Naked men belabouring one another with snag ged sticks, or dully falling together by the ears at fisty-cuffs. More. SNAIL. n. s. [rnægl, Sax snegel, Dut] 1. A slimy animal which creeps on plants, some with shells on their backs; the emblem of slowness.

I can tell why a snail has a house.-Why?
Why, to put's head in; not to give it away to
his daughters, and leave his horns without a case.
Shakesp. King Lear.

Fearful commenting
Is leaden servitor to dull delay;
Delay leads impotent and snail-pac'd beggary.
Shakesp. Richard III.
The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder:
Snail slow in profit, but he sleeps by day
More than the wild cat.

Shakesp.
Seeing the snail, which every where doth roam,
Carrying his own house still, still is at home,
Follow, for he is easy-pac'd, this snail;
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy gaol. Donne.
There may be as many ranks of beings in the
invisible world superior to us, as we ourselves are
superior to all the ranks of beings beneath us in
this visible world, even though we descend below
the snail and the oyster.
Watts.

2. A name given to a drone, from the slow motion of a snail.

C Why prat'st thou to thyself, and answer'st not? Dromio,thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot! Shakesp. SNAIL-CLAVER, or Snail-trefoil. n. s. trifolium, Lat.] An herb. Ainsworth. SNAKE. n. s. [rnaca, Sax. snake, Dut.] A serpent of the oviparous kind, distinguished from a viper. The snake's bite is harmless. Snake in poetry is a general name for a serpent.

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Glo'ster's shew beguiles him; As the snake, rolled in a flow'ry bank, With shining checker'd slough, doth sting a child, That for the beauty thinks it excellent. Shak. H. VI. We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it : She'll close, and be herself; whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former teeth. Shak. Mac.

The parts must have their outlines in waves, resembling the gliding of a snake upon the ground: they must be smooth and even. Dryd. Dufresnoy. Nor chalk,nor crumbling stones, the food of snakes, That work in hollow earth their winding tracks. Dryden. SNA KEROOT. n. s. [snake and root.] A species of birthworth growing in Virginia and Carolina. SNA KESHEAD Iris. n. s. tylus, Lat.] A plant.

[hermodac

The characters are: it hath a lily shaped flower, of one leaf, shaped exactly like an iris; but has a tuberose root, divided into two or three dugs, like oblong bulbs.

Miller.

SNA KEWEED, or Bistort. n. s. [bistorta, Lat.] A plant.

SNA'KEWOOD. n. s [from snake and wood.]

What we call snakewood is properly the smaller branches of the root of a tall straight tree growing in the island of Timor, and other parts of the East. It has no remarkable smell; but is of an intensely bitter taste. The Indians are of opinion, that it is a certain remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent, and from thence its name of lignum colubrinum, or snakewood. We very seldom use it. Hill's Materia Medica. SNA'KY. adj. [from snake.]

1. Serpentine; belonging to a snake; resembling a snake.

Venomous tongue, tipt with vile adder's sting, Of that self kind with which the furies fell Their snaky heads do comb. Spenser.

The crooked arms Meander bow'd with his so snaky flood,

Resign'd for conduct the choice youth of all their mortal brood. Chapman

The true lovers knot had its original from nodus) Herculaneus, or Hercules's knot, resembling the snaky complication in the caduceus, or rod of Hermes. Brown's Vulgar Errours

So to the coast of Jordan he directs His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles Milton's Paradise Regained 2. Having serpents.

Look, look uuto this snaky rod, And stop your ears against the charming god. Ben Jonson. In his hand He took caduceus, his snaky wand. Hubberd's Tale. What was that snaky-headed gorgon shield That wise Minerva wore, unconquer'd virgin! Wherewith she freez'd her foes to congeal'd stone?

Milton.

4.

A gentleman passing by a coach, one of the horses snapt off the end of his finger. Wisem. Sur. All mungrel curs bawl, snarl, and snap, where the foe flies before them.

L'Estrange.

A notion generally received, that a lion is dan gerous to all women who are not virgins, may have given occasion to a foolish report, that my lion's jaws are so contrived as to snap the hands of any of the female sex, who are not thus qualified. Addison's Spectator.

He snaps deceitful air with empty jaws, The subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws. Gay. To catch suddenly and unexpectedly. Sir Richard Graham tells the marquis be would snap one of the kids, and make some shift to carry him close to their lodgings. Wotton.

Some with a noise and greasy light Are snapt, as men catch larks at night. Butler. You should have thought of this before you was taken; for now you are in no danger to be snapt singing again. L'Estrange.

Did I not see you, rascal, did I not, When you lay snug to snap young Damon's goat? Dryden.

Belated seem on watch to lie, snap some cully passing by.

And

Swift.

5. [Snappen, Dut.] To treat with sharp language.

Capoch'd your rabbins of the synod, And snapp'd their canons with a why not.

Hudibras.

A surly ill-bred lord, That chides and snaps her up at every word. Granville. To SNAP. v. n.

1. To break short; to fall asunder; to break without bending.

Note the ship's sicknesses; the mast Shak'd with an ague, and the hold and waist With a salt dropsy clogg'd; and our tacklings Snapping, like to too high stretch'd treble strings. Donne.

The back bone is divided into so many vertebres for commodious bending, and not one intire rigid bone, which, being of that length, would have been often in danger of snapping in sunder.

Ray on Creation.

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If your steel be too hard, that is, too brittle, it it be a spring, it will not bow; but with the least bending it will snap asunder. Moxon's Mech. Exer.

The makers of these needles should give them a due temper for if they are too soft, they will bend; and if they are too brittle, they snap. Sharp's Surgery. 2. To make an effort to bite with eager

ness.

If the young dace be a bait for the old pike, I see no reason but I may snap at him. Shak. Henry IV. We snap at the bait without ever dreaming of the hook that goes along with it. L'Estrange. Towzer snaps

SNAP. n. s. [from the verb.]
At people's heels with frothy chaps. Swift.

1. The act of breaking with a quick motion.

2. A greedy fellow.

3.

4.

He had no sooner said out his say, but up rises
L'Estrange.

a cumming snap, then at the board
A quick eager bite.

With their bills, thwarted crosswise at the end, they would cut an apple in two at one snap. Carew. A catch; a theft.

SNAPDRAGON, or Calf's Snout. n. s. [antirrhinum, Lat.]

1. A plant.

2. A kind of play, in which brandy is set on fire, and raisins thrown into it, which those who are unused to the sport are afraid to take out; but which may be safely snatched by a quick motion, and put blazing into the mouth, which being closed, the fire is at once extinguished. SNAPPER. n. s. [from snap.] One who

Peevishly; tartly. SNAPPISHNESS. n. s. [from snappish.] Peevishness; tartness.

SNAPSACK n. 6. [snuppsack, Swed.] A soldier's bag: more usually knapsack. SNARE. n. s. [snare, Swed and Island.

snare, Dan. snoor, Dut.]

1. Any thing set to catch an animal; a gin; a net; a noose.

O poor hapless nightingale, thought I, How sweet thou sing'st, how near the deadly snare! Milton.

2. Any thing by which one is intrapped or intangled.

This I speak for your own profit, not that I may cast a snare upon you. 1 Cor. vii. 35 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul. Prov. xviii. 7. Propound to thyself a constant rule of living, which, though it may not be fit to observe scrupulously, lest it become a snare to thy conscience, or endanger thy health, yet let not thy rule be Taylor's Rule of Living Holy. For thee ordain'd a help, became thy snare. Milt. Beauty, wealth, and wit,

broken.

And prowess, to the pow'r of love submit;

The spreading snare for all mankind is laid, And lovers all betray, or are betray'd. Dryden. To SNARE. v. a. [from the noun.] Tc intrap; to intangle; to catch in a noose.

G'o'ster's shew

Beguiles him, as the mournful crocodile With sorrow snares relenting passengers. Shakesp. Henry VI. The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Psalm ix. Warn all creatures from thee Henceforth, lest that too heav'nly form pretended To hellish falsehood, snare them. Milton's Paradise Lost To SNARL. v. n. [snarren, Dut.] 1. To growl as an angry animal; to gnar.

What! were you snarling all before I came, Ready to catch each other by the throat, And turn you all your hatred now on me? Shakesp. Richard III. He is born with teeth! And so I was; which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Shakesp.

Now, for the bare-pick'd bone of majesty, Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest, And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace

Shakesp. King John. The shes even of the savage herd are safe; All, when they snarl or bite, have no return But courtship from the male. Dryden's Don Sebast.

An angry cur

Snarls while he feeds. Dryden and Lee's Oedipus. 2. To speak roughly; to talk in rude

terms.

'Tis malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little

2. To transport or carry suddenly.

He had scarce performed any part of the office of a bishop in the diocese of London, when he was snatched from thence, and promoted to CanClarendon terbury. O nature! Inrich me with the knowledge of thy works, Snatch me to heaven. Thomson's Autumn.

To SNATCH. v. n. To bite, or catch eagerly at something.

Lords will not let me if I had a monopoly of fool, they would have part on 't; nay, the ladies too will be snatching. Shakesp. King Lear. He shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry.

Isa. ix. 20.

Lycus, swifter of his feet, Runs, doubles, winds and turns, amidst the war; Springs to the walls, and leaves his foes behind, Aud snatches at the beam he first can find.

SNATCH. n. s. 1. A hasty catch.

Dryden's Æneid. [from the verb.]

2. A short fit of vigorous action. After a shower to weeding a snatch;

More easily weed with the root to dispatch. Tusser. 3. A small part of any thing; a broken part.

She chaunted snatches of old tunes, As one incapable of her own distress. Shak. Hamlet. In this work attempts will exceed performances, it being composed by snatches of tinie, as medical vacations would ermit. Brown's Vulgar Errours. I

not exempted.

Dryden.

The honest farmer and his wife, Two years declin'd from prime of life, Had struggled with the marriage noose, As almost ev'ry couple does: Sometimes, my plague! sometimes, my darling! Kissing to-day, to-morrow snarling. Prior. Where hast thou been snarling odious truths, and entertaining company with discourse of their diseases? Congreve. To SNARL. v a. To intangle; to embarrass. I know not that this sense is well authorised.

Confused snarled consciences render it difficult

to pull out thread by thread. Decay of Piety. SNA'RLER. n. s. [from snarl.] One who snarls; a growling, surly, quarrelsome, insulting fellow.

Should stupid libels grieve your mind,
You soon a remedy may find;
Lie down obscure, like other folks,
Below the law of snarlers jokes.

Swift.

SNARY. adj. [from snare.] Intangling:

insidious.

ing, and inwardly reproaching them, from z kat of their own guilt, but to see others as bad. South's Servo When int'rest calls off all her sneaking train, When all th' oblig'd desert, and all the vain, She waits, or to the scaffold, or the cell, When the last ling'ring friend has bid farewell Pe Tom struts a soldier, open, bold, and brave;' Will sneaks a scriv'uer, an exeeeding knave. Pre SNEAKER n. s. A small vessel of drink. I have just left the right worshipful and his my midons about a sneaker of five gallons. Spectator. SNEAKING. participial adj. [from sneak 1. Servile; mean; low.

Men shulde him snibbe bitterly. To reprimand; to check. What may

SNATCHINGLY. adv. [from snatching.]
Hastily; with interruption.
To SNEAK. v. n. [rnican, Sax. snige,
Dan.]

1. To creep slily; to come or go as if afraid to be seen.

2.

Once the eagle, England, being in prey, To her unguarded nest the weazel Scot Comes sneaking, and so sucks her princely eggs. Sha esp. Sneak not away, sir; for the friar and you Must have a word anon: lay hold on him. Shak. Discover'd, and defeated of your prey,

You skulk'd behind the fence, and sneak'd away. Dryden.

I ought not to turn my back, and to sneak off in silence, and leave the truth to lie baffled, bleeding, and slain. Watts.

He sneak'd into the grave,

A monarch's half, and half a harlot's slave. Dunciad. Are you all ready? Here's your musick here: Author, sneak off; we'll tickle you, my dear. More. To behave with meanness and servility; to crouch; to truckle.

Chau

Shakesp

Breed upon our absence, may there blow No sneaping winds at home. SNEAP. n. s. [from the verb.] A reprimand; a check.

My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply you call honourable boldness impudent sauciness: if a man will court'sy and say nothing, he is virtuous. Shakesp. Henry IV. To SNEB. v. a. [properly to snib. See SNEAP.] To check; to chide; to reprimand.

Which made this foolish briar wax so bold, That on a time he cast him to scold And snebbe the good oak, for he was old. Spenser. To SNEER. v. n. [This word is apparently of the same family with snore and snort.]

1. To show contempt by looks: naso suspendere adunco.

2. To insinuate contempt by covert expresssions.

The wolf was by, and the fox in a sneering way advised him not to irritate a prince against his subjects. L'Estrange

I could be content to be a little sneered at in a line, for the sake of the pleasure I should have in reading the rest. Paye. If there has been any thing expressed with ton much severity, it will fall upon those sneering or daring writers of the age against religion, who have left reason and decency. Watts

3. To utter with grimace.

I have not been sneering fulsome lies, and nan seous flattery, at a little tawdry where. Congreve To shew awkward mirth.

nose.

If one be about to sneeze, rubbing the eyes till tears run will prevent it; for that the humour descending to the nostrils is diverted to the eyes. Bacon. If the pain be more intense and deeper within, amongst the membranes, there will be an itching in the palate and nostrils, with frequent sneezing. Wiseman's Surgery.

To thee Cupid sncer'd aloud; And every lucky omen sent before, To meet thee landing on the Spartan shore. Dryd. If any thing oppress the head, it hath a power to free itself by sneezing. Ray on the Creation. Violent sneezing produceth convulsions in all the muscles of respiration: so great an alteration can be produced only by the tickling of a feather; and if the action of sneezing should be continued by some very acrid substance, it will produce headach, universal convulsions, fever, and death. Arbuthnot An officer put the sharp end of his half-pike a good way up into my nostrils, which tickled my nose like a straw, and made me sneeze violently. Swift. SNEEZE. n. s. [from the verb.] Emission of wind audibly by the nose.

I heard the rack,

As earth and sky would mingle; but
These flaws, though mortals fear them,
As dangerous to the pillar'd frame of heav'n,
Are to the main as wholesome as a sneeze
To man's less universe, and soon are gone.

SNIP. n. s.

3.

snips.

Milton's Paradise Regained. SNIPPET. n. s.

We read in Godignus, that upon a sneeze of the emperor of Monomotapa there passed acclamations successively through the city. Brown's Vulg. Err. SNE'EZEWORT. n. s. [ptarmica, Lat.] A plant.

SNET. n. s. [among hunters.] The fat
of a deer.
Dict.

SNEW. The old preterite of To snow. Dict.
To SNIB. v. a. [snibbe, Dan. See SNEAP.]
To check; to nip; to reprimand.

Asked for their pass by every squib,
That list at will them to tevile or snib. Hubb. Tale.
SNICK and snee. n. s. A combat with
knives.

Among the Dunkirkers, where snick and snee was in fashion, a boatswain, with some of our men drinking together, became quarrelsome: one of our men beat him down; then kneeling upon his breast, he drew out a knife sticking in his sash, and cut him from the ear towards the mouth.

Wiseman's Surgery.

To SNICKER or Snigger. v. n. To laugh slily, wantonly, or contemptuously; to laugh in one's sleeve. Dict. To SNIFF. v. n. [sniffa, Swed.] To draw breath audibly up the nose.

So then you look'd scornful, and snift at the dean As who should say, Now am I skinny and lean? Swift.

To SNIGGLE. v. n.

Snuggling is thus performed in a warm day, when the water is lowest, take a strong small hook, tied to a string about a yard long; and then into one of the holes where an eel may hide herself,

part; a share.

[from snip.]

Witches simpling, and on gibbets Cutting from malefactors snippets ; Or from the pill'ry tips of ears. SNIPSNAP. n. s.

[snorcken, Dut.] To blow through the nose as a high mettled horse.

The snorting of his horses was heard. Jer.viii.16.
The fiery war-horse paws the ground,

And snorts and trembles at the trumpet's sound.
Addison.
From their full racks the gen'rous steeds retire,
Dropping ambrosial foams, and snorting fire.
Addison's Ovid.
He with wide nostrils, snorting, skims the wave.
Thomson.

SNOT. n. s.
SNOT. n. s. [note, Sax. snot, Dut.]
The mucus of the nose.

Thus, when a greedy sloven once has thrown His snot into the mess, 'tis all his own. Swift. [from snot.] Full of

A small SNOTTY. adj.

Hudibras.

Carew.

Their dogs snouted like foxes, but deprived of that property which the logicians call proprium Heylyn. quarto modo, for they could not bark. Snouted and tailed like a boar, and footed like Grew. a goat.

SNOW. n. s. [rnap, Sax. snee, Dut.] The small particles of water frozen before they unite into drops. Locke.

Drought and heat consume snow waters. Job, xxiv. 19. He gives the winter's snow her airy birth, And bids her virgin fleeces clothe the earth. Sandys.' Soft as the fleeces of descending snows. Poje.

To SNOW. v. n. [rnapan, Sax. sneeuwen, [1. Snot. In this sense it is not used.
Dut.] To fall in snow.

The hills being high about them, it snows at the
tops of them oftener than it rains. Brown's Trav.
To SNOW. v. a.
To scatter like snow.

Donne.

If thou be'st born to see strange sights, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee. SNOWBALL. n. s. [snow and ball.] A round lump of congelated snow.

They passed to the east-riding of Yorkshire, their company daily increasing, like a snowball in rolling. Hayward.

His bulky folly gathers as it goes, And, rolling o'er you, like a snowball grows. Dryd. A snowball having the power to produce in us the ideas of white, cold, and round, the powers, as they are in the snowball, I call qualities; and, as they are sensations in our understandings, ideas. Locke. SNOWBROTH, n. s. [snow and broth.] Very cold liquor.

Angelo, a man whose blood

Is very snowbroth, one who never feels

The wanton stings and motions of the sense.Shak. SNOW DEEP. n. s. [viola bulbosa, Lat.] An herb. SNOWDROP. n. s. [narcissoleucoium, Lat.] An early flower."

When we tried the experiment with the leaves of those purely white flowers that appear about the end of winter, called snowdrops, the event was not much unlike that newly mentioned. Boyle on Colours, The little shape, by magick pow'r, Grew less and less, contracted to a flow'r; A flow'r that first in this sweet garden smil'd, To virgins sacred, and the snowdrop styl'd. Tickel.

To SNUFF. v. n.

1. To snort; to draw breath by the nose. The fury fires the pack; they snuff, they vent And feed their hungry nostrils with the scent. Dryden's Eneid

Says Humpus, Sir, my master bad me pray Your company to dine with him to-day: He snuffs, then follows, up the stairs he goes; Never pulls off his hat, nor cleans his shoes. King,

To snift in contempt.

Ye said, what a weariness is it, and ye have snuffed at it. Mal. ii. 13. SNUFFBOX. n. s. [snuff and box.] The box in which snuff is carried.

such wicks.

Wilkins.

6.

What hath been seen
Either in snuffs or packings of the duke's,
Or the hard rain which both of them have borne
Against the old kind king. Shakesp. King Lear.
Jupiter took snuff at the contempt, and punished
him he sent him home again.
Powdered tobacco taken by the nose.
L'Estrange.
Just where the breath of life his nostrils drew,
A charge of snuff the wily virgin threw;
The gnomes direct, to ev'ry atom just,
The pungent grains of titillating dust.

SNOW-WHITE. adj. [snow and white.] To SNUFF. v. a. [snuffen, Dut.]

White as snow.

A snow-white bull shall on your shore be slain; His offer'd entrails cast into the main. Dryd. Æn.

SNOWY. adj. [from snow.]

1. White like snow.

So shews a snowy dove trooping with crows, As yonder lady o'er her fellow shews.

Now I see thy jolly train ;

Snowy headed winter leads,

Spring and summer next succeeds;

Yellow autumn brings the rear ;

Thou art father of the year.

Shakesp.

Rowe.

The blushing ruby on her snowy breast, Render'd its panting whiteness more confest, Prior.

2. Abounding with snow.

These first in Crete

And Ida known; thence on the snowy top
Of cold Olympus rul'dthe middle air. Milt. Par. Lost.
As when the Tartar from his Russian foe,
By Astracan, over the snowy plains
Retires.

Milton's Paradise Lost.

SNUB. n. s. [from snebbe, Dut. a nose; or knubel a joint of the finger.] A jag; a snag; a knot in wood.

Lifting up his dreadful club on high, All arm'd with ragged snubs, and knotty grain, Him thought at first encounter to have slain. F. Q. To SNUB. v. a. [rather To snib. See SNEAP, SNEB, SNIB.]

1. To check; to reprimand. 2. To nip.

Near the sea-shores, the heads and boughs of trees run out far to landward; but toward the sea are so snubbed by the winds, as if their boughs had been pared or shaven off Ray on the Creatum, To SNUB. v. n. [snuffen, Dut.] To sob with convulsion.

To SNUDGE. v. n. [sniger. Dan.] lie idle, close, or snug.

Now he will fight it out, and to the wars;

The cow looks up, and from afar can find The change of heav'n, and snuffs it in the wind. Dryden. For thee the bulls rebellow through the groves, And tempt the stream, and snuff their absent loves. Dryden.

O'er all the blood-hound boasts superior skill, To scent, to view, to turn, and boldly kill! His fellows vain alarms rejects with scorn, True to the master's voice, and learned horn: His nostrils oft, if ancient fame sing true, Trace the sly felon through the tainted dew: Once snuff'd, he follows with unalter'd aim, Nor odours lure him from the chosen game; Deep-mouth'd he thunders, and inflam'd he views, Springs on relentless, and to death pursues. Tickel. To crop the candle.

The late queen's gentlewoman! To be her mistress' mistress! This candle burns not clear: 'tis I must snuff it, And out it goes, Shakesp. Henry VIII. Against a communion-day our lamps should be dressed, our lights snuffed, and our religion more active. Taylor

You have got

If a gentleman leaves a snuff bor on the table, and goeth away, lock it up as part of your vails. Swift. Pope.

Sir Plume, of amber snuff box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.

SNUFFER. n. s. [from snuff.] He that

snuffs.

SNUFFERS. n. s. strument with clipped,

[from snuff.] The inwhich the candle is

When you have snuffed the candle, leave the snuffers open. Swift's Directions to the Butler. To SNUFFLE. v. n. [snuffelen, Dut.] To speak through the nose; to breathe hard through the nose.

A water-spaniel came down the river, shewing that he hunted for a duck; and with a smyfling grace, disdaining that his smelling force could not as well prevail through the water as through the air, waited with his eye to see whether he could espy the duck's getting up again. Sidney.

Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme, Some senseless Phillis in a broken note, Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat. SNUFFLER. n. s.

Dryden.

[from snuffle.] He that speaks through the nose. To SNUG. v. n. [sniger, Dut.] To lie close.

There snugging well, he well appear'd content, So to have done amiss, so to be shent. Sidney.

As the loving couple lay snugging together, Venus, to try if the cat had changed her manners with her shape, turned a mouse loose into the chamber. L'Estrange.

SNUG. adj. [from the verb.]

1. Close; free from any inconvenience, yet not splendid.

They spied a country farm,

Where all was snug, and clean, and warm ;
For woods before, and hills behind,
Secur'd it both from rain and wind.

2. Close; out of notice.

3. Slily or insidiously close.

Did I not see you, rascal! did I not, When you lay snug, to snap young Damon's goat' Dryden To SNUGGLE. v. n. [from snug.] To lie close; to lie warm. So. adv. [rpa, Sax. soo, Dut. so, Germ.] 1. In like manner. It answers to as either preceding or following. Noting comparison.

Herbert.

An office for your talents fit,
To snuff the lights, and stir the fire,
And get a dinner for your hire.

Swift.

As whom the fables feign of monstrous size, Titanian or earthborn, that warr'd on Jove, So stretch'd out huge in length the arch fiend lay Milton

Milton.

Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts,
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts;
So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try,
Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky.
Pope.

As into air the purer spirits flow,
And sep'rate from their kindred dregs below,
So flew her soul to its congenial place.

2. To such a degree.

Pope.

Why is his chariot so long in coming? Judg. v. 28.
Can nothing great, and at the height,
Remain so long, but its own weight,
Will ruin it? Or is 't blind chance

That still desires new states t' advance?

Amoret, my lovely foe,

Ben Jonson's Catiline.

Tell me where thy strength does lie, Where the pow'r that charms us so,

In thy soul, or in thy eye?

Wuller.

I viewed in my mind, so far as I was able, the beginning and progress of a rising world.

Burnet's Theory of the Earth. Since then our Arcite is with honour dead, Why should we mourn that he so soon is freed. Dryden.

Upon our first going into a company of strangers, our benevolence or aversion rises towards several particular persons, before we have heard them speak, or so much as know who they are.

Addison's Spectator. We think our fathers fools, so wise we're grown: Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. Pope.

3. In such a manner.

There's no such thing as that we beauty call, It is meer cosenage all;

For though some long ago

Lik'd certain colours mingled so and su,
That doth not tie me now from chusing new. Suck.

We may be certain that man is not a creature that hath wings; because this only concerns the manner of his existence; and we, seeing what he is, may certainly know that he is not so or so. Locke.

I shall minutely tell him the steps by which I was brought into this way, that he may judge whether I proceeded rationally, if so be any thing in my example is worth his notice. Locke.

This gentleman is a person of good sense, and knows that he is very much in Sir Roger's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than dependent.

Addison.

4. It is regularly answered by as or that, but they are sometimes omitted.

So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker at their frown.

Milton.

There is something equivalent in France and Scotland; so as 'tis a very hard calumny upon our soil to affirm that so excellent a fruit will not grow here.

5. In the same manner.

Temple.

Of such examples add me to the roll; Me easily indeed mine may neglect, But God's propos'd deliverance not so. Milton. To keep up the tutor's authority, use him with great respect yourself, and cause all your family to do so too. Locke.

According to the multifariousness of this immutability, so are the possibilities of being. Norris. 6. Thus; in this manner.

Not far from thence the mournful fields appear, So call'd from lovers that inhabit there. Dryden. Does this deserve to be rewarded so? Did you come here a stranger or a foe? Dryden. It concerns every man, with the greatest seriousness, to enquire into those matters, whether they be so or not. Tillotson.

No nation ever complained they had too broad, too deep, or too many rivers; they understand better than so how to value those inestimable gifts Bentley. So when the first bold vessel dar'd the seas, High on the stern the Thracian rais'd his strain. Pope.

of nature.

Whether this be from an habitual motion of the animal spirits, or from the alteration of the constitution by some more unaccouutable way, this is certain, that so it is. Locke.

8.

quence of this.

The god, though loth, yet was constrain'd t' obey:

For longer time than that no living wight
Below the earth might suffer'd be to stay:
So back again him brought to living light. Fairy Q.
Trafficke, or rove ye, and like theeves oppresse
Poor strange adventurers; exposing so
Your soules to danger, and your lives to wo;
Chapman.

If he set industriously and sincerely to perform the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of doubting but it shall prove successful to him; and so all that he hath to do is, to endeavour by prayer, and use of the means, to qualify himself for this blessed condition. Hammond's Fundamentals. It leaves instruction, and so instructors, to the sobriety of the settled articles and rule of the Holyday.

church.

Some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n; And so from heav'n to deepest hell. Milton's Paradise Lost. God makes him in his own image an intellectual creature, and so capable of dominion. Locke.

On these terms; noting a conditional petition answered by as.

O goddess! tell what I would say, Thou know'st it, and I feel too much to pray; So grant my suit, as I enforce my might, In love to be thy champion. Drud. Knight's Tale. Here then exchange we mutually forgiveness: So may the guilt of all my broken vows, My perjuries to thee, be all forgotten; As here my soul acquits thee of my death, As here I part without an angry thought.

Rowe.

Pope.

So may kind rains their vital moisture yield, And swell the future harvest of thy field. 9. Provided that; on condition that: modo. Be not sad:

Evil into the mind of God or man

May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave No spot or blame behind. Milton's Paradise Lost. So the doctrine be but wholesome and edifying, though there should be a want of exactness in the manner of speaking or reasoning, it may be overlooked. Atterbury.

Too much of love thy hapless friend has prov'd, Too many giddy foolish hours are gone; May the remaining few know only friendship: So thou, my dearest, truest, best Alicia,

Vouchsafe to lodge me in thy gentle heart, A partner there; I will give up mankind. Rowe. 10. In like manner; noting concession of one proposition and assumption of another; answering to as.

As a war should be undertaken upon a just motive, so a prince ought to consider the condition he is in when he enters on it. Swift. 11. So sometimes returns the sense of a word or sentence going before, and is used to avoid repetition: as, the two brothers were valiant, but the eldest was more so; that is, more valiant. The French article le is often used in the same manner. This mode of expression is not to be used but in familiar language, nor even in that to be commended.

The fat with plenty fills my heart, The lean with love makes me too so. Cowley. Who thinks his wife is virtuous, though not so, Is pleas'd and patient till the truth he know.

O, so, and had you a council

Of ladies too? Who was your speaker, Madam? Ben Jonson's Catiline.

15. It sometimes is little more than an expletive, though it implies some latent or surd comparison. In French si.

An astringent is not quite so proper, where relaxing the urinary passages is necessary. Arbuth. 16. A word of assumption; thus be it.

There is Percy; if your father will do me any honour, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself. Shakesp.

I will never bear a base mind: if it be my destiny, so; if it be not, so. No man is too good to serve his prince. Shakesp.

17. A form of petition.

Ready are th' appellant and defendant, The armourer and his man, to enter the lists; So please your highness to behold the fight. Shak. 18. So much as. However much. This is, I think, an irregular expression.

He's not very tall, yet for his years he's tall; His leg is but so so, and yet 'tis well. Shakesp Deliver us from the nauseous repetition of As and So, which some so so writers, I may call them so, are continually sounding in our ears.

Felton on the Classicks. 21. So then. Thus then it is that; therefore.

So then the Volscians stand but as at first

Ready, when time shall prompt them to make road Upon's again. Shakesp. Coriolanus. To a war are required a just quarrel, sufficient forces, and a prudent choice of the designs: 80 then, I will first justify the quarrel, balance the forces, and propound designs."

To SOAK. v. n. [rocian, Sax.]

1. To lie steeped in moisture.