3. To take away; to refuse. Secure of cutward force, within himself Soon as Titan 'gan his head exault, The danger lies, yet lies within his pow'r; And soon again as lie his light withhault, Against his will he can receive no harm. Milt. Their wicked engines they against it bent. I have suffer'd in your woe; Nor shall be wanting aught within my pow'r WITHHOʻLDEN. part. pass. of withhold. For your relief. Dryden. The word keep back, sherreth that it was a Though Aurengzebe return a conqueror, Both he and she are still within my pow'r. thing formerly due unto God; for we cannot say that any thing is kept back, or withholden, Dryden. that was not due before. Spelman. 7. Into the heart or confidence of. WITHHO'LDER. n. s. [from withbold.) When by such insinuations they have once got within him, and are able to drive him on from He who withholdi. one lewdness to another, no wonder if they reWithin. prep. (pituunan, Saxon.) joice to see him guilty of all villany. South. I, In the inner part of. 8. Not exceeding. Who then shall blame Be informed how much your husband's reveHis pester'd senses to recoil and start, nue amounts to, and be so good a computer as When all that is within him does condemn to keep within it. Swift. Itself for being there? Sbaksp. 9. In the enclosure of. By this means, not only many helpless per No interwoven reeds a garland made, sons will be provided for, but á generation of To hide his brows within the vulgar shade; men will be bred up, witbin ourselves, not per- But poplar wreaths around his temples spread. verted by any other hopes. Sprat. Addison Till chis be cured by religion, it is as impossi, Sedentary and within-door arts, and delicate ble for a man to be happy, that is, pleased and manufactures, that require rather the finger contented within himselt, as it is for a sick man than the arm, have a contrariety to a military to he at ease. Tillotson. Bacon. The river is afterwards wholly lost within the waters of the lake that one discorers nothing like Withi'n. adv. a stream, till within about a quarter of a mile 1. In the inner parts; inwardly; interfrom Geneva. Addison. nally. 2. In the compass of; not beyond : used This is yet the outward, fairest side both of place and time. Of our design. H'ithin rests more of fear, Next day we saw, 'wiibin a kenning before us, More dread of sad event yet undescried. Dan. thick clouds, which put us in hope of land. Yet sure, tho'the skin Be clos'd without, the wound festers within. Carcu. Death thou hast seen their leaves cut close to the roots, within six weeks had fair leaves. In his first shape on man; but many shapes Bicon. Of death, and many are the ways that lead fortnight. Bacon. To his grim cave; all dismal! yet to sense More terrible at th' entrance than within. Within some while the king had taken up such liking of his person, that he resolved to Milton, make him a masterpiece. Wotion. 2. In the mind. The invention of arts necessary or useful to Language seems too low a thing to express human life, hath been witbin the knowledge of your excellence; and our souls are speaking so Burnet. much within, that they despise all foreign cop. As to infinite space, a man can no more have versation. Dryden. a positive idea of the greatest, than he has of the These, as thy guards from outward harms are least space. For in this latter, which is more sent; within our comprehension, we are capable ouly Ills from within, thy reason must prevent. of a comparative idea of smallness, which will Dryden. always be less than any one whereof we have WITHINSIDE. adv. [within and side.) the positive idea. Locke. In the interiour parts. This, with the green hills and naked rocks The forceps for extracting he stone reprewithin the neighbourhood, makes the most sented a little open, that the teeth may be betag eeable confusion. Addison, ter seen withinside. Sbarp. Bounding desires within the line which birth and fortune have marked out, is an indispen Witho'ut. prep. (piðutan, Saxon.) sable duty. Atterbury. 1. Not with. Many there are, whose destinies have pre3. Not reaching to any thing external. vented their desires, and made their good moWere every action concluded within itself, tives the wards of their executors, not without and drew no consequences after it, we should miserable success. Hall. undoubtedly never err in our choice of good. 2. In a state of absence from. Locke. Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about 4. Not longer ago than. thee, Witbin these five hours Hastings liv'd There is no living with thee, nor without thee; Untainted, unexamined, free at liberty. Sbaks. Tatier. Wirbin these shree hours, Tullus, 3. In the state of not having. Alone I fought in your Corioli walls, The virtuous bezoar is taken from the beast And made what work ' pleas'd. Slaksp. that feedeth upon the mountains; and that 5. Into the reach of. without virtue, from those that feed in the val. When on the brink the foaming boar I met, - lies. Bacon. The desp'rate savage rush'd within my force, Infallibility and inerrableness are assumed and And bore me headlong with him down the rock. inclosed by ine Romish church, without any in Otwuy. errable ground to hold it on. Haminond. 6. In the reach of. If the ideas be not innate, there was a tine men when the mind was witbout those principles; TO WITHSTA'ND. V. a. [with and stand.) To gainstand ; to oppose; to resist. The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be camed with following, than overthrown by witéout our reach: but that little spot of ground that standing, Sidser. lies betwixt those two great oceans, this we are to The wonderful zeal and fervour wherewith ye cultivate. Bxrnet. have witbstood the received orders of this church, 3. Supposing the negation or omission of. was the first thing which caused me to enter into Witbout the separation of the two monarchies, consideration, whether every christian man, fearthe most advantageous terms from the French ing God, stand bound to join with you. Hesker. must end in our destruction. Addison. It is our frailty that in many things we all do 6. Not by; not by the use of; not by the amiss, but a virtue that we would do amiss in help of. nothing, and a testimony of that virtue, that Excess of diet, in costly meats and drinks when we pray that what occasion of sin soever fetched from beyond the seas, would be avoid do offer itself, we may be strengthened from ed: wise men will do it without a law; I would above to witbstand it. Hesker. there might be a law to restrain fools. Bacon. They soon set sail; nor now the fates with There is in a manner two sorts of virgin mer 'stand; cury; the one running out and discovering it. Their forces trusted with a foreign hand. Dryd. self without labour; the other requiring some When Elymas withstood Paul and Barnabas, way of extraction and separation, though not so and when Paul says of Alexander, he hath high an one as by fire. Brown. greatly withstood our words, do we think abe 7. On the outside of. withstanding there was without speaking ? Without the gate Atterbury. Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. WithSTA'NDER. 1. s. [from witbstand. Dryden. An opponent; resisting power. 8. Not within. War may be defined the exercise of violeace When the weather hinders me from taking under sovereign command against withstanders; mv diversions without doors, I frequently make force, authority, and resistance being the essere a little party with select friends. Addison. tial parts thereof. Ratzie. 9. With exemption from. Withwi'nd. n. s. [convolvulus, Latin.] The great lords of Ireland informed the king, An herb. that the Irishry might not be naturalized wil Wi'thy. n. s. [piðir, Saxon.) Willow. out damage to themselves or the crown. Davies. A tree. Happiness under this view every one con- Witless. adj. (from wit.] Wanting stantly pursues. Other things, acknowledged to be good, he can look upon witbout desire, pass understanding ; inconsiderate; wanting by, and be content without. Locke. thought. Witho'ur, adv. Why then should witless man so much miso . Not on the inside. That nothing is but that which he hath seen? Forming trees and shrubs into sundry shapes, Spesset, is done by moulding them within, and cutting I have ever lov'd the life remov'd; them witbout. Bacon. And held in idle price to haunt assemblies, Wise men use studies; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without Where youth, and cost, and witless brav'ry keeps. Sbakas them, and above them, won by observation. So 't pleas'd my destiny, Bacon. These were from without the growing mise. Guilty of my sin of going, to think me ries. Milton. As vain, as witless, and as false as they Doare, Having gone as far as they could witbout, they Grow. began to observe them within. He kept us slaves, by which we fitly prove That witless pity breedeth fruitless love. Feirf. 2. Out of doors. The apple's outward form, The reception of light into the body of the Delectable, the witless swain beguiles, building was very prompt from witlout and Till with a writhen mouth and spátteriog noise from within. Wotton. He tastes the bitter morsel and rejects. Pbuzda, Their doors are barr'd against a bitter flout; Snarl, if you please, but you shall snarl witbout. WI'TUING. 1. s. (diminutive of wit.) A Dryden. pretender to wit; a man of petty smart. 3. Externally ; not in the mind. WITHO'UT. conjunct. Unless ; if not i You have taken off the senseless ridicule except. Not in use, except in conversa. which for many years the witlings of the town tion. have turned upon their fathers and mothers. I find my love shall be proved no love, without Spestetsr. Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our I leave to love, being too unfit a vessel in whom isle Bo high thoughts shall be engraved. Sidney. You will never live to my age, without you As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile. Peps. keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in A beau and witling perish'd in the throng; heart with joyfulness. Sidney: One died in metaphor, and one in song. Popis Wi’tness. 5. s. (pieneste, Saxon.] Clear as the sky, withouten blame or blot, An evil soul producing holy witness Starry. ween ness. May we, with the warrant of womanhood, and hook there were many subjects that I had the witness of a good conscience, pursue him thought on for the stage. Dryder. with any further revenge? Shaksp. Witness for me, ye awful gods! Rowe, Many bare false witness, but their witness Witsess. interj. An exclamation signi. agreed not. Marb. fying that person or thing may attest it. Nor was long his witness unconfirm'd. Milt. For want of words, or lack of breath, Ye moon and stars, bear witness to the truth! Witness, when I was worried with thy peals. His only crime, if friendship can offend, is too much love to his unhappy friend. Dryden. Wi'TSNAPPER. n. s. (wit and snap.] One Milton Our senses bear witness to the truth of each other's report, concerning the existence of ser who affects repartee. sible things. Loske. Go in, sirrah; bid them prepare for dinner. -That is done, sir; they have all stomachs. 2. One who gives testimony. -What a wits rapper are you! Sbaksp The king's attorney WI'TTED. adj. (from wit.] Having wit; Urg'd on examinations, proofs, confessions or diverse witnesses. Shakspe.ire. as, a quick wiited boy. God is witness betwixt me and thee. Genesis. Wi'TTICISM. n. s. (froin witty.) A mean Thy trial choose attempt at wit. This word Dryden inWith me, best witness of thy virtue tried. novated. • A mighty witticism, pardon Milton. a new word.' Držuen's preface to the A fat benefice became a crime, and witness State of Innocence. too against its incumbent. Decay of Piety. Nor need I speak my deeds, for these you see; We have a libertine fooling even in his last aganies, with a witticism between his teeth, The sun and day are witnesses for ine. Dryder, without any regard to sobriety and conscience. 3. With a Witness. Effectuaily; to a L'Estrange. great degree, so as to leave some lasting He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, mark or testimony behind. A low and witticisms, all which are below the dignity of hercick verse. Addison, phrase. Here was a blessing handed out with the first Wi'ttily, adv. [from witty. ] pairs of animals at their creation, and it had 1. Ingeniously ; cunningly, artfully. effect with a witness. Woodward. But is there any other beast that lives, Now gall is bitter wirb a witness; Who his own harm so wittily contrives? Dryd. And love is all delight and sweetness. Prior. 3. With flight of imagination. To Wi'TNESS. v. a. [from the noun.) To In conversation wittily pleasant, pleasantly attest; to tell with asseveration. gamesome. Sidney. There ran a rumour The old hermit, that never saw pen and ink, Of many worthy fellows that were out, very rittily said to a niece of king Gordobuck, Which was to my belief witnessid the rather, that that is, is. Sbakspeare Obstinate contemners of all helps and arts, For that I saw the tyrant's pow'r a-foot. Sbads, Though by the father he were hir'd to this, such as, presuming on their natural parts, dare He ne'er could witness any touch or kiss. deride all diligence, and seem to mock at the Donne, terms when they understand not the things, These be those discourses of God, whose ef think that way to get off wittily with their ignofects those that live witness in themselves; the rance. Ben Jonson. sensible in their sensible natures, the reasonable Wi'TTINESS. , s. (from witty.) The in their reasonable souls. Raleigh quality of being witty. To Wi’TNESS. w.n. To bear testimony: No less deserveth his qvittiness in devising, his The sea strave with the winds which should pithiness in uttering, his pastoral rudeness, and be louder, and the shrouds of the ship, with a his moral wiseness. Spenser. ghastly noise, to them that were in it witnessed Wi'TTINGLY. adv. [from witting, know, that their ruin was the wager of the others contention. Sidney. ing; pitan, Saxon, to weet or know.) Mine eye doth his effigies witness Knowingly; not ignorantly; with Most truly limn'd and living in your face. knowledge ; by design. Sbakspeare. Whatsoever we work as men, the same we do Witness, you ever-burning lights above ! witlingly work and freely; neither are ve, acYou elements that clip us round about ! cording to the manner of natural agents, any Witness that here lago now doth give way so tied, but that it is in our power to leave The execution of his wit, hands, and heart things we do undone. Hooker. To Othello's service. Sbakspeare. Withhold revenge, 'tis not my fault, Nor wittingly have I infring'd my vow. Sbaksp. Shall witness I set forth as soon as you. Sbaksp. During that dreadful siege, every particular I witness to accident for brevity I wittingly pass over. The times that brought them in. Shaksp. Knoldes, Another beareth witness of me, and I know He knowingly and wittingly brought evil into that the witness which he witnessetb of me is the world. More. true. Jobr. No forger of lies willingly and wittingly furThe Americans do acknowledge and speak of nished out the means of his own detection. the deluge in their continent, as Acosta witnesse West. atb, and Laet, in the histories of them. Burnet. WI'TTOL. n. s. (pittol, Saxon, from Witness, ye heavens! I live not by my fault, I strove to have deservd the death I sought. pitan, to know.) A man who knows the Dryden. falsehood of his wife, and seems conLord Falkland witnesses for me, that in a tented; a tame cuckold. name. O Mars, for what doth serve thy armed ax? Patience, good lady; wizards know their To let that witold beast consume in flames times. Szakspearts Thy Venus child. Sidney. He hearkens after prophecies and dreams, Amaimon sounds well; Lucifer well; yet And from the cross-rox plucks the letter G; they are the names of fiends: but cuckold, crit- And says, a wizord told him that by G tol, the devil himself hath not such a name. His issue disinherited should be. Sérkspeare. Sbakspeare. That damn’d wizard, hid in sly disguise, The Theban wittol, when he once descries For so by certain signs I knew, had met Jove is his rival, falls io sacrifice. Cleaveland. Already, ere my best speed could prevent, WITTOLLY. adj. (froin wittol.] Cuck- The aidless innocent lady, his wish'd prey.. Miltese oldly. The jealous wittolly knave hath masses of The prophecies of wizards old money: Sbakspears. Walker. Wi'tty. adj. [from wit.] The wily wizord must be caught, 1. Judicious; ingenious; inventive. For, unconstrain'd, he nothing tells for nought. 'The deep-revolving, witty Buckingham, Drydes. No more shall be the neighbour to my counsels. Wo. n. s. [pa, Saxon.) $1.7kspeare: Thou art beautiful in thy countenance, and 1. Grief; sorrow; misery; calamity. The king is mad: how stiff is my vile sease, witty in thy words. Juditb. 2. Full of imagination. That I stand up and have ingenious feeling Histories make men wise, poets witty, the Of my huge sorrows! better I were distract; So should mythoughts be sever'd from my griets; mathematick subtile. Bacon. Where there is a real stock of wit, yet the And zuers, by wrenimaginations, lose The knowledge of themselves. Sbakspeare. wittiest sayings will be found in a great measure the issues of chance. Soutb. So many miseries have craz'd my voice, In gentle verse the zitty told their fame, That my woe-weary'd tongue is still. Sbalsp. Her rash hand in esil hour And grac'd their choicest songs with Emma's Forth reaching to the fruit, Eve pleck'd, she eat: Prior. Earth felt the wound; and nature irom her seat 3. Sarcastick; full of taunts. Sighing through all her works, gave signs of us Honeycomb, who was so unmercifully quitty That all was lost. upon the women, has given the ladies ample sa O'er dreary wastes they weep each other's see. tisfaction by marrying a farmer's daughter. Spict. Pete. Wi'TWAL. n. s. (virco, Lat.] A bird. 2. It is often used in denunciations, we Ainsworth be; or in exclamations of sorrow, wais; Wi'tworm. n. s. (wit and worm.] One anciently wo wurth; pa purð, Saxon. that feeds on wit; a canker of wit. All is but lip wisdom rhich wants experience: Thus to come forth so suddenly a riitorm. I now', wo is me, do try what love can do. Sidny. Ben Jonson. It'o is my heart; To Wive. v. n. (froni wife.) To marry; That poor soldier, that so richly fought, to take a wife. Whose rags sham'd gilded arms, whose naked Were she as rough breast As are the swelling Adriatick seas, "Siept before shields of proof, cannot be found. Sbakipears. Shaksp. I come to wive it wealthily in Padua. The ancient saying is no beresy, Many of our princes, woe the wbile! Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. Shaksp. Lie drown'd and soakd in mercenary blood. A shop of all qualities that man loves woman Sbakspeert. for; besides that book of wiving, fairness, which Happy are they which have been my friends; strikes the eye. Shaksp. Sbatspeare. Ezerid. Howl ye, wo worth the day. Design or chance makes others wive, But nature did this match contrive. Waller. Wo be to the shepherds of Israel that do feel Ezekiel them selves. TO WIVE. V. a. 1. To match to a wife. Wois me for my hurt, my wound is grievous. ". Jerrolab. She dying gave it me; He took and laid it by, and wept for a And bid me, when my fate would have me Chaparan. wiv'd, If God be such a being as I have described, 'To give it her. Sbakspeare. wo to the world if it were without him : thuis 2. To take for a wife. would be a thousand times greater loss to magIf he have the condition of a saint, and the kind than the extinguishing of the sun. complexion of a devil, I had rather he should Tillsica. shrive me than wive ine. Sbakspeare. Woe to the vanquish'd, wr! Drydess Wively. adv. (from wives. It were 3. A denunciation of calamity; written more analogically wifely, that Can there be a wo or curse in all the stores is, wife-like.) Belonging to a wife. of vengeance equal to the malignity of such s Basilius could not abstain from praising Par practice, of which one single instance could inthenia, as the perfect picture of a womanly vir volve all mankind in one confusion ? tue, and wively faithfulness. Sidney. 4. Wo seems in phrases of denunciation or Wives. n. s. The plural of wife. imprecation to be a substantive, and in A man of his learning should not so lightly exclamation an adjective; as particuhave been carried away with old wives tales, larly in the following lines, which seem from approvance of his own reason. Spenser. improper and ungrammatical : WIZARD. n. s. (from wise.) A conjurer; Wo are we, sir! you may not live to wear an in hanter; a he witch. It had pro- All your true followers out. Sbakspeart. bably at first a laudable meaning. WOAD. 1. s. (pad, Sax. glastum, Lat.) A ; a curse. Sextb. a plant cultivated for the dyers, who use Advance our waving colours on the walls, it for the foundation of many colours. Rescued is Orleans from the English wolves. Miller. Sbakspeare In times of old, when British nymphs were No, rather I abjure all roofs, and chuse To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,, known Necessity's sharp pinch. To love no foreign fashions like their own; Sbakspeare. If wolves had at thy gate howld that stern When dress was monstrous, and fig-leaves the time, mode, Thou shouldst have said, Go, porter, turn the And quality put on no paint but woad. Garth. key, WoʻBEGONE. adj. (wo and begone. ] Lost All cruel's else subscrib'd. Sbakspeare in wo; distracted in WO; overwhelmed 2. An eating ulcer. with sorrow. How dangerous it is in sensible things to use Such a man, metaphorical expressions, and what absurd conSo dull, so dead in look, so woebegone, ceits the vulgar will swallow in the literals, an Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, example we have in our profession, who having And would have told him half his Troy was called an eating ulcer by the name of wolf, comburn'd; mon apprehension conceives a reality therein. But Priam found the fire, ere he his tongue. Brown. 1. A dog of a very large breed kept to For Ochy, as the isle of ancient Avalon? Drayton. guard sheep. Tancred he saw his life's joy set at nought, The luckless prey how treach'rous tumblers So woebegone was he with pains of love. gain, Fairfax. And dauntless wolfilogs shake the lion's mane. WoFt. The obsolete participle passive Ticket from To waft. 2. A dog supposed to be bred between a A braver choice of dauntless spirits dog and wolf. Than now the English bottoms have woft, WoʻLFISH. adj. [from wolf. ] Resembling Did never float upon the swelling tide. Sbaksp. a wolf in qualities or form. WoʻFUL, adj. (wo and full.] Thy desires 1. Sorrowful; afflicted; mourning. Are wolfish, bloody, starv'd, and ravenous. The woful Gynecia, to whom rest was no Sbakspeare. I have another daughter, ease, had left her lothed lodging, and gotten herself into the solitary places those deserts Who, I am sure, is kind and comfortable; were full of. Sidney. When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails How many woful widows left to bow She'll Hea thy wolfish visage. Shakspeare. To sad disgrace! Daniel. Nothing more common than those wolfisb In a tow'r, and never to be loosd, back-friends in all our pretensions. L'Estrange. The woful captive kinsmen are inclos'd. Dryd. A pretence of kindvess is the universal stale 2. Calamitous; afflictive. to all base projects; ail walf sh designs walk inWilful extravagance ends in woful want. der sheep's clothing. Govern. of the Tongur. Proverbs. WO'LFSBANE. n. s. [wolf and bane ; acoO woful day! O day of woe! Pbilips. mitum, Latin.) A poisonous plant; aco3. Wretched; paltry; sorry, nite. Miller. What woful stuff this madrigal would be, Wolfsbane is an early flower. Mortimer, In some starv'd hackney-sonneteer, or me? WoʻLFSMILK. n. s. (tithymallus, Latin.) But let a lord once own the happy lines, An herb. Ainsworth. How the wit brightens! how the style refines ! Wol'vish. adj. [from wolves, of wolf; Pope. Wo'fully. adv. [from woful.] wolfish is more proper.) Resembling a wont. 1. Sorrowfully; mournfully. Why in this relvish gown do I stand here, 2. Wretchedly: in a sense of contempt. To beg of Hob and Dick? Sbakspeare. He who would pass such a judgment upon his My people are grown half wild, they would condition, as shall be confirmed at that great not worry one another so in that wclvisb bela tribunal, from which there lies no appeal, will lune manner else. Howel, knd himself wofully deceived, if he judges of his There is a base walvish principle within that spiritual estate by any of these measures. South. is gratified with another's misery, Sonte, WOʻFULNESS. n. š. (from wofül.] Mi. WOMAN. n. s. (pişman, fimman, Sax. sery; calamity. whence we yet pronounce women, in Woud. n. s. Wold, whether singly or the plural, wimmen. Skinner and Wallis.] jointly, in the names of places, signifies 1. The female of the human race. a plain open country; from the Saxon That man who hath a tongue is no man, pold, a plain and a place without wood. If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. Gibson, Sbakspeare, Wold and wall with the Saxons signitied a Thou dotard, thou art woman-tir'd, unroosted ruler or governour; from whence bertrield is a By thy dame Partlet here. famous governour; atbelwold a noble governour; Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible; berwild, and by inversion waldber, a general of Thou stern, obdurate, fiinty, rough, remorseless. an army. Gibson. Shakspeare. WOLF (palf, Saxon ; wolf, Dutch.) And Abimelech took men servants and won Genesis. 1. A kind of wild dog that devours sheep: O roman, lovely zeoman, nature formd thee thence any thing ravenous or destruc To temper mani we had been brutes without tive. thee. Oiway. Sbakspeare. men servants. |