: Sbakse. states. a W OU Think of her worth, and think that God did To Wot. v. n. (pitan, Saxon : whence mean, weet, to know; of which the preterit This worthy mind should everthy things embrace: was wot, knew; which by degrees was Blot noć her beauties with thy thoughts un mistaken for the present tense.] To clean, Nor her dishonour with thy passion base. know; to be aware. Obsolete. Davies. The sale of reformation they mightily call Happier thou mayst be, wortbier cangt not be. for, but where, and what the sores are which Milton. need it, as they wot full little, so they think not greatly material to search. Hooker. 3. Having worth; having virtue. Well I wot, compar'd to all the rest Of each degree that beggar's life is best. Spenser. More water glidech by the mill Sbakspeare. Than wots the miller of. Wot you what I found? Forsooth, an inventory, thus importing. Sbakspworthy person to employ himself about. Digby. Wove. The preterit and participle pasa We see, though order'd for the best, sive of weave. Permitted laurels grace the lawless brow, Adam, waiting her return, had wove Th’unworthy rais'd, the worthy cast below. Of choicesc Aow'rs a garland. Milton Dryden. Woʻven. The part. pass. of weave. 4. Not good. A term of ironical con WOULD. The preterit of will. mendation. 1. It is generally used as an auxiliary verb My worthy wife our arms mislaid, with an infinitive, to which it gives the And from beneath my head my sword convey'd; fo:ce of the subjunctive mood. 'The door unlatch'd, and with repeated calls Invites her former lord within my walls. Dryd. If God's providence did not so order it, cheats 5. Suitable for any quality good or bad; woll daily' be committed, which would justle private men out of their rights, and unhinge equal in value ; equal in dignity. Flowers wortby of paradise. Milton, Reg. 2. I WOULD do it. My resolution is that Thou, Drances, art below a death from me: Let that vile soul in that vile body rest, it should be done by me. The lodging is well worthy of the guest. Dryd, Thou Wou'LDEST do it. Such must be the My suft'rings for you make your heart my consequence to thee, that such should due; Be worthy me, as I am worthy you. Dryden. be thy act. He WOULD, or it would. This must be 6. Suitable to any thing bad. The merciless Macdonald, the consequence to him or it, that sucha Worthy to be a rebel; for to that should be bis act, or its eifect. The multiplying villanies of nature 3. The p!ural as the singular. Do swarm upon him. Shekspeare. To themselves they live, 7. Deserving of ill. And to their island, chat enough would give What has he done to Rome that's worthy A good inhabitant. Chapean. death? Sbakspeare. He, by the rules of his own mind, could conIf the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, strue no other end of men's doings but selfthe judge shall cause him to be beaten. Deuter. seeking, suddenly feared what they could do, and WO'RTHY.,n.s. (from the adjective.) A as suddenly sus; ected what they would do, and as suddenly hated them, as having both might man laudable for any eminent quality, and mind so to do. Sidney. particulariy for valour. There are several who would, or at least preSuch as are constellated unto knowledge come tend they would, bear inuch in their own busishort of themselves if they go not beyond others, ness, who will hear nothing at all. Keltlewell. and must not sit down under the degree of wor- 4. Was or am resolved; I wish or wished thies. Broun. to ; I am or was willing, It were a matter of more trouble than neces She would give her a lesson for walking se sity, to repeat in this quarrel what has been of lace, that should make her keep within doors ledged by the wortbies of our church. Holyday. for one fortnight. What do these wortbies Sidney. Jealous Philoclea, that was even jealous of Milton. herself; for Zelmane would needs have her No worthies forni'd by any muse but thine glove. Could purchase robes to make themselves so You would be satisfied !-- -Would? nay, and will. Shakspeare. They know not what they are, nor what they For this day's palm, and for thy former acts, would be, any further than that they would not Thou, Arthur, hast acquir'd a future fame, be what they are. And of three christian wortbies art the first. L'Estrange. Dryden. ple ideas belonging to each sense: nor indeed is historians. Tatler, it possible, if we would: there being a great many more of them belonging to most of the To Woʻrthy. v. a. (from the adjective.] senses than we have names for. Locke. To render worthy ; to aggrandise; to By pleasure and pain ! zould be understood exalt. Not used. to signify, whatsoever delights or molests us, whether from the thoughts of our minds, or any He conjunct tripp'd me behind; And put upon hiin such a deal of man, thing operating on our bodies. Lorké. That wortbied him; got praises of the king, 5. It is a familiar term for wish to do, or For him attempting who was self-subdued. Sladstearoa What wouldst thou with us? Sbaksp. Sidnes. a to have. Mr. Slender, what would you with me! Seratch thee but with a pin, and there remains I would little or nothing with you. Shaksp. Some scar of is. Stat.pears. 6. Should wish. He, stooping, open'd my left side, and took From thence a rib: wide was the wound, But suddenly fill'd up and heal’d. Miltar. Nor would that he record your blame, Noi poison, but a wound, the soldier slew. And make it live; repeat the same: Rote. Again deceive him, and again, The aliment of such as have fresh pounds And then he swears he'll not complain. Waller. should be mild, without stimulaung or saline 7. It is used in old authors for should. substances. Arbuttset. The excess of dier would be avoided. Bacon. They feel the smart and see the scar of their As for percolation, which belongeth to sepa. former pounds; and know that they must be ration, trial would be made by clarifying by ad made a sacrifice to the least attempt tos ards 2 hesion, with milk put into new beer and stirred cirange. Seit. with it. Bacon. To WOUND. v.a. (from the noun.) To &. It has the signification of I wish, or i hurt by violence. pray. This, I believe, is improper, and Th’untented woundings of a father's curse Pierce ev'ry sense about thee. Sbakspeare fornied by a gradual corruption of the I kill, and I make alive ; I wound, and I heal. phrase, would God; which originally Deuters sexy. imported, that God would, might God The battle went sore against Saul, and the will, -might God decree, From this archers hit him, and he was sore wounded phrase, ill understood, came would to 1 Szeze He was wounded for our transgressions, he was God, thence I would to God; and thence bruised for our iniquities. Isaial. I would, or elliptically would, came to When ye sin so against the brethren, and signify I wish: and so it is used even wound their weak conscience, ye sin agatast in good authors, but ought not to be Christ. I Corintdians. imitated. Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz, yearly woundech Milts Heroes of old, when crounded, shelter sorghi. I, this sound I better know. Sbakspeare. Dryta. Wise men will do it without a law; I would The savages wounded Atkins, and slew bis fole lowers. Bacon. there might be a law to restrain fools. Rebiases Crass. List! I would I could hear mo. Ben Jonsor. WOUND. The preterit and participle pas. Would to heaven that youth such spirit did sive of wind. feed He had saisd to every ayyy blos Now in my nerves, and that my joints were knit A front of great height; and in such a place With such a strength, as made me then held fit That round ye might behold, of circular grace, To lead men with Ulysses. Cbapman. Chapman These mathematical engines cannot be so Of our design: within rests more of fear easily and speedily wound up, and so certainly Than, my most worthy lords, I would there levelled, as the other. Daniel The parliament being called here, and the Would thou hadst hearken’d to my words, main setilement of Ireland wound up in Kreland, and stay'd and put into the duke of Ormond's hands to pass With me, as I be sought thee, when that strange here into an act, all persons came over in a shoal. Desire of wand'ring, this unhappy morn, Possess'd thee. Milton. Would God we might prevent the need of such WOU'NDER.n. s. [from wound.] He unkindly expedients, and, by a thankful sense that wounds. of what we have, provide to conserve it. WOU'NDLESS. adj. [from woand.) Ex Decay of Piety. empt from wounds. I scarce am pleas'd, I tamely mount the Wow'NDWORT. 11, s. (vulneraria, Lat.) throne; A plant. Miller. Wiuld Aurengzebe had all their souls in one. Dryden. WOU'NDY. adj. Excessive. A low bad And would to heav'n the storm you felt would word. bring We have a world of holidays; that 'tis a On Carthaginian coasts your wand'ring king. woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by Dryden. his labour. L'Estrange: WOU'LDING. 1. s. [from would.] Mo., These stockings of Susan's cost a wexasy deal tion of desire ; disposition to any thing; of pains the pulling on. Woxe. S Obsolete. That all the three the great wex much afraid. WOUND, 1. s. (pund, Sax. wonde, Dut.] Spensere A hurt given by violence. Woʻxen. The participle of To waz. ObI am faint: my gashes cry for help solete. Spenser. a wretch. The poets use wrack or were. Gay. thee i Watts the later writers of prose commonly You should be free in every answer, rather wreck. See WRECK.) like well-bred gentlemen in police conversation, than like noisy and contentious wranglers. s. Destruction of a ship by winds or rocks. The captious turn of an habitual wrangler Now with full sails into the port I move, deadens the understanding, sours the temper, And safely can unlade my breast of love, and hardens the heart. Beattie, Quiet and calm: why should I then go back, TO WRAP. v. a. preterit and part. pass. To tempt the second hazard of a wrack? Dryd. 2. Ruin; destruction. This the true wrapped or wrapt. [hpeonpian, Saxon, Şaxon meaning to turn; wreffler, Danish.) With use of evil, growing more and more evil, 1. To roll together ; to complicate. Peter seeth the napkin that was about his head they took delight in slaughter, and pleased themselves in making others wrack the effect of their wrapped together by itself. Fobno power. Sidney. part, A world devote to universal wrack. Milton. He 'gan the same together fold and wrap. TO WRACK. v. a. (from the noun.] Fairfax. 2. To involve; to cover with something 1. To destroy in the water; to wreck. rolled or thrown round. It has often Sce WRECK. 2. It seems in Milton to mean, to rock; the particle up intensive. Nilus opens wide to shake. His arms and ample boson to the tide, Milton. In which he wraps his queen, and hides the fly. 3. To torture; to torment. This is ing host. Dryden. commonly written rack; and the in. Wise poets, that wrap truth in tales, strument of torture always rack. Knew her theniselves through all her veils. Carote. The sword made bright is wrapt up for the slaughter. Ezekiel. wracked bevond their syinbolization. Brown. Their vigilance to elude, I, wraptin mist TO WRA'NGLE. v.a. [from wrangheseur, Of midnight vapour, glide obscure. Milton. Wrap candles up in paper. Dutch, Minshew. wrong, Skinner.] To Swift. dispute peevishly; to quarrel perverse 3. To comprise; to contain. Leontine's young wife, in whom all his haply; to altercate ; to squabble. piness was wrapt my, died in a few days after Yes, for a score of kingdoins you sbould the death of her daughter. Addisotho wrangle, 4. TO WRAP up. To involve totally. And I would call it fair play. Sbakspears. Some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up awhile; Lending me this acquaintance. Sbakspeare. Though great ones are their object. Shakespeare. King John fled to Lascus, who was careful How wounding a spectacle is it to see those, how to comfort him, wrapt up in so many calawho were by Christ designed for fishers of men, mities, after the loss of his kingdom, Knolles. picking up shells on the shore, and unmanly Things reflected on, in gross and transiently, wrangling about them too. Decay of Picty. carry the shew of nothing but difficulty in them, In incoinpleat ideas we impose on ourselves, and are thought to be wrapped up in impeneand wrangle with others. Locke. Locke. 5. [It is often corruptly written for rap scrupulously ideas, but confound them with words, there must be endless dispute and or rapt, from rapio, Latin.] To snatch wrangling Locke. up miraculously His great application to the law had not in- Whatever things were discovered to St. Paul, fected his temper with any thing litigious; he when he was wrapped up into the third beaven, did not know what it was to wrangle on indif- all the description he makes is, that there are ferent points. Addison. such things as eye hath not seen, ear heard, nor Fill'd with the sense of age, the fire of youth, hath it entered into the heart of man to conA scorn of wrangling, yet a zeal for truth. Pope. ceive. Locke, And all the question, rangle e'er so long, 6. To transport; to put in ecstacy: for Is only this, if God has plac'd him wrong? Pope. rapt. He advises therefore to set aside all logical Much more the reverent sire prepar'd to say, wranglings, and to produce the testimonies of Wrapp'd with his joy, how the two armies lay. the antients. Waterland, Cowley WRA'NGLE. n. s. [from the verb.) A 7. Perhaps the following passage should quarrel ; a perverse dispute, properly be rapped; though wrapped is The giving the priest a right to the tithe, would produce law-suits and wrangles. Swift. now frequently used in this sense. Wrap: up in silent fear he lies. Waller, WRA'NGLER. n. s. [from wrangle. ] A Wrapp'd in amaze the matrons wildly stare. perverse, peevish, disputative man. Dryden. Tell him 'h'ath made a match with such a WRA'PPER. 2. S. [from wrap.) wrangler, 1. One that wraps. That all the courts of France will be disturbid With chases. Shakspeare 2. That in which any thing is wrapped. Lord, the house and family are thine, My arms were pressed to my sides, and my Though some of them repine; legs closed together by so many wrappers, that Turn out these wranglers which defile thy seal, I looked like an Egyptian mummy. “Spectator. For where thou dwellest all is geat. Herbert, WRATH. 4. $. Çprað, Saxon; wreden Pope. W RE Danish; tureed, cruel, Dutch.] Anger; To distant climes; then think what certain vera fury ; rage. geance Thou dost the prayers of the righteous seed His rage may wreak on your unhappy orphan. Suité. Present before the majesty divine, Her husband scour'd away And his avenging wretb to clemency incline. Spenser. To wrcak his hunger on the destin'd prey. Pepe 3. With one fool's head I came to woo, It is corruptiy written for reck, to heeu; to care. But I go away with two: Sweet, adieu! I'll keep my oath, My master is of churlish disposition, Patiently to bear my wrath. Shakspeare. And little wreaks to find the way to heav'n I fear, lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, By doing deeds of hospitality. Sbakspears strises. Corinthians, WREAK. n. s. [from the verb.) 1. Revenge; vengeance. Obsolete. The present, fearing guilty what his wrath Fortune, mine avowed foe, Milton. Might suddenly inflict. Her wrathiui wreaks themselves do now allaş. Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess! sing. Join with the Goths, and with revengetul war Take wreak on Rome for this ingratitude, WRARTHFUL. adj. [wrath and full.] And vengeance on the traitor Saturnine. Stats Angry; furious ; raging. Some ill's behind, rude swaine, for thee io He cried, as raging seas are wont to roar, beare; When wintry storm his wrathful wreck doth That'fear'd not to devoure thy guests, and breake threat. Spenser. All laws of humanes; Jove sends therefore Fly frorn wrath : wrecke. Coapsun. Sad be the sights, and bitter fruits of war, 2. Passion ; furious fit. Obsolete. And thousand furies wait on wrailful swords. What and if Spenser. His sorrows have so overwhelm'd his wits, How now? your wrathful weapons drawn! Shall we be thus afflicted in his wreaks, Shakspeare. His fits, his frenzy, and his bitterness? Sbatspa The true evangelical zeal should abound more WREAKFUL. adj. (trom wreak.) Re. in the mild and good-natured affections, than the vengeful; angry. Not in use, Sprat. vehement and wrathful passions. Call the creatures, WRA'THFULLY. adv. [from wrathjul.] Whose naked natures live in all the spite Furiously ; passionately. Of wreakful heaven. Sbakspeare. Gentle friends, She in Olympus' top Must visit Vulcan for new arms, to serve her Let 's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully. Sbakspeare. Cbapties. WRE'AKLESS. adj. [I know not whether WRA’THLESS. adj. [from wrath.] Free this word be miswritten for reckless, froin anger: carelėss; or comes from wreak, seBefore his feet so sheep and lions lay, Fearless and wratbless, while they heard him venge, and means unrevenging.) Waller. So flies the wreakless shepherd from the wolfi play. So first the harmless flock doth yield his teece, TO WREAK. v. a. old preterit and part. And next his chroat unto the butcher's knite. pass. wroke and wroken, now wrecked. Sbalspeart. It is likely that the word wrought, WREATH. n. s. (preot, Saxon.] which is only used in the past tense, is 1. Any thing curled or twisted. originally the preterit of wreak. (prz- The wreatb of three was made a wreath of five; to these three first titles of the two houses, çan, Saxon; wrecken, Dutch; rocken, were added the authorities parliamentary and German.) papal. Baos 2. To revenge. Clouds began To darken all the hill, and smoke to roll In dusky wreaths reluctant flames, Miltor Him all that while occasion did provoke He of his tortuous train Against Pyrocles, and new matter fram'd Curl'd many a wanton wreath. Miltera. Upon the old, him stirring to be wroke Let altars smoak, Of his late wrongs. Spenser. And richest gums, and spice, and incense roll Pale death our valiant leader hath opprest : Their fragrant weatbs to heav'n. Swib Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye com 2. A garland; a chaplet. Fairfax. plain. Now are our brows bound with victorious You could pursue wreatbs, The son of Perops then, and did the goddess Our bruised arms hung up for monuments. stir Sbakspears. That vilainy to break the tyrant did to her. Drayton. Dropp'd from his head, a wreath lay on the ground. Roscommes. 2. To execute any violent design. This The boughs of Lotos, form'd into a wreath, is the sense in which it is now used. This monument thy maiden beauty's due, On me let death wreak all his rage. Milton. High on a plane-tree shall be hung to view. He left the dame, Dryden. Resolv'd to spare her life, and save her shame, When for thy head the garland I prepare, But that detested object to remove, A second wreath shall bind Aminta's hair; To wreak his vengeance, and to cure her love. And when my choicest songs thy worth proclaim, Dryden. Alternate verse shall bless Aminta's name. Think how you drove him hence, a wand’ning To WREATH, V. a. preterit wreatbed Prier, exile, a part. pass. wreathed, wreathen. (from Not only Paradise, the noun.] In this commotion, but the starry cope 1. To curl, to twist; to convolve. Had gone to wreck. Milton The soul shall Hourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, Nor ever laid his wreathed arms athwart The wréck of matter, and the crush of worlds. Addison, Whether he was With hidden help and 'vantage; or that with both The opening of his mouth; but suddenly, He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not. Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, Shaksprare. And with indented glides did slip away. Shakop. 4. It is misprinted here for wreak. The beard of an oat is wreatbed at the bottom, He cried as raging seas are wont to roar, and one smooth entire straw at the top: they When wintry storm his wrathful wreck doth take only the part that is wriatbeil, and cut off threat. Spenser. the other. Bacon. s. The thing wrecked : as, the ship was 2. It is here used for to writhe. considered as a wreck. To WRECK. v.a. (from the noun.) Gay. sands. wherein she hath wretchedly been wrecked? Two chains of pure gold, of wreathen work, Spenser. shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreatben A pilot's thumb, chains to the ouches. Exodus. Wreck'd as homeward he did come. Shakspeare. As snakes breed in dunghills not singly, but The coral found growing upon wrecked ships in knots, so in such base noisome hearts you shall and lost anchors, that are daily dragged up out ever sec pride and ingratitude indivisibly wreathe of the sea, demonstrates that coral continues to ed and twisted together. South. Woodwarch 4. To encircle as a garland. 2. To ruin. In the flowers that wriath the sparkling bowl Weak and envied, if they should conspire, They wreck themselves, and he hath his desire. Daniel. s. To encircle as with a garland; to dress 3. In the following passages it is ignoin a garland. rantly used for wreak, in its different For thee she feeds her hair, serses of revenge and execute. And with thy winding ivy wreatbes her lance. Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen, Digden. And each hour's joy wreck'd with a week of teen. Sbakspeare, Prior. O cruel, couldst thou tind none other 9. WREATH. v.n. To be interwoven ; To wreck thy spleen on, parricide! to be intertwined. Like Nero, thou hast slain ihy mother. Prior. With manlier objects we must try Dryden. Of worth, of honour, glory, and popular praise, WRI'ATHY. Zdj. [from wreath.] Spaal; Rocks whereon greatest men have often wreck'd. curled; twisted. Milton. That which is preserved at St. Dennis, near WREN. n. s. sprenna, Saxon ; regulus, Paris, hain aureatly spires, and cochleary turn. Latin.) A small bird. ings about, which agreeth with the description of The poor wren, an unicorn's horn in Elian. Brown. The most diminutive of birds, will fight, WRECK. n. s. (præcce, Saxon, a miser- Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. able person ; wracke, Dutch, a ship Sbakspeare. broken.] All ages have conceived that the wren is the least of birds; yet the discoveries of America 3. Destruction by being driven on rocks have shewed us one far less, the hum-bird, not or shallow's at sea; destruction by sea. much exceeding a beetle. Brown. To WRENCH. v. a. (pringan, Saxon; Spenser. force. Wrench his sword from him. Sbalspeare. Oh form! Daniel. Sbakspeare. Sbakspeare Dryden. Crsar's army, wanting something, demanded 2. Dissolution by violence. a inission or lischarge, with no intencion it |