as Tediously ; 80 to cause weari. 3. Desirous to discontinue. ness. See the revolution of the times, As of Nimrod, so are the opinions of writers Make mountains level, and the continent, different touching Assur, and the beginning of Weary of solid firmness, melt itself that great state of Assyria ; a controversy wea- Into the seas. Sbakspeara risomely disputed, without any direct proof or 4. Causing weariness; tiresome. certainty. Raleigb. Their gates to all were open evermore WEA'RISOMENESS. n. s. [from weari- That by the weary way were travelling; some.] And one sat waiting ever them before, 3. The quality of tiring. To call in comers by that needy were and poor. Spealer. 2. The state of being easily tired. The weariest and most lothed life A wit, quick without lightness, sharp without That age, ach, penury, imprisonment, brittleness, desirous of good things without new. Can lay on nature, is a paradise fangleness, diligent in painful things without To what we fear of death. Stallo wearisomeness. Ascham. Put on what weary negligence you please, To WEA'RY. v. a. [from the adjective. ] You and your fellows; I'd have it come to 3. To tire ; to fatigue ; to harass; to sub. question. Sbaks. due by labour. WEA'SAND. n. s. (pasen, Saxon. This Better that the enemy seek us; word is very variously written, but this So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers, orthography is nearest to the original Doing himself offence. Sboksg. The people labour in the very fire, weary word.) 'The windpipe; the passage themselves for very vanity. Habakkuk. through which the breath is drawn and Dewy sleep oppress'd them weary'd. Milton. emitted; the larynx. Sea would be pools without the brushing air, Marry Diggon, what should him affray, To curl the waves; and sure some little care To take his own where ever it lay; Should weary nature so, to make her want re- For had his weasand been a little wider, pose. Dryden. He would have devoured both hidder and stilYou have already weary'd fortune so, der. Spenser She cannot farther he your friend or foe, Cut his wezand with thy knife. Status But sits all breathless. Dryden. Matter to be discharged by expectoralian It would not be difficult to continue a paper а must first pass into the lungs, then into the asseby resuming the same subjects, and wearying out ra arteria, or weasand, and from thence be the reader with the same thoughts in a different coughed up, and spit out by the mouth. Wish, phrase. Addison. The shaft that slightly was impressid, 2. To make impatient of continuance. Now from his heavy fall with weight increz'd , I stay too long by thee, I weary thee. Sbaksp. Drove through his neck aslant; he spurns the Should the government be wearied out of its ground, present patience, what is to be expected by such fond the soul issues through the weazon's wound. turbulent men ? Addison, Dryden, 3. To subdue or harass by any thing irk- Wea'sec. n. s. (pesel, Sax. wesel , Dut. mustela, Lat.) A small animal that cats Must'ring all her wiles, corn and kills mice. With blandish'd parleys, feminine assaults, Ready in gybes, quick-answer'd, saucy, and Tongue-batteries, she surceas'd not day nor As quarrelsome as the weasel. Sbobet night A weusel once made shift to slink To storm me over-watch'd and weary'd out. In at a corn-loft through a chink. Milton. WEA'THER. 1. s. (peder, Saxon.] WEA'ry. adj. [perig, Sax. waeren, to be 1. State of the air, respecting either coll tired, Dutch.] or heat, wet or dryness. 1. Subdued by fatigue ; tired with labour. Who's there, besides foul weather One Fair Phæbus 'gan decline, in haste, minded like the weather, most unquietly. Sladu His weary waggon to the western vale. Spenser. I am far better born than is the king; Gentle Warwick, But I must make fair weather yet a while, Let me embrace thee in my weary arms! Till Henry be more weak, and I more strong I, that did never weep, now melt with woe. Skatipats Sbakspeare. Again the northarn winds may sing and plos, I am weary, yea, my memory is tir'd : And tear no haven but from the weatber now, Have we no wine here? Shaksp. The sun Our swords so wholly did the fates employ, Whene'er through mists he shoots his sulla That they at length grew weary to destroy : beams, Refus'd the work we brought, and out of breath, Suspect a drisling day. Made sorrow and despair attend for death. Dryden. 2. The change of the state of the air. 2. Impatient of the continuance of any It is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle thing painful or irksome. not in decay; how much more to behold an adThe king was as weary of Scotland, as he had cient family, which have stood against the waves been impatient to go thither, finding all things and weatbers of time? proposed to him without consideration of his 3. Tempest; storm. honour or interest. Clarendon. What gusts of weatber from that gath‘ring My hopes all flat, nature within me seems, cloud In all her functions, weary of herself. Tilton. My thoughes presage! Drydes. some. Coorky Dry Baces To Wea'Ther. w.a. [from the noun.j Philip, during his voyage towards Spain, WAS 1. To expose to the air. weatberdriven into Weymouth. Carcm. He perched on some branch thereby, Wea'thERGAGE. n. s. (weather and To watber him, and his moist wings to dry. gage.] Any thing that shows the wea Spenser. ther. Mustard-seed gather for being too ripe, To vere and tack, and steer a cause And weatber it wel, yer ye give it a stripe. Against the weatbergage of Jaws. Hudibros. Tusser. WEATHERGLASS. n. š. (weatber and 2. To pass with difficulty. glass.) He wentber'd fell Charybdis, but ere long The skies were darken'd, and the tempests 1. A barometer ; a glass that shows the strong. Garib. weight of the air. Could they weather and stand the shock of an John's temper depended very much upon the eternal duration, and yet be at any time subject air, his spirits rose and fell with the weatberglas, to a dissolution? Hale. Arbuilriet, 3. To WEATHER a point. To gain a point We shall hardly wish for a perpetual equinox to save the charges of weatberglasses ; for the against the wind ; to accomplish against two equinoxes of our year are the most windy opposition. and tempestuous. Benileg. We have been tugging a great while against 2. A thermometer. Less used. the stream, and have almost weathered our As in some weatherglass my love I hold, point ; a stretch or two more will do the work. Which falls or rises with the heat or cold, Dryden. 4. TO WEATHER out. To endure. WEA'THERSPY. n. s. [weather and spy.] When we have pass'd these gloomy hours, And weatber'd out the storm that beats upon us. A stargazer ; an astrologer ; one that Addison. foretels the weather. WEA'THERBEATEN, adj. Harassed and And sooner may a gulling weather say, By drawing forth heav'n's scheme, tell certainly seasoned by hard weather. Whar fashion'd hats, or ruffs, or suits, next year They perceived an aged man and a young, Our giddy-headed antick youth will wear. Donne, both poorly arrayed, extremely wratherbeuten ; WEATHERWISE. adj. [wearber and wise.] the old man blind, the young man leading him. Sidney. Skilful in foretelling the weather. WEATHERWISER. n. s. [weather, and As weather beaten ship arriv'd on happy shore. wisen, Dutch, to show.) Any thing Spenser, that foreshows the weather. Most vegetables expand their flowers and down And sandy-bottom'd Severn, have I sent in warm sunshiny weather, and again close them Him bootless home, and weatberbeaten back. toward the evening, or in rain, as in the flowers Sbakspeare. of pimpernel, the opening and shutting of which I hope, when you know the worst, you will ac are the countryman's weatherwiser. Derbam. once leap into the river, and swim through TO WEAVE. V.a. pret. wove, weaved ; handsomely, and not weatherbeaten with the divers blasts of irresolution, stand shivering upon part. pass. woven, weaved. [pegan, Sax. the brink. Suckling weven, Dutch.) A weatberbeaten vessel holds 1. To form by texture ; to form by in. Gladly the port: Milton. serting one part of the materials within Dido receiv'd his weatberbeaten troops. Dryd. another. The old weather beaten soldier carries in his Here in her hairs hand the Roman eagle. Addison, The painter plays the spider, and hath mover WEA'THERBOARD, or Weatherbow. n. s. A golden mesh to intrap the hearts of men In the sea language, that side of a ship Faster than gnats in cobwebs. Shakspo that is to the windward. Dict. The women wove hangings for the grove. WEA'THERCOCK. n. s. [weather and 2 Kings There our secret thoughts unseen cock.] Like nets be weav'd and intertwin'd, 1. An artificial cock set on the top of a Wherewith we catch each other's mind. Carer. spire, which by turning shows the point White seem'd her robes, yet woven so they from which the wind blows. were, But, alas! the sun keeps his light, though thy As snow and gold together had been wrought. faith be darkened; the rocks stand still, though Dryden. thou change like a weathercock. Sidney. These purple vests were weav'd by Dardan A kingtisher hanged by the bill, converting dames. Dryden. the breast to that point of the horizon from Dan Pope, for thy misfortune griev'd, whence the wind doth blow, is a very strange With kind concern and skill has weav'd introducing of natural weathercocks. Brown. A silken web, and ne'er shall fade Its colours; gently has he laid 2. Any thing fickle or inconstant. The mantle's o'er thy sad distress : Where had you this pretty weathercock ?-I And Venus shall the texture bless. Prior. cannot tell what his name is my husband had him 2. To unite by intermixture. of. Sbaksp. When religion was woven into the civil goHe break my promise and absolve my vow vernment, and flourished under the protection The word which I have given shall stand like fate, of the emperors, men's thoughts and discourses were full of secular affairs; but, in the three first Not like the king's, that weathercock of state. centuries of christianity, men who embraced this Dryden. religion had given up all their interests in this WE A'THERDRIVEN. part. Forced by world, and lived in a perpetual preparation for sioms or contrary winds. the next. Addison Popt cause. 3. To interpose ; to insert. I saw thee first, and welded thee, adorn'd The duke be here to-night! the better! best! With all perfection, so inflame my senses. This weaves itself perforce into my business. Miltele Shakspeare. Chloe, blind to wit and worth, TO WEAVE. V.n. To work with a loom. Weds the rich dulness of some son of earth. WEA VER. 17. s. [from weave.] One who 2. To join in marriage. niakes thread into cloth. In Syracusa was I born, and wed Unto a woman happy but for me. Sbakso The clothiers all, not able to maintain Then I shall be no more; The many to them 'longing, have put off And Adami, wedded to another Eve, "The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers. Sbaksp. Shall live with her. My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like and are spent without hope. Job. that begun in the garden; and our understandThe weaver may cast religion upon what looin ings are wedded to an Eve, as fatal as the mother ke please. Howel. Glaasilka Her flag aloft spreads ruffling to the wind, 3. To unite for ever. And sanguipe streamers seem the food to fire: Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts, The weaver, charm'd with what his loom design'd And thou art wedded to calamicy. Sials Goes on to see, and knows not to retire. Dryd. 4. To take for ever. Though the principal men of the house of WEA'VERFISH. n. s. (araneus piscis, Lat.) commons were again elected to serve in this par• A fish. Ainsworth. liament, yet they were far from «redding the WEB. n. s. (pebba, Saxon.) war, or taking themselves to be concerned to 1. Texture ; any thirg woven. make good any declaration made by the former. Clarendes Penelope, for her Ulysses' sake, Devis'd a web her wooers to deceive; They positively and concernedly Tedded his Clarenda. In which the work that she all day did make, The same at night she did again unreave. 5. To unite by love or fondness. Spenser. Men are wedded to their lusts, and resolved Staid at gate, upon a wicked course; and so it becomes cher And heard within the goddesse elevate interest to wish there were no God. Tillstice, A voice divine, as at her web she wrought, TO WED. v. 1. To contract matrimony. Subtle, and glorious, and past earthly thought. When I shall wed, Chapman. That lord whose hand shall take my plight, sbal} Spiders touch'd, seek their web's inmost part. carry Davies. Half my love with him, half my care and duty . By day the web and loom, Sbakspars And homely household task, shall be her doom. To love, to wed, Dryden. For Hymen's rites, and for the marriage bed, The fates, when they this happy web have You were ordain'd. Suche spun, Nor took I Guiscard, by blind fancy led, Shall bless the sacred clue, and bid it smoothly Or hasty choice as many women wed; Dryden. But with deliberate care. 2. Some part of a sword. Obsolete. WE'DDING. n. s. [from wed.] Marriage ; The sword, whereof the web was steel; nuptials; the nuptial ceremony. Pommel, rich stone; hilt, gold approv'd by Come, away! Fairfax. Sbsksfera 3. A kind of dusky film that hinders the I will dance and eat plums at your credding. sight; suffusion Sbakspeark This is the foul fibbertigibbet; he gives the Let her beauty be her wedding dower; web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the For me and any possessions she esteems nol hairlip. Slalspeare. Sbakpearls We'BBED. adj. [from web.] Joined by When my son was entered into his wedding a film. chamber, he fell down and died. Such as are whole-footed, or whose toes are These three country bills agree, that each webbed together, their legs are generally short, wedding produces four children. the most convenient size for swimming. His friends were invited to come and make Derban. merry with him, and this was to be the wedding feast. L'Estrangs WE'BFOOTED. adj. [web and foct.) Pal. If she affirmed herself a virgin, she must a mipede; having films between the toes, her wedding-day, and in her wedding cloaths Webfooted fowls do not live constantly upon perform the ceremony of going alone into the the land, nor fear to ter the water. Ray. den, and stay an hour with the lion. WEBSTER. N. s. [pebrere, Saxon, a wo- A woman seldom asks advice before she has man-weaver.] A weaver. Obsolete. bought her wedding-cloaths. Spectatek After local names, the most in number have WEDGE. n. s. (vegge, Danish; wetge, been derived from occupations ; as, Taylor, Dutch.) Webster, Wheeler. Camden. 1. A body which, having a sharp edge TO WED. v. a. (pedian, Sax.] continually growing thicker, is used to 1. To marry ; to take for husband or wife. cleave timber; one of the mechanical If one by one you wedded all the world, powers. Or, from the all that are, took something good A barbarous troop of clownish fone To make a perfect woman; she you kill'd The honour of these noble boughs down threw; Would be unparallel'd. Sbaksp. Under the wedge I heard the trunk to groale Never did ihy beauty, since the day Speen run. : a a hat. use. The fifth mechanical faculty is the wedge used The offices of prayer he had in his church, not in the cleaving of wood. Wilkins. only upon the Sundaics, and festivals, and their He left his wedge within the cloven oak. eves, as also Wednesdaies and Fridaies. Fell. Dryden. Wer, adj. [a Saxon word of the same root cleft with a wedge of his own timber. Arbuthnet. with weeing, Dutch ; wenig, German.) 2. A mass of metal. Little; small : whence the word weasle As sparkles from the anvil us’d to fly, or weesel is used for little; as, a weesel When heavy hammers on the wedge are swaid. face. In Scotland it denotes small or lit Spenser. When I saw a goodly Babylonish garment, and tle : as wee ane, a little one, or child; a wee bit, a little bit. a wedge of gold of tifty shekels weight, then I coveted thein. Foshua. Does he not wear a great round beard, like a glover's paring knife ? -No, forsooth; he hath 3. Any thing in the form of a wedge. In warlike musters they appear, but a little wee face, with a little yellow beard. Sbakspearl In rhombs, and weiges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton. We'ECHELM. n. s. (This is often written To Wedge. v.a. [from the noun.] witch elm.] A species of elm. 1. To cleave with a wedge. A cion of a weecbelm grafted upon an ordinary My heart, elm, will put forth leaves as broad as the brim of As wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain, Bacon. Lest Hector, or my father, should perceive me. WEED. n. s. (peod, Saxon, tares.] Shakspeare. 1. An herb noxious or useless. 2. To drive as a wedge is driven. If he had an immoderate ambition, which is a Where have you been broiling ? weed, if it be a weed, apt to grow in the best „Among the crowd i' th' abbey, where a finger Could not be wedg’d in more. svils, it doth not appear that it was in his nature. Shakspeare. Clarendon, 3. To force as a wedge forces. He wand'ring feeds On slowly growing herbs and ranker weeds. In common rang’d in figure wedge their way, Sandys. Intelligent of seasons. Milton. Too much manuring fillid that field with 4. To tasten by wedges. weeds, Wedge on the keenest scythes, While sects, like locusts, did destroy the seeds. And give us steeds that snort against the foe. Denbam. d. Pbilips. Stinking weeds and poisonous plants have their 5. To fix as a wedge. More. Your wit will not so soon out as another When they are cut, let them lie, if weedy, to man's will; it is strongly wedged up in a block kill the weeds. Mortimer, head. Shakspeare. Their virtue, like their Tyber's flood Sergesthus in the centaur soon he pass'd, Rolling, its course design’d the country's good; Wedy'd in the rocky shoals and sticking fast. But oft the torrent's too impetuous speed From the low earth tore some polluting weed; What impulse can be propagated from one And with the blood of Jove there always ran particle, entombed and wedged in the very cen Some viler part, some tincture of the man. ier of the earth, to another in the center of Sa Prior. turn? Bentley If they are often seen to lose that little religion WE'DLOCK. n. s. (pes and lac, Saxon, they were taught in their youth, 'tis no more to be wondered at, than to see a little flower marriage and gift.) Marriage ; matri- choaked and killed amongst rank weeds. Law. mony. She doth stray about 2. [pæda, Saxon ; waed, Dutch.) A garBy holy crosses where she kneels and prays ment; clothes ; habit; dress. Now For happy wedlock hours, Sbaksp. scarce in use, except in widow's weeds, Sirrah, your brother is legitimate ; the mourning dress of a widow. Your father's wife did after wedioek bear him, My mind for weeds your virtue's livery wears. And if she did play false the fault was hers. Sidney, Sbakspeare. Neither is it any man's business to cloath all Can wedlock know so great a curse, his servants with one weed; nor theirs to cloath As putting husbands out to nurse? Cleavrland. themselves so, if left to their own judgments. He his bappiest choice too late Hooker) Shall meet already link’d, and wedlock-bound They meet upon the way To a fell adversary. Milton. An aged sire, in long black weeds y clad; May not a prison or a grave, His teet all bare, his beard all hoary gray, Like wedlock, honour's title have ? Denbam. Aud by his belt his book he hanging had. One thought the sex's prime felicity Spenser Was from the bonds of wedlock to be free, Livery is also called the upper weed which a And uncontroll'd to give account to none. serving inan wears, so called as it was delivered Dryden. and taken from him at pleasure. Spenser. A man determined, about the fiftierh year of 'The snake throws her enamellid skin, His age, to enter upon tre llock. Addison. Weed wide enough to wrap, a fairy in. Shaksp. WEDNESDAY.n.s. (podenrdag, Saxon; Throngs of knights, and barons bold, "Odensday, Swedish; woensday, Dutch; In weeds of peace luigh triumphs hold, Milton. wensday, Islandick.) The fourth day With siore of ladies. of the week, so named by the Gothick La:ely your fair hand in woman's weed .nations from Woden or Odin. Wrapp'd my glad head. Where is the honour of him that died on 3. It is used by Chapman for the upper Wednesday Sbakscura garinent, VOL. IV. Waller. The morning, in her throne of gold, WE'EKDAY. n. s. [week and day.) Any Survaid the vast world, by whose orient light day not Sunday. The nymph adorn'd me with attires as bright; One solid dish his weekday meal affords, Her own hands putting on both shirt and wiede. Chapman. An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's. Peps TO WEED. v. a. (from the noun.] WE’EKLY. adj. [from week.) Happen1. To rid of noxious plants. ing, produced, or done once a week; When you sow the berries of bays, wied not hebdomadary. the borders for the first half year; for the weed The Jews had always their weekly readings of giveth them shade. Bacon, the law of Moses. Hoeker. Your seedlings having stood till June, bestow So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn' to kill, a wiedling or a slight howing upon them. And multiply'd with heirs their weekly bill. Mortimer. Dryden. 2. To take away as noxious plants. Nothing more frequent in their week'y papers, Oh Marcius, than affecting to confound the terms of clergy Each word thou'st spoke hath weeded from my and high-church, and then loading the latter heart with calumny. Swift A rout of ancient envy. Shaksp. WE'exLY. adv. [from weck.) Once a Sarcasms, contumelies, and invectives, till so week; by hebdomadal periods. many pages of pur controversial writings, that, These are obliged to perform divine worship were those weeded out, many volumes would be reduced to a more moderate bulk and temper. in their turns weikly, and are sometimes called hebdomadal canons. Detay of Piity. Aylijk 3. To free from any thing hurtful or offen- WEEL. n. s. [pel, Saxon.] sive. 1. A whirlpool. He Weeded the kingdom of such as were de. 2. [perhaps from willow.] A twiggen voted to Elaiana, and manumized it from that snare or trap for fish. most dangerous confederacy. Howel. To WEEN. v. n. (penan, Saxon; waerts, 4. To root out vice. Wise fathers he not as well aware in weeding Dutch.] To think; to imagine ; to from their children ill things, as they were be form a notion; to fancy. Obsolete. fore in grafting in them learning. Ascbam. Ah lady dear, quoch then the gentle knight, One by one, as they appeared, they might all Well may I wern your grief is wond'rous gTER. be weeded out, without any signs that ever they Secaja. had been there. Locke. So we'ithtı veseems, that ye would ***, Some angel she had been. We'eder. n. s. [from weed.] One that When weening to return whence they dd takes away any thing noxious. stray, A weder out of his proud adversaries, They cannot find that path which first was A liberal rewarder of his friends. Sbaksp. shown; But wander to and fro in ways unknown, WE'EDHOOK. n. s. [weed and book.) A Furthest from end then, when they nearest *** hook by which weeds are cut away or Spese. extirpated. Thy father, in pity of my hard distress, In May get a weedbook, a crotch, and a glove, Levied an army, weening to redeem And weed out such weeds as the corn doch noc And reinstal me in the diadem. Sbakspeare love. Tusser. Ween you of better luck, WE'EDLESS. adj. [from weed.] Free I mean in perjur'd witness, than your master, from weeds ; free from any thing use Whose minister you are, while here he liv'd less or noxious. Upon this naughty earth. Seeks They aren't So many weedless paradises be, That self-same day, hy tight or hy surprize, Which of themselves produce no venomous sin. To win the mount of God; and on his throne Donne, 'To set the envier of his state, the proud A crystal brook, When troubled most it does the bottom show; Aspirer; but their thoughts prov'd fondand vain. Mäter 'Tis weedless all above, and rockless ail below. Dryden. TO WEEP. v.n. pret. and part. pass, wypt, WE'EDY. adj. [from weed.) queped. (peopan, Saxon.) 1. Consisting of weeds. 1. To show sorrow by tears. There on the pendant boughs her coronet weed In that sad time Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke, My manly cyes did scorn an humble tear; When down her werdy trophies and herself And what these sorrows could not hence exhile, Fell in the weeping brook. Sbaksp. That beauty hath, and made them blind with 2. Abounding with weeds. Weeping: Sbakspears Hid in a weedy lake all night I lay, I fear he will prove the weeping philosophet Secure of safety. Dryden. when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly If it is weedy, let it lie upon the ground. sadness in his youth. Seks Mortimer. The days of sweeping and mourning for Moses WEEK. n. s. [peoc, Sax. weke, Dutch; were ended. Dealersesse to wecka, Swedish.] Have you rept for your sin, so that you were The space of seven indeed sorrowful in your spirit? Are you sa days. sorrowful that you hate it? Do you so hate it Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also. that you have left it? Toples. Genesis, Away! with somen my, and leave me tiere, The division of time by weeks hath been unie Fix'd like a man, to die without a tear, versally observed in the world, not only amongst Or save or slay us both. Dr. the civilized, but likewise among the most bare A corps it was, but whose it was, unknown; barous nations. Wilkins, Yet nuvid, hoxe'er, sbe made the case berer |