My prayers Spenser. Are not words duly hallow'd, nor my wishes If attention be duly engaged to those reflections, they cannot fail of influence. 2. Regularly; exactly. Seldom at church, 'twas such a busy life; But duly sent his family and wife. Pope. DUMB. adj. [17 he was silent; dumbs, Gothick; dumbe, Sax. dum, Danish; dom, Dut. dull.] 1. Mute; incapable of speech. It hath pleased himself sometime to unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures, and to teach them to plead in their own defence, lest the cruelty of man should persist to afflict them. Hooker. They spake not a word; But like dumb statues or unbreathing stones, Star'd each on other. Shakesp. Rich. III. Some positive terms signify a negative idea; blind implies a privation of sight, dumb a denial of speech. Watts's Logick. 2. Deprived of speech. They sung no more, or only sung his fame; Struck dumb, they all admir'd the godlike man. Dryden. 3. Mute; not using words. He is a proper man's picture; but, alas! who can converse with a dumb show? Shakesp. Merchant of Venice. His gentle dumb expression turn'd at length The eye of Eve to mark his play. Milton. Her humble gestures made the residue plain, Dumb eloquence persuading more than speech. Roscommon. For he who covets gain in such excess Dryden's Juvenal. Nothing is more common than for lovers to To DUMBFOUND. v. a. [from dumb.] To They had like to have dumfounded the justice; Sing no more ditties, sing no more Since summer first was leafy. Sh. Much Ado. ance. Funerals with stately pomp March slowly on in solemn dump. Hudibras. The squire who fought out bloody stumps, Gay's Pastorals. This shame dumps cause to well-bred people, DU'MPISH. adj. [from dump.] Sad; me- New year, forth looking out of Janus' gate, The life which I live at this age is not a dead, DUMPLING. n. s. [from dump, heaviness.] Pudding and dumpling burn to pot. Dryden. 1. A colour partaking of brown and black. We are not to expect a strong and full white, such as is that of paper; but some dusky obscure one, such as might arise from a mixture of light and darkness, or from white and black, that is, a grey, or dun, or russet brown. Newton's Opticks. 2. Dark; gloomy. Come, thick night! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell. Shak. He then survey'd Hell and the gulph between, and Satan there Coasting the wall of heaven on this side, In the dun air sublime. Milton's Par. Lost. To DUN. v. a. [dunan, Sax. to clamour.] To claim a debt with vehemence and importunity. Borrow of thy back, and borrow of thy belly: they'll never ask thee again. I shall be dunning thee every day. Bacon. When thou dunn'st their parents, seldom they, Without a suit before the tribune pay. Dryd. Juv. I remember what she won: And hath she sent so soon to dun? Swift. complain, relent, languish, despair, and die in DUN. n. s. [from the verb.] A clamorous, dumb show. 4. Silent; refusing to speak. The good old seer withstood Addison. Th' intended treason, and was dumb to blood; Till tir'd with endless clamours, and pursuit Of Ithacus, he stood no longer mute. Dryd. Æn. DU'MBLY. adv. [from dumb.] Mutely; silently; without words. DUMBNESS. n. s. [from dumb.] 1. Incapacity to speak. 2. Omission of speech; muteness. There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture: they looked as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed. Shakesp. Winter's Tale. To th' dumbness of the gesture One might interpret. Shak. Timon of Athens. 3. Refusal to speak; silence. Tis love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, And guilty dumbness, witness'd my surprize. Dryd. importunate, troublesome creditor. Philips. It grieves my heart to be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun-Sir, remember my bill. Arbuthnot's John Bull. | DUNG. n. s. [dinez, Sax.] The excre ment of animals used to fatten ground. For dung, all excrements are the refuse and trefactions of nourishment. Bacon's Nat. HE I judge the likeliest way to be the perforation of the body of the tree in several places, one at the other; and the filling of the holes with du mingled with the medicine; and the watering f those lumps of dung with squirts of an infusion of the medicine in dunged water, once in three a four days. Bacon's Nat. Het. For when from herbs the pure part must be sc, From gross by 'stilling, this is better done By despis'd dung than by the fire or sun. Done. He soon would learn to think like me, And bless his ravish'd eyes to see Such order from confusion sprung, Such gaudy tulips rais'd from dung. DUNG. v. a. [from the noun.] To manure with dung. It was received of old, that dunging of grounds when the west wind bloweth, and in the decease of the moon, doth greatly help. Bacon's Nat. His There as his dream foretold, a cart he found, That carried compost forth to dung the ground. DUNGEON. n. s. [from donjon, the tower Dryden. in which prisoners were kept, whence all prisons eminently strong were in time called dungeons.] A close prison: generally spoke of a prison dark or sub terraneous. Then up he took the slumbered senseless corse, This place our dungeon; not our safe retreat Of Norumbeque, and the Samoed shore, Bursting their brazen dungeon, arm'd with ice, And snow, and hail, come stormy gust and flaw. Milton By imagination, a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landscapes, more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compass of nature. Addism. DUNGFORK. n. s. [dung and fork.] A fork to toss out dung from stables. Dungforks and paddles are common every where. DU'NGHIL. n.s. [dung and hill.] Mortimer. 1. An heap or accumulation of dung. I, his brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for the which his animals on his dunghis are as much bound to him as I. Shakesp. As you like it. Two cocks fought a duel for the mastery of a dunghil. L'Estrange. Never enter into a league of friendship with an ingrateful person; that is, plant not thy friendship upon a dunghil: it is too noble a plant for so base a soil. South The dunghil having raised a huge muhsroom of short duration, is now spread to enrich other men's land. Swift. DUNCE. n.s. [A word of uncertain ety- Dunce at the best, in streets but scarce allow'd 4. I never knew this town without dunces of figure, who had credit enough to give rise to some new word. Swift. Perhaps a thousand other worlds, that lie Remote from us, and latent in the sky, Are lighten'd by his beams, and kindly nurst, Of which our earthly dunghil is the worst. Dryd. Any situation of meanness. The poor he raiseth from the dust, Ev'n from the dunghil lifts the just. Sandus A term of reproach for a man meanly born. Out, dunghil! dar'st thou brave a uobleman? Shakesp DU'NGHIL. adj. Sprung from the dunghil: mean; low; base; vile; worthless. His dunghil thoughts, which do themselves enure To dirty dross, no higher dare aspire.Spen. on Love. U'NGY. adj. [from dung.] Full of dung;| mean; vile; base; low; odious; worthless. We need no grave to bury honesty; There's not a grain of it, the face to sweeten Of the whole dungy earth. Shak. Winter's Tale. JUNGYARD. n. s. [dung and yard.] The place of the dunghil. Any manner of vegetables cast into the dungyard. Mortimer. U'NNER. n. s. [from dun.] One employed in soliciting petty debts. They are ever talking of new silks, and serve! the owners in getting them customers, as their The lympheducts, either dilacerated or ob- This duplicity was ill contrived to place one 2. Deceit; doubleness of heart or of tongue. common dunners do in making them pay. DUODECUPLE. adj. [duo and decuplus, Lat.] Consisting of twelves. Grisepsius, a learned Polander, endeavours to establish the duodecuple proportion among the Jews by comparing some passages of scripture together. Arbuthnot on Coins. OUPE. n. s. [dupe, Fr. from duppe, a foolish bird, easily caught.] A credulous man; a man easily tricked. A modern word hardly established. An usurping populace is its own dupe, a mere underworker, and a purchaser in trust for some Swift. single tyrant. First slave to words, then vassal to a name, Then dupe to party; child and man the same. Dunc. To DUPE. v. a. [from the noun.] To trick; to cheat. The throne a bigot keep, a genius quit; To DUPLICATE. v. a. [duplico, Lat.] And some alterations in the brain duplicate that which is but a single object to our undistempered Glanville. sentiments. 2. To fold together. Duplicate proportion is the proportion of squares. Thus, in a rank of geometrical proportions, the first term to the third is said to be in a duplicate ratio of the first to the second, or as its square is ratio of 2 to 8 is a duplicate of that of 2 to 4, or as the square of 2 to the square of 4. The bones of his body we may compare to the The glories of her majesty's reign ought to be 2. Having successive existence. Milton. Time, though in eternity, applied The different consistence and durableness of the A bad poet, if he cannot become immortal by the goodness of his verse, may by the durableness of the metal that supports it. Add. on Anc. Med. DURABLY. adv. [from durable.] In a lasting manner. There indeed he found his fame flourishing, his monuments engraved in marble, and yet more durably in men's memories. Sidney. to the square of the second: so in 2, 4, 8, 16, the DU'RANCE. n. s. [from duresse, law, Fr.] 1. Imprisonment; the custody or power of a jailor; a prison. Phillips. Harris. Bailey. It has been found, that the attraction is almost reciprocally in a duplicate proportion of the distance of the middle of the drop from the concourse of the glasses, viz. reciprocally in a simple proportion, by reason of the spreading of the drop, and its touching each glass in a larger surface; and again reciprocally in a simple proportion, by reason of the attractions growing stronger within the same quantity of attracting surface. Newton's Opt. DUPLICATE. n. s. Another correspondent to the first; a second thing of the same kind, as a transcript of a paper. Nothing is more needful for perfecting the na- 2. ral history of bodies, than the subjecting them the fire; to which end I have reserved duplicates of the most considerable. Woodward. » DUPLICATION. n. s. [from duplicate.] 1. The act of doubling. What great pains hath been taken concerning the quadrature of a circle, and the duplication of a cube, and some other mathematical problems. Hale's Origin of Mankind. 2. The act of folding together. 3. A fold; a doubling. The peritoneum is a strong membrane, every where double; in the duplications of which all the viscera of the abdomen are hid. Wiseman's Surg. Thy Dol, and Helen of thy noble thoughts, There's neither iron bar nor gate, Sick nature at that instant trembled round, hate! How far more mighty than heav'n's love, hell's 3. of heaven itself to pass from us in an instant, we should find ourselves not much concerned for the attainment of them. Rogers. Length of continuance. Aristotle, by greatness of action, does not only mean it should be great in its nature, but also in its duration; that it should have a due length in it. Addison's Spectator. To DURE. v. n. [duro Lat.] To last; to continue; to endure. The delights and pleasures of the world are most pleasing while they dure. Raleigh's History DU'REFUL. adj. [from endure and full.] Lasting; of long continuance; durable Not in use. The dureful oak, whose sap is not yet dried Is long ere it conceive the kindling fire; But when it once doth burn, it doth divide Great heat, and makes his flames to heav'n aspire. Spenser. DU'RELESS. adj. [from dure.] Without continuance; fading; transitory; short. Not in use. Yet were that aptitude natural, more inclinable to follow and embrace the false and dureless pleasures of this stage-play world, than to become the shadow of God. Raleigh's History. DU'RESSE. n. s. [Fr. hardship; severity.] 1. Imprisonment; constraint; confinement. 2. [In law.] A plea used, by way of exception, by him who, being cast into prison at a man's suit, or otherwise by threats, beating, &c. hardly used, seals any bond to him during his restraint. This the law holds as invalid, and supposes to be constrained. Cowell. DU'RING. prep. [This word is rather a participle from dure; as, during life, durante vita, life continuing; during my pleasure, my pleasure continuing the same.] For the time of the continuance of'; while any thing lasts. If during his childhood he be constantly and rigorously kept from drinking cold liquor whilst he is hot, forbearance grows into a habit. Locke. DURITY. n. s. [dureté, Fr. durus, Lat.] Ancients did burn fragments of marble, which in time became marble again, at least of indissoluble durity, as appeareth in the standing theatres. Wotton's Architecture. Irradiancy or sparkling, found in many gems, is not discoverable in this; for it cometh'short of their compactness and durity. Brown's Vulg. Err. DURST. The preterite of dare. See DUSKY. The Christians durst have no images of the De- DUSK. n. s. [from the adjective.] I. A sort of distance or length, the idea succession. DUPLICATURE. n. s. [from duplicate.] 2. Power of continuance. Duration is a circumstance so essential to hap- I will wait on you in the dusk of the evening, ness. Some sprinkled freckles on his face were seen, Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin. Drud. To DUSK. v. a. [from the noun.] Το make duskish. Dict. ly; darkly. The sawdust burned fair, till part of the candle consumed the dust gathering about the snast, made the snast to burn duskily. Bacon's Nat. Hist. DU'SKY. adj. [from dusk; duyster, Dut.] 1. Tending to darkness; obscure; not luminous. Here lies the dusky torch of Mortimer, Chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort. Shak. There fierce winds o'er dusky valleys blow, Whose every puff bears empty shades away. Dryd. Through the plains of one continual day, Six shining months pursue their even way; And six succeeding urge their dusky flight, Obscur'd with vapours and o'erwhelm'd in night. Prior. 2. Tending to blackness; dark-coloured; not clear; not bright. They did plot The means that dusky Dis my daughter got. Shak.. It is not green, but of a dusky brown colour. Bac. When Jove in dusky clouds involves the skies, And the faint crescent shoots by fits before their Dryden. eyes. Woodward. The surface is of a dusky yellow colour. By mixing such powders, we are not to expect a strong and full white, such as is that of paper; but some dusky obscure one, such as might arise from a mixture of light and darkness, or from white and black; that is, a grey, or dun, or russet brown. Newton's Opticks. 3. Gloomy; sad; intellectually clouded. While he continues in life, this dusky scene of horrour, this melancholy prospect of final perdition, wil frequently occur to his fancy. Bentley's Sermons. Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repairs to search the gloomy cave of spleen. Pope. DUST n. s. [dure, Sax. duúst, Erse.] 1. Earth or other matter reduced to small particles. The dust Should have ascended to the roof of heav'n, Rais'd by your populous troops. Shakesp. Antony and Cleopatra. 1. The lady of a duke. The duke of Cornwal, and Regan his dutchess, will be here. Shakesp. King Lear. The duke was to command the army, and the dutchess, by the favour she possessed, to be near her majesty. Swift. The gen rous god who wit and gold refines, And ripens spirits as he ripens mines, Kept dross for dutchesses, the world shall know it, To you gave sense, good humour, and a poet. Pope. 2. A lady who has the sovereignty of a dukedom. DUTCHY. n. s. [duché, Fr.] A territory which gives title to a duke, or has a duke for its sovereign. Different states border on it; the kingdom of France, the dutchy of Savoy, and the canton of Bern. Addison on Italy. France might have swallowed up his whole dutchy. Swift. DUTCHY-COURT. n. s. A court wherein all matters appertaining to the dutchy of Lancaster are decided by the decree of the chancellor of that court. Cowell. DU'TEOUS. adj. [from duty.] 1. Obedient; obsequious; respectful to those who have natural or legal authority. Great Aurengzebe did duteous care express, And durst not push too far his great success. Dryden. A female softness, with a manly mind; A duteous daughter, and a sister kind; In sickness patient, and in death resign'd. Dryd. Who taught the bee with winds and rains to strive, To bring her burden to the certain hive; And through the liquid fields again to pass Duteous, and hark'ning to the sounding brass? Prior. 2. Obsequious; obedient to good or bad purposes with to. I know thee well; a serviceable villain! As duteous to the vices of thy mistress, As badness would desire. Shakesp King Lear. Every beast, more duteous at her call, Than at Circean call the herd disguis'd. Milton. And made an humble chaplet for the king. S DUTIFULNESS. n. s. [from dutiful.] 1. Obedience; submission to just an thority. Piety, or dutifulness to parents, was a macst repular virtue among the Romans. Dryden's Em 2. Reverence; respect. It is a strange kind of civility, and an evil dis fulness in friends and relatives, to suffer in t perish without reproof or medicine, rather a to seem unmannerly to a great sinner. Taylor's Rule of Living Hog. DU'TY. n. s. [from due.] 1. That to which a man is by any natural or legal obligation bound. When ye shall have done all those things whet are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our day to do. Luke, xvii. A The pain children feel from any necessity of nature, it is the duty of parents to relieve. Lett. 2. Acts or forbearances required by region or morality. In this sense it has a plural. Good my lord, You have begot me, bred me, lov'd me: I Return those duties back, as are right fit; Obey you, love you, and most honour you. Shak All our duty is set down in our prayers, because in all our duty we beg the Divine assistance; and remember that you are bound to do all those d ties, for the doing of which you have prayed fr the Divine assistance. Taylor's Devotion 3. Obedience or submission due to parents, governours, or superiours; loyalty; piety to parents. Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak, When pow'r to flatt'ry bows? To plainness Dust helpeth the fruitfulness of trees, insomuch 3. Enjoined by duty; enforced by the re- 6. The business of war; service. Out of the ground wast taken, know thy birth; For dust thou art, and shalt to dust returu. Milton. 3. A mear and dejected state. God raised up the poor out of the dust, to set them among princes. 1 Sam. ii. 8. To DUST. v. a. [from the noun.] lation of one to another. This sense is not now used. With mine own tongue deny my sacred right, With mine own breath release all duteous ties. Shakesp. DU'TIFUL. adj. [duty and full.] 1. Obedient; submissive to natural or legal superiours; reverent. She died in an extreme old age, without pain, under the care of the most dutiful son that I have ever known or heard of. Swift to Pope. 2. Expressive of respect; giving token of reverence; respectful; reverential, The night came and severed them, all parties being tired with the duty of the day. Clarendon See how the madmen bleed! Behold the gains With which their master, love, rewards their pains! For seven long years, on duty ev'ry day, Lo! their obedience, and their monarch's pay! Dryden 7. Tax; impost; custom; toll. All the whes make their way through several duties and taxes, before they reach the port. Addison Such shekels as they now shew, were the old ones in which duty was to be paid by their law. Arbuthnot on Coins WARF. n. s. [opeong, Sax. dwerg, Dut.]| apes. In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, In a delicate plantation of trees, all well grown, fair, and smooth, one dwarf was knotty and L'Estr. crooked, and the rest had it in derision. Saw off the stock in a smooth place; and for dwarf trees, graft them within four fingers of the Mortimer. ground. An attendant on a lady or knight in romances. The champion stout, Eftstoones dismounted from his courser brave, And to the dwarf awhile his needless spear he gave. Spenser. compo It is used often by botanists in sition; as, dwarf-elder, dwarf-honeysuckle. o DWARF. v. a. [from the noun.] To hinder from growing to the natural bulk; to lessen; to make little. It is reported that a good strong canvas, spread over a tree grafted low, soon after it putteth forth, will dwarf it, and make it spread. Bacon's Nat. Hist. The whole sex is in a manner dwarfed, and shrunk into a race of beauties, that seems almost another species. Addison. WARFISH. adj. [from dwarf.] Below the natural bulk; low; small; little; petty; despicable. Their dwarfish pages were, As cherubims, all gilt. Shak. Henry VIII. And are you grown so high in his esteem, Because I am so dwarfish and so low? Shakesp. This unheard sauciness, and boyish troops, The king doth smile at ; and is well prepar'd To whip this dwarfish war, these pigmy arms, From out the circle of his territories. Shakesp. King John. A thicket close beside the grove there stood, With briars and brambles choak'd, and dwarfish wood. Dryden. We should have lost oaks and cedars, and the other tall and lofty sons of the forest, and have found nothing but dwarfish shrubs, and creeping moss, and despicable mushrooms. Bentley. OWA'RFISHLY. adv. [from dwarfish.] Like a dwarf. DWA'RFISHNESS. adv. [from dwarfish.] Minuteness of stature; littleness. 'Tis no wonder that science hath not outgrown the dwarfishness of its pristine stature, and that the =intellectual world is such a microcosm. 1 2. Why are you vex'd lady? Why do you frown? Here dwell no frowns, no anger; from these gates Sorrow flies far. Milton. To live in any form of habitation. Abraham sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles. Heb. xi. 9. 3. To be in any state or condition. 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy, Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. Shak. To be suspended with attention; to hang upon with care or fondness. 4. He in great passion all this while did dwell; More busying his quick eyes her face to view, Than his dull ears to hear what she did tell. Spen. Th' attentive queen Dwelt on his accents. Smith's Phæd. and Hippol. Such was that face, on which I dwelt with joy, Ere Greece assembled stemm'd the tides to Troy. Pope. 5. To continue long speaking. He preach'd the joys of heav'n, and pains of hell, 3. To wear away; to lose health; to grow And warn'd the sinner with becoming zeal; Dryden's Good Parson. To DWELL. v. a. forth Who dwell this wild, constrain'd by want, come To town or village nigh. Milton's Par. Regained. DWE'LLER. n. s. [from dwell.] An inhabitant; one that lives in any place. The houses being kept up, did of necessity enforce a dweller; and the proportion of land for Occupation being kept up, did of necessity enforce that dweller not to be beggar or cottager, but Bacon's Hen. VII. Now murmuring noises rise in every street. Dryd. DWE'LLING. n. s. [from dwell.] 1. Habitation; place of residence; abode. His dwelling is low in a valley green, Under the foot of Rauran mossy hore. Fairy Q. Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever. Jer. xlix. 33. If he have several dwellings, let him sort them Bacon. a man of some substance. Their cries soon waken all the dwellers near; 80, that what he wanteth in the one he may find in the other. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men, Delighted. Milton's Par. Lost. All dwellings else Flood overwhelm'd, and them with all their pomp Deep under water roll'd; sea cover'd sea, Sea without shore! Milton's Par. Lost. The living few, and frequent funerals, then Proclaim'd thy wrath on this forsaken place; And now those few, who are return'd again, l'hy searching judgments to their dwellings trace. Dryden. The force of fire ascended first on high, And took its dwelling in the vaulted sky. State of life; mode of living. Dryden's Ovid. My dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. Daniel. DWE'LLINGHOUSE. n. s. [from dwell and house.] The house at which one lives. Glanville's Scepsis. To DWAULE. v. a. [opelian, Sax. to wan-2. der; dwaelen, Dut. To be delirious; a provincial word mentioned by Junius. To DWELL. v. n. preterite dwelt, dwelled. [dualla, old Teutonick, is stay, delay; duelia, Islandick, to stay, to stand still.] or 1. To inhabit; to live in a place; to reside; to have an habitation. A person ought always to be cited at the place of his dwellinghouse, which he has in respect of his habitation and usual residence; and not at the house which he has in respect of his estate, or the place of his birth. Ayliffe's Parergom. DWE'LLINGPLACE. n. s. [dwell and place.] The place of residence. People do often change their dwelling-places, and some must die, whilst other some do grow up into strength. Spenser. John Haywood and Sir Thomas More, in the To DWI'NDLE. v. n. [opinan, Sax.] sions. Peacham. 4. feeble. Weary sev'nnights nine times nine, Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine. Shakesp. Macbeth. We see, that some small part of the foot being injured by a wrench or a blow, the whole leg or thigh thereby loses its strength and nourishment, Locke. and dwindles away. Physicians, with their milky cheer, The love-sick maid and dwindling beau repair. Gay. To fall away; to be diminished; to moulder off. Under Greenvil, there were only five hundred foot and three hundred horse left; the rest were dwindled away. Clarendon. See DIE. DYE. DYING. The participle of die. 1. Expiring; giving up the ghost. 2. Tinging; giving a new colour. DYNASTY. n. s. [duvassía.] Government; sovereignty. Some account him fabulous, because he carries up the Egyptian dynaties before the flood, yea, and long before the creation. Hale's Origin of Mankind. Greece was divided into several dynasties, which our author has enumerated under their respective princes. Pope. DY'SCRASY. n. s. [duongacía.] An unequal mixture of elements in the blood or nervous juice; a distemperature, when some humour or quality abounds in the body. Dict. From an unusual inconstancy of the weather, and perpetual changes of the wind from east to west, proceed epidemical dysenteries. Arb. on Airs DYSPE'PSY. n. s. [dvoria.] A difficulty of digestion, or bad fermentation in the stomach or guts. Dict. Dy'SPHONY. n. s. [dvoqwría.] A difficuly in speaking, occasioned by an ill dispoDict. sition of the organs. DYSPNOEA. n. s. [duo.] A difficulty of breathing; straitness of breath. DY'SURY. n. s. [dvorgia.] A difficulty in making urine. It doth end in a dysentery, pains of the hæmorrhoids, inflammations of any of the lower parts, diabetes, a continual pissing, or a hot dysury, difficulty of making water. Harvey. EAD E HAS two sounds; long, as scene, and short, as měn. E is the most frequent vowel in the English language; for it not only is used like the rest in the beginning or end of words, but has the peculiar quality of lengthening the foregoing vowel, as, căn, cāne ; mắn, mane; gặp, gāpe; glad, glade; bred, brede; chin, chine; wip, wipe; thin, thine ; nŏd, node; tăn, tune; plum, plume. Yet it sometimes occurs final, where yet the foregoing vowel is not lengthened; as gšne, knowledge, edge, give. Anciently almost every word ended with e, as for can, canne; for year, yeare; for great, greate; for need, neede; for flock, flocke. It is probable that this e final had at first a soft sound, like the female e of the French; and that afterwards it was in poetry either mute or vocal, as the verse required, till at last it became universally silent. Eu has the sound of e long: the e is commonly lengthened rather by the immediate addition of a than by the apposition of e to the end of the word; as měn, mean; sel, seal; mět, mēat; nět, něat. EACH. pron. [elc, Sax. elch, Dut. ilk, Scottish.] 1. Either of two. Though your orbs of diff'rent greatness be, Yet both are from each other's use dispos'd; His to inclose, and your's to be inclos'd. Dryden. 2. Every one of any number. This sense is rare, except in poetry. Th' invention all admir'd, and each how he To be th' inventer miss'd. Let each His adamantine coat gird well, and each Fit well his helm. Milton. Milton. By hunger, that each other creature tames, Thou art not to be harm'd, therefore not mov'd; Thy temperance invincible besides. Milton's Paradise Regained. Wise Pluto said, the world with men was stor'd, That succour each to other might afford. Denham. To EACH the correspondent word is other, whether it be used of two, or of a greater number. 'Tis said they eat each other. Shakesp. Macbeth. Let each esteem other better than themselves. Phil. ii. S. Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul; Beauty and virtue shine for ever round thee," Brightning each other! Thou art all divine. Addison's Cato. EAD. [ad. ed.] in the compound, and eadig in the simple names, denotes happiness or blessedness. Thus Eadward is a happy preserver; Eadulph, happy assistance; Eadgar, happy power; Eadwin, happy conqueror; which Macarius Eupolemus, Fausta, Fortunatus, Felicianus, &c. do in some measure resemble. Ead may also in some cases be derived from the Saxon eath, which signifies asy, gentle, mild. Gib. Camden. E. EAG EAGER. adj. [eagon, Sax. aigre, Fr.] 1. Struck with desire; ardently wishing; keenly desirous; vehement in desire; hotly longing. Of action eager, and intent of thought, The chiefs your honourable danger sought. Dryden's Ovid. Eager to read the rest, Achates came. Dryd. Æn. With joy th' ambitious youth his mother heard, And, eager for the journey, soon prepar'd; He longs the world beneath him to survey, To guide the chariot, and to give the day. Dryd. Love inflam'd, and eager on his bliss, Smother'd her words. Addison's Ovid. 2. It is used sometimes with of, sometimes with for, sometimes with on or after before the thing sought. 3. Hot of disposition; vehement; ardent; impetuous. Apt as well to quicken the spirits as to allay that which is too eager. Hooker. Nor do the eager clamours of disputants yield more relief to eclipsed truth, than did the sounding brass of old to the labouring moon. Glanville's Scepsis. Imperfect zeal is hot and eager, without knowledge. Spratt. Eager his tone, and ardent were his eyes. Dryd A man, charged with a crime of which he thinks himself innocent, is apt to be too eager in his own defence. Dryden. 4. Quick; busy; easily put in action. His Numidian genius Is well dispos'd to mischief, were he prompt And eager on it; but he must be spurr'd. Addis. Cato. 5. Sharp; sour; acid. 6. With a sudden vigour it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood. Shakesp. Hamlet. Keen; severe; biting. The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold. -It is a nipping and an eager air. Shak. Hamlet. The flesh shrinketh, but the bone resisteth, whereby the cold becometh more eager. Bacon's Nat. Hist. 7. Brittle; inflexible; not ductile. A cant word of artificers. Gold will be sometimes so eager, as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself. Locke. EAGERLY. adv. [from eager.] 1. With great ardour of desire; with impetuosity of inclination. To the holy war how fast and eagerly did men 2. EAG The cargerness and strong bent of the mind te knowledge, if not warily regulated, is often u hindrance to it. Live Detraction and obloquy are received with s much eagerness as wit and humour. Addis. Free Juba lives to catch That dear embrace, and to return it too, With mutual warmth and eagerness of love. Addison's C His continued application to publick affairsverts him from those pleasures, which are pret with eagerness by princes who have not the pet lick so much at heart. At $ The things of this world, with whatever ege ness they engage our pursuit, leave us silen and unsatisfied with their fruition. Pages Impetuosity; vehemence; violence. It finds them in the eagerness and height of t devotion; they are speechless for the time the continues, and prostrate and dead when it de parts. Drynes I'll kill thee with such eagerness of haste, As fiends, let loose, would lay all nature waste Drutex EA'GLE. n. s. [aigle, Fr. aquila, Lat. ealler, Erse.] 1. A bird of prey, which, as it is reported, renews its age when it grows old. Its also said not to drink at all, like other birds with sharp claws. It is given out. that when an eagle sees its young s well grown as to venture upon flying, it hovers over their nest, and excites ther to imitate it, and take their flight; and when it sees them weary, or fearful, it takes them upon its back. Eagles are said to be extremely sharp-sighted, and, when they take flight, spring perpendi cularly upward, with their eyes steadily Calmet. fixed upon the sun. Draw forth the monsters of th' abyss profound, Or fetch th' aerial eagle to the ground. Pipe 2. The standard of the ancient Romans. Arts still follow'd where Rome's eagles flew. Popt EAGLE-EYED. adj. [from eagle and eyed. Sharp-sighted as an eagle. As he was quick and perspicacious, so was be inwardly eagle-eyed, and versed in the humours of his subjects. Every one is eagle-eyed to see Another's faults and his deformity. Druden go, when the priest persuaded them that whoso- EAGLESPEED. n. s. [eagle and speed.] ever died in that expedition was a martyr. South. How eagerly he flew, when Europe's fate Did for the seed of future actions wait. Stepney. 2. Ardently; hotly. 3. Brutus gave the word too early, Who having some advantage on Octavius, Took it too eagerly; his soldiers fell to spoil, Whilst we by Anthony were all inclos'd. Shakesp. Keenly; sharply. Abundance of rain froze so eagerly as it fell, that it seemed the depth of winter had of a sudden been come in. Knolles's Hist. of the Turks. EAGERNESS. n. s. [from eager.] Keenness of desire; ardour of inclination. 1. She knew her distance, and did angle for me, Madding my eagerness with her restraint. Shakesp. Have you not seen, when whistled from the fist, Some faulcon stoop'd at what her eye design'd, And, with her eagerness the quarry miss'd." Dryd. Swiftness like that of an eagle. Abrupt, with eaglespeed she cut the sky, Instant invisible to mortal eye. Pope. EAGLESTONE. n.s. A stone said to be found at the entrance of the holes in which the eagles make their nests, and affirmed to have a particular virtue in defending the eagle's nest from thunder. Calmet. The caglestone contains, in a cavity within it, a small loose stone, which rattles when it is shaken; and every fossil, with a nucleus in it, has obtained the name. The analogy between a stone, thus containing another within it, or, as the fancital writers express it, pregnant with another, and woman big with child, Ted people to imagine that it must have great virtues and effects in accele rating or retarding delivery; so that, if tied to the |