Conduct me well In these strange ways, where never foot did use. Snakes that use within the house for shade May's Virgil. U'SEFUL. adj. [use and full.] Convenient; profitable to any end; conducive or helpful to any purpose; valuable for use. Providence would only enter mankind into the useful knowledge of her treasures, leaving the rest to employ our industry. More's Antidote. Gold and silver being little useful to the life of man, in proportion to food, raiment, and carriage, has its value only from the consent of men. Locke. That the legislature should have power to change the succession, is very useful towards preserving our religion and liberty. Swift Deliver a particular account of the great and useful things already performed. Swift. Next to reading, meditation, and prayer, there is nothing that so secures our hearts from foolish passions, nothing that preserves so holy and wise frame of mind, as some useful, humble employment of ourselves. Law. U'SEFULLY. adv. [from useful.] In such a manner as to help forward some end. n. s. In this account they must constitute two at least, male and female, in every species; which chance could not have made so very nearly alike without copying, nor so usefully differing without contrivance. Bentley's Sermons. U'SEFULNESS. Conduciveness or helpfulness to some end. The grandeur of the commonwealth shows itself chiefly in works that were necessary or convenient. On the contrary, the magnificence of Rome, under the emperors, was rather for ostentation than any real usefulness. U'SELESS. adj. [from use.] Answering no purpose; having no end. Addison. So have I seen the lost clouds pour Into the sea an useless show'r; And the vext sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds pray'd in vain. Waller. The hurtful teeth of vipers are useless to us, and yet are parts of their bodies. Boyle. His friend, on whose assistance he most relied, either proves false and forsakes him, or looks on with an useless pity, and cannot help him. Rogers's Sermons The waterman forlorn along the shore Pensive reclines upon his useless oar. Gay. U'SELESSLY, adv. [from useless.] Without the quality of answering any pur pose. In a sauntering humour, some, out of custom, let a good part of their lives run uselessly away, without business or recreation. Locke. U'SELESSNESS. n. s. [from useless.] Unfitness to any end. He made a learned discourse on the trouble, uselessness, and indecency of foxes wearing tails. L'Estrange He would convince them of the vanity and uselessness of that learning, which makes not the possessor a better man. South. U'SER. n. s. [from use. se.] One who uses. Such things which, by imparting the delight to others, make the user thereof welcome, as musick, dancing, hunting, feasting, riding. Sidney. That wind-like user of his feet, faire Thetis, progenie. Chapman. My lord received from the countess of Warwick, a lady powerful in the court, and indeed a virtuous user of her power, the best advice that was ever given. J'SHER. n. s. [huissier, Fr.] Wotton. 11. One whose business is to introduce] U'SUALNESS. n. s. [from usual.] Comstrangers, or walk before a person of monness; frequency. high rank. USUCA'PTION. n. s. [usus and capio, Lat.] In the civil law, the acquisition of the property of a thing by possession and enjoyment thereof for a certain term of years prescribed by law. Dict. USUFRUCT. 2. The wife of Antony Gay paid his courtship with the crowd, Swift. And leaves St. James's in disgrace. An under-teacher; one who introduces young scholars to a higher learning. Though grammar's profits less than rhetorick's are, Yet ev'n in those his usher claims a share. Dryden. To U'SHER. v. a. [from the noun.] To introduce as a forerunner or harbinger; to forerun. No sun shall ever usher forth my honours, Or gild again the noble troops that waited Upon my smiles. Shakesp. Henry VIII. The sun, Declin'd, was hasting now with prone career To th' ocean isles; and, in th' ascending scale Of heav'n, the stars, that usher evening, rose. Milton. As the deluge is represented a disruption of the abyss, so the future combustion of the earth is to be ushered in, and accompanied, with violent impressions upon nature, and the chief will be earthquakes. Burnet's Theory of the Earth. With songs and dance we celebrate the day, And with due honours usher in the May. Dryden. The Examiner was ushered into the world by a letter, setting forth the great genius of the author. Addison. Oh name for ever sad, for ever dear! Still breath'd in sighs, still usher'd with a tear. Pope. USQUEBA'UGH. n. s. [An Irish and Erse word, which signifies the water of life.] It is a compounded distilled spirit, being drawn on aromaticks; and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour. The Highland sort is somewhat hotter; and, by corruption, in Scottish they call it whisky. U'STION. n. s. [ustion, Fr. ustus, Lat.] The act of burning; the state of being burned. USTO'RIOUS. adj. [ustum, Lat.] Having the quality of burning. The power of a burning glass is by an ustorious quality in the mirror or glass, arising from a certain unknown substantial form. Watts. U'SUAL. adj. [usuel, Fr.] Common; frequent; customary; frequently occurring. Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times. Hooker. Could I the care of Providence deserve, Heav'n must destroy me, if it would preserve; And that's my fate, or sure it would have sent Some usual evil for my punishment. Dryden. For roots and herbage, rais'd at hours to spare, With humble milk, compos'd his usual fare. Harte. U'SUALLY. adv. [from usual.] Commonly; frequently; customarily. The finding out the similitudes of different things, wherein the fancy is conversant, is usually a bar to the discerning the disparities of similar appearances, which is the business of discretion. Fell. If men's desires are usually as large as their abilities, what course we took to allure the former, by that we might engage the latter. South's Sermons. Where men err against this method, it is usually on purpose, and to shew their learning. Swift. n. s. [usufruit, Fr. usus and fructus, Lat.] The temporary use; enjoyment of the profits, without power to alienate. The persons receiving the same have only the usufruct thereof, and not any fee or inheritance therein. Ayliffe. USUFRU'CTUARY. n.s. [usufructuaire, Fr. usufructuarius, Lat.] One that has the use and temporary profit, not the property, of a thing. The parsons of parishes are not in law accounted proprietors, but only usufructuaries, as having no right of fee simple vested in them. Ayliffe's Parergon. To U'SURE. v. n. [usura, Lat.] To practise usury; to take interest for money. Is this the balsam that the usuring senate U'SURER. n. s. [usurier, Fr. usura, Lat.] Pours into captains wounds? Shakesp. Timon. One who puts money out at interest. Commonly used for one that takes exorbitant interest. Fie! thou sham'st thy shape, thy love, thy wit; Which, like an usurer, abound'st in all, And usest none in that true use indeed, Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy Shakesp. wit. Child on Trade. Arbuthnot on Coins. The asses usuræ occasioned great tumults among the people; yet he that took it was not reckoned to transgress any law; and there were some greedy usurers that exacted double, triple. USU'RIOUS. adj. [usuaire, Fr. from usury.] Given to the practice of usury; exorbitantly greedy of profit. For every hour that thou wilt spare me now Usurious god of love, twenty to thee, To Usu ́rp. v. a. [usurper, Fr. usurpo, Lat.] To possess by force or intrusion; to seize or possess without right. So ugly a darkness, as if it would prevent the night's coming, usurped the day's right. Sidney. Not having the natural superiority of fathers, their power must be usurped, and then unlawful; or, if lawful, then granted or consented unto by them over whom they exercise the same, or else given them extraordinarily from God. Hooker. In as much as the due estimation of heavenly truth dependeth wholly upon the known and approved authority of those famous oracles of God, it greatly behoveth the church to have always most special care, lest human inventions usurp the room and title of divine worship. Hooker. Victorious prince of York! Before 1 see thee seated in that throne Which now the house of Lancaster usurps, These eyes shall never close. Shakesp. Henry VI. What art thou, that usurp'st this time of night, Together with that fair and warlike form? Shak. Their fox-like thefts are so rank, as a man may find whole pages usurped from one another. Ben Jonson. Where vice not only hath usurpt the place, Dryden Who next usurps will a just prince appear, So much your ruin will his reign endear. Dryden Struggling in vain, impatient of her lad, And lab ring underneath the pond'rous God, The more she strove to shake him from her breast, With more and far superiour force he press'd, Commands his entrance, and without controul Usurps her organs, and inspires her soul. Dryden. Who's this, that dares usurp The guards and habit of Numidia's prince? Addison's Cato. USURPA'TION. n. s. [usurpation, Fr. from usurp.] Forcible, unjust, illegal seizure or possession. The Piercies, Finding his usurpation most unjust, Endeavour'd my advancement to the throne. Shak Succeeding kings recovery of their right from unjust usurpations, shall never be prejudiced by any act of mine. King Charles To raise a tempest on the sea was usurpation on the prerogative of Neptune, who had given him no leave. Dryden. O baseness to support a tyrant throne, And crush your freeborn brethren of the world; Nay, to become a part of usurpation, T'espouse the tyrant's person and her crimes. Dry. Whatever opposition was made to the usurpations of king James, proceeded altogether from the church of England. Swift. USU'RPER. n. s. [from usurp.] One who seizes or possesses that to which he has no right. It is generally used of one who excludes the right heir from the throne. Ever sithence he hath continued his first usurped power, and now exacteth upon all men what he list: so that now to subdue or expel an usurper, should be no unjust enterprize, but a restitution of antient right unto the crown. Spenser. Richard duke of York What he borrows from the antients, he repays with usury of his own; in coin as good, and almost as universally valuable. Dryd. Ded. to Juvenal. 2. The practice of taking interest. It is commonly used with some reproach. Usury bringeth the treasure of a realm into few hands for the usurer being at ce tainties, and others at uncertainties, at the end most of the money will be in the box. Bacon. UTENSIL n. s. [utensile, Fr. utensile, low Lat.] An instrument for any use, such as the vessels of the kitchen, or tools of a trade. Burn but his books; he has brave utensils, Which, when he has a house, he 'll deck withal. Shakesp. Mules after these, camels and dromedaries, And waggons fraught with utensils of war. Milton. Tithes and lands given to God are never, and plate, vestments, and other sacred utensils, are seldom consecrated. South. The springs of life their former vigour feel; Such zeal he had for that vile utensil Garth's Disp UTERINE. adj. [uterin, Fr. uterinus, Lat] Belonging to the womb. In hot climates, and where the uterine parts exceed in heat, by the coldness of some simple, they may be reduced unto a conceptive constitution. Brien's Vulgar Errours. The vessels of the interiour glandulous substance of the womb are contorted with turnings and meanders, that they might accommodate themselves without danger of rupture to the necessary extension of the uterine substance. Ray. UTERUS. n. s. [Lat.] The womb. UTILITY. n. s. [utilité, Fr. utilitas, Lat.] Usefulness; profit; convenience; advantageousness; applied to things only as, this book is of great utility; not, this book was written for the utility of scholars. Those things which have long gone together are confederate; whereas new things piece not so well; but though they help by their utility, vet they trouble by their inconformity. Bac Nat. Hist. Should we blindly obey the restraints of physicians and astrologers, we should confine the utility of physick unto a very few days. Br. Vulg. Err M. Zulichem desired me that I would give a relation of the cure of the gout, that might be made publick, as a thing which might prove of common utility to so great numbers as were subject to that disease Temple. UTIS. n. s. A word which probably is corrupted, at least is not now understood. Utis was the octave of a saint's day, and may perhaps be taken for any festivity. Then here will be old utis: it will be an excellent stratagem. Shakesp. Henry IV. UTMOST. adj. [urmort, Sax. from utter.] 1. Extreme; placed at the extremity. Davies. As far remov'd from God, and light of heav'n, As from the center thrice to th' utmost pole. Milt. I went, by your command, To view the utmost limits of the land. In my flight Through utter and through middle darkness bome, 1 sung of chaos and eternal night. Milten 2. Placed beyond any compass; out of any place. Pursue these sons of darkness; drive them out From all heav'n's bounds into the utter deep. Mt. 3. Extreme; excessive; utmost. This seems to be Milton's meaning here, though the former sense may serve. Such place eternal justice had prepar'd For those rebellious; here their prison ordain'd In utter darkness; and their portion set As far remov'd from God, and light of heav'n, As from the center thrice to th' utmost pole. Mil. 4. Complete; total. The parliament thought the utter taking it away necessary for the preservation of the kingdora, Clarendon 5. Peremptory. They feel fewer corporal pains, and are utter strangers to all those anxious thoughts which disquiet mankind. Atterbury. To U'TTER. v. a. [from the adjective; to make publick, or let out; palam facere.] 1. To speak; to pronounce; to express. Men spake not with the instruments of writing, neither writ with the instruments of speech; ard yet things recorded with the one, and uttered wi ä the other, may be preached well enough with both. Hooker. These very words I've heard him utter. Shak. We say the dead are well. Bring it to that, Shakesp Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and utter words but of their heart? Job, viii. 10. Who knows but his poor bleeding heart, Amidst its agonies, remember'd Marcia, And the last words he utter'd call'd me cruel! Addison. 2. Dryden. To disclose; to discover; to publish. When do partial and sinister affections more utter themselves, than when an election is com mitted to many? Whitgifte. Where he shall answer by a lawful form, In peace, to his utmost peril. Shakelp. Coriolanus. UTMOST. n. s. The most that can be ; the greatest power; the highest degree; the greatest effort. What miscarries Shall be the general's fault, though he perform To th' utmost of a man. Shakesp. Coriolanus. I will be free, Even to the utmost as 1 please in words. Shakesp. Were it fully to be modest in uttering what is known to all the world? Raleigh. I meant my words should not reach your ears; but what I utter'd was most true. Dryd. All for Love. The Devonshire and Somersetshire grasiers feed yearly great droves of cattle in the north quarter of Cornwall, and utter them at home. Carew's Survey of Cornwall, 4. To disperse; to emit at large. To preserve us from ruin, the whole kingdom should continue in a firm resolution never to receive or utter this fatal coin. Swift. Ex UTTERABLE. adj. [from utter.] From point to point discours'd his voyage. Spens' He cannot have sufficient honour done unto him; VULGARLY. adv. [from vulgar.] Commonly; in the ordinary manner; among the common people. U'VEOUS. adj. [from uva, Lat.] The uveous coat, or iris, of the eye, hath a musculous power, and can dilate and contract that round hole in it, called the pupil. Ray on the Creat. VULCANO. n. s. [Ital.] A burning mountain: it is commonly written, after the Italian, volcano. Earth calcined flies off into the air; the ashes VULGAR. adj. [vulgaire, Fr. vulgaris, Many a man thinks admirably well, who has a Watts 2. [Outrance, Fr.] Extremity; terms of extreme hostility. Out of use. Of him I gather'd honour; Which he to seek of me again perforce, Come, fate, into the list, And champion me to th' utterance Shak. Macbeth. 3. Vocal expression; emission from the mouth. Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar life, cannot have a suitable idea of the several beauties and blemishes in the actions of great Addison. men. 2. Vernacular; national. Till Adam, though no less than Eve abash'd, Milton. Speaking is a sensible expression of the notions of the mind, by several discriminations of utterance of voice, used as signs, having by consent several determinate significancies. Holder. There have been some inventions, which have been able for the utterance of articulate sounds, as the speaking of certain words. Wilkins's Mathematical Magick. U'TTERER. n. s. [from utter.] 1. One who pronounces. Utterers of secrets he from thence debarr'd; 2. A divulger; a discloser. Babblers of folly, and blazers of crime. Spenser. 3. A seller; a vender. UTTERLY. adv. [from utter.] Fully; completely; perfectly. part in an ill sense. For the most God, whose property is to shew his mercies then greatest, when they are nearest to be utterly despaired. Hooker. Arguments taken from the authority of men, may not only so far forth as hath been declared, but further also, be of some force in human sciences; which force, be it never so small, doth shew that they are not utterly naught. Hooker. All your int'rest in those territories 4. It might be more useful to the English reader, who was to be his immediate care, to write in our vulgar language. Fell. Mean; low; being of the common rate. Now wasting years my former strength confound, [vulgaire, Fr] The VULGAR. n. s. ed upon by the affrighted vulgar as greater pro- The vulgar imagine the pretender to have been Is utterly bereft you; all is lost. Shak. Henry VI. VULGARISM. n. s. [from vulgar.] He was so utterly tired with an employment so contrary to his humour, that he did not consider the means that would lead him out of it. Clarend. There is no where any nation so utterly lost to all things of law and morality, as not to believe the existence of God. Wilkins. While in the flesh, we cannot be utterly insensible of the afflictions that befal us. Atterbury. UTTERMOST. adj. [from utter.] Extreme; being in the highest degree. Bereave me not, Whereon I live! thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel, in this uttermost distress. 2. Most remote. Milton. The land, from the uttermost end of the straits un Peru side, did go towards the south. ness; meanness; vulgarity. Swift. He was, which people much respect In princes, and which pleases mulgarly, Of goodly personage and of sweet aspect. Daniel. He that believes himself uncapable of pardor goes on without thought of reforming; such an one we call vulgarly a desperate person. Hammond's Practical Catechism. it As it is vulgarly understood, that he cut a passage for his army through these mighty mountains, may seem incredible Brown's Vulgar Errours. vulnerabilis, Lat.] Susceptive of wounds; VULNERABLE. adj. [vulnerable, Fr. liable to external injuries. Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born. Shakesp. Macbeth. Achilles, though dipt in Styx, yet having his heel untouched by that water, although he were fortified elsewhere, he was slain in that part, as only vulnerable in the inferior and brutal part. There is an intercourse between the magnetick unguent and the vulnerated body. Glanv. Scepsis. VULPINE. adj. [vulpinus, Lat.] Belonging to a fox. VULTURE n. s. [vultur, Lat.] A large Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells, UVULA. n. s. [uvula, Lat] In anatomy, Gross-UXORIOUS. adj. [uxorius, Lat.] Submissively fond of a wife; infected with connubial dotage. The great events of Greek and Roman fable and 1. Meanness; state of the lowest people. Abbot's Description of the World.2. UTTERMOST. n. s. The greatest. There needeth neither promise nor persuasion to make her do her uttermost for her father's service. Sidney. mies to truth. Brown. True it is, and 1 hope I shall not offend their vulgarities if I say, they are daily mocked into error by devisers. Brown. Mean or gross mode. In perfect thraldom! how again betray me! Milt. With fond submission to a wife. If thou art thus uxoriously inclin'd Is the grandesophos of Persius, and the subli-UXO'RIOUSNESS. n.s. [from uxorious.] mity of Juvenal, to be circumscribed with the Connubial dotage; fond submission to meanness of words, and vulgarity of expression? Dryden's Dedication to Juvenal. a wife. WAD W, Is a letter of which the form is not to be found in the alphabets of the learned languages; though it is not improbable that by our w is expressed the sound of the Roman v, and the Eolick f. Both the form and sound are excluded from the languages derived from the Latin. W is sometimes improperly used in diphthongs as a vowel for u; view, strew: the sound of w consonant, if it be a consonant, is uniform. To WA'BBLE. v. n. [a low barbarous word.] To move from side to side; to change direction. If in your work you find it wabble; that is that one side of the flat inclines to the right or left hand, with soft blows of an hammer set it to rights, and then screw it hard up. Moxon. WAD. n. s. [þeod, hay, Sax.] 1. A bundle of straw or other loose mat- 2. Wadd, or black lead, is a mineral of [from wad, vad, Islandick.] A kind of soft stuff loosely woven, with which the skirts of coats are stuffed out. To WA'DDLE. v. n. [wagghelen, Dut. to waggle; whence, by a casual corruption, waddle.] To shake, in walking from side to side; to deviate in motion from a right line. She could have run and waddled all about.Shak. The strutting petticoat smooths and levels all distinctions; while I cannot hut be troubled to see so many well-shaped innocent virgins bloated up, and waddling up and down, like big-bellied Spectator. Women. The farmer's goose, true, Swift. Obliquely waddling to the mark in view. Pope. To WADE v. n. [from vadum, Lat. pro- 1. To walk through the waters; to pass We'll wade to the market-place in Frenchmen's I am in blood He staid seven days at the Crassus, until a Learn to swim, and not to wade, For the hearts of kings are deep. Wotton's Poems. W. WAF With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. It is hard to wade deep in baths where springs 2. To pass difficultly and laboriously. They were not permitted to enter into war, nor Virtue gives herself light, through darkness for to wade. I should chuse rather with spitting and scorn to The wrathful god then plunges from above, The king's admirable conduct has waded through WAFER. n. s. [wafel, Dut.] Wife, make us a dinner; spare flesh, neither corn; Make wafers and cakes, for our sheepe must be Pope. 2. The bread given in the eucharist by That the same body of Christ should be in a water. A braver choice of dauntless spirits, It wafted nearer yet, and then she knew, 1. A floating body. I know not whether From the bellowing east oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burthen of whole wintry plains, In one wide waft. Thomson's Winter. 2. Motion of a streamer. Used as a token or mean of information at sea. WA'FTAGE. n. s. [from waft.] Carriage by water or air. Not in use. What ship of Epidamnum stays for me? Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks, Staying for waftage. Shakesp. Troilus and Cressida. WA'FTER. n. s. [from waft.] A passage boat. Ainsworth. WAFTURE. n. s. [from waft.] The act of waving. Not in use. You answer'd not; r. a. But with an angry wafture of your hand Gave sign for me to leave you. Shak Julius Cæsar. To WAG. [þagian, Sax. waggen, Dut] To move lightly; to shake slightly. You may as well forbid the mountain pines Shakesp Majestically stalk; A prating thing, a magpye hight, A stately, worthless animal, That plies the tongue, and wags the tail, All flutter, pride, and talk. Swift To WAG. v. n. Drayton. 1. To be in quick or ludicrous motion. Be merry, be merry, my wife has all, For women are shrews, both short and tall; 'Tis merry in the hall, where beards wag all. Shak. I can counterfeit the deep tragedian, Tremble and start at wagging of a straw, Shakesp. I will fight with him upon this theme, Until my eyelids will no longer wag. Shak. Haml. 2. To go; to pack off. I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag. Shak. 8. To be moved. Her charms she mutter'd o'er; And yet the resty sieve wagg'd ne'er the more: I wept for woe, Dryden's Theocritus. WAG n. s. [pœgan, Sax. to cheat.] Any one ludicrously mischievous; a merry droll. The officers of the admiralty having places of so good benefit, it is their parts, being well waged and rewarded, exactly to look into the sound building of ships. Raleigh. The king had directed his courts of ordinary resort, and was at the charge not only to wage justice and their ministers, but also to appoint the safe custody of records. Bacon, This great lord came not over with any great number of waged soldiers. Davies's Ireland. 5. [In law.] When an action of debt is brought against one, as for money or chattels left or lent the defendant, the defendant may wage his law; that is, swear, and certain persons with him, that he owes nothing to the plaintiff in manner as he hath declared. The offer to make the oath is called wager of law; Cupid the wag, that lately conquer'd had and when it is accomplished, it is called the Blount. Wise counsellors, stout captains puissant; making or doing of law. And tied them fast to lead his triumphs bad, WA'GER. n. s. [from wage, to venture.] Glutted with them, now plays with meanest. A bett; any thing pledged upon a things. Sidney. Was not my lord the verier wag o' th' two? Shak. We wink at wags when they offend, And spare the boy, in hopes the man may mend. Dryden. A counsellor never pleaded without a piece of packthread in his hand, which he used to twist about a finger all the while he was speaking: the wags used to call it the thread of his discourse. Addison. WAGE. n. s. the plural wages is now only used. [wegen, or wagen, Germ. gages, Fr.] 1. Pay given for service. All friends shall taste The wages of their virtue, and all foes The cup of their deservings. Shakesp. King Lear. The last petition is for my men; they are the poorest, But poverty could never draw them from me; engage. By Tom Thumb, a fairy page, He sent it, and doth him engage, By promise of a mighty wage, It secretly to carry. Drayton's Nymphid. The thing itself is not only our duty, but our glory and he who hath done this work, has in the very work partly received his wages. South. 2 Gage; pledge. Ainsworth. To WAGE. . a. [The origination of this word, which is now only used in the phrase to wage war, is not easily discovered; waegen, in German, is to attempt any thing dangerous.] 1. To attempt; to venture. We must not think the Turk is so unskilful, Shakesp. 2. To make; to carry on. Applied to war. Return to her, and fifty men dismiss'd! No; rather I abjure all roofs, and chuse To wage against the enmity o' th' air, To be a comrade with the wolf. Shak. King Lear. The sonnes of G.eece wag'd war at Troy.Chapm. Your reputation wages war with the enemies of your royal family,even within their trenches. Dry. He ponder'd which of all his sons was fit To reign, and wage immortal war with wit. Dryd. 3. [From wage, wages.] To set to hire. Not in use. 2. chance or performance. Love and Mischief made a wager, which should have most power in me. Sidney. Full fast she fled, ne ever look'd behind; As if her life upon the wager lay. As soon hereafter will I wagers lay 'Gainst what an oracle shall say; Fool that I was, to venture to deny A tongue so us'd to victory! Spenser. A tongue so blest by nature and by art, Factious, and fav'ring this or t' other side, Dryden. If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity. Bentley's Sermons. Subject on which betts are laid. The sea strove with the winds which should be Jouder; and the shrouds of the ship, with a ghastful noise, to them that were in it witnessed that Sidney. 3. [In law.] An offer to make oath. See To WAGE in law. their ruin was the wager of the other's contention. Multiplication of actions upon the case were rare formerly, and there by wager of law ousted; which discouraged many suits. Hale. Το To WA'GER. v. a. [from the noun.] lay; to pledge as a bett; to pledge upon some casualty or performance. 'Twas merry, when you wagered on your angling. Shakesp. He that will lay much to stake upon every flying story, may as well wager his estate which way the wind will sit next morning. Government of the Tongue. I feed my father's flock; What can I wager from the common stock? Dryd. WAGES. n. s. See WAGE. WAGGERY. n. s. [from wag.] Mischievous merriment; roguish trick; sarcastical gaiety. 'Tis not the waggeries or cheats practised among school-boys, that make an able man; but the principles of justice, generosity, and sobriety. Locke. WA'GGISH. adj. [from wag.] Knavishly merry; merily mischievous; frolick some. Change fear and niceness, The handmaids of all women, or, more truly, Woman its pretty self, to waggish courage. Shak. This new conceit is the waggish suggestion of some sly and sculking atheists. More's Divine Dial. A company of waggish boys watching of frogs at the side of a pond, still as any of them put up their heads, they would be pelting them down with stones Children, says one of the frogs, you never consider, that though this may be play to "L'Estrange you, 'tis death to us. Dryden. As boys, on holidays let loose to play, Lay waggish traps for girls that pass that way; Then shout to see in dirt and deep distress Some silly cit. WA'GGISHLY. adv. [from waggish.] In a waggish manner. WA'GGISHNESS. n. s. [from waggish.] Merry mischief. A Christian boy in Constantinople had like to have been stoned for gagging, na waggishness, a long billed fowl. Bacon. To WA'GGLE. v. n. [wagghelen, Germ.] To waddle; to move from side to side. The sport Basilius would shew to Zeimane, was the mounting of his hawk at a heron, which getting up on his waggling wings with pain, as though the air next to the earth were not fit for his great body to fly through, was now grown to diminish the sight of himself. Sidney. Why do you go nodding and waggling so, as if hip-shot? says the goose to her gosseling L'Estrange. WA'GON. n. s. [poezen, Sax. waeghens, Dut. vagn, Island.] 1. A heavy carriage for burthens. The Hungarian tents were enclosed round with waggons, one chained to another. Knolles's History of the Turks. Waggons fraught with utensils of war. Milton. O Proserpina, For the flowers now that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon. Shakesp. Her waggon spokes made of long spinners legs; The cover of the wings of grasshoppers. Shakesp. WAGON AGE. n. s. [from wagon.] Money paid for carriage in a wagon. WA'GONER. 1. s. [from wagon.] One who drives a wagon. By this, the northern waggoner had set His sevenfold team behind the stedfast star, That was in ocean waves yet never wet. Spenser. Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, Tow'rd Phoebus' mansion! such a waggoner As Phaeton would whip you to the west, Shakesp A waggoner took notice, upon the creaking of a wheel, that it was the worst wheel that made most noise. L'Estrange The waggoners that curse their standing teams Would wake e'en drowsy Drusus from his dreams. Dryden. WAGTAIL. n. s. [motacilla, Lat.] A Ainsworth. bird. WAID. [I suppose for weighed.] Crushed. His horse waid in the back, and shoulder shotten. Shakesp. WAIF. n. s. [wavium, waivium, law Lat. from wave.] Goods found, but claimed by no body; that of which every one waves the claim. Sometimes written weif, or weft. To WAIL. v. a. [gualare, Ital.] To moan; to lament; to bewail. Wise men ne'er wail their present woes, But presently prevent the ways to wail. Shakesp. Say, if my spouse maintails her royal trust? Or if no more her absent lord she wails, But the false woman o'er the wife prevails? Pope. To WAIL. v. n. To grieve audibly; to |