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And whan it (a corn of seueneye, mustard) is bredd (seminat), or quykened, it styreth up into a tree, and is maad more than alle wortis or herbis.- Wic. Mark iv. 32.

BREGGE, i. e. Abregge, Abridge.

But for the chosene whom he chees, the Lord hath breiggide dayes or maad schort.- Wic. Mark xiii. 20.

Paralipomenon, the book of the old instrument, recapitulatour, word bregger.-Wic. Pref. Ep. p. 72.

The Lord God of Oostis schal make an endynge and a breggyng (E. V. abreggyng, abbreviationem) in the myddis of al erthe.- Wic. Is. x. 23.

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He said of Jenny K, the maid of honour, that since she could not get a husband, the Queen should give her a brevet, to act as a married woman. They give brevets to Majors and Captains to act as Colonels in the army. Swift to Mrs. Dingley, March 14, 1712-13.

BREW, v. We were weary of the heavenly manna, and had a pleasure to return unto Egypt, where we might sit among greasy fleshpots eating beef and brewis knuckle-deep. Becon. A Comfortable Epistle, ch. iii.

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But th' altare, on the which this Image stood
Was (O Great Pitie !) built of brickle clay,

That shortly the foundation decaid,
With showres of heaven and tempests worne away.
Spenser. Ruins of Time, v. 499.

BRIDDES. See BIRD.
BRIDE. See Bird in Bower.
At every bridale would he sing and hoppe.
Chaucer. The Cokes Tale, v. 4373.
BRIDGE.

Alone unchanged, a free and bridgeless tide,
Euphrates roils along,

Eternal Nature's work.-Southey. Thalaba, b. v. s. 10.
BRIDLE.

A brydelynge caste for that is in thy male.
Skelton. Bouge of Court, v. 390.
Let's have a bridling caste before you go.
Fill's a new stoop.
Beaumont and Fletcher. Scornful Lady, act ii. sc. 2.
BRIG, s.

And if thou list say the sothe, al that meiny that (in this
brigge) broughten thee here lokeden rather after thine
helpes than thee to haue relieued.
Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. i.

BRIGHT.
Rather let the brightsome heauens be dim.
Marlow. Jew of Malta, act ii.

BRIGUE.

He accounted himself enfranchised from the court brigues and attendances.-North. Life of North, i. 183.

That Cæcilius Simplex brigued (pecunia mercari) for that preferment, by the means of money, was a rumour certainly believed.-Gordon. Tacitus, Hist. b. ii. c. 60.

As to my own concerns, I have been briguing and flattering at Loo, and I believe I have brought the matter so far, that nobody will stand before me in my pretensions to the Secretaryship of the Embassy.-Mr. (Mat.) Prior to Lord Lexington. Hague, Oct. 9, 1699.

BRIKE, e. Breach.

BRIM. To Brim; to fill or be full to the brim.
BRIMSTONE.

And of the mouth of hem fijr comith forth, and smoke
and brunston. (L. V. brymston.)- Wic. Apoc. ix. 17.

BRINE.

BRING.

Ac thorng hir science soothly

Wic. Jer. xvii. 6.

BUL

Such (inflammation of the lungs) may happen either in the bronchial or pulmonary vessels, and may soon be communicated from the one to the other. Arbuthnot. On Diet, c. iii.

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And (it) shal be to-mynusht, as is to-brosid the galoun of the crockere with ful strong to-brosyng; and ther shal not be founde of his brosynge a shord. (L. V. brekyng, contritura.)- Wic. Is. xxx. 13.

BRUKE, s. The Lat. Bruchus, said to be a kind of locust without wings, is rendered by Wiclif Bruke, and also Brush; which is interpreted in a marginal note on Isaiah xxxiii. 4, "the fruyt of "the locustis;" and our Common Version reads, runnyng to and fro of locusts." In other places, it is clearly the animal.

A locust eete the residue of ericke (earwig), that is a worme of bowis, and a bruke eet the residue of locust. Wic. Joel i. 4.

BUBBLE, v. (Several young readers in our Churches) in their Sermons use all the modern terms of Art, Sham, Banter, Mob, Bubble, Bully, Cutting, Shuffling, Palming.

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Tatler, No. 230.

(He is) one of those hopeful heirs who swarm and swag-
But he shal dwelle in droste in desert, in the lond of bryn, ger about town under the denomination of Bucks.
and unabitable. (L. V. saltnesse, salsuginis.)
Smollett. Peregrine Pickle, c. 83.
Come, Master Margin, give the old Buck satisfaction.
Foote. The Bankrupt, act iii.
Lap. Yes, yes, they look of that cut, not of the right
stuff, as the French say, to make Bucks desprits on.
Id. Trip to Calais, act i.
Do-bet shall heten and bouken it
As bright as any scarlet.-Piers Plouhman, v. 6939.
BUCKLE, v. See Piers Plouhman, in v. Blain,

Was nevere no soule y-saved,
Ne broght by hir bokes

To blisse ne to joye.-Piers Plouhman, v. 7691.
And lo thei broughten to him a man syke in a palsie.
Wic. Matt. ix.
BRISE. See BRUISE.

BRITAGE. In Wiclif, Wisd. viii. 9, Propugna-
cula is rendered, E. V. pinnacles, L. V. touris. Var.
r. Britages.

BRITTLE.

On brottle ground they bilde; and brotelnesse
They founden whan they wenen sikernesse.

BROCK.

Chaucer. The Merchantes Tale, v. 9155.

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BUCK, v.

supra.

The plea did not rely only in that they were windfalls, but couples it with this-that they were first sear and then overthrown by wind; and that makes an end of it, for sear trees belong to the lessee, standing or felled, and you have a special replication in the Book of 44 Ed. III. that the wind did but rend them, and buckle them, and that they bore fruit two years after.

Bacon. Works, ii. 455. Of Waste.
When a state beginneth to decline (great territory) doth
make it stoop and buckle so much the faster.
Id. lb. p. 250. True Greatness of Britain.

BUFF, s.
The herte of fooles shal understonde kunnyng, and the
tunge of bufferes. (L. V. stuttynge men, balborum.)
Wic. Is. xxxii. 4.
Oon of the mynystris stondinge nyje, gaf a boffat (alapam)
to Jhesu.- Wic. John xviii. 22.

BUG.

As a bugge, either a man of raggis (E. V. dreed, formido: M. V. a scarecrow) in a place where gourdis wexen (E. V. cucumeris), kepith no thing, so ben the treen goddis. Wic. Bar. vi. 69. So that thou shalt not nede to be afrayed for any bugges by night.-Bible, 1549. Ps. xci.

BUILD, BUILDINGS (i. e. Buildens, H. T.).

BULL. See Piers Plouhman, in v. Bellow, supra.
Whan that Phoebus doth his bright bemis spred

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Sneak. Gad, I'll make her know I am a man of authority; she sha'nt think to bullock and domineer over me. Foote. Mayor of Garratt, act ii.

BUM. Probably a corruption of Bottom. There was a Scrivener of Wapping brought to hearing for relief against a bummery bond.

North. Life of Guildford, ii. 118. (The fish) is just come, and should have been here last night. I shall bumble my landlady at Newport.-Cowper, xv. 43. To Hill, April 11, 1776. Also v. iv. 165.

BU'MBOAT. Dut. Boom-schip, navigiolum ex uno ligno;-boom-kaen, scapha ex uno ligno. (Kilian.)

A small ship or boat of one beam, or log; a lumpish heavy kind of boat. See Buss, in Dictionary.

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Sestow (seest thou) this peple

How bisie thei ben.-Piers Plouhman, v. 470. But they sayde, Not on the feast daye, least any busyness aryse among the people.-Bib. 1549. Mark xiv.

BUT or Bōr is used both as a conjunction to connect sentences and as a preposition to connect words. See the Quotations in the Dictionary. Al thei blessyng of God

Beouten thei walken.-Piers Plouhman's Crede, v. 1298.
SUP. VOL. I.

BYW

But a man be bourn agin he may not se the kyngdom of God.- Wic. Jon. c. iii.

BUT, i. e. ABUT.

his

It was like another man's ground buttailing upon house, which might mend his prospect, but not fill his barn. Bacon, in Rawley.

BUTTER.

He (God) sette hym on an hite erthe, that he miste ete the fruytis of feeldes; . . . that he mist sowke butre of the droue (L. V. botere, butyrum de armento) and mylk of scheep.-Wic. Deut. xxxii. 14.

And so befell, that as he (the cock) cast his eye
Among the wortès on a botterflie,

He was ware of this fox that lay ful low.

Chaucer. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 15230. And so befel that as he cast his eye, Among the colworts on a butterfly, He saw false Reynard where he lay full low. Dryden. The Cock and the Fox.

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BUTTRESS.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 1790.

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(We) Set up committees of Cabals, To pack designs without the walls.-Id. Pt. iii. c. 2. CABALLINE. Lat. Caballus. Piers Plouhman uses the sub. Caple or Capul, qv.

CADE, s. Whence, perhaps, Caddy, a box in which tea, &c. is kept.

When you went you took with you the key of the caddy. Cowper, vii. 182. To Lady Hesketh, Jan. 19, 1793. CADET. "Sp. Cadéte. One who enlists himself a soldier, without receiving any pay, in expectation of a commission."-Delpino.

Pupils in military schools and colleges, preparing to take commissions in the Queen's service, or in that of the East India Company, are distinguished by the name of gentlemen Cadets. Also in naval schools. In Scotch, Caddie is an errand man or boy, and

He mat the boteraces (E. V. solers, ethecas) on euer either in English, Cad is current as a servant attending side of an hundride cubitis.-Wic. Ez. xli. 15.

BUXOM.

Mercy hihte that mayde, a mylde thyng with alle,
And a ful benygne burd; and buxom of speche.
Piers Plouhman's Vision, p. 345.
To give mercy for mysdedes. yf men wolde it aske
Buxomly and benygneliche. and bydden it of grace.
Id. 16. p. 232.
Fresh gales arise, with equal strokes they fly,
And brush the buxom seas, and o'er the billows fly.
Dryden. Eneid, v. 1017.

BUY.
Sellynge and buggynge.-Piers Plouhman, v. 13426.
That blisful barn

That bought us on the rode.-Id. v. 805.

Is there any coper here within? sayd he,
beie us som.
Elles go

BUZZARD.

Chaucer. Chan. Yem. Tale, v. 16762.

I rede ech a blynd bosarde.-Piers Plouhman, v. 6156.
This haue I herde oft in saying-
That Man ne maie for no daunting
Make a sperhauk of a bosarde.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 4033.

BY. Used in composition in old writers as Be, e. g. Byreave. See BEREAVE, &c.

BY. There is a distinction observed in the usages of By and With.

By is used before the sole or primary agent, instrument, or means. And with before the auxiliary or secondary when both are expressed or implied; as I slew him with a sword; or he was slain by me with a sword. He fell by the sword, not with.

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And thow shalt make into the usis of it caudrons to be takun the asken. (L. V. auter pannes, lebetes, to resseyue aischis.)-Wic. Er. xxvii. 3.

CALIDITY. Caliduct. See CALEFY.

CALLE. Fr. Cale. A kind of little cap.-Cotgrave. See CALLET.

Let see which is the proudest of hem alle
That wereth on a kerchef or a calle,
That dare sayn nay of that I shal you teche.
Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6600.
(Ye) maken him a flowre (a hood) above a call.
Id. Troylus and Cressida, iii. 775.

CALLOW.

A man of whos heed heeris fleten awei, is calu (calvus, E. V. ballid) and clene.- Wic. Lev. xiii. 40.

CALM.

Where ev'ry calmy morne I'le stand.

Brown. Brit. Past. b. ii. s. 4.
As they see the blaze

Beaming on Iztapalapan's near towers,
Or on Tezcuco's calmy lake flash'd far,
Songs of thanksgiving and the shouts of joy
Wake the loud echo.-Southey. Joan of Arc, b. vi. 104.

CALVE.

The cow (E. V. ore, bos) of hem conseyuede, and caluede not a deed calf, the cow caluyde, and is not priuede of her calf (var. r. maad calf-lees).- Wic. Job xxi. 10.

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The box receives all black; but pour'd from thence The stones came candid forth, the hue of innocence. Dryden. Ovid, Met. b. xv. One would be tempted to liken it (the moral sense) to that candid appearance which, as the modern philosophy has discovered to us, is the result of a mixture of all kinds of primitive colours.- Warburton. Divine Leg. b. i. s. 4. CANDLE.

Nether men tenden a lanterne and putten it undir a busshel, but on a candilstike, that it zeue list to alle that ben in the hows.- Wic. Mat. v. 15.

And he made seuene lanternes with her candelquenchers. (L. V. smityng tongis, emunctoriis suis.)

Id. Er. xxxvii. 23.

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Urry.

The Duchesse, v. 943.

A woful or doubt

Schonye thou unholi and veyne spechis, sotheli thei
profiten moche to unpite (ad impietatem), and the word of
hem crepith as a kankir. (L. V. canker, ut cancer.)
Wic. 2 Tim. ii. 17.
The lond was wastid thorou the wort worm . . . .
and
thorous cancrynge rust.

Id. Pref. Ep. of St. Jerome, p. 69.
But now to you-Ye lovers that ben here-
Was Troilus nat in a cankedort,
That laie, and might the whispring of hem here.
Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, ii. 1752.

CANOE.

Columbus returned to his ships accompanied by many of the islanders in their boats, which they called canoesrudely formed out of the trunk of a single tree.

Robertson. America, b. ii. (1492.)

CANTHARADIZE, v. A spurious production of Coleridge, scarcely worth preserving, from Cantharis, the Spanish fly, used to raise blisters. Concealment sets the imagination aworking, and as it were cantharadizes our desires. Coleridge. Biog. Lit. ii. 342.

CANTON. In Browne, A corner. See CANTLE. There are no grotesques in nature, not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons and unnecessary spaces.

Browne. Religio Medici, pt. i. § 15.

CANTRED. Low Lat. Cantredus. A portion of the country containing 100 villages, equivalent (e. g. in Ireland) to the A. S. Hundred. It is of common occurrence in Spenser's Work on Ireland. CANZON. See CANT.

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CAPER.

CAR

Whether thou hast knowen the time of the berthe of the
wilde capretis in stonys. (L. V. geet, ibicum.)
Wic. Job xxxix. 1.
Certes Asahel was a moost swift renner as oon of the
caprettis (de capreis) that dwellen in wodis.
Id. 2 Kings ii. 18
CAPITULATE. Also, to poll, count, or num-

ber.

I have annexed a capitulation of those places which I
casually omitted to see.
Raymond. Il Mercurio Italico, 1646 and 1647.

CAPON.

Thei wolde do moore

For a dozeyne chicknes,

Or as many capons

Than for the loue of oure Lord.-Piers Plouhman, v. 2154.
CAPREOL. See CAPER.

CAPTAIN.

But, for the tyrant is of greter might

By force of meinie, tor to sle doun right,

And brennen hous and home, and make all plain,
Lo, therefore is he cleped a Capitain.

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Chaucer, Manc. Tale, v. 17179. Spenser and the Acts.
All captainless,

Ill marshalled, ill directed, in vain rage,
They waste their furious efforts.

Southey. Joan of Arc, b. viii. v. 587.
CAPTIOUS. Fr. Captieux. Captious sieve is a
deceitful sieve. A captious person is one who takes,
catches up sharply, to gain an advantage; to elude;
to delude; to deceive. And Caption, De-ception;
Captious, Deceptious.

CAPUL. See CABALLINE.
CAPTIVE.

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CARD. To speak by the Card.

That we may know, as a ship-master by his card, how
far we are wide, either on the one side or on the other, we
must note, that in a christian man, there is, first, nature;
secondly, corruption, perverting nature; thirdly, grace,
correcting and mending corruption.
Hooker. Sermon on Sorrow and Fear.
CARDECU. Fr. Quart d'escu, one-fourth of a
French crown, value 18d. sterling.-Cot.

Par. Sir, for a cardeceue he will sell the fee simple of his

salvation.

Shakespeare. All's Well, act iv. sc. 3; also act v. sc. 2.
Bew. Give her a cardecew, 'tis royal payment.
Beaumont and Fletcher. Noble Gentleman, act i. sc. 1.
CARELESS.

(He) paynd himselfe with busie care to reare
Her out of carelesse (i. e. insensate) swowne.

CARNAL, v.

Ancres and heremytes

That holden hem in their celles,
And coveiten noght in contree

To carien aboute.-Piers Plouhman, v. 58.
(Joseph gaf) to hem ten hee assis, that schulden karye
of all the richessis of Egipt. (L. V. bere; subveherent.)
Wic. Gen. xlv. 23.
Comaund also, that thei taken the waynes of Egipt to
the kariyng of her children and wyues. (L. V. cariage, ad
subvectionem.)—Id. Ib. v. 19.

And strongly wading (Calepine) thro the waues unused
With speare in th'one hand, stayd himself vpright,
With th'other stayd his lady vp with steddy might;
But whenas Calepine came to the brim,

And saw his carriage past that peril well,
Looking at that same Carle with count'nance grim,
His heart with vengeance inwardly did swell.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. can. 3, § 34. And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem (aroσsauvoi, having packed up our baggage; on, impedimenta).-Acts xxi. 15.

CARVE.

For loo! the Lord shal comaunde, and shal smyte the gretter hous with fallyngis, and the lesse hous with keruyngis. (L.V. brekyngis; scissionibus.)- Wic. Amos vi. 12. God for his manace him so sore smote, With invisible wound, ay incurable, That, in his guttes, carfe it so and bote (cut and bit), Thatte his peines weren importable.

Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14519.

CASE. The Casule. Low Lat. Casula; Fr. Chasuble (in Wic. Cehsible), was a sacerdotal vest, worn over the other garments, so called, quia instar parvæ casa totum tegit. See Du Cange. In Wiclif's Bible, the Heb. Ephod is in the var. readings explained to be a Chesiple.

CASK.

There with a light and unplumed casquetel
She helm'd her head.-Southey. Joan of Arc, ix. 230.
CASSATE. See CASH.

CAST. In Wic. to forecast, to conjecture. Caster, a conjecturer. Lit. He who, or that which throws; applied to a pepper-caster, which casts forth the pepper.

I saw sweuens, ne there is that opnith, the whiche I haue herd the most wiseli to cast. (L. V. that thou expownest, te conjicere.)-Wic. Gen. xli. 15.

If a stoon he throw and with the cast (ictu) sleeth, lijk maner he shal be punishid.-Id. Num. xxxv. 17.

(She) pretede, that the malice of Aman Agachite, and hes werste castis (machinationes) that he hadde thost out aten the Jewes, he comaunde to be maad voide.

Id. Esth. viii. 3.
In licnesse of deuynour, and of a false castere (L. V. con-
Spenser. Faerie Queene, i. 2. 45. jectere, conjector) he eymeth that he knowith not.
Id. Prov. xxiii. 7.
And first he casts to change his proper shape,
Which else might work him danger or delay.
Milton. Par. L. iii. 634.

This was the temper of that lecher, that carnalled with
a status.-Browne. Religio Medici, pt. ii. § vii.
CARNEFY. See CARNALIZE.

CAROL. Is a dance in Chaucer as well as in
Robert of Gloucester. And to carol is to dance. In
Wiclif, the Lat. Chori is rendered Carols.
Festes, instruments and carols and dances.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1933.

CASTLE. CHASTELAINE (fem.) A woman of noble family.

There is no lady so hauteine,
Duchesse, countesse, ne chastelaine,
That I nolde holde her ungodely
For to refuse him utterly.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 3740.

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CAUL.

Thou shal take al the fatnes that couereth the entreyls, and the call of the mawe (reticulum jecoris). Wic. Er. xxix. 13; also Deut. iii. 4.

CAUSE. Lat. Causa, was used as the Fr. Chose, It. and Sp. Cosa, to denote generally-a thing. He seekith for to take the causis of the Rewme (regni negotia).- Wic. 1 Mac. vi. 57.

Sotheli withoute causeful evidence mistrust in jelousye should not be wened.-Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. iii.

CAUSTIC. See CAUTERIZE.

CAUTEL.

But knowen men her cautel And her queynte wordes.

Piers Plouhman's Crede, v. 603.

Which takith cautelouse men (E. V. wise, sapientes) in the felnesse (astutia) of hem, and distrieth the counsel of schrewis.- Wic. Job v. 13.

For such a manner craft ther is wyth them can glose, Some tournyth all to cautele. Chaucer. Beryn, v. 227. CAUTION.

(The five men) saw that the people, after the manner of the Zidonians, dwelled careless, quiet and cautionless, having nothing in the land to molest them, and living in affluence.-Geddes. Judges xviii. 7.

CAVALRY. See CAVALIER.

CAVE, v. To hollow. See EXCAVATE. In Shakespeare, to hide or dwell in a cave.

We cave here.-Cymbeline.

And it (a stone) was caved somwhat as a pyt there as he sate.-Golden Legende. Lyfe of St. Fyaere, fo. ccclxxi. The stone was thus caued and made softe lyke a pylowe. Id. lb. CEASE. Vpon the morrow folowynge, to cease the rumour of the people he was brought vnto his jugement.

Fabyan. Ann. 1307. The whole obligation of that law and covenant which God made with the Jews was ceased. Tillotson, ii. 327. On Galatians vi. 15.

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CENSUAL. See CENSE.

CENSURE.

Car. Say you consent, and censure well the deed;
And I'le prouide his executioner.

Shakespeare. Henry VI. Pt. II. act iii. sc. 1.
CENTO. CENTONISM. Cento (in Browne), a
patch.

There is under these centoes and miserable outsides, these mutilate and semibodies, a soul of the same alloy with our own.-Browne. Religio Medici, pt. ii. § xiii. Tassoni has ridiculed its (Bembo's poetry) centonism. Hallam. Lit. of Europe, i. 573.

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The sealing up of the mouth of the shell by the snail, is also well calculated for its warmth and security; but the cerate is not of the same substance with the shell. Paley. Natural Theology, c. xix. CEREMONY. Among the Etymologies enumerated by Vossius, is one from Cere, in Etruria, whence the Romans borrowed their Ceremonies, or where they performed certain of them. And see Val. Maxinius, 1. i. e. 1, § 10.

What is forsothe other folke of kynde so noble that hath ceremoyns (L. V. ceremonyes, ceremonias) and rightwis domys, and al the lawe, that I purpose to day before youre ezen.- Wic. Deut. iv. 8.

CERTIFICATE, v. To give or grant a certificate (or a writing, certifying) of a parish settlement; and a certificated person is one to whom such certificate has been given. This verb seems to have been introduced with the Stat. 8 and 9 of Win. III. See Smith, Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 10.

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We ben brost in for the monei whiche we baren aten bifore in our sackis, that he putte chalenge into us (E. V. that chalengynge he turne in to us, ut deuoluat in nos calumniam), and make suget bi violence to seruage both us and oure assis.- Wic. Gen. xliii. 18.

For the multitude of challengeres (calumniatorum) thei shul crie, and zelle out for the fors of the arm of tirauntis. Id. Job xxxv. 9. CHAMBER. "The best blood chamber'd in his bosom," i. e. inclosed as in a chamber. And hence, To chamber; is, Cons. To shut up, confine, restrain. For Critias manaced and thretened hym, that onelesse he chaumbered his tongue in season, there shoald ere log be one oxe the fewer for hym.

Nic. Vdall. Erasmus Apothegmis, b. i. p. 10 (1552). CHAMBER of a Mortar, where the powder is deposited. Hence applied to the whole mortar. To venture upon the charged chambers bravely.

Shakespeare. Henry IV. pt. II. act ii. sc. 4.

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Reson thou shalt nat ryden hennes
Bote be my chef chaunceler in chekyr and in parlement.
Piers Plouhiman, p. 73.

CHANDLER, CHANDELIER, CHAUNDELABRE.
In figure eke the chaundelabre of golde.

CHANGE.

Lyfe of our Ladye, a. 6, c. 1.

Thilke chaungeablete is only in creaturis, for God by unchaungeable makith chaungeable thyngis. Wic. 1 Kings xv. 11, marg. note. CHANSON. See CHANT.

CHANT.

Chauntable weren thy justefyingus. (L. V. delitable to be sungun, cantabiles.)- Wic. Ps. exviii. 54.

This book Sauter is clepid, that is to seie, the book of Songis of Dauith, and of Asaph, the chauntour of the Temple of the Lord.-Id. Prol. to Psalms.

A yerd she had, enclosed all about
With stickes, and a drie diche without,
In which she had a cok highte Chaunteclere,
In all the land in crowing n'as his pere.
His vois was merier than the mery orgon,
On Masse daies that in the chirches gon.

Chaucer, Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14855.

CHARACTER.

And thorugh caractes that Crist wroot,
The Jewes knewe hemselve
Giltier as afore God,

And gretter in synne,

Than the wominan. . . .-Piers Plouhman, v. 7600.

CHARGE. Add after burthen; and further-To depress; to sink down; to be of weight or importance. Chaucer. Charge. "Of that no charge;" no heavy conseSee Chaucer in v. Fume. quence, no matter. Heuy is the ston, and charious (onerosa) is the grauel, but the wrathe of the fool is heuyere than either. Wic. Prov, xxvii. 3.

Smoke or other thinges light
Alway they seke upwarde on height:
Light thinges up: and hevie, down charge.
Chaucer. House of Fame, ii. 237.

I passe all that, which chargeth naught, to say.
Id. Troylus and Cressida, iii, 1576.
Thus was I oneis learned of a clerk;
Of that no charge. I wol speke of our werk.

Id. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16217. Certes ye hau sodeinly cleped to your counseil a gret multitude of peple ful chargeant, and ful anoyous to bere. Id. Tale of Melibeus.

We lerne long tyme afore or we become olde men by what reasons we myght suffre and endure ryght lyghtly the chargyng and the greuious age of olde men. The Boke of Tulle of Old Age, b. iv.

CHARIOT.

Helise forsothe sawe, and criede, Fader myn! Fader myn! the chaar of Yrael (currus) and the charieter (auriga) of it.- Wic. 4 Kings ii. 12.

And Elizeus sawe and cryed, O my father, O my father, the charet of Israel, and the horsmen therof.

Bible, 1549. Ib.

Among other thinges that he wan,-
Hire char, that was with gold wrought and pierrie,
This grete Romain, this Aurelian,
Hath with him lad for that men shuld it see.
Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14366.

CHARITY.
The whiche is a lond more cheere to thee of alle. (L.V.
Wisd. xii. 7.
dereworthest, carissima.)- Wic.

A most cheere (dereworth) hynde; and a most kindeli hert calf (hinnulus).-Id. Prov. v. 19.

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CHESS.

They dancen; and they play at ches and tables. Chaucer. The Frankeleine's Tale, v. 11213. CHEST. Wherof bateyles and cheestes or chidinges (lites) amonge Jou. Wic. James iv. 1.

CHESTNUT. In Chaucer, Chesteine; enumerated both among trees and fruits.

CHEVACHIE, s. Fr. Chevauchée. A cavalry
expedition; generally, an expedition.
And he hadde be, somtime, in chevachie
In Flaundres.-Chaucer. Prologue, v. 85.
CHEVE.

I say, he toke out of his owen sleve
A teine of silver (yvel mote he cheve).

Chaucer. The Chan. Yem. Tale, v. 16693.
Alas! your Honour, and your Emperice;
Nigh ded for drede, ne can hire not chevice (ransom).
Id. Com. of Mars, v. 135.
The vow made unto Mars for the good cheevance of that
war was not performed with due complements.
Livy, p. 439. Holland.
CHICHE, i. e. vetch, lens. Wic. 2 Kings xvii.

28.

CHICK. See Piers Plouhman in v. Capon.
CHIDE.

When that our pot is broke, as I have sayde,
Every man chit-Chaucer. The Chan. Yem. Tale, v. 16389.
Full oft
He stroked them gently, and as oft he chode.
Cowper. Iliad, xvii. 625.
CHILD. See Piers Plouhman in v. Chastinge,
supra.
Wic. Judg. xv. 15.

And takyng a foundun cheek boon, that is the cheeklap of an asse (L. V. lowere cheke boon, maxilla, i. e. mandibula) that lay, he slew; with it a thousand men.

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Forsothe Adam knewe his wijf Eue, which conceyued and childide (E. V. bare, peperit) Cayn, and seyd, Y haue gete a man bi God.- Wic. Gen. iv. 1.

Be not adrad, thou goode child maide (puella), to gon in to my Lord.-Id. Judith xii. 12. He conseyuede sin and childide (E. V. bar) wickednesse. Id. Job xv. 35. Forsothe the childer wymmen (L. V. dameselis, puellæ) and the zeldingus wenten in, and tolden to hir. Id. Esth. iv. 4. Childishe ben thes thingis, and like to the pley of childeren pleyinge in the sercle, to teche that thou knowist not. Id. Bib. Pref. Ep. p. 67.

The Spring, the Sommer, And the childing Autumne, angry Winter change Their wonted liueries, and the mazed world, By their increase, now knowes not which is which. Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dream, act ii. sc. 2. The child is father of the man.

Wordsworth. Works, i. 3.

CHIMÆRA. Thes ben bestis clepid chimeres, that han a part of ech best, and these ben not no (known) but oonly in opynyoun, either speche, and not in dede neither in kynde. Wic. Bib. Prol. p. 31. CHIME. Chimbe, in the first line of Chaucer (quoted in the Dictionary), is explained by Skinner, The uttermost part of a barrel. By Tyrwhitt, The prominent part of the staves round the head of a barrel. The whole passage runs thus:For, sikerly, whan I was borne, anon Deth drow the tappe of lif, and let it gon; And ever sith, hath so the tappe yronne, Til that almost all empty is the tonne: The streme of lif now droppeth on the chimbe. Chaucer. Reves Prol. v. 3893.

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CHR

ben ful myche wrothe.-Wic. 2 Esd. iv. 7. See also in v. Craze and Crevice.

My culuer (is) in holis of the ston, in the chime (foraminibus) of a ston wal.- Wic. Song of Solomon, ii. 14.

CHIRK. Wiclif writes Chark.

Lo, I schal charke under zou, as a wayn chargid with hei charkith (stridet).- Wic. Amos ii. 13.

CHIRURGEON.

The cheirurgical or manual kind of mechanicks doth refer to the making of those instruments, and the exercising of such particular experiments. As in the works of architecture, fortification, and the like. Wilkins. Mathematical Magick, b. i. c. 2.

CHISEL.

Who fiueth to me that thei be grauen in a boc, or with an iren pointel, or with a pece of led, or with a chisell (celte), that thei be grauen in flint.- Wic. Job xix. 24.

CHIT. See CHIDE.

CHIT.

There hadde diches (foveas) the yrchoun, and nurshede out litle chittes (L. V. whelpis, catulos), and about dalf, and nurshede in his schadewe.- Wic. Is. xxxiv. 15.

CHITTER. See CHATTER.

CHIUALRY. Wiclif so renders Lat. Equites, Equitatus, and in the following Quotation Exercitus. Abymalech forsothe aroos, and Phicol, the prince of his chyualrye, and turneden azen into the loond of Palesteynes. Wic. Gen. xxi. 33.

CHIVEL. See CHIVER.

Hire chekes chyveled for elde.-Piers Plouhman, v. 2854. CHOLER.

Wakyng, and colre (cholera) ether bittir moisture and gnawing to an vndiscreet either vntemperat man. Wic. Ecclus. xxxi. 23, and xxxvii. 33.

CHOOSE.

So therfor also in this time the relyfs ben maad saaf, by the chesyng (secundum electionem) of the grace of God. Wic. Rom. xi. 5. Forsothe the teecheresse it (wisdom) of the discipline of God and the cheseresse (electrix) of the werkis of hym. Id. Wisd. viii. 4.

Choice there is not, vnlesse the thing which wee take be so in our power that wee might haue refused and left it. If fire consume stubble, it chooseth not so to doe, because the nature thereof is such that it can doe no other. To choose is to will one thing before another. Hooker. Ecc. Pol. i. § 7. His choiceful sense with every change doth flit. Spenser. Mucopotmos, v. 159.

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The pope here of was glad, and twei holy men hym sende,
Fagan and Damian, hys soule for to amende,
That ryght bi leue hym taşte, and gef him Cristendome.
Robert of Gloucestre, p. 73.
For Eleuthere a god man was tho pope of Rome,
Thorw wam first Christene men in to Englond com.
ld. p. 72.

For whiche euer we ben baptized or cristened (baptizati sumus) in Christ Jhesu, in his deeth he ben baptized. Sotheli we ben to gidere biried with him by Cristendom (L. V. bi baptym, per baptismum) into deeth.

Wic. Rom. vi. 3, 4.

And al a gheer (year) they lyueden there in the Chirche, and taughten mych peple, so that the disciplis weren named frste at Antioche christen men.-Id. Deedis, xi. 26.

And a whole yere they had theyr conuersation with ye congregation there and taught much people; in so much that the disciples of Antioche were ye fyrst that were called Christians.-Bible, 1549.

The Reader will find in this Author (Dr. T. Jackson) an eminent excellence in that part of divinity which I make bold to call Christology, in displaying the great mystery of godliness, God the Son manifested in human flesh.

Dr. T. Jackson's Works. Preface, p. xxvii. Natural Theology has been called the basis of Christianity. It would accord better with our own views of the

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