Ere we farther pass, I will devise TO WISH. v.a. A passport for us both, in fittest wise. Spenser. 1. To desire; to long for. On this wise ye shall bless Israel. Numbers. He was fain to pull him out by the beels, and shew him the beast as dead as he could wisb it. With foam upon thy lips, and sparkling eyes, Sidacy. Thou say'st and dost in such outrageous cvise, 2. To recommend by wishing. That mad Orestes, if he saw the show, Had I as many sons as I have hairs, Would swear thou wert the madder of the two. I would not wish them to a fairer death. Sbaks. Dryden. 3. To imprecate, Tis in no wise strange that such a one should If heavens have any grievous plague in store, believe, that things were blindly shuffled. Exceeding those that I can wiso upon thee; Woodward. O let them keep it till thy sins be ripe, Wi'seacre. n. s. [It was anciently writ. And then burl down their indignation. Sbakst. ten wisesegger, as the Dutch wiseggber, 4. To ask. a soothsayer.] Digby si:ould find the best way to make As. trim communicate the affair to him, and to sis 1. A wise or sententious man. Obsolete. his assistance, Clareaders 2. A fooi ; a dunce. Wish. n. s. [from the verb.] Why, says a rviseacre that sat by him, were I as the king of France, I would scorn to take part 1. Longing desire. To his wish, Addison. with footmen. Wisely. adv. (froni wise.) Judiciously; Beyond his hope, Eve separate he spies. Miltes. А visb is properly the desire of a man sitting, prudently. or lying still; but an act of the will, is a man of If thou covet death, as utmost end business vigorously going about his work. Sostb. Of misery, so thinking to evade 2. Thing desired. The penalty pronounc'd, doubt not but God What next I bring shall please thee; be asHath wiselier arm'd his vengeful ire. Milton. sur'd, He sits like discontented Damocles, Thy likeness, thy fit help, thy other self, When by the sportive tyraut wisely shown Thy wish, exactly to thy heart's desire. Mille The dangerous pleasure of a fiatter'd throne. Dryden. 3. Desire expressed. Shame come to Romeo! Admitting their principles to be true, they -Blister'd be thy tongue act wisely : they keep their end, evil as it is, For such a wisb! steadily in view. Rogers. Sbakspeare. The doctors, tender of their fame, I admire your whig principles of resistance in Wisely on me lay all the blame: the spirit of the Barcelonians : I join in your We must confess his case was nice, rish for them. But he would never take advice. Swift. WI'SHEDLY, adv. [from wisbed.] Ac. WI'SENESS. n. s. [from wise.] Wisdom; cording to desire. Not used. sapience. Obsolete. What could have happened unto him more No less deserveth his wittiness in devising, his wisbedly, than with his great honour to keep the town still. Kask! pithiness in uttering, his pastoral rudeness, and his moral wiseness. Spenser. 2. n. s. [from wish.] TO WISH. V. n. (pircian, Saxon.] 1. One who longs. 1. To have strong desire ; to long. 2. One who expresses wishes. The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he Wisbers and woulders are never good housefainted, and wished in himseli to die. Fenab. holders. Preserb. If all the year were playing holidays, With half that wish the wisber's eyes be To sport would be as tedious as to work; press'd. Sbazin But when they seldom come, they wish’d-for Wi'sHFUL. adj. [from wish and full.] Shakspeare. J. Longing; showing desire. From Scotland am I stoln, even of pure love To greet mine own land with my wishful sight Eve Sbaksvare. With lowliness majestick from her seat, 2. Desirable ; exciting wishes. And grace, that won who saw to wisb her stay, Nor could I see a soile, where e'er 1 came, Rose, and went forth. Milton. Chapman 'There are ships prepar'a by, my command, That shall convey you to the wisb'd-for port. WI'SHFULLY. adv. [from wisbful.] Ear Addison. nestly; with longing. That Noah or Janus understood navigation,may Wi'sket. n. s. A basket. Ainsworth. be very well supported by this image found upon W1sp. r. s. [wisp, Swedish and old Dat.} the first Roman coins. One side was stampt A small bundle, as of lay or straw. with a Janus bifrons, and the other with a rostrum, or prow of a ship. This is as good an ar- A wisp of straw for a ballad. Sbakat. gument as an antiquary, could wish for. Arbutb. A gentleman would fast tive days, without And much he wish'd, but durst not ask to part, meat, bread, or drink; but the same used to Parach have continually a great wisp of herbs that he 2. To be disposed or inclined. smelled on; and amongst those some esculent herb of strong scent, as onions. ВА Those potentates, who do not wish well to Jews, who their whole wealth can lay his affairs, have shewn respect to his personal In a small basket, on a wvisp of hay. Desde character. Addison. 3. It has a slight signification of hope or WIST. The pret. and part, of wis. fear. Wi'sTFUL, adj. I wish it may not prove some ominous fore- 1. Attentive; earnest; full of thought. token of misfortupe, to have met with such a Why, Grubbinel, dost thou so wistfad seem! miser as I ain, Sidney There's sorrow in thy look Gogo come. a ܪ from pitan, 9. It is used by Swift, as it seems, for on me. I am not only witty in myself, but the wishful ; though it may mean earnest, cause that wit is in other men. Shaksp. His works become the frippery of wit. eager. Ben Jonson. Lifting up one of my sashes, I cast many a The Romans made those times the standard wistful melancholy lock towards the sea. Swift. Wi'sTFULLY. udv. (troin wistful.] At of their wit, when they subdued the world. Sprat. tentively ; earnestly. The definition of wit is only this, that it is a With that he fell again to pry propriety of thoughts and words; or, in other Through perspective more wistfully. Hudibras. terins, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to Wi'stly. adv. [from wis.] Aitentively; the subject. Dryden. earnestly. Let a lord once brt own the happy lines, Speaking it, he mistly lookid on me; How the wit brighns, and the style retines ! As who shall say, I would thou wert the man, Pope. Sbakspeare. 4. A man of fancy. To Wit. v. n. (pitan, Sax.] To know. Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor This word is now only used in the foe, and make theinselves the common enemies of mankind, L'Estrange phrase to wit, that is to say. There is an officer, to quit, the sheriff of the A poet, being too witty himself, could draw nothing but wits in a comedy: even his fools shire, whose office it is to walk up and down his were infected with the disease of their author. bailiwick. Spenser. Dryden. Yet are these feet, whose strengthless stay is To tell them would a hundred tongues require; numb, Unable to support this lump of clay, Or one vain wit's, that might a hundred tire. •Pope. Swift-winged with desire to get a grave; As witting I no other comfort bave. Sbaksp. 5. A man of genius. WIT. n. s. [rgepit, Saxon Hence 'tis a wit, the greatest word of fame, Grows such a common came; to know.] And wits by our creation they become, 1. The powers of the mind; the mental Just so as titular bishops made at Rome : faculties; the intellects. This is the 'Tis not a rule, 'tis not a jest original signitication. Admir'd with laughter at a fcast, Nor florid talk, which can that title gain; The proofs of wit for ever must remain. Cowl. The king your father was reputed for Searching wits, of more mechanick parts, A prince most prudent, of an excellent Who grac'd their age with new-invented arts; And unmatch'd wit and judgment. Shaksp. Those who to worth their bounty did extend, Will puts in practice what the wit deviseth; And those who know that bounty to commend. Will ever acts, and wit contemplates still; Dryden. And as from wit the power of wisdom riseth, How vain that second life in others breath, All other virtues daughters are of will. Th'estate which wits inherit after death! Will is the prince, and wit the counsellor Ease, health, and life for this they must resign; Which doth for common good in council sit; Unsure the tenure, but how vast the fine! And when wit is resulved, will lends her The great man's curse without the gain endure; power Be envy'd, wretched; and be liatter'd, poor. To execute what is advis'd hy wit. Davies. Popeo For wit and pow'r their lasi endeavours bend Nought but a genius can a genius fit; T'outshine each other. Dryden. A sit herself, Amelia weds a wit. 2. Imagination ; quickness of fancy. 6. Sense; judgment. They never meet, but there's a skirmish of Strong was their plot, wit between them. Alas, in our last contlict, Their practice close, their faith suspected not, four of his five wits went halting off, and now is Their states far off, and they of wary wit. Daniel. the old ınan govern'd by one. Lewd, shallow, hair-brained huffs make a Come, leave the loathed stage, theism, and contempt of religion, the only badge And this more loathsome age; and character of wit. Souib. Where pride and impudence, in faction knit, And though a twin thv large bulk be writ, Usurp the chair of wit. Ben Jonson. Yet thou art but a kilderkin ot quit. Dryden. Though his youthful blood be fir'd with wine, W'it lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and He wants not wit the danger to decline. Dryd. putting those together with quickness and va- 7. Faculty of the mind. riety, wherein can be found any resemblance or If our wits run the wildgoose-chace, I have congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures done; for thou hast more of the wildgoose in in the fancy. Judgment, on the comrary, lies in one of thy wits, than I have in my whole five. separating carefully one from another ideas Shakspeare. wherein can be found the least difference, there 8. [In the plural.] Soundness of underby to avoid being misled by similitude. Locke. Could any but a knowing prudent cause standing; intellect not crazed ; sound mind. Begin such motions, and assign such laws? I had a sor, Now outlaw'd from my biood; hc sought my lifes. The grief hath craz'd my wils. Shaksp. Are bis wits safe? is he nor light of brain? 3. Sentiments produced by quickness of Shakspeare. fancy, or by genius; the effect of wit. Sound sleep cometh of moderate eating; he All sorts of men take a pleasure to gird at me. risech early, and his wins are with him: but the The brain of this foolish compounded clay, man, pain of watching, and choler, and pangs of the is not able to invent any thing that tends more beliy, are with an unsatiable man. I clesiasticus. to laughter than what I invent, and is invented, No man in his tuits can make any dyubi, whom YOL. IV. Young Slaksp. 3 K ther there be such things as motion, and sensa- WI’TCHERY. 1. s. (from witcb.] Es. tion, and continuity of bodies. Wilkins. chantment. Wickedness is voluntary frenzy, and every Another kind of petty witcbery, if it be not sinner does more extravagant things than any altogether deceit, they call channing of beasts man that is crazed, and out of his avits, only that and birds. Religt. he knows better what he does. Tillotson. Great Cornus! No man in his wits can seriously think that Deep shillid in all his mother's ziteterit. his own soul hach existed from all eternity. Milte. Bentley. Wi'rCRACKER. n. s. [vit and cracker.] 9. Contrivance; stratagem; power of ex. A joker; one who breaks a jest. pedients; invention ; ingenuity. A college of witcrackers cannot flout me out How can it chuse but bring the simple to their of my humour; dost thou think I care for a se wits end? how can it chuse but vex and amaze tire or an epigram? Skeksa them? Hooker. I was like to be apprehended for the witch of Wi'TCRAFT. n.s. (wit and craft.) CooBrainford; but that my admirable dexterity of trivance; invention. Obsolete. wit, counterfeiting the action of an old woman, He was no body that could not hammer out delivered me. Sbakspeare. of his name an invention by this witcroft, and Sleights from his wit and subtlety proceed. picture it accordingly. Capta. Milton. To Wire, v.a. (pitan, Sax.] To blame; The neighbourhood were at their wits end, to reproach. to consider what would be the issue. L'Estr. 'The palmer 'gan most bitterly WITCH. n.s. (picce, Saxon.] Her to rebuke, for being loose and light; 1. A woman given to unlawful arts. Which not abiding, but more scornfully Wise judges have prescribed, that men may Scoffing at him, that did her justiy uite, not rashly believe the confessions of witcbes, nor She turn'd her boat about. Spur. the evidence against them. For the witches WITE. 1. s. (from the verb.) Blame ; themselves are imaginative; and people are cre- reproach. Speaker. dulous, and ready to impute accidents to witch- With. preposit. (prð, Saxon.] craft. View the ruder witch, the conjuror by root, 1. By : noting the cause. and has she not store of ignorance, and zeal of Truth, tir'd witb iteration, mischief? Holiday. As true as steel, as plantage to the mooth The night-hag comes to dance Sbakspeare With Lapland witches, while the lab'ring moon With thy pow'rful blast, Carry Eclipses at their charms. Heat apace, and cool as fast. Milton. When I consider whether there are such per They adhered to John, their deprived bishet; sons as witcbes, my mind is divided : I believe and could not be charmed with the saintship of in general that there is such a thing as witch- any second bishop, during his life. Irties. craft, but can give no credit to any particular Witb ev'ry stab her bleeding heart was turn, instance of it. Spectator. Rou. (from pic, Sax.) A winding sinuous 2. Noting the means. bank. Rude and unpolished are all operations of the Leave me those hills where harbrough nis to soul in their beginnings, before they are culti vated with art and study. Nor holy bush, nor briar, nor winding witd. 3. Noting the instrument, Spenser. Boreas through the lazy vapour flies, To Witch. v.a. [froin the noun. To And sweeps, wiib healthy wings, the rank pola luted skies. Rise bewitch; to enchant. Me ill befits, that in der doing arms, By perftations with large bellows, miners gire motion to the air. Wacanard, And honour's suit, my vowed days do spend, Unto thy bounteous baits, and pleasing charms, 4. On the side of ; for: noting confede. With which weak men thou witcbesf, to attend. racy or favour. Spenser. Fear not, for I am wid thee. "Tis now the very witching time of night, When church-yards yawn, 5. In opposition to; in competition or Shaisp. contest. I'll with sweet ladies with my words and looks. I do contest Sbalspeare. Wi'TCHCRAFT. n. . [witch and craft.) As hotly and as nobly with thy love, As ever against thy valour. Shekspeare 1, The practices of witches. He shali lie evitó any friaz in Spain. Drykte People are credulous, and ready to impute accidents and natural operations to switchiraft. 6. Noting comparison. Bacon. Can blazing carbuncles with her compare! 2. Power more than natural. Urania namc, whose force he knew so well, 7. In society : noting connexion. He quickly knew what witchcraft gave the blow. God gave mán a soul that should live for ever, Sidney. although the body be destroyed; and those whe Have not some of learning and gravity thought were good should be with him. themselves wise, in thinking witiberaft rather a In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, mistake than a crime? Helyday. Thou 'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasing fellow; If you cannot Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about Bar his access to the king, never attempt thee, Any thing on him, for he hath a witcbcraft There is no living with thee, por without thee, Over the king in 's tongue. Sbaksp. At the instant that your messenger came, in Drydes see; Genesis. Sandya : Stillinghed. Tatia loving visitation was with me a young doctor 19. With, in composition, signifies appafrom Rome. Sbakspeare. sition or privation ; except withal. 9. In appendage : noting consequence or A present natural good may be parted with, concomitance. upon a profitable expectation of a future moral Men might know the persons who had a right good. Wilkins. to regal power, and with it to their obedience. WITHA'l. adv. [with and all.] Locke. 10. In mutual dealing. 1. Along with the rest ; likewise; at the same time. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will Yet it must be withal considered, that the not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with greatest part of the world are they which be far Hooker. thest from perfection. you. Sbakspeare. ii. Noting confidence : as, I trust you How well supplied with noble counsellors! How modest in exception, and witbal with all my secrets ; or, I trust all my see How terrible in constant resolution! Sbaksp. crets with you. The one contains my picture, prince; 12. In partnership. If you chuse that, then I am yours witbal. Though Jove himself no less content would be, Sbakspears. To part his throne and share his heaven with This that prince did not transmit as a power, thee. Pope, to make conquest, but as a retinue for his son; 13. Noting connexion. and, witbal, to enable him to recover some part Picy your own, or pity our estate, of Ulster. Dadies. Nor cwist our fortunes with your sinking fate. The river being wholly of fresh water, and so Dryden. large witbal, chilleth the air. Hizlin. 14. Immediately after. God, when he gave me strength, to show witbal With that she told me, that, though she spake of her father Cremes, she would hide no truth How slight the gift was, hung it ip my hair. Milton. from me. Sidncy. 'Tis necessary men should be out of their Forth creeping on his caitiff hands and thighs. nonage before they can attain to an actual use Fairy Queen. of this principle; and, withal, that they should In falling, both an equal fortune tried ; be ready to exert and exercise their faculties. Wilkins. Would fortune for my fall so well provide ! With this he pointed to his face, and show'd I cannot, cannot bear; 'tis past, 'uis done; Perish this impious, this detested son ! His hands and all his habit smear'd with blood. Dryden. Perish his sire, and perish I witbal, With that the god his darling phantom calls, And let the house's heir and the hop'd kingdom fall. And from his falt'ring lips this message falls. Dryden. Gartb. Christ had not only an infinite power to work 15. Amongst. miracles, but also an equal wisdom to know the Jasper duke of Bedford, whom the king used just force and measure of every argument to persuade, and witbal to look through and to employ with the first in his wars, was then through all the dark corners of the soul of man, sick. Bacon. and ta discern what prevails upon them, and Tragedy was originally, with the antients, a Soutb. piece of religious worship. what does not. Rymer. Immortal powers the term of conscience know, 2. It is sometimes used by writers where But interest is her name with men below. we now use with, but I think impro. Dryden. perly. 16. Upon. Time brings means to furnish him witbal; Such arguments had invincible force with Let him but wait th' occasions as they fall. those pagan philosophers who became christians. Daniel, Addison. It is to know what God loves and delights in, 17. In consent : noting parity of state. and is pleased witbal, and would have us do in See where on earth the flow'ry glories lie! order to our happiness. Tillotson. With her they fiourish’d, and witb her they die. We owe to christianity the discovery of the Pope. most perfect rule of life chat ever the world was 18. This preposition might perhaps be ex acquainted witbal. Tillotson. emplified in many more relations, for its T. WITHDRA’w. v.a. [with and draw; use is very frequent, and therefore very from pið, or piðen, Saxon, against, and lax and various. Witb and by it is not draw.] always easy to distinguish, nor perhaps 1. To take back; to bereave. is any distinction always observed. With It is not possible they should observe the one, seems rather to denote an instrument, who from the other withdraw unnecessarily and by a cause : thus, be killed bis enemy obedience. Hooker, with a sword, but he died by an arrow. Impossible it is that God should suithdraw his presence from any thing, because the very sube The arrow is considered rather as a stance of God is infinite. Hooker. cause, as there is no mention of an agent. If the agent be more remote, 2. To call away ; to make to retire. Nausicaa is withdrawn, and a whole nation inby is used; as, the vermin which be could troduced, for a more general praise of Ulysses. not kill with his gun, be killed by poison : Broome. if these two prepositions be transposed, To WITHDRA'W. v. n. To retire ; to the sentence, though equally intelligi. retreat. ble, will be less agreeable to the com- She from her husband soft witbetra. mon modes of speech. Milten. a At this excess of courage all amaz'd, in Spain out springs, like oid mer's children, The foremost of his foes awhile withdraw: be With such respect in enter'd Rome they gaz'd Decay'd and witter'd from their infancy: Who on high chairs the godlike fathers saw. No kindly showers fall on our barren earth, Dryden. To hatch the seasons in a timely birth. Dryder. Duumvir has passed the noon of life; but can- Wi'THERBAND. n. s. A piece of iron not withdraw from entertainments which are which is laid under a saddle, about four pardonable only before that stage of our being. Tatler. fingers ahove the horse's withers, to keep WITHDRAWINGROOM. n. s. [witharaw the two pieces of wood tight that forin thie bow. Farrier's Dict. and room.] Room behind another room, for retirement. Wi'THEREDNESS. n. s. [from witbered.) For an ordinary gentleman, a hall, a great par The state of being withered ; marci. lour, with a withdrawingroom, with a kitchen, dity. butteries, and other conveniencics, is sufficient. Water them as soon as set, till they have reMortimer. covered their witberic'ness. Mert.ea. Wi'thE. n. S. WITHERS, 11.s. Is the joining of the 1. A willow twig. shoulder-hones at the bottom of the An Irish rebel put up a petition, that he might neck and mane, towards the upper part be hanged in a witb, and not a halter, because of the shoulder. Farrier's Dict, it had been so used with former rebels. Bacon. Let the gail'd beast wince; We are unwrung in the witbers. Stats Till I, of cut-up osiers, did imply. Rather than let your master take long jour. A witb, a fathome long, with which his feete nies, contrive that the saddle may piach the I made together in a sure league meete. beast in his witburs. Swift. Chapman. Wi'rHERWRUNG. The hurt expressed 2. A band, properly a band of twigs. by witherwrung sometimes is caused by (pirde signifies a band.) a bite of a horse, or by a saddle being These cords and wythes will hold men's con unfit, especially when the bows are too sciences, when force attends and twists them. King Charles. wide ; for, when they are so, they bruise Birch is of use for ox-yoaks, hoops, screws, the flesh against the spines of the second wythes for faggots. Mortimer, and third vertebræ of the back, wbich TO WITHER. V. n. (jepidenod, Saxon, forms that prominence that rises above their shoulders. Farrier's Dict. dry, faded.] 1. To fade ; to grow sapless ; to dry up. To WITHHO'LD. V. a. [with and bold.) That which is of God we defend, to the ute Withheld, or withholden, pret. and part. termost of that ability, which he hath given: Spenser has, for the sake of rhyme, very that which is otherwise, let it wither even in the licentiously written withbault. root from whence it hath sprung. Hooker. 1. To restrain; to keep from action ; to When I have pluck'd thy rose, hold back. I cannot give it vital growth again ; It needs must witber. Shakspeare. That hand, which as no kind of imminent It shall witber in all the leaves of her spring., danger could cause at tirst to witbbald itself, so Ezekiel. neither have any practices, so many, so bloody, The soul may sooner leave off to subsist than following since, been ever able to make wears. Hola. to love; and, like the vine, it witbers and dies, if it has nothing to embrace. South. Sith mine he is, or free or bound; e. To waste, or pine away. Witbhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty haad From knitting league with him. Are there so many left of your own family, Senser. The prince that you should desire wholly to reduce it, by Would fain have come with me to meet you suffering the last branch of it io viver away be grace; fore its time? Templo. And by his mother was perforce witbbe!d. 3. To lose or want animal moisture. Sbakspears Vain men, how vanishing a bliss we crave, A great number of suits are for abusive words, Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave. or a box on the ear, or other trivial matters, Dryden. which leave no permanent ill effects, but, if our To Wither. W. a. passions may be wiis-beld from estimating them, 1. To make to fade. pass off without making us the worse, or doing The sun is no sooner risen with a burning us any prejudice. Katiespell. Be careful to witbbold heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth. James. Your talons from the wrutched and the bold: Tenist not the brave and needy to despair; .. To make to shrink, decay, or wrinkle, For, though your violence should leave thens for want of animal moisture. bare Age cannot 'wither her, nor custom stale her Of gold and silver, swords and darts remain. infinite variety. Slukspeare. Dryden. Look how I am bewitch'd; behold, mine arm Volition is an act of the mind, knowingly esIs, like a blasted sapling, wither'd up. Sbaksp. erting that dominion it takes itself to have over What are these, any part of man, by employing it in, or spitbSo witber'd, and so wild in their attire, belding it from, any particular action. Lecken That look not like th' inhabitants o'th'earch, 2. To hinder; to obstruct. And yet are on 't? Sbelsp. What difficulties there are which as yet with Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which bold our assent, till we be further and better will change satistied, I hope no inditerent amongst them To witber'd, weak, and grey. Milton will scorn or refuse to hear. Fekete |