c. 1. s. 8. Those barb'rous ages past, succeeded next The article of food, so called, is not uncommo more than twice baked. The Turke doth not amend his galeis, nor rigge out then fiftie. In Greece there is no biscoct in making, preparacon of vitales, or other thing. Lodge. Illustrat. of British History, vol. i. p. 1 Besides this, these ioly gallauntes lefte behynd theim haste, all their tentes, xiiii. greate gonnes and xl. barre of pouder, ccc. pipes of wyne, cc. pipes of bisket and flou cc. frayles of figges and resones, and v. c. barrelles of h rings.-Hall. Hen. VI. an. 4. In this march a pair of shoos vvas sold for thirty shillin and a bisket cake for ten shillings; so great was our w both of cloathing and victuals. Sir F. Drake. West Indian Voyage, p. Mr. Boreel told me, that the curious merchant used other art, than the stowing of his bisket, well baked, casks exactly calked.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 108. The prattling about the rights of men will not be accep in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gun-powder. Burke. Reflect. on the French Revoluti BISHOP, n. This word, upon the int duction of Christianity, fou its way into all the Europe languages. A. S. Bisce BI'SHOPHOOD. Dut. Bischop; Ger. Bisch BI'SHOPLY Sw. Biskop; Fr. Evesq BI'SHOPRICK. It. Vescovo ; Sp. Obis from the Gr. EnokоTоs, from ET, and KOTto look into. A bishop is literally An over-looker, an over-seer. Milk, in Yorkshire, is said to be bishoped, wh it is burnt." Formerly, in days of superstitio whenever a Bishop passed through a town or lage, all the inhabitants ran out in order to rece his blessing; this frequently caused the milk the fire to be left till burnt to the vessel, and ga origin to the above allusion." (Grose, Prov. Gloss Tindale seems to point to a more specious orig of this expression, in the rancour of the reforme which ascribed every ill that might betide them the popish bishops. To bishop-to perform the church ceremony confirmation. See the example from Sir Thom More. For that lond that bitwene Homber, & the water of 1 The Haley of Canterbirie in comon alle o liche, chevet if in ilk schire, alle his bisshop riche. R. Brunne, p. 301. And by ram a man of a mayde. and metropolitanus, And baptisede an busshoppede. whit the blode of us herte Ale that wilnede other wolde.-Piers Plouhman, p. 300, Tere the bishop blessid eth worth bothe h' eyen. les sele sholde nogt be sent, in deceet of the puple. Id. p. 4. Therfore holy britheren, and parteneris of heuenli cleholde ghe apostle and the bischop of oure confesJes which is trewe to him that made him, as also sin al the hous of hym.-Wiclif. Ebrewis, c. 3. BI-SULCOUS. Bis and Sulcus; Gr. 'OAKOS, tractus, from 'EXкew, to draw. Applied in natural history to Cloven footed animals. Others there are which make good the paucity of their breed with the length and duration of their dayes, whereof there want not examples in animals uniparcus; first, in bisulcous or cloven hoof't, as camels and beeves, whereof there is above a million annually slain in England. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c.6. BITCH. Of uncertain etymology; applied to the female of the dog, and other animals; and And it is writen in the book of Salmys, the abitacioun of also, opprobriously, to a woman. It wrytten in the boke of Psalmes: hys habytacion be and Boman be dwellynge therein; and hys byshopPyar let another take.—Bible, 1551. Ib. That they call confirmacion, ye people call bishopping. Thy thinke that if the bishop butter ye childe in the forhed, then it is safe.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 378. When a thing spedeth not well, we borow speach and the lakep hath blessed it, because that nothing spedeth wet that they medle with all. If the porage be burned to, the meate ouer rosted, we say, the bishop hath put his in the pette, or the bishop hath played the cooke, because the bishops burn who they lust, and whosoever Capleaseth them.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 166. Now doch he rente his clothes, prophecying hereby, how sa cum to passe, that the true bishop raignynge the and figuratiue bishophode shal be cleane abolished, and set aside.-Udal. Mark, c. 14. Webre the bishop (saith he) reuerently, and accordinge to his biskoply office, after the holy praises of Godde's Yes, he excuseth himselfe, that he taketh vpon him to that healthful sacrifice.-M. Hardinge. Jewell, p. 567. Why sent they it by Felton to Be shoped at Paule's? Why feed they Fitz-Morrice, that La Ireland marshal'd brawles? In the person of a bishop there be three distinct faculties: actual function, wherein he is a bishop; his legal wherein he is a layman and hath liberty to contract, Brad his temporal dignity, wherein he is a Baron and Pet of the Realm, and participateth their priviledges. Spelman. Answer to Apologie, p. 115. A See the frowardness of this man, he would perets that the succession and divine right of bishopdom hath bin unquestionable through all ages. Milton. Animad. upon Rem. Defence. the time of King Edward the sixt, were restored to their So Cyn, since his sire indulg'd his will, The name of fool confirm'd and bishop'd by the fair. " Dryden. Cymon & Iphigenia. He would set down in writing, and openly pronounce, that neither bitches loved their whelpes, nor mares their foles, hens their chickens, and other foules their little birds in respect of any reward, but freely, and by instinct of nature.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 180. From below By your true names of Stygian bitches you bit BITE, v. BITE, n. BI'TER. BI'TING, n. 'BI'TINGLY. BIT, v. BIT, n. BITLESS. To pinch, to squeeze, to gripe, to crush; to pierce, to penetrate, to wound, to pain as a bite, or any thing which biteth;-literally and metaphorically. A bit; a small piece; so much or bitten: as a bit of bread; a bit of a bridle. To bit-to put the bit in the mouth, to cause to bite, gripe, or hold fast. They [the Brocks, &c.] will draw in their breath so hard, that their skin being stretched and puffed up withall, they will avoid the biting of the hound's tooth, and checke the wounding of the hunter; so as neither the one nor the other can take hold of them.-Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 38. Of whose doore, her faire Chapman. Homer. Odysses, b. xxi. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xxiv. Who after me, hath many a weary steppe Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act ii. sc. ". A scoff and a jeer is many times more provoking than a blow; and nothing will sooner kindle the coals of contention than a biting taunt.-Hopkins. Works, p. 184. Massylians, that without saddles ride, May. Lucan, b. iv. If this doctrine be true, then all men's senses are deceived be deceived as in any thing in the world: for two things can hardly be imagined more different, than a little bit of wafer and the whole body of a man.-Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 11. A Bite, (see the quotations from Swift and in a plain sensible matter, wherein 'tis as hard for them to the Spectator,) applied met. from the simpleness, silliness, eagerness, with which fish bite or catch the bait,to that unsuspecting credulity which seizes and swallows whatever is imposed upon it. And yspyted hym thour out myd an yrene spyte If ye bite and deuoure one another: take hede lest ye be consumed one of another.-Bible, 1551. Ib. Right as a serpent hideth under floures, Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,826. What thing is than this power that may not done away the bitings of businesse, ne eschew the pricks of dread. Id. Boecius, b. iii. Understandest thou not, that I am a philosopher. That other man answered again bytingly and said: I had wel BIS-SEXTILE. Bis and Sextilis, from Ser, vnderstand it, if thou hadst holden thy tongue stil.-Id. Ib. six-o called because the sixth of the calends of March was repeated; occurred twice. Now, when it was observed by this reckoning, that the me had performed his revolution sooner than the year of the sunne, this error was reformed, and after every fourth red about, which before was wont to prevent the course Spite draue me into Boreas raigne, Surrey. The Constant Louer Lamenteth. ear expired, came about the bissextile aforesaid, and made hang it vp for a sygne, and let as many as are bitten, loke And the Lord sayd vnto Moses: make the a serpent and streight-Holland. Plinie, b. xviii. c. 25. The inconvenience attending the form of the year above vpon it and they shall liue.-Bible, 1551. Num. c. 21. mentioned was in a great measure remedied by the Romans bylyng of a flee, as thoughe the Englishmen in the battaile, Whiche message he dissimulated as litle to regarde as the the time of Julius Caesar, who added one day every fourth Th of the calends of March,) was called bissextile, or leap which (from the place of its insertion, viz. after the eat-Priestley. On History, vol. i. Lect. 14. BISSON. Bisson or Beesen, i, e. Blind. A whiche he knewe to be at hande, could do no enterprice (as it happened indeed) either necessary to be feared, or worthy to be remembered.-Hall. Hen. VII. an. 3. ward still in use in some parts of the north of well mouthed.-Gascoigne. Advert. of the Author. For whether the braue gennet be broken with the bitte, or with the snaffle, whether he be brought in awe with a spurre, or with a wand, all is one if hee prove readie and Eland Steevens; Bizend, Beezen, or Bison, Land, (Grose.) In A.S. Bisen, cæcus, blind. Thys mune was not purblynde, or a lyttle appayred, and Gaged in syght, but as bysome as was possible to be. Udal. Marke, c. 8. What harme can your beesome (sc. beesen) Conspectuities Be out of his character, if I be knowne well enough too. Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act ii. sc. 1. 1 Play. But who, O who, had seen the mobled Queen, With biston rheumo, Han bare foot vp and downe, Here hath beene wt mee a poore woman weepyng, and waylyng, and crying out, howe you haue vndone her, her poore husband, and her miserable children, for all they haue not one bitte of bread, towardes their foode, neither is she able to labour.-Barnes. Workes, p. 208. The pointed steele arriuing rudely theare, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. 1. c. 11. All is owing to the mercenary low humour of the times we live in, who, groveling in the baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and over-reaching one another, scorn the glorious ways by which our ancestors grew rich, when they pursued, together with their private advantages, the honour and interest of their native country and of their posterity.-Humourist, vol. ii. p. 41, I'll teach you a way to outwit Mrs. Johnson: it is a newfashioned way of being witty, and they call it a bite. You must ask a bantering question, or tell some damned lye in a serious manner, and then she will answer or speak as if you were in earnest; then, cry you, Madam, there's a bite! Swift. To a Friend of Mrs. Johnson, 1703. A biter is one who tells you a thing you have no reason to disbelieve in itself; and perhaps has given you, before he bit you, no reason to disbelieve it for his saying it; and if you give him credit, laughs in your face, and triumphs that he has deceived you.-Spectator, No. 504. Their field of vision is too contracted to take in the whole of any but minute objects; they view all nature bit by bit; now the proboscis, now the antennæ, now the pinnæ ofa flea.-Goldsmith. Citizen of the World, Let. 88. When he was yet scarcely seven years old, being at dinner with the queen his mother, intending to give a bit of bread to a great dog he was fond of, this hungry animal snapt too greedily at the morsel, and bit his hand in a terrible manner.-Id. The Bee, No. 2. The biterour he shall a bygge.-Piers Plouhman, p. 275. The bitternesse that thow hast browe, now brouk hit thy self. That ert doctour of deth, drynk that thou madest, Id. p. 361. That if ye han bitter envie, and stryvyngis ben in youre hertis, nyle ye haue glorle and be lieris agens the treuthe. Wiclif. James, c. 3. But if ye haue bytter enuyinge and strife in your hertes, reioyce not: neyther be against the trueth.-Bible, 1551, XU. And Petre bithoughte on the word of Jhesus, that he had seide, bifore the cock crow, thries thou schalt denye me, and he ghede out and wept bittirly.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 26. And Peter remembered the woordes of Jesu, whyche sayd vnto hym: before ye cocke crowe yu shalte denye me thryse: and went out at the dores and wept byllerlye. Bible, 1551. Ib. The mouth of whiche is full of cursyng and bytternesse, the feet of hem swifte to schede blood.-Wiclif. Rom. c. 3. Whose mouthes are full of curssynge and bytterness, their fete are swifte to sheede bloude.-Bible, 1551. Ib. Alone here I stand, full sorie and full sad, Chaucer. Lam. of M. Mag. Surrey. The Constant Louer Lamenteth. I haue sometimes passed the bounds of modestie (wherein I will neyther accuse, nor excuse myselfe) yet are my speaches in bitternesse farre inferiour to those opprobries, slanders, and disdainefull wordes vttered either in the first or second admonition, or in your replie. Whitgift. Defence, p. 20. But wise words taught in numbers for to runne, Spenser. The Ruines of Time. He that greedily puts his hand to a delicious table, shall weep bitterly when he suffers the convulsions and violence by the divided interests of such contrary juices. Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 16. One draught of the river that makes glad the city of God above, can sweeten all the bitterness of the world. Bates. The Great Duty of Resignation, Direct. 1. All men are agreed to call vinegar sour, honey sweet, and aloes bitter; and as they are all agreed in finding these qualities in those objects, they do not in the least differ concerning their effects with regard to pleasure and pain. They all concur in calling sweetness pleasant, and sourness and bitterness unpleasant. Burke. Sublime and Beautiful. On Taste. My sweets And she that sweetens all my bitters too, That errs not, and find raptures still renew'd, Is free to all men-universal prize.-Cowper. Task, b. iii. She buylded Babilon and enclosed it with a wall of bricke enterlayed with sand and bytumen, which is a kynd of slimye mortar, yssuing out of the ground, in diuers places of that countrye.-Goldyng. Justine, p. 2. Mix with these Idæan pitch, quick sulphur, silver's spume, Where is Marcus Scaurus Theater, the bituminated walls 2 Sail. Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, caulked Per. I thank thee.-Shakespeare. Pericles, Act iii. sc. 1. A worse knob remains to be plained, how they [the trees] The fabric seem'd a wood of rising green, BIVALVED. BIVALVULAR. Bis, twice, and Valve, perhaps Volva, so called, because they fold inwards, followe the minde and ordering of her sonne: and bei Whan the tounge lyeth still, if the mynde be not occups Apel. (alone.) I fear me, Apelles, that thine eyes ha BLACK, n. BLACKNESS. BLACKGUARD. BLACKMOOR. Dut. & Ger. Black. I says, the A. S. Blac, bi bleck, is niger, bleak; t Blac-ian, is pallere, nigresc and albescere, to be pale, to g or to become black; and to grow or become white. T ral History; as the examples sufficiently explain. Crabs, either of this kind, or allied to them, the antients believed to have been the consentaneous inmates of the pinnæ, and other bivalves.-Pennant. British Zoology. be white, to shine, to glitter. Bleak and ble are used by our elder writers in corresponde with pale; and they seem to be applied when some withering, blighting (blicht-ing), agency ( of weather), a chill and sterile paleness is duced; but we should not and do not hesi to apply bleak, to a chill, and sterile black effected by a similar withering and blighting age when verdure or fruitfulness are withered a blight-ed (or blicht-ed); where these genial app ances of nature are lacking; and hence it ad of conjecture that Blac-an and Blic-an owe t BI-VIOUS. Bis, twice, and via, a path or way. origin to some northern word still preserve With respect to the figure of shells, Aristotle has divided The muscle and the oyster appear to have but few distinc- BITTERN. Bitor; It. Bittore. BITTOUR. Bos taurus, or Boatus taurinus, from the noise it makes, when And as a bitore bumbleth in the mire. Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6544. Browne. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 27. Along thy glades, a solitary guest, Be, would form Beleyck-en, bleyck-en, to ble Junius refers to babbling; in Labben. S. Lap-ian, to lap thus we approach Skinner's explanation: Labiis To pour forth from the lips whatever occurs to crimination. I could almoste A thousand olde stories thee aledge Chaucer. Troilus, b. iii. But the mother agayne on her part forasmuche as she perceyued and founde a certayne power of the goddeheade to glitter and shewe furthe in hym, was well contente to AI than I curse also the night, Whall the will of my courage, And sale, away thou blacke image, Matest all the worldes light deface.-Gower. Con. A. b.iv. Then yf the score be waxed blackish, and is not growen hed in the skinne, let the preast make him clene for it askirfe.-Bible, 1551. Lev. c. 13. The man of Indie that we speke of ca by no lerning know use of the sonne whereby he should peyue the cause saker, but if it be by astronomy, which cōning who me that nothing will beliue that semeth to hym selfe ple-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 126. They have their teeth blacked both men and women, for sy a dogge hath his teeth white, therefore they will ke theirs.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 262. The Eramas which be of the kings countrey (for the king Brama) haue their legs or bellies, or some part of their dys they thinke good themselues, made black with erine things which they haue: they vse to pricke the A, and to put on it a kinde of anile or blacking, which tantine alwayes.-Id. Ib. The Romans understanding of his [Tullus] death, shewed other honour or malice, saving that they granted the ades their request they made: that they might mourn ten Dets for him, and that was the full time they used to wat bices for the death of their fathers, brethren, or Husbeds, according to Numa Pompilius order. North. Plutarch, p. 201. Shrank nearer earth, all blacken'd now and brown, Drummond. The Shadow of the Judgment. Beyond the river Ganges, in that quarter and climate hyeth southward, the people are caught with the , and begin to be blackish: but yet not all out so sunburnt and back indeed as the Moores and Ethiopians. Holland. Plinie, b. vi. c. 19. Lastly stood warre in glittering arms yclad, BLA'DDER, v. A. S. Blædr; Ger. Blatter; BLA'DDER, n. Dut. Bladder; Sw. Bladra: from the A. S. Bled, flatus; the past part. of the A. S. Blaw-an, to blow. That which is blowed or blown, puffed or inflated; tumid. They're darker now than blackness; none can know Te by the face, as through the streets they go : For now their skin doth cleave unto their bone, And wither'd is like to dry wood grown. Donne. Lamentations of Jeremy, c. 4. v. 8. And there was a Grecian woman, who having brought ferta deck infant, and being troubled therefore, and judicially accused for adultery as if she had been conceived by a Nerx-mor; thee pleaded and was found to be her selfe descended from an Aethiopian, in the fourth degree removed. Holland. Plutarch, p. 457. Which I had no sooner done, but one o'the blackguard had his hand in my vestry, and was groping me as nimbly as the Christmas cut-parse.-B. Jonson, Masque. Love Restored. A vile encomium doubly ridicules: There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. Pope. Imitation of Horace, Epist. 1. For every mortal mannes power n' is Chaucer. The Second Nonnes Tale, v. 97,051. Turberville. Epitaph on Maister Tufton. Only a garland of rose-buds did play' G. Fletcher. Christ's Triumph on Earth. If you see him [a Dutchman] fat, he hath been rooting in a cabbage-ground, and that bladdered him. Feltham. Character of the Low Countries. What are they when they stand upon the highest pinacle of worldly dignities, but bladders swelled up with the breath of popular rout, nothings set a-strut. Hopkins. Works, p. 32. Stumbling from thought to thought, falls headlong down, Into doubt's boundless sea, where, like to drown, Books bear him up a while, and make him try To swim with bladders of philosophy. Rochester. Sat. against Mankind. They affect greatness in all they write, but it is a bladdered greatness, like that of the vain man whom Seneca describes ; an ill habit of body, full of humours, and swelled with dropsy. Dryden. Discourse on Epick Poetry. Thus sportive boys, around some bason's brim, Behold the pipe-drawn bladders circling swim. BLADE. BLA'DING. BLA'DED. Churchill. The Rosciad. "Blad, folium, frons. Blat, (says Becanus) is so called from Plat; BLA'DY. It is probably from A. S. Blæd; past part. of the v. Blaw-an, to blow; to bud, to sprout: applied to— BLADE, v. Junius thinks that Chaucer, BLADE, n. when he wrote platte for blade (sc.) of a sword (Squieres Tale, v. 176) intimated his opinion of the origin of the word. Plat, Mr. Tyrwhitt says, is the Fr. plat, flat; and this Caseneuve deduces from the Gr. Tλaros, enlarged, expanded. Skinner prefers the A. S. Blad, folium, because it (the blade of a sword, lamina ensis) lata est instar folii. Blade is applied (met.) to Leaves of grass, to broad cutting leaves; to a weapon, to a bone, of similar shape. See Blade, infra. If it be grene, like to leke blades, thyn or blak it is to be iuged yll.-Sir T. Elyot. Castel of Health, p. 52. Any one who pretends to the sharpness, brightness of a sword blade. Because it had not earthe ynoughe vnderneath it to geue it moystre to the full rypenesse, anon after it was shot foorth aboue-ground, it dryed vp and withered away as soone as any feruent heate of the sunne came to it, and so euen in the first bladying it perished.-Udal. Luke, c. 8. That euen fro the schulder-blade Amis and Amiloun. Weber, vol. ii. For it is a kinde of grasse with a stalke, as big as a great wheaten reed, which hath a blade, issuing from the top of it, on which, though the cattle feed, yet it groweth every Sir F. Drake Revived, p. 55. As sweet a plant, as fair a flower is faded As ever in the Muses garden bladed. I have lately got the ingenious authors of blacking for day higher, untill the top be too high for an oxe to reach. es powder for colouring the hair, &c. to be your concustomers-Spectator, No. 461. The object, spread too far, or rais'd too high, Ties its real image to the eye; Too little, it eludes the dazzled sight, ecomes mixt blackness, or unparted light. Prior. Solomon, b. i. The art some paltry, blackguard sprite, adema'd to drudgery in the night; Thou hast no work to do in th' house, For half penny to drop in shoes; Without the raising of which sum I dare not be so troublesome To pinch the slatterns black and blue, Per leaving you their work to do.-Hudibras, pt. iii. c. 1. There a deeper darkness prevailed than in the blackest t: which, however, was in some degree dissipated by Melmoth. Pliny, b. vi. Let. 16. es and other lights of various kinds. To this system of literary monopoly was joined an unremirding industry to blacken and discredit in every way, and by every means, all those who did not hold to their faction. Burke. On the French Revolution. Pres some of its powers from being mixed and surrounded Blacknen is but a partial darkness; and therefore it de with coloured bodies. VOL L Id. On the Sublime and Beautiful, s. 17. P. Fletcher. Eliza, an Elegy. Lys. Helen, to you our mindes we will vnfold, To morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold Her siluer visage, in the watry glasse, Decking with liquid pearle the bladed grasse, (A time that louers flights doth still conceale) Through Athen's gates haue we deuis'd to steale. Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. sc. 1. Besides, what is she else, but a foul woosy marsh, And that she calls her grass, so blady is, and harsh, As cuts the cattel's mouths, constrain'd thereon to feed. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 25. Blue, through the dusk, the smoking currents shine; And from the bladed field the fearful hare Limps, awkward. Thomson. Summer. With brest on piercing sword her ladies saw where she did fall: The blade in fomy bloud, and hands abroad with sprawling As when an arming sword of proofe is made, Mir. for Mag. Newton to the Reader. Pylemen's shoulder, in the blayd. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. v. With dauntless hardihood, And brandish'd blade rush on him, break his glass, And shed the luscious liquor on the ground, But seise his wand. Milton. Comus. Oct. 21, 1671. Leaving Euston, I lodged this night at New-market, where I found the jolly blades raceing, dancing, feasting, and revelling, more resembling a luxurious and abandon'd rout, than a Christian court. Dr. Swift somewhere says, that he who could make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, was a greater benefactor to the human race than all the politicians that ever existed.-Burke. On Mr. Fox's East India Bill. Say, is the Persian carpet, than the field's Or meadow's mantle gay, more richly wov'n; Than bladed grass, perfum'd with dew-dropt flow'rs? Evelyn. Memoirs, vol. i. Cecyll, on the other side, play'd a smooth edge upon Ralegh throughout the trial; his blade seemed ever anointed with the balsam of compliment or apology, whereby he gave were as deep and fatal as the other.-Oldys. Life of Ralegh. So fares it with those merry blades, They tread on stars, and talk with gods.-Prior. A Simile. Succeeded to his father's gold. Flush'd with his wealth, the thoughtless blade, And triumph in the deed.-Cambridge. Scribleriad, b. fi. BLAIN. A. S. Blegene; Dut. Bleyne. and Skinner say, perhaps from the A. S. Blawan, to blow. The latter adds, a blain, is A distention, tumor, or inflation of the skin. For yf his fynger dooe but ake of an hoate blaine, a greate manye mennes mouthes blowyng out his prayse, wyll scantly doe him among them all, half so muche ease, as to haue one boie blow vpon his finger. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1224. And there brake oute soores with blaines both in mã & beest, so that the sorcerers coulde not stande before Moses, for there were blotches vpon the enchaunters and vpon al the Egipcians.-Bible, 1551. Exod. c. 9. -Itches, blaines, Sowe all th' Athenian bosomes, and their crop Shakespeare. Timon of Athens, Act iv. sc. 1. mer; But first the lawless tyrant, who denies To know their God, or message to regard, Must be compelled by signes and judgements dire; Botches and blaines must all his flesh imboss, And all his people.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xii. Dut. Blamen; Fr. BlasIt. Biasimare. Skinner and Junius coincide with Menage, that these words are, through the Bar. Lat. Blasphemare, from the Gr. Βλασφημείν, παρα το βαλλειν την φήμην. Βαλλειν, i. e. petere, impetere; and μn, fama ; BLAME, v. BLAME, n. BLA'MABLE. BLA'MABLEness. BLA'MABLY. BLA'MEFULL. BLA'MELESS. BLA'MELESSLY. BLA'MELESSNESS. BLA'MER. BLA'MING, To attack, or assail, the BB |
